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Chelle (she/her) 🐸☕
@westcoastchelle.bsky.social
She/Her | Gamer | Spoonie | Writer | Nutter | Neurospicy | ARMY⁷ | Living on unceded Coast Salish, Kwantlen, Nuxwsa'7aq (Nooksack), and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) land
Feeling like the internet is being EXTRA stupid today so I'm muting all discords, closing all social media tabs, and taking a me-day.

We shall try and engage with the world tomorrow.
December 13, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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I’m sure the lawyers for the sandy hook families owed a billion dollars will be fascinated by this new partnership
I’m sure this will get all those major advertisers excited to come back.
December 13, 2023 at 5:39 AM
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Said website has now taken down all false author quotes, blamed the issue on a freelance writer using Google Bard, and now the article is about why writers -shouldn’t- use LLMs.

They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!

(I sent an email as well)
I was testing out a google search string I'd built for some work I'm doing, and I used my name, and I found an AI-written article that quotes me saying something I'd *NEVER* fucking say.

I don't use ChatGPT (or LLMs), nor ever have, on my fiction.
December 12, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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So the Court taking this abortion pill case is a mixed bag.

If you want to know more about this case, you should check out this episode of Boom! Lawyered:

rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/02/13/b...
Big Pharma Could Save One of the Abortion Pills. Yikes!
It's a supersized episode on everything you need to know about the imminent threat to medication abortion.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 13, 2023 at 4:11 PM
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And as @hegemommy.bsky.social has said, this court is on the verge of allowing people to sue abortion providers because abortion gives them a case of the sads. She calls it grievance standing.I called it "I feel some type of way" standing. In either case, it's not an injury.
December 13, 2023 at 4:10 PM
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The bad news is that, the notion that doctors need standing to suing because, as Elie Mystal put it on Twitter, women are too "sad and embarrassed to sue in their own capacity" is misogynistic horseshit.
December 13, 2023 at 4:07 PM
I made a chocolate gateau!

Yes I absolutely had a slice for breakfast, it was delicious.
December 12, 2023 at 6:33 PM
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Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks claims the company laid off 1,100 people days before Christmas as "a last resort."

Cocks makes $1.5 million annually and took home $9.4 million in total compensation last year.
Dungeons & Dragons owner lays off 1,100 staff two weeks before Christmas “to keep Hasbro healthy��...
Hasbro, the toy company that owns Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, has laid off 1,100 workers two weeks bef…
www.dicebreaker.com
December 12, 2023 at 11:28 AM
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It's unfortunate that a lot of the press is going to be centered on wealthy white victims of states' anti abortion policies. But believe me women of color and low income white women have been imprisoned for bad pregnancy outcomes for over a decade. rewirenewsgroup.com/2021/12/03/b...
Brittney. Amanda. Purvi. Their Fates Could Be Your Future.
These are some of the first victims of a war on pregnant people. It's a war that will end with mass incarceration, surveillance, and even death.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM
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I wrote this piece immediately after Roe fell when antis were trying to convince everybody that they weren't trying to harm pregnant women and other people capable of becoming pregnant.

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In a Post-Roe World, There’s No Such Thing as ‘Hold Women Harmless’ rewirenewsgroup.com/2022/06/17/i...
In a Post-Roe World, There's No Such Thing as 'Hold Women Harmless'
"Hold women harmless" means nothing when the incarceration of women is the natural result of the fetus-first policies anti-abortion activists champion.
rewirenewsgroup.com
December 12, 2023 at 12:16 PM
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so anyway nurses are cops*, and if you have a pregnancy complication due to self managed abortion, you don't have to tell anyone at the hospital what you took. They'll ask. You don't have to tell them because if you live in an abortion hostile state, they might call the cops. Best safe than sorry
I wrote this piece about Purvi Patel—who was sentenced to 41 years in prison after her doctors sold her out to law enforcement—and how hospitals are becoming carceral for Black and brown people seeking health care related to pregnancy loss. rewirenewsgroup.com/2021/02/08/p...
December 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM
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New Ea-Naṣir tablet just dropped

mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com/post/6561666...
December 10, 2023 at 6:11 PM
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DEAR EVERYONE TEACHING TORAH THIS HANUKAH:

The idea that you don’t display your menorah publicly “in times of danger” only applies when Jews are literally forbidden from practicing Judaism by state authorities. Not when antisemitism is rising.

Check yer Rashi and yer Shulchan Aruch. Jeez.
December 11, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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I thought this was the part where he gives the jury a reason *not* to go hard on the client
Rudy Giuliani’s attorney tells the jury that if the Freeman and Moss get the damages they're seeking, it is "the civil equivalent of the death penalty." "It will be the end of Mr. Giuliani," he said.
December 11, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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one thing to remember is that conservatives have been trying to dismantle higher ed once anyone not a white man could enroll.

once women and POC were accepted and hired, they've been framing universities as left wing institutions when the truth is the complete opposite
December 11, 2023 at 4:30 PM
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I have a free discord if anyone wants to come hang out and talk about video games and all sorts of other stuff. It's a fun group! Everyone is friendly. It's not one of those discords where people talk shit about other people 🫶🏾https://discord.gg/v3CJwDCM
Join the Happy Black Server Discord Server!
Check out the Happy Black Server community on Discord - hang out with 698 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.gg
December 11, 2023 at 4:39 PM
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and then mind your own business afterwards. the whole "what if they spend it on XYZ? i can't support that"

who gives a shit. you gave someone money. it's their money now. they can do what they want with it
Give money directly to homeless people.
December 11, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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Whuff.
December 11, 2023 at 5:38 AM
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A Christmas movie with no whiff of the holy infant (so tender and mild!): Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
Meg Elison invites our readers to curl up on the couch for a Christ-less Christmas Classic, the 2006 miniseries adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Hogfather."
wildhunt.org
December 11, 2023 at 12:33 AM
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Y’all… all these words just to avoid saying “They were boyfriends.”
December 10, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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I just saw someone say that people are planning a convoy to get Kate Cox to safety and…. Did you ask her or her lawyers if she wants that?
December 10, 2023 at 4:38 PM
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US history has a fractal evil to it. The more you look, the more monsters you’ll find lined up in that silent closet.

And yet the more I learn, the more hope it gives me.
December 10, 2023 at 4:53 AM
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Getting blocked from all late Gen Z/Alpha social media fashion influencer accounts by asking them why their Y2K fashion doesn’t include “the swing revival”
December 9, 2023 at 10:37 PM
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People keep blaming “the programmers” for grok not being a racist transphobic dipshit, but OpenAI was trained out of its racism repeatedly using labor from the global south.

(See, for instance, this: time.com/6247678/open... )
December 9, 2023 at 1:11 PM