melancholyhammer.bsky.social
DO NOT ADD ME TO LISTS. Novelist, poet, permaculturist, humanist, opsimath, forager, recluse, cat lady, philosopher, elder Goth, friend. I sing Mr. Rogers tunes. RPGamer, tabletop & online. "Good old bee" in your rainbow flag. The picture is a younger me.
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The banner guy who had to yank the flag back to position 😬
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You have helped me write one of the most important parts of my novel. I have been fascinated with the idea of luck, how we can transfer the *feelings* of luck to others, all my life. I wanted to study it at school. I wouldn't have connected these interests if you hadn't pointed to this. Thank you!
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She has the most pained, forced "smiles" of any first lady in my lifetime. I grimace reflexively when I see them.
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I'm not a Hitchens fan, but have read him in the past. I think we're going with "Good Without God" next. These are all books we've read before, independently, but reading together makes excellent conversations.
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I'm happy to report that 20 years from now you'll probably look back on that young version of you and feel warm acceptance (in case you go through a self-loathing period about it) and sometimes remember to show compassion to young people. I'm inconsistent but trying ❤️
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I know folks in that area who've been discussing how best to subvert it. They're older, so currently supporting food banks is their major contribution. But they're smart, and hide in their outward bland appearance. I've been wondering what else they're up to.
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My husband is reading Sagan's Demon Haunted World aloud in the evenings. We feel like we need these voices right now in the face of this religious nationalism.
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I appreciate you!
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I want to hear from the rogue landscaper who saves all the rosebushes for a happy day in the future.
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I overheard at a party immigration had to reverse so people could mentally and physically adjust to AI taking their desk jobs and learn to return to manual labor, that was the only fair solution and logical conclusion. I honestly hoped people weren't going to go there, but here we are.
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"Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?"
> what I see is students attempting to integrate generative AI into their workflows, and achieving regressive results. Demonstrating poorer critical literacy than before. Using poor judgement.
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You've no active back and forth engagement, honest meaningful conversation with the people AI is replacing. Of course we hate AI. You'll never want for anything, but that will not be our experience. Throw yourself behind UBI and you'd be a hero. Tell us to embrace AI without it, you're a villain.
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I was too shy to stay but I walked up to have a peek ❤️
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I want Trump to be forced to admit his tattoo picture was faked.
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It was wonderful to finally read Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World right after yours, it put UFOs and conspiracies into a new light for me.
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They made a short movie about this character that's really quite good.
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May I humbly recommend "My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer" by Paige Ackerson-Kiely. There's a lot of stunning poems about polar exploration but I think hers is best.
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Yay, nothing like seeing a good person get what they deserve to counter so much bad news. <3 Congratulations!
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Republican- platypus because it seems way too ridiculous to exist but is actually poisonous, and Democrat the prairie dog who is good about community and warnings but not especially dangerous.
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My state gave you Fetterman complaining his job is a sad buffet table, mad that he's being "shamed" into SHOWING UP TO VOTE...I thought he would be a man of the people, a giant size quirky hero with an activist immigrant wife, a dude progressive working men could relate to and rally behind. Nope.
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I am ❤️
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Looking down my nose (because my glasses were slipping) flatly saying "nobody likes your jokes, it's just nervous laughter, a fear response" (because it was the truth) shut down an office bully. Everyone's howling with laughter *at him* was the weirdest, slithering, icky power. I quit soon after.
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Say you're "older." To many of them numbers are meaningless but identifying as older or "approaching retirement" sets off whatever age in their head corresponds with elderly.
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This, however, is delicious. www.almanac.com/recipe/make-...
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White pine looks like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree when small, but there were so many huge ones where I grew up. I spent my summers covered in brown pitch stains making tree forts in them, and the smell of the rust colored needles heavy on the ground is home.
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So says "Brandonslayer." 🙄
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It makes me think of the radish spirit from Spirited Away
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I'm one of these "able-bodied" older Medicaid recipients. I'm a writer and housekeeper, physically worn out with little future SS. I can articulate what's wrong with the picture; I'm autistic, and only solitary manual labor has worked for me. I will work as much as I can until I die or UBI happens.
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It was long, but so good.