@amcvittie When you return to what’s left of civilization, this made me think of your story of the deadly wallpaper book. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1720883874/?ref=share_ios_native_control
Liz Marley
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Dare ObasanjoHow can you have imposter syndrome when you see who’s running the country?
On my worst day, I couldn’t tank the economy this badly if I tried.
I have misplaced a knitting cable and two tips. Annoyingly, it’s somehow one size zero and one size one. So both sets are now incomplete.
I really don’t like losing things. I feel restless until I find it or forget that I lost it.
CM Harrington@SeanCasten @eschaton counterpoint: ‘it was a mistake’ is a retcon. This is literally in their playbook whenever anyone stands up to them. Also see ‘I was joking …’
Exandra the poorly adjustedISO French trans communities
I need a backup plan, and France is my most likely not-currently-fascist destination.
Anyone part of French trans communities here on fedi? I want to huddle with y'all (and learn French to the required B-1 level)
Caitlinmonster
The point of posting this isn’t to shame all the lovely humans I know who… | Caitlin Steele
The point of posting this isn’t to shame all the lovely humans I know who have shared cute AI-generated images of their action figures, all packaged in plastic with tokens of their favourite hobbies, snacks, or tools carefully placed as accessories. AI is blindingly fast and seems creative in response to our prompt to generate an image of a “harried design manager in a [redacted] company sweatshirt, with art director glasses, a MacBook Pro covered in snarky stickers, a bucket of coffee, paleo snacks, and a Moleskin notebook.” But it is just regurgitating a melange of pixels remixed from the art fed into its data models. Is a kaleidoscope creative? The creator placed the colourful bits of glass there with intent, but the constant remixing at your hand doesn’t mean the kaleidoscope is creating art. Take that metaphor and imagine that the glass came from broken stained glass windows: once carefully crafted by artisans but stolen and then crushed for industrial use at scale. I don’t hate AI as a technology. I use Claude daily. I do think we need to be intentional and aware of how we use these tools and their ethical considerations. I love making software. I love the people I work with and have worked with over the last decade in tech. But I feel we are all suffocating in the plastic boxes we are sealing ourselves into. I am not my role. I exist as a fully fledged, if imperfect, human outside of my title as design manager, social role as wife, or any other role that places me as someone else’s apostrophe. Many of us today are lonely and overwhelmed in a world that is changing around us. The fun trend of generating and then posting that action figure image makes us feel safe like we are a part of something bigger and participating in a harmless trend. But the only person who can keep you in a box is you by policing yourself into the small space others want you to stay in. When well rewarded, our work and effort are what we transact in our roles, not our identities. Don’t commoditise yourself into a piece of plastic to be played with for a while before being discarded. Photo credit goes to one of the talented photographers at Main Character Club Scotland (MCC). A few weeks ago, I spent a day traipsing between Doune, Linlithgow, and Blackness castles with a group of women. We wore costumes, and some brought swords. I went with a sword cane instead for dark academia vibes. Deeply uncool? Maybe to some, but we had a freeing day where we stepped out of our lives and creatively played while building community. We took photos of each other, as coached with photography tips from Gabby Secomb Flegg, founder of MCC. We were the main characters in our stories, not accessories or tools of anyone else. My challenge is that instead of an AI image packaging you into a tidy caricature of whom the world wants you to be, think of who you are when you feel like the main character of your life and career. When do you feel authentically you?
Hippy SteveA feel-good story in the news today...
Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one
The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.
“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”
Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.
BobDevneyHow can we make this, from @frog, famous?
"My standard for consent: pretend the thing I'm consenting to is being physically done by a person.
"It'd be super weird if I bought a used car & they asked me if they could follow me around.
"It'd be super weird for a stranger to ask to follow me around writing down the things I put in my grocery cart.
"If I called a taxi, it'd be super weird if the driver asked to look through my phone contacts & copy them down."
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.