Nobilis Reed

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Podcaster and author of erotic speculative fiction.

Anyone involved with crypto or LLM's will be blocked.

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Getting excited! On August 1st I'll begin serializing a saucy, naughty erotic steampunk adventure over on my Patreon. Sign up now to join the weeklong jaunt of The Blossoms of Summer! patreon.com/ceciliatan

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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Doomscrolling is out, now we doomgame 🥲 🎮

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Write that thing. Make it weird. Make it sad. Make it funny or kinky or scary or whatever you want. Write what makes you happy.

In my early twenties, I got really, really sick with some kind of respiratory thing. Codeine sick. I didn't have energy for anything, not even watching TV. I came out of it realizing that I had been wasting my life, and it was time to go do something about it. It was time to take action. 1/2

"[Dystopia] is what happens when you take what happens to marginalized people and apply it to everyone." --Annallee Newitz

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

TW: Politics Freakanomics Radio recently had an episode about the political duopoly in the United States, why it's bad and what we can do about it. I encourage anyone who is dissatisfied with the quality of the candidates in our elections to have a listen. freakonomics.com/podcast/why-...

Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President? - Freakonomicsfreakonomics.com Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President? - Freakonomics

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Want to know why the Quiet Fascist Trio (NYT, CNN, WashPo) are flooding the zone full of shit, and repeating the same talking points about a Democratic incumbent needing to step down that they did in 2012, 2016, and how Joe was too old in 2020? This. They want a horse race. It might not be.

This must be making you people fucking outraged, that nobody cares what you think. Citée to an actual source of decent coverage worth paying for, of course. bsky.app/profile/bloo...

I follow 64 artists on Bluesky. It's great. Following mostly artists I like has vastly improved Bsky for me. If each had a crowdfund like Patreon, and I supported them all at $5, my budget would be in very big trouble. This makes me all the more grateful for the folks who support *my* Patreon.

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the material experience of skull face paint #TheLockedTomb www.tumblr.com/benegesserit...

The effects of face paint on Harrowhark's psychewww.tumblr.com I've now cosplayed Gideon Nav 3 times, with my wife along as Harrow every time. Naturally, this has included full face paint for both of us each time and I have some thoughts. Let me start by assert…

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops sayarstechnica.com Cops want more access to OnlyFans to detect more child sex abuse, report says.

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It's understandable that ppl don't know what to do, we've been shunted into this idea that a narrow version of electoral politics is the ONLY path to change. We DO have to vote, but there is SO MUCH MORE. Places you can start: mutual aid groups (www.mutualaidhub.org) community action groups 1/?

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If the cops grab you at a protest remember: 1) Ask "am I free to go?" if they say yes, GO. 2) if they say no, say "I am invoking my right to an attorney and my 5th amendment right to remain silent" then SHUT UP. wait for your lawyer.

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Honestly, I don't know how doomerism has survived the long arc of history. We used to grovel under kings. Slavery was the law of the land. Fascist authoritarians conquered a democracy and declared war on a continent and a people. And, all of that was overcome. It ceased. History didn't end.

I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).

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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

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similarly, I am extremely tired of having to argue for The Pragmatic Course Of Action all the time because the alternative is Donald Trump becomes the fucking President again I will keep doing it, because that is the alternative, but it's exhausting and I'd prefer to be righteously mad instead

it really fucking bothers me that this collective hysteria has me defending joe fucking biden

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Anyway I personally think it would have been better for the Democratic Party to have had a vigorous primary this year just so we could have, you know, ferreted out this specific issue, AMONG OTHER SPECIFIC SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES, before the actual general. Having not done that, we suck it up.

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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

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I feel like there were a bunch of guys who read the story and thought “What would it do for Omelas’s stock price if we shoved a bunch more kids down there?”

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It's not for everyone, but I've found a lot of freedom in giving up trying to put a happy face on electoral politics. Somehow I'm still motivated to go and vote for Les Evil, because I want to reduce harm. It actually feels easier, because I can free up my brain to search for & work on solutions.

It actually feels like a really insidious idea, that politicians are our leaders, that they have a monopoly on change, that a vote for one is somehow a symbol of loyalty & adherence, rather than choosing the person who we can have the barest trust in not to seize power & do us the least harm.

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Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Researchers Ask Why Surgery Regret is So Low for Trans Patients, What Can Be Learned — Assignedwww.assignedmedia.org Dr. Harry Barbee answered our questions about the direction of research into trans patients’ post-surgical regret, and how other areas of medicine might benefit from understanding the unusually lo...

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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Worth reading the first line of the screenshot and realizing that the very existence of trans people is considered "pornography" by the Project 2025 gremlins.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

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So. Joe Biden is old, not so quick as he used to be, and has a stutter. Trump is basically an entire galaxy of personality disorders and utterly devoid of morals. It ain't a pretty choice, but it seems to be a clear one.