The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson
@barmecide.bsky.social
Watch the performance at the 2026 Atlanta Fringe Festival.
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“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
October 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
October 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes
September 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes
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Never sell anyone out.
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports.
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
“That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
September 29, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Never sell anyone out.
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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Data point on what's possible
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
September 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Data point on what's possible
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Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks.
Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them.
Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them.
Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
September 25, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks.
Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them.
Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them.
Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
September 25, 2026 at 10:53 PM
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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I get really annoyed seeing so many people say "Since everyone uses AI to write papers..." or "Referee reports now are just written by AI..."
Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work.
Seriously, screw gen-AI.
Look: Everything I have written has, for better or worse, been my own writing. Don't project your cynical expectations on my work.
Seriously, screw gen-AI.
September 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
apnews.com
September 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
This rules.
Siskel and Ebert fighting about the Kids in the Hall movie is absolutely stunningly amazing. Siskel liked it a lot. Ebert truly looks like he is going to murder his cohost.
“Will you watch the picture again?”
“Yeah I’d be glad to, Gene. Maybe sometime in the 21st century.”
youtu.be/dheOm5JgwzM?...
“Will you watch the picture again?”
“Yeah I’d be glad to, Gene. Maybe sometime in the 21st century.”
youtu.be/dheOm5JgwzM?...
VERY FUNNY Siskel & Ebert movie review "Brain Candy" 1996
YouTube video by jukeboxhero26
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September 23, 2026 at 2:51 AM
This rules.
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as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale
this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing
so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing
so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
September 21, 2026 at 10:54 PM
as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale
this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing
so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing
so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
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Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.
Also, he purged the Kennedy Center of a collection of African art that was given in tribute to JFK, but he installed this, from the Tony Montana Meets Saddam Hussein Collection.
September 20, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Conservatives desperately want cultural supremacy and yet they are incapable of producing art. I don't even mean great or good art, I mean "works that are arguably artistic." Every cultural artifact they produce in any medium is instantly recognizable as vapid, disposable, and unworthy of attention.
Excited to get my quarterly quota of bartigans in the first episode of #thetraitorsus.
September 21, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Excited to get my quarterly quota of bartigans in the first episode of #thetraitorsus.
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Wake up, babe, new Ghost Dixie Chicks single just dropped.
I downloaded an app that’s supposed to pick up words that ghosts are saying near you. I tried it out at the local coffeeshop and it took a real turn.
September 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Wake up, babe, new Ghost Dixie Chicks single just dropped.
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When I think about the way the mediia covers the trans community, one metaphor I have come back to many times is the 1980s UK's broadcast ban on the voices of anyone representing the Irish Republican movement in Northern Ireland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG-...
When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically | “The Ban” | The New Yorker Documentary
YouTube video by The New Yorker
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2026 at 3:44 PM
When I think about the way the mediia covers the trans community, one metaphor I have come back to many times is the 1980s UK's broadcast ban on the voices of anyone representing the Irish Republican movement in Northern Ireland.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EG-...
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Shout out to John Donne’s ‘The Flea’, the first and only attempt in human history to seduce via insect bite
September 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Shout out to John Donne’s ‘The Flea’, the first and only attempt in human history to seduce via insect bite
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It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.
September 19, 2026 at 3:15 PM
It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.
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When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
September 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Let's not forget David Hasselhoff as Garthe Knight in the show Knight Rider, the evil stepbrother of Michael Knight
September 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Let's not forget David Hasselhoff as Garthe Knight in the show Knight Rider, the evil stepbrother of Michael Knight
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Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.
September 17, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.
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Georgia State 31 - Kennesaw State 17
September 14, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Georgia State 31 - Kennesaw State 17
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I have seen it all: A UMC pastor leading a Wizard of Oz-themed call-and-response with the crowd during a Senate debate at the Kansas State Fair.
Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has the juice
Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has the juice
September 13, 2026 at 4:34 AM
I have seen it all: A UMC pastor leading a Wizard of Oz-themed call-and-response with the crowd during a Senate debate at the Kansas State Fair.
Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has the juice
Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton has the juice
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Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting.
Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
September 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting.
Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
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He learned almost too late that Man is a feeling creature- and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves.
What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)
April 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
He learned almost too late that Man is a feeling creature- and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves.
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I found off-season peppermint stick ice cream AS IS MY RIGHT!!!
September 12, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I found off-season peppermint stick ice cream AS IS MY RIGHT!!!