Lia
@liasae.bsky.social
French-Swedish UI game engine plumber, textile tangler (Fibraquarelle) and glassblower-in-training. DIYing public health since 2020. Ranter extraordinaire. Queer. No pronouns, else they/iel/hen.
"The AI models are talking in a new language!!!"
I mean back in my days we called that Garbage In Garbage Out and it's in fact indicative of how utterly bullshit, wonky and ill-specified the interface with those things is. Props to them for peddling critical software flaws as a feature I suppose
I mean back in my days we called that Garbage In Garbage Out and it's in fact indicative of how utterly bullshit, wonky and ill-specified the interface with those things is. Props to them for peddling critical software flaws as a feature I suppose
September 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"The AI models are talking in a new language!!!"
I mean back in my days we called that Garbage In Garbage Out and it's in fact indicative of how utterly bullshit, wonky and ill-specified the interface with those things is. Props to them for peddling critical software flaws as a feature I suppose
I mean back in my days we called that Garbage In Garbage Out and it's in fact indicative of how utterly bullshit, wonky and ill-specified the interface with those things is. Props to them for peddling critical software flaws as a feature I suppose
Possibly the most grating part of AI BS at work is seeing people - who you know are adopting the tools - stating utterly obvious things and needing to refrain from going "YOU DON'T SAY, WONDER WHO FORESAW THIS SIX MONTHS AGO, I'LL TAKE APOLOGIES IN CASH THANKS" every time
September 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Possibly the most grating part of AI BS at work is seeing people - who you know are adopting the tools - stating utterly obvious things and needing to refrain from going "YOU DON'T SAY, WONDER WHO FORESAW THIS SIX MONTHS AGO, I'LL TAKE APOLOGIES IN CASH THANKS" every time
Swedish media really going all-in with the "Swedish citizens who are targeted by racism tend to not vote for racists: is this a sign of the collapse of democracy?" shit, huh
September 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Swedish media really going all-in with the "Swedish citizens who are targeted by racism tend to not vote for racists: is this a sign of the collapse of democracy?" shit, huh
It's interesting in the worst way to see both my countries deploy the exact same playbook.
Do LFI and V have an antisemitism problem? Yes!
Is antisemitism *structural* to them the way it is to the far-right? NOOOOOOOO!
Is the right-wing exploiting A to muddy the waters about B? Obviously. Nakedly.
Do LFI and V have an antisemitism problem? Yes!
Is antisemitism *structural* to them the way it is to the far-right? NOOOOOOOO!
Is the right-wing exploiting A to muddy the waters about B? Obviously. Nakedly.
Ja, det är motbjudande.
Det är en sanslöst rasistisk kampanj – mot muslimer.
Som ger falskt sken av att utmana rasism – mot judar.
De borde skämmas.
Det är en sanslöst rasistisk kampanj – mot muslimer.
Som ger falskt sken av att utmana rasism – mot judar.
De borde skämmas.
Motbjudande när Tidö exploaterar judar för att frysa ut Vänsterpartiet
Nej, det handlar inte om antisemitism. Men definitivt om rasism. Alla borde skämmas.
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September 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
It's interesting in the worst way to see both my countries deploy the exact same playbook.
Do LFI and V have an antisemitism problem? Yes!
Is antisemitism *structural* to them the way it is to the far-right? NOOOOOOOO!
Is the right-wing exploiting A to muddy the waters about B? Obviously. Nakedly.
Do LFI and V have an antisemitism problem? Yes!
Is antisemitism *structural* to them the way it is to the far-right? NOOOOOOOO!
Is the right-wing exploiting A to muddy the waters about B? Obviously. Nakedly.
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People reached out some time ago wanting to read the full text of my essay 'The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism' in @thefunambulist.bsky.social and it's now available on @offshootjournal.bsky.social! Go check it out and share if you'd like!
offshootjournal.org/the-lingerin...
offshootjournal.org/the-lingerin...
September 15, 2026 at 4:08 PM
People reached out some time ago wanting to read the full text of my essay 'The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism' in @thefunambulist.bsky.social and it's now available on @offshootjournal.bsky.social! Go check it out and share if you'd like!
offshootjournal.org/the-lingerin...
offshootjournal.org/the-lingerin...
Every time I explain this to people they briefly look at me like I grew a second head
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
September 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Every time I explain this to people they briefly look at me like I grew a second head
Got lost on Wikipedia due to someone's Norwegian shitpost and: French, we could have this too, we just have to want it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-refo...
Du-reformen - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Got lost on Wikipedia due to someone's Norwegian shitpost and: French, we could have this too, we just have to want it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du-refo...
No really I love seeing the endless ever-same circular discourse about elections that aren't even happening yet in a country whose fuckery materially affect my life but that I get no say about, it's great
September 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
No really I love seeing the endless ever-same circular discourse about elections that aren't even happening yet in a country whose fuckery materially affect my life but that I get no say about, it's great
Having a feeling or two watching (notably white and abled) trans US folks rage about "progressive" politicians abandoning them as if that was a new phenomenon for minorities deemed expendable
September 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Having a feeling or two watching (notably white and abled) trans US folks rage about "progressive" politicians abandoning them as if that was a new phenomenon for minorities deemed expendable
The whole monstering thing typically greatly worries people around me but I reassure them by explaining that my job has trained me for constant, repeated ego death and therefore I am actually fine
(Yup it's One Of Those Days In UI Programming Funnytown again)
(Yup it's One Of Those Days In UI Programming Funnytown again)
September 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
The whole monstering thing typically greatly worries people around me but I reassure them by explaining that my job has trained me for constant, repeated ego death and therefore I am actually fine
(Yup it's One Of Those Days In UI Programming Funnytown again)
(Yup it's One Of Those Days In UI Programming Funnytown again)
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"A gesture of solidarity that saw a local creditor forgive the debt of a struggling Palestinian schoolteacher in the West Bank has snowballed into one of the biggest grassroots solidarity campaign the region has ever seen. More than $20 million in inter-Palestinian debt has since been forgiven"
September 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"A gesture of solidarity that saw a local creditor forgive the debt of a struggling Palestinian schoolteacher in the West Bank has snowballed into one of the biggest grassroots solidarity campaign the region has ever seen. More than $20 million in inter-Palestinian debt has since been forgiven"
King refusing to sign a collective agreement (which is very rare in Sweden, often reserved for US asshats like Tesla or evil tech startups), workers will go on strike September 25th unless it gets resolved.
(King is MS and therefore under BDS, but that doesn't apply to covering labor action!)
(King is MS and therefore under BDS, but that doesn't apply to covering labor action!)
Sveriges Ingenjörer och Unionen varslar om strejk på spelföretaget King, som ligger bakom mobilspelet Candy Crush Saga. Orsaken är att företaget inte vill teckna kollektivavtal.
Facken hotar med strejk på Candy Crush-företaget
Sveriges Ingenjörer och Unionen varslar om strejk på spelföretaget King.
arbetet.se
September 15, 2026 at 9:06 AM
King refusing to sign a collective agreement (which is very rare in Sweden, often reserved for US asshats like Tesla or evil tech startups), workers will go on strike September 25th unless it gets resolved.
(King is MS and therefore under BDS, but that doesn't apply to covering labor action!)
(King is MS and therefore under BDS, but that doesn't apply to covering labor action!)
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”Ett av de rika partier som bränner mest pengar på valrörelsen är Sverigedemokraterna. De vill inte berätta hur mycket de spenderar, och de kringgår förbudet mot anonyma givare.”
Så här tvättar SD pengar i valet
Ett av de rika partier som bränner mest pengar på valrörelsen är Sverigedemokraterna. De vill inte berätta hur mycket de spenderar, och de kringgår förbudet mot anonyma givare.
klagget.nu
September 15, 2026 at 7:40 AM
”Ett av de rika partier som bränner mest pengar på valrörelsen är Sverigedemokraterna. De vill inte berätta hur mycket de spenderar, och de kringgår förbudet mot anonyma givare.”
Chewing and thinking and dwelling on a whole bunch of obnoxious stuff and I keep looking back to: I'd be in solidarity with people of color regardless, because it's the right thing to do. But even out of self-interest, their work has given me more tools than anything written by white people
September 15, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Chewing and thinking and dwelling on a whole bunch of obnoxious stuff and I keep looking back to: I'd be in solidarity with people of color regardless, because it's the right thing to do. But even out of self-interest, their work has given me more tools than anything written by white people
Much as SD losing ground everywhere is good (if only because it annoys them), I think M has slid further to the right and away from respecting democracy enough that it's not actually that positive a sign. In most places people go for the original rather than the copy, but... maybe Sweden is weirder
September 15, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Much as SD losing ground everywhere is good (if only because it annoys them), I think M has slid further to the right and away from respecting democracy enough that it's not actually that positive a sign. In most places people go for the original rather than the copy, but... maybe Sweden is weirder
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No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.
September 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.
*checks calendar*
Ah crap September is "this economy: bad" so we CAN actually discourse on the fascinating "look, some of you might die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make [for videogames]" article a new website chose to launch with
Ah crap September is "this economy: bad" so we CAN actually discourse on the fascinating "look, some of you might die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make [for videogames]" article a new website chose to launch with
September 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
*checks calendar*
Ah crap September is "this economy: bad" so we CAN actually discourse on the fascinating "look, some of you might die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make [for videogames]" article a new website chose to launch with
Ah crap September is "this economy: bad" so we CAN actually discourse on the fascinating "look, some of you might die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make [for videogames]" article a new website chose to launch with
Oof that new "Steam Hype" website certainly is making Choices in the stakes it's planting early
September 14, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Oof that new "Steam Hype" website certainly is making Choices in the stakes it's planting early
God bless the pathetic empty dancefloors at SD's shit party are becoming "pictures from election night you might have missed". Good. Show them as the utter losers they are. Show them to be dangerous greedy fucks who will never have enough until they've got *everything*.
September 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
God bless the pathetic empty dancefloors at SD's shit party are becoming "pictures from election night you might have missed". Good. Show them as the utter losers they are. Show them to be dangerous greedy fucks who will never have enough until they've got *everything*.
Worth noting that on some topics (I can mostly speak to ableism on the left), speaking that clearly will result in you being absolutely reviled and dehumanized.
Learn from Black liberation and Black feminists *in particular* about how to survive that. 'Cause you have to survive it to win eventually
Learn from Black liberation and Black feminists *in particular* about how to survive that. 'Cause you have to survive it to win eventually
People think politics is all about navigating sophisticated triangulations and legal mechanisms.
But the hard part is thinking deeply about what you actually want, figuring out what matters to you, and finding a way to talk about it plainly
But the hard part is thinking deeply about what you actually want, figuring out what matters to you, and finding a way to talk about it plainly
September 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Worth noting that on some topics (I can mostly speak to ableism on the left), speaking that clearly will result in you being absolutely reviled and dehumanized.
Learn from Black liberation and Black feminists *in particular* about how to survive that. 'Cause you have to survive it to win eventually
Learn from Black liberation and Black feminists *in particular* about how to survive that. 'Cause you have to survive it to win eventually
Pfffffffrt apparently there are people out there still peddling as of *this summer* that I'm a known transmisogynist. The root incident is me being kinda dry two years ago when telling someone who, sure, is a trans woman, that if she was coughing indoors she should put on a mask.
Queer community!
Queer community!
September 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Pfffffffrt apparently there are people out there still peddling as of *this summer* that I'm a known transmisogynist. The root incident is me being kinda dry two years ago when telling someone who, sure, is a trans woman, that if she was coughing indoors she should put on a mask.
Queer community!
Queer community!
I hope they pick the same guy as talman again just because it will be so funny to put him through one more cycle of nightmarish government-building
September 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I hope they pick the same guy as talman again just because it will be so funny to put him through one more cycle of nightmarish government-building
I was hoping my weird healing didn't apply to mucosal tissue and I guess I was incorrect, sigh. Bleeding at D+12, fuck ooooooooooooff
(Should be minor and go over on its own, nothing threatening, just annoying)
(Should be minor and go over on its own, nothing threatening, just annoying)
September 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
I was hoping my weird healing didn't apply to mucosal tissue and I guess I was incorrect, sigh. Bleeding at D+12, fuck ooooooooooooff
(Should be minor and go over on its own, nothing threatening, just annoying)
(Should be minor and go over on its own, nothing threatening, just annoying)
SD wants people to know that there's DEFINITELY a party and people are having a VERY LOVELY EVENING thank you very much just not where the cameras of the Lying Press are
(Says some Nazi to a camera that's in a different room as the empty dance floor, with equally dire vibes)
(Says some Nazi to a camera that's in a different room as the empty dance floor, with equally dire vibes)
September 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM
SD wants people to know that there's DEFINITELY a party and people are having a VERY LOVELY EVENING thank you very much just not where the cameras of the Lying Press are
(Says some Nazi to a camera that's in a different room as the empty dance floor, with equally dire vibes)
(Says some Nazi to a camera that's in a different room as the empty dance floor, with equally dire vibes)
I'm not the time to booze my way through a valvaka but it sure is tempting this year
September 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I'm not the time to booze my way through a valvaka but it sure is tempting this year