SciFiMagpie
@scifimagpie.bsky.social
Author, artist, parent. Very queer and disabled. Writer, jewelry-maker, knitter. Love D&D/TTRPGs, folklore, science, cats. May contain politics. She/her or xe/xer/xis.
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SciFiMagpie
@scifimagpie.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hi, nice to meet you. I plan to hang around here more often because my people keep coming here. I'm a writer and knitter and ttrpg gamer and jewelry maker and mother and polyamorous queer. Sometimes I edit books, too.
And unsurprisingly, I'm exhausted. Not by those things. By politics.
And unsurprisingly, I'm exhausted. Not by those things. By politics.
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Bonus stuff:
✦ Magic: The Gathering custom cards, alters, and alter sleeves
✦ Pokémon custom cards and art
✦ My Ko-fi for one-offs tips
✦ My Patreon if you wish to support me long term, with proper rewards coming as soon as I pick myself up
✦ Magic: The Gathering custom cards, alters, and alter sleeves
✦ Pokémon custom cards and art
✦ My Ko-fi for one-offs tips
✦ My Patreon if you wish to support me long term, with proper rewards coming as soon as I pick myself up
September 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Bonus stuff:
✦ Magic: The Gathering custom cards, alters, and alter sleeves
✦ Pokémon custom cards and art
✦ My Ko-fi for one-offs tips
✦ My Patreon if you wish to support me long term, with proper rewards coming as soon as I pick myself up
✦ Magic: The Gathering custom cards, alters, and alter sleeves
✦ Pokémon custom cards and art
✦ My Ko-fi for one-offs tips
✦ My Patreon if you wish to support me long term, with proper rewards coming as soon as I pick myself up
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Still need your help!
Haven't had a new order in over a month.
Here's some of my best work. Please help me share as far and wide as you possibly can, because I need traffic. New website is up: www.flygohr.com
Either I can scrape around something or is the end of the ride for me, after 12+ years. It's just unsustainable
Here's some of my best work. Please help me share as far and wide as you possibly can, because I need traffic. New website is up: www.flygohr.com
Either I can scrape around something or is the end of the ride for me, after 12+ years. It's just unsustainable
September 23, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Still need your help!
So one of my friends who is multiply disabled and multiply queer is at risk of being homeless and is currently like, on their back, with a serious injury. They're applying for disability and stuff, but they're flat broke. Anything helps; please pass it on. www.paypal.com/qrcodes/p2pq...
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September 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
So one of my friends who is multiply disabled and multiply queer is at risk of being homeless and is currently like, on their back, with a serious injury. They're applying for disability and stuff, but they're flat broke. Anything helps; please pass it on. www.paypal.com/qrcodes/p2pq...
#mutualaid
#mutualaid
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And now OpenAI is out with their big announcement. If you're hearing about "AI does a math breakthru!!1!!!" please read the resources in this thread.
Also, journalists, please, do not let OpenAI pull the wool over your eyes.
Also, journalists, please, do not let OpenAI pull the wool over your eyes.
The number of people misinterpreting this one -- whew. We need that evidence to evaluate the company's claim that their system did any 'autonomous' math, not to evaluate whether or not the counterexample is a counterexample.
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Another good rule of thumb: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We need not just e.g. the counterexample to an outstanding mathematical conjecture, but also all of the inputs that went into finding it.
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September 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
And now OpenAI is out with their big announcement. If you're hearing about "AI does a math breakthru!!1!!!" please read the resources in this thread.
Also, journalists, please, do not let OpenAI pull the wool over your eyes.
Also, journalists, please, do not let OpenAI pull the wool over your eyes.
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Yesterday would have been my father's 76th birthday. My first Sept. 7th without him.
I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love.
What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society
karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...
I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love.
What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society
karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...
What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society
On Labor Day what bell hooks, my father, and the labor movement taught me about truth, love, and solidarity
karenattiah.substack.com
September 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Yesterday would have been my father's 76th birthday. My first Sept. 7th without him.
I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love.
What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society
karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...
I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love.
What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society
karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...
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Happy 60th, Star Trek. Live Long and prosper.
September 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Happy 60th, Star Trek. Live Long and prosper.
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The evil Confederate translation of Les Misérables: "We've omitted parts Hugo meant only for French readers, like the sentences condemning slavery."
Victor Hugo: "I wrote my classic novel 'Do Not Oppress People' for literally every person and country in the world."
Victor Hugo: "I wrote my classic novel 'Do Not Oppress People' for literally every person and country in the world."
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words in the original French. Hugo explained his ambitions for the novel to his Italian publisher:[24]
I don't know whether it will be read by everyone, but it is meant for everyone. It addresses England as well as Spain, Italy as well as France, Germany as well as Ireland, the republics that harbour slaves as well as empires that have serfs. Social problems go beyond frontiers. Humankind's wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps. Wherever men go in ignorance or despair, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children lack a book to learn from or a warm hearth, Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: "open up, I am here for you".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z2w5kftc6zwztcbw6qkpmgvk/bafkreieal2vcaiihghyhb5sgwhagnwmnprzcr2wmpj3rpmi5feot7skmvq)
August 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
The evil Confederate translation of Les Misérables: "We've omitted parts Hugo meant only for French readers, like the sentences condemning slavery."
Victor Hugo: "I wrote my classic novel 'Do Not Oppress People' for literally every person and country in the world."
Victor Hugo: "I wrote my classic novel 'Do Not Oppress People' for literally every person and country in the world."
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AI does not belong in education. I'm sorry but it doesn't. Unless the purpose of the class is explicitly "how to use AI without getting AI brain rot" I haven't yet encountered a good reason for students to use it.
Students who don't use AI chatbots for schoolwork are scoring better grades than those who do, according to a new report. It's some of the widest-ranging evidence yet that the technology could be hurting young people's learning. bloom.bg/4gHVbZY
📷: Jean-François Fort / Getty Images
📷: Jean-François Fort / Getty Images
September 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
AI does not belong in education. I'm sorry but it doesn't. Unless the purpose of the class is explicitly "how to use AI without getting AI brain rot" I haven't yet encountered a good reason for students to use it.
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I keep saying that chatbots show how many people absolutely *ache* to be enslavers
I wonder how often Confederates would've said "slavery is here to stay"
I wonder how often Confederates would've said "slavery is here to stay"
Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.
September 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I keep saying that chatbots show how many people absolutely *ache* to be enslavers
I wonder how often Confederates would've said "slavery is here to stay"
I wonder how often Confederates would've said "slavery is here to stay"
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Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one.
There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this.
It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this.
It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
September 8, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one.
There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this.
It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this.
It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
@maryharris.bsky.social you did great, but not super thrilled with "what Democrats need to do to win". "What about a little bigotry against trans people as a treat?" Your pushback was great, but idk, fucking Mamdani didn't need to "lean centre" about this and neither have other candidates.
September 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
@maryharris.bsky.social you did great, but not super thrilled with "what Democrats need to do to win". "What about a little bigotry against trans people as a treat?" Your pushback was great, but idk, fucking Mamdani didn't need to "lean centre" about this and neither have other candidates.
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Magical creature, a cuckoo wasp (Chrysis conica) 💙💚🖤 Found this one trapped in a window frame, tuckered out just enough to not immediately fly away after I freed it. #bugsky
August 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Magical creature, a cuckoo wasp (Chrysis conica) 💙💚🖤 Found this one trapped in a window frame, tuckered out just enough to not immediately fly away after I freed it. #bugsky
The AMOC is being disrupted and climate tipping points are happening and you dipshits are arguing about the feelings of AI.
August 25, 2026 at 10:48 PM
The AMOC is being disrupted and climate tipping points are happening and you dipshits are arguing about the feelings of AI.
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I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself
yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco
www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...
www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...
July 22, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself
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This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.
July 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.
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Break this company up.
"Amazon employees have flagged low product prices on rival retailers’ sites as threats to Amazon’s own profitability, and informed the products’ suppliers that their sales on Amazon.com have been cut – or might soon be cut – going forward."
Prison time.
Prison time.
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Break this company up.
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UPDATE: The city is FINALLY listening & has put Ali on a priority list to get into a hotel by the end of the week
They'll still need $$ for food and to replace essentials that were stolen, but there might be an end in sight
They'll still need $$ for food and to replace essentials that were stolen, but there might be an end in sight
An IRL friend of mine is raising money to secure housing for themself & their dog. They're hoping to cover emergency accommodations for June, first & last for a new place, moving costs & an emergency fund to prevent them from facing this situation again
Please donate if you can & boost if you can't
Please donate if you can & boost if you can't
Donate to From Survival to Stability: Help Us Secure Housing & Safety, organized by Ali May
"As tired the fight for my survival I've been in from the constant… Ali May needs your support for From Survival to Stability: Help Us Secure Housing & Safety
www.gofundme.com
July 22, 2026 at 12:50 AM
UPDATE: The city is FINALLY listening & has put Ali on a priority list to get into a hotel by the end of the week
They'll still need $$ for food and to replace essentials that were stolen, but there might be an end in sight
They'll still need $$ for food and to replace essentials that were stolen, but there might be an end in sight
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So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
May 28, 2026 at 7:20 PM
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
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I loathe the cult of the car.
May 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I loathe the cult of the car.
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Enrichment is so important
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Enrichment is so important
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Like, imagine all your friends yelling at fictional characters in real time alongside you like you’re watching sports. That would be so fun.
July 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Like, imagine all your friends yelling at fictional characters in real time alongside you like you’re watching sports. That would be so fun.
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I think book clubs should sometimes be all of us getting together and reading books to each other out loud, because I imagine this is the experience everyone must be getting from me live-posting my first Austen. It’s fun to read together! We should do it as grownups!
July 10, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I think book clubs should sometimes be all of us getting together and reading books to each other out loud, because I imagine this is the experience everyone must be getting from me live-posting my first Austen. It’s fun to read together! We should do it as grownups!
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CLASSIC to misspell “misspell” when addressing misspelling
For your viewing pleasure, I also doodled a portrait of an unfortunate typo I made while typing up the last post.
July 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM
CLASSIC to misspell “misspell” when addressing misspelling