Raymond Currier
@teaandcharcoal.bsky.social
Ray | He/they | 30s | Writer and Museum Gremlin
Not "it's all joever," not "it's going to be fine," but a secret third thing ("all that was built by human hands can be rebuilt").
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Not "it's all joever," not "it's going to be fine," but a secret third thing ("all that was built by human hands can be rebuilt").
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Please learn that "you don't apply the same rules to yourself as you do to others" isn't "exposing" conservatives, and definitely not an effective means of shaming them. They are very intentional and deliberate about this! It's an exercise of power, of deeming themselves exceptional and superior.
September 19, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Please learn that "you don't apply the same rules to yourself as you do to others" isn't "exposing" conservatives, and definitely not an effective means of shaming them. They are very intentional and deliberate about this! It's an exercise of power, of deeming themselves exceptional and superior.
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Witness recounts Fourth of July weekend Bigfoot sighting in Connecticut, says 'there were no boobs'
www.foxnews.com/outkick-cult...
www.foxnews.com/outkick-cult...
September 19, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Witness recounts Fourth of July weekend Bigfoot sighting in Connecticut, says 'there were no boobs'
www.foxnews.com/outkick-cult...
www.foxnews.com/outkick-cult...
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I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
September 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast
September 18, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast
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"Epiedermis", watercolor and colored pencil on paper
September 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"Epiedermis", watercolor and colored pencil on paper
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Cis folks really don't understand what it's like to have who you are made into a political scape goat for 5 years straight with legislation targeting every aspect of your life. And then, the only political party that pretends to care is slowly being pushed to abandon you as a political albatross.
September 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Cis folks really don't understand what it's like to have who you are made into a political scape goat for 5 years straight with legislation targeting every aspect of your life. And then, the only political party that pretends to care is slowly being pushed to abandon you as a political albatross.
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…yeah, okay, that’s pretty much it.
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
September 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
…yeah, okay, that’s pretty much it.
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commission for @khonri.com of their cute character Inala, an erzmaw 💗 #digitalart #fantasyart #ocart #ocsky
September 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
commission for @khonri.com of their cute character Inala, an erzmaw 💗 #digitalart #fantasyart #ocart #ocsky
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"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
This point, from my recent interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for TNR, is so crucial. Trans people are desperate for relief from the relentless Republican attacks impacting all of us.
When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
When Democrats move right, they signal relief may not be coming, and that engenders a lot of despair.
September 18, 2026 at 5:57 PM
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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what cis people fail to understand about transphobia is that it's not "treating trans men as women and trans women as men," it's "constantly occupying the status of Third-Sexed Unhuman who can be gendered in whichever way is most convenient at any given moment"
September 18, 2026 at 2:32 PM
what cis people fail to understand about transphobia is that it's not "treating trans men as women and trans women as men," it's "constantly occupying the status of Third-Sexed Unhuman who can be gendered in whichever way is most convenient at any given moment"
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A hill I'll die on:
Illustrations in novels should come back. Adults like pictures, too! A few older books I have contain wonderful woodcuts or inked drawings. I think they enhance the experience. Not necessary, but classy.
Illustrations in novels should come back. Adults like pictures, too! A few older books I have contain wonderful woodcuts or inked drawings. I think they enhance the experience. Not necessary, but classy.
September 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A hill I'll die on:
Illustrations in novels should come back. Adults like pictures, too! A few older books I have contain wonderful woodcuts or inked drawings. I think they enhance the experience. Not necessary, but classy.
Illustrations in novels should come back. Adults like pictures, too! A few older books I have contain wonderful woodcuts or inked drawings. I think they enhance the experience. Not necessary, but classy.
#septopolis Mottled Hollow does not have electricity generation or a dump in town (though there is a scrapyard outside city limits). While there is a small river running through town, the drinking water is pumped up at a municipal plant and & waste water is treated & dumped into the river. Many in
Good morning, #Septopolis.
All the "boring" stuff no one wants to think about... but it's so essential!
Is water as simple as a stream? Or do they have magic/tech desalination readily available? What's done with garbage and biological waste? Do they have electricity or some kind of equivalent?
All the "boring" stuff no one wants to think about... but it's so essential!
Is water as simple as a stream? Or do they have magic/tech desalination readily available? What's done with garbage and biological waste? Do they have electricity or some kind of equivalent?
September 18, 2026 at 2:14 PM
#septopolis Mottled Hollow does not have electricity generation or a dump in town (though there is a scrapyard outside city limits). While there is a small river running through town, the drinking water is pumped up at a municipal plant and & waste water is treated & dumped into the river. Many in
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the last ten years or so have taught us that one of our major problems as a society is that we’re being run by perverts (derogatory) rather than perverts (complimentary)
So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph:
siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...
siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...
September 18, 2026 at 1:49 AM
the last ten years or so have taught us that one of our major problems as a society is that we’re being run by perverts (derogatory) rather than perverts (complimentary)
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I've probably put in 100 library requests over the past year, and they're almost always approved.
It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library)
It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library)
Also worth noting that like, three people requesting something at a library will get a library to buy it. And it doesn't take many holds to make it "we should buy more copies."
September 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I've probably put in 100 library requests over the past year, and they're almost always approved.
It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library)
It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library)
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Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
September 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Firefox literally just doing this right now by announcing this shit...
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BABE WAKE UP NEW CAT JUST DROPPED
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in more than a century.
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September 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
BABE WAKE UP NEW CAT JUST DROPPED
#septopolis Lol. Lmao. What mass transit? I don't even think Mottled Hollow has an amtrak station 🤣 (you could, however, get a greyhound on their moderately-maintained roads)
As the city center was built in the 17th century, a lot of that is quite walkable (There's even an almost bodega-like
As the city center was built in the 17th century, a lot of that is quite walkable (There's even an almost bodega-like
Good morning, #Septopolis.
Today's question encompasses both personal transport as well as industry's needs, but I'm also curious to know how you choose to handle mass public transport as well (as a goal of our real world!).
For maintenance: how is it done and how is it funded?
Today's question encompasses both personal transport as well as industry's needs, but I'm also curious to know how you choose to handle mass public transport as well (as a goal of our real world!).
For maintenance: how is it done and how is it funded?
September 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#septopolis Lol. Lmao. What mass transit? I don't even think Mottled Hollow has an amtrak station 🤣 (you could, however, get a greyhound on their moderately-maintained roads)
As the city center was built in the 17th century, a lot of that is quite walkable (There's even an almost bodega-like
As the city center was built in the 17th century, a lot of that is quite walkable (There's even an almost bodega-like
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I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.
September 17, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I think AI has already exceeded the intelligence of the type of person that believes AGI is imminent, which is why they believe AGI is imminent.
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Super helpful stuff for those on Wordpress! I should go though my settings on the site.
There's a few things you can do to slow them down, at least, though.
1. Did you disable 3rd Party Sharing? Wordpress, sadly, has an "opt-out" process for their own data partners.
(share.google/CR1ISI5p10N0...)
2. Have you edified your "robots.txt" file? It's used to restrict "ethical" crawlers.
1. Did you disable 3rd Party Sharing? Wordpress, sadly, has an "opt-out" process for their own data partners.
(share.google/CR1ISI5p10N0...)
2. Have you edified your "robots.txt" file? It's used to restrict "ethical" crawlers.
September 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Super helpful stuff for those on Wordpress! I should go though my settings on the site.
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God FUCKING damn it, I've been a maid for 20 years and taken great pleasure in being an absolute menace to the pushover noblewoman I technically serve, and it's been great, I've been so mean lmao, but I'm starting to suspect her body's been taken over by an isekai protagonist. What should I do???
September 17, 2026 at 1:28 AM
God FUCKING damn it, I've been a maid for 20 years and taken great pleasure in being an absolute menace to the pushover noblewoman I technically serve, and it's been great, I've been so mean lmao, but I'm starting to suspect her body's been taken over by an isekai protagonist. What should I do???
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Cis people who want to be "allies" to trans people, READ this so you get our POV. Also, cis people who are mad at trans people who are mad at politicians who want to rescind our rights: READ this too.
Julia Serano, yet again hits it out of the park with a prescient breakdown of the situation
Julia Serano, yet again hits it out of the park with a prescient breakdown of the situation
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share!
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
juliaserano.medium.com
September 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Cis people who want to be "allies" to trans people, READ this so you get our POV. Also, cis people who are mad at trans people who are mad at politicians who want to rescind our rights: READ this too.
Julia Serano, yet again hits it out of the park with a prescient breakdown of the situation
Julia Serano, yet again hits it out of the park with a prescient breakdown of the situation
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The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend legal discrimination protections to people in polyamorous relationships and people who identify as pansexual and asexual.
Seattle makes polyamorous and asexual people a protected class
The legislation extends LGBTQ+ civil rights protections to pansexual, asexual, and polyamorous people.
www.kuow.org
September 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend legal discrimination protections to people in polyamorous relationships and people who identify as pansexual and asexual.