Charlie Ashlock

Another thought; You use GenAI. You're amazed that the bottle imp is so good at something you don't know much about. The demon calls you a good boy and pats you on the head. You use it for more and more things. Then a so called "expert" comes along and says "this is gibberish and even if it was

Iranian fears reveal similarities between abusive governments and husbands; read more on my Substack substack.com/@charliequix...

It’s not your shadow or your inner child; it’s your inner revolutionary.

The connection between psychology and revolutionary theory is ripe with insight! Read all about it at charliequixote.substack.com

I’m hoping you are all taking great care of yourselves!

If you have trouble imagining a positive future, just try imagining technology without the profit motive. Just that is enough to transform the horizon.

He plans to harm me and the people around me to nearly the same degree as the other option.

More and more people are waking up to this fact and getting tired of it. Why do you think so many blue voters stayed home last election?

Raise your hand if you’re exhausted

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

If you are in any situation where licking boots matters, you would, at this point be making a mistake to not hype up fashy tech.

That can mean doubting yourself, failing to interact with other experts, or confusing yourself further. Exercise your judgment, don't use them.

Massachusetts Could Be the Next State to Give Abuse Survivors a Pathway Out of Prison The Massachusetts Survivors Act emulates recent resentencing reforms across the country that allow for reduced sentences for people with convictions related to their abuse.

A Massachusetts bill would require judges to reduce someone’s sentence or offer pretrial diversion if they find that the person’s actions were directly related to their experiences of abuse. Advocates hope lawmakers can move it forward this year.

Criticizing fashion activism is about sexism

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

As a former publishing worker, I would like to add that most full time romance writers can’t pay rent unless they can write obscenely fast. So the “contest” this lady is trying to win is the rent-paying contest— which I feel is important emotional context for this quote

Favourite line iff the day. 'If a voice could be a colour, his would be the grey of the winter sea spilling over shingle.' #writerthreads

11. So it’s not ironic that Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez work for Trump’s paramilitary. It’s in keeping with our history. They’re like some Irish cops in 19th c. NYC who beat down other Irish to prove they left behind the Old World to be loyal to the whiteness that was assimilating them.

Published Op-Eds: "MeToo Has Gone Too Far, [Fringe Case/Case I Made Up In My Head Example]"

Same guys, in private emails: "Heyyy Jeff any advice on how to cover up my 'interactions' with the girls last week?'

Jeffrey Epstein: "haha we did so many sex cromes, you shuld come back 2 do more rape"

At the very least we need to flip this on its head. We currently have socialism for corporations and the wealthy and unbridled ruthless capitalism for the individual. The corporations need to work on our behalf. Not vice versa.

Woke getting in the way of their sexual assault parties really says it all

Oh wow I haven’t heard the word wish-casting before and it is such a vivid way to describe what’s wrong with tech leadership. How did I miss this word??

Abolition won’t be complete until we abolish ICE, police, and prisons— replacing them with open borders, community safety teams, and centers for rehabilitation.
www.instagram.com/reel/DUQxi5B...

I’m hearing from Black creators that it’s more accurate to call ICE the Klan than to call them the Gestapo, and I think they are right

I connect this directly to the "trauma" of ppl who have to tell their children what a trans person is, or who have to read pronouns in an e-mail sig. I wasn't there then, but I'm sure whites were complaining about the "trauma" of desegregated bathrooms 60 years ago.

It's not new, really.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Fuck Meta and Zuckerberg

it's a truly staggering measure of this country's profound cowardice that so many people are afraid of this pathetic loser

A massive Pride Flag, with grey between the colours to almost make it look metallic. There are characters in the various colours: White: Shy, Lili Rochefort, Emma Frost, Nagi Pink: Linda, Arcee, Okomie (OC), Pokézona (OC), Barbie Cyan: Rafayel, Trixie, Shran, Myrly (OC), Hyoka (OC), Melyster (OC), Peppermint Brown: Tamaki, Tay (OC), Gemma, Bonk (OC), Senja, Xonling (OC), Ais Black: Nell (OC), KARR, Fern, Byleth, Tomoro, Ruby (OC), Connie Kent (OC) Red: Zero, Stark, Fursona (OC), Nine-ball, Fursona (OC), Eskel, Ultimate Jessica Drew Orange: Goku, Raihan, Ashley, Bristol (OC), Melinoë, Makoto Nanaya Yellow: Isabelle, Frieren, Selphie, Cosplay Pikachu, S.A.M. Green: Zoro, The Prince, Chie, Winbow (OC), Keyleth Blue: Lucina, Grusha, Brunt (OC), Superman, Sanji, Lara Croft Purple: Jinx, Tali'Zorah, Siren (OC), Fursona (OC), Shuten-Douji, Usoko (OC), Emiko (OC)

The final Pride Flag!
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This is in celebration of me hitting 30k interactions here on BlueSky.

66 characters all in all.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated (they will be shouted out in the following posts).

Please like and share, as this took me over 70 hours ☺️.

#Art #Pride

The National Nurses Union called for a week of action in honor of Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse in a Minneapolis VA hospital. “ICE messed with the wrong profession,” the union wrote in a statement. “We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community.” One nurse protest took place at Oakland’s Kaiser Medical Center on Monday.

Love the phrase, “ICE messed with the wrong profession.”

Art By Jessica Jewett: I'm a Civil War historian. Most people didn't understand that we were at war until about halfway through the first year. It was thought of as the federal government stopping pockets of rebellion. I'm just saying, we could be at war right now and not fully understand it yet.

Just thought this might be important to share

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.