Carlie Pendleton (they/she)

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

FINALLY someone representing blood and puke magic

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

UK politics are insane because what do you mean a party called “monster raving loony party” is real and got 159 votes total

anti-AI “credo” I have a religious exemption from using all generative “A.I.” I am not a member of the Silicon Valley sect. Their beliefs and practices are an affront to my sensibilities. The tech is trained on stolen intellectual property. The output is riddled with mistakes, and it is incapable of comprehending the weight of its errors. It is not even an “it.” But sometimes, it is filtered and massaged by unaccountable human sweatshop workers and bad actors. I am not required to use “A.I.” any more than I am required to join Amway, buy black market rhino horn, or attend the Fyre Festival. As a human, I have a duty and right to limit my carbon and water footprint and protect my fellow human. As a union worker, I have a duty and right to oppose tech that is used to threaten workers or cheapen our product. As a tech consumer, I have a duty and right to oppose scams that lower the quality of our tools. As a scholar, I have a duty and right to oppose anti-intellectualism. As a taxpayer, I have a duty and right to oppose the misallocation of public funds and data. As a grown up, I have a duty and right to protect young people from predators. As a person with a conscience, I am appalled at the decadent disregard for user safety, the callous dismissal of responsibility for lives ruined and slaughtered. My religion is related to my identity, geography, and family, making it an irrelevant accident of birth. What matters is that I was born. I have an exemption from their digital rapture, their cultural austerity, their intellectual poverty. I practice wholesome hedonism and First Do No Harm. CS 12/9/2025

i included this in my syllabi this year

So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Davis lays bare not only the societal forces that frame the prison as inevitable but how they stifle our ability to imagine anything beyond it.

In our current moment of genocide, ICE, fascism, environmental destruction, and global capitalism, we need imagination more than ever.

Revisiting Angela Davis’ “Are Prisons Obsolete?” for the first time in a while.

If you only ever read one book in your lifetime, please let it be this one.

What's with all the ducks?

Chiitan thinks of transgender people as my mom and dad
cherish my mom and dad for the rest of my life
I love you all

I will continue to spread the message about transgender people until the day I disappear
I hope that all good-hearted transgender people can live their lives with pride and happiness

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them? A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

"This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood." - @polphilpod.bsky.social

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

Lured by AI, Colleges Are Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance Opinion | The future we’ve been sold is not inevitable.

“The inevitable AI future, in other words, is a story: a manufactured narrative that legitimizes a particular structure of power.”

www.chronicle.com/article/lure...

Reveal Catherine Ohara GIF Alt: The iconic Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek coming out from behind a white curtain dressed as the Pope in gold and white robes.

The Universe is over 13 billion years old, and I got to exist at the same time as Catherine O'Hara.

What an absolute pleasure.

this is pathetic to a degree i didn't realize was possible

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I love using an EN-vel-ope to en-VEL-ope myself on cold winter nights (the paper cuts are hell though).

Screenshot of a Threads post by trishestalks “This is not “Trump is bad.” Yes Trump is a unique world threat, but imperialism is as American as apple pie. The ousting of Maduro is a continuation of a U.S. policy that spans parties, decades, and administrations: removing or destabilizing governments that won’t hand over their resources. Trump is saying the quiet part out loud - what previous administrations obscured with language like “democracy,” “stability,” and “human rights - but he isn’t inventing a new doctrine. Until Americans understand that our comfort is subsidized by destabilization elsewhere, under both Republican and Democratic leadership, we will continue to encourage systems in which we are both oppressed and oppressor, in which we are both exploited and exploit, ultimately, for the sake of empire and the wealth of the few.”

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

i see people fleeing in terror as shakira law sweeps over the city

Starbucks CEO makes $50,000 an hour —more than double what some baristas make in a whole year.

Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge.

DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

"Muslims shouldn't have to disarm a gunman in order for people to say, 'Well actually, Muslims, they're good people.'"

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Muslim man who stopped a mass shooting in Australia.

Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/good-musli...

How, I really do wonder, do you "do science" without actually reading the existing scholarship? What has really struck me since the gAI boom is how many people have such a profound contempt for the act of reading--or at the least seem not to understand that reading is thinking.