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Briar Wright

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Writer. Artist. Creative. 35| Enban femme| Versian| xe/xir/xem. Afronative. Getting really into yogurt lately... Comic colorist, looking for work! Contact me: Briarwrightofficial@gmail.com

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You know you’re at a Black funeral when:

06.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1217 πŸ” 256 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 76

It actually kicks ass how much the people who run this site hate the people who use it. Just constant seething meltdowns over having to put up with a bunch of artists, furries, and trans people instead of crypto-hustlers and AI guys making Linkedin-tier posts. I'm glad they're miserable, frankly

05.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 5290 πŸ” 1663 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 25

Indeed. Look up "Deskilling".

05.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is an *experienced* programmer, the exact demographic that LLM advocates say is best equipped to use LLM's productively since their experience lets them verify the output makes sense.

And this demographic is going "whee I am actively deskilling myself!" and letting the dogshit break vital shit.

04.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€ͺ@why.bsky.team‬
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.

In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

Why β€ͺ@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

04.03.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 7227 πŸ” 2322 πŸ’¬ 193 πŸ“Œ 646

Have you noticed that people who spend too long chatting with chatbots, stop making any fucking kind of sense?

The reason why is that the bot will never, ever, go "what the fuck are you talking about? What are you even trying to communicate here?"

04.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 654 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 14

They're calling her the goat, the greatest to ever do it, the genius of the 21st century, the most vindicated bitch who ever lived, her haters in shambles her doubters in tears she's loosed the faithful lightning of her terrible swift sword, HER TRUTH IS MARCHING ON

MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

03.03.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1576 πŸ” 371 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 4

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.

This is welcome news for musicians!

02.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 536 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 10

Damn, AO3 is still down. What am I gonna do, actually work on my own (fanfic) writing for the night?

Misery.

02.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I Drew Gecqua from the new PokΓ©mon game: Winds and Waves

I Drew Gecqua from the new PokΓ©mon game: Winds and Waves

Erm... what do you have there Gecqua?
#PokemonWindsWaves

01.03.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 3058 πŸ” 633 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

01.03.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 8605 πŸ” 2936 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 364

He didn't want any commotion at all. BAFTA didn't brief their hosts about the nature of his tics(so Jordan and Lindo had no idea that could happen!) and WB told BBC where the slur was and to remove it. They did not. It was not a matter of missing it during editing w/ the 2-hour delay.

01.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m gonna mute the word β€œdistraction” for the next 72 hours. None of this is a distraction from anything else, the US Government is, and has been, a death cult run by rapists. Every atrocity they commit is its own reward.

28.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 2587 πŸ” 629 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 8

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

28.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 7407 πŸ” 1831 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 56
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27.02.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's nothing in US history and culture that suggests that the leadership of the country will ever fire the thousand of ICE agents currently working and that will be hired in the future.

In fact, what's more likely is that a future administration will increase their number.

27.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

27.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 13001 πŸ” 4885 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 37

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

27.02.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 2905 πŸ” 737 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 61
pokemon fanart. New starters Browt, Pombon and Gecqua

pokemon fanart. New starters Browt, Pombon and Gecqua

New babies.. #pokemon

27.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 11132 πŸ” 3618 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 33

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life β€” years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable β€” rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

25.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 6856 πŸ” 1217 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 32
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 01:10 πŸ‘ 8537 πŸ” 4250 πŸ’¬ 320 πŸ“Œ 745

Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking.

A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.

26.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1480 πŸ” 417 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 31

The coinage β€œadministrative violence” emerged from within trans studies for a reason.

In doing this, Kansas does usefully get rid of the pretense that β€œproper” legal identification should reflect how a person looks, which undermines the logical justification for photos on ID in the first place

26.02.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

26.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 10823 πŸ” 5231 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 338

One of the reasons I talk about the unsavory parts of Canada is because it crosses borders, this started in Canada with Indigenous victims, Starlight Tours/the Saskatoon freezing deaths. It made it to the US years ago, generally in the desert. Now ICE is using the same cruel practice across the US.

26.02.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation | Amazon Watch β€œThis proves that life – the river – has no price. It cannot be sold, it is not negotiable. That’s why we will never back down.”

Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation. amazonwatch.org/news/2026/02...

25.02.2026 02:40 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

25.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 18319 πŸ” 6186 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 170

no one should be renewing their nitro because this is just kicking the can down the road. until these freaks realize it's not the entire fucking world's job to imperil their security or banking to babysit other people's stupid kids and drop this shit entirely, they should be hemorrhaging money.

24.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1287 πŸ” 689 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4
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1 raven dad
19 raven kids

25.02.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 2088 πŸ” 762 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

He may have even been concerned about the mic, but they promised they'd edit things, and they promised they explained things to the audience(and presumably hosts, but they did not!). Just, set this man up for humiliation and to be used as a means to generate rev and/or humiliate others.

25.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0