kuroshii
Project management guru by day. Fiction writer by night. Morning coffee my trusted ally.
- Reposted by kuroshiieverything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight
- Reposted by kuroshiiContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by kuroshiiIllinois, we're so back. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/i...
- Never mind that they're present-day I'm still hearing this all in Hugh Laurie's and Stephen Fry's voices in my head. Further down in 🧵 is the tumblr/bsky credit.
- Reposted by kuroshiiLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by kuroshiiOne of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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- Reposted by kuroshiiMafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
- Another guide for turning a lot of AI off in Gmail.
- Proton Mail seems to be the thing. In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton! proton.me/blog/turn-of...
- Reposted by kuroshii"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)" This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.
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- Reposted by kuroshiiICE is younger than my blog ICE is younger than my email address ICE is younger than at least one of my ukuleles
- Aren't we all, tho?
- Reposted by kuroshiicrazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.
- Mood.
- Reposted by kuroshiiit’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
- Reposted by kuroshiiGmail welcoming the Gemini era? That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
- Reposted by kuroshiiThis one is resonating today. #Andor
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- "Wield the weapon that is you." Write the thing. Write YOUR thing, because only YOU can.
- Reposted by kuroshii"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” - Carrie Fisher
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- How I'm walking out of 2025
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- Reposted by kuroshiiBluesky Lifesavers: 1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day 2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler! 3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.
- Reposted by kuroshiiThe big day has arrived! The day I post the Adama Maneuver again. Next time: 2026 🫡
- Reposted by kuroshiiI'll be honest, these benefit abled folks as well. I find searching Bluesky super helpful since the alt-texts are included so it pulls appropriate media.
- Reposted by kuroshiiThe name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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- Reposted by kuroshiiI’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…
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- Reposted by kuroshii“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
- An important 🧵for writers, but also for other creatives.
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- Reposted by kuroshiiThe USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
- Reposted by kuroshiifirefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)
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- Reposted by kuroshiiI'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.
- What Machine, indeed?
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- Reposted by kuroshii"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
- Reposted by kuroshiii’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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- Reposted by kuroshiiLumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
- Some clarification on the new AI thing in GMail.
- Reposted by kuroshiiHard day today Here's what we think about trusting CDC
- It's actually not under general it's under individual account settings, and it's only for Gmail accounts. But it's there.
- Reposted by kuroshiiMy new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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- If your financial model is based on theft, you don't deserve to be in business.
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- My city remains true to itself! To wit, a bit of history.
- Reposted by kuroshiiGood morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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- Reposted by kuroshiiTrump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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