Elle Billing (she/they)

@elleandwink.bsky.social

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Disabled, chronically ill queer. Exhausted! Artist, Caregiver, Podcaster, Educator.
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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

Getchoo a partner who supports your special interests and listens to you apologize to your plants. 💚💚💚

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Eric Bellmore @bellmore.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

If you've ever looked into the pro life bullshit at all you understand it, like everything in this country, has ALWAYS been about race. 👇🏼

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:28 UTC

There's a significant contingent of Americans who simply don't believe Project 2025, it's too outlandishly evil – they think you're making it up. The more Kevin talks about this shit, the better...

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

If I recall this correctly... Bill Murray accepted the voice acting role in Garfield without reading the script because it was written by one Joel Cohen, and he always wanted to be in a Coen Brothers (Ethan and Joel) movie. He had regrets.

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ONeillJones @oneilljones.com
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

That's just us projecting, and layering in Frakes' known support for the LGBTQIA+ community 🤩

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:12 UTC

I did my senior project on Lewis back in 2003. I love when other people know these things. 🤩

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

Pink Floyd financed Monty Python's The Life of Brian

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Their friendship dissolved when Tolkien--a Catholic -- disapproved of Lewis--an Anglican-- marrying a divorced woman .

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:32 UTC

TIL that the New Wave band DEVO was formed in response to the Kent State shootings. In 1970, co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis got serious about their idea of the "de-evolution" of the human race after Casale's friends Jeffrey Miller & Allison Krause were killed by OH national guards.

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

Hey, @matthewcort.land , you don't know me, but I am a chronic illness fellow traveler, and I live with my boomer parents, and because of your advocacy and education, we were able to get Paxlovid + Metformin for my dad today. It's his first time having COVID and I was Not Okay™

Thank you. 💞

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 05:35 UTC

I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.

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[z o e m] fish riding cat with a heart full of napalm @zoem.me
[ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

today is a great day to: . love on your artist friends. tell them what you like about their art. tell them what pieces get you going . listen to your friends music. do the same . love on your friends in general. especially your friends who may be especially vulnerable after elections

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:49 UTC

Gasp! I had thought to make stencils for gel printing but I don't know why I hadn't thought to try screen printing 🤣

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:30 UTC

Ok THAT'S a brilliant use of the Cricut. I'm keeping that one in my back pocket

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

WRITERS: DOWNLOAD PDFs OF YOUR CLIPS CREATORS: OWN COPIES OF YOUR WORK

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merritt k @merrittk.com
[ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

we live in an age in which we have near limitless storage for data. unfortunately at this time we must erase all works of culture to make room for the infinite sea of machine slop

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Listen to the Roland High Life @thomdunn.net
[ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

Did you know that Spotify won't even pay out the pennies they technically owe you unless your song breaks 1000 plays?

This one's been out for just 3 weeks now, but it'd be rad if you could help us get there: RolandHighLife.com/always-almost-ready

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

I have 12 (twelve!!!) paintings in a group exhibition through August 6. I am incredibly proud of this body of work, and you can enjoy it here:

conniesolera.com/paint-fearle...

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Mer @theremina.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 05:43 UTC

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

...it has come to my attention that "mask" is nebulous in a COVID -adjacent world. Physical masks: good. Masking autistic traits? Like, really really burdensome.

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 19:54 UTC

I don't think autistic people should have to mask to be employable. Why do neurotypical folks get to decide what employability looks like?

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

My birthday is TOMORROW. I'm kicking off the day like I start every Friday: #Spoonie Studio!

You can join my virtual studio gathering for disabled and chronically ill artists, sign up for the email list, and get calendar reminders at my website:
www.elleandwink.com/spoonie-studio

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

Oh gosh that too 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 01:29 UTC

Oh man. I just remembered that it's almost my birthday and my mom used to make me carrot cake and I can't have carrot cake anymore and now I'm SO SAD I need alternative spring bday cake ideas. No nuts, no carrots. Help 😭😭😭

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Elle Billing (she/they) @elleandwink.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

Mid level humans will do almost anything except actual self reflection and improvement.

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RoombaRider @pfoxen.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 21:30 UTC

Yet Another Reminder that LLMs ARE NOT ACTUALLY PROCESSING CONTENT. They are not reasoning, thinking, or engaging in rational problem solving. They're mimicking human language.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

This is SPECIFICALLY disallowed by NYC’s Safe and Sick Leave law.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

The AI stuff is making me go slightly more insane each day. Why is any of this happening? How did all this get off the ground so quickly? With seemingly no meaningful resistance from anyone. Nobody saying, "well, hold on here, let's at least test this out for a good while."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

Incredible how the default use case for every AI is crimes or fraud. Maybe we should not be developing this.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Victims of capitalism.

Hell before death. 1908.

archive.org/details/hell...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 29, 2024 at 03:17 UTC

So this was a perfect, needed-for-me piece to pop up on my Google Alerts tonight. It's beautiful, and some lovely trauma-informed theology. Honored to be cited. And- it's been an evening. Was nice to hear that my book had an impact.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land
[ View ] Mar 24, 2024 at 00:04 UTC

I can't bring myself to uncritically parrot the talking points that went out for today, to lie to you, because there is so much work left to do to actually realize health care as a positive human right in the US But I can tell you this in all honesty, that fight is the cause of my professional life

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