oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
"invective" is right there, for christ's sake!
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view profile on Bluesky oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
"invective" is right there, for christ's sake!
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
the problem with the weather being beautiful is that i want to spend the whole day sitting in a bar back patio sipping drinks but just stepping out of the apartment costs $100
Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
mike did you get a $6 ticket to the NU-Tulane game tomorrow
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
if you’re in the hamptons this weekend we can never be true friends
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
downright revolutionary after a mere three Moscow mules
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reposted
fantasizing about It Happening
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
i know this is not right but “ya’ll” instead of “y’all” is an instant “tourist” for me
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
have had a few drinks and am at the “WELL CAPITALISM” phase of things
lastpositivist.bsky.social (@lastpositivist.bsky.social) reposted
Could it really be evil if it's convenient for me personally?
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
it's good! lot going on, easy to cut an hour out of
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
"it's simply not my business," i say out loud as i scroll past
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
steve: hey you wanna finally watch Magnolia tonight? me, not knowing the runtime: sounds great!
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
(it's not weird, i know, i know)
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
weird that he's not advocating for bringing down the cost of the c-suite
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
can't help but read it in rutger hauer's voice in blade runner
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
70º in early march: i will wear the minimum amount of clothing legally required outside 70º in late august: time for PANTS. and... a hoodie????
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
i need normie posts most when it's atrocity time though
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
big "what would ya say ya DO here?" energy
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
am now encountering managers who are so addicted to cognitive offload that they are offloading their prompt construction to subordinates, i.e. "can you tell me what kind of notes you're looking for?" so that they can just dump that into chatgpt/claude/whatever
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
look take it easy on the guy he just woke up from the coma he's been in since 2010
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
i knew it was bad but i didn't know it was THIS fucking bad
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
if i were 15 and had started confiding in chatgpt like a journal it would have fed me these exact responses and i do genuinely think i would not have survived
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
as someone who struggled in her teens and 20s with ideation and attempts (i'm fine now!), i am fairly certain i would not be around today if i had had access to this technology
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
also like... we don't let kids buy cigarettes or booze. you have to pass a test to drive a car and lots of people are advocating for less car-centric lifestyles these days. weird examples!
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
"grammarly helps me get the best grades possible while depleting the least amount of hours of my life" this grammarly ad says, making me understand what "dark age" actually means
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
you need an actual denazification, a real reconstruction, and "jail" ain't gonna cut it
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
when do we stop using the euphemism "jail" for miller noem et al
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i don't think i've ever seen this before. i kinda want to print it out and frame it
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
fantasizing about It Happening
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
greyscale president. took a dip in the sorrows president
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
gotta give these specialized units a name, maybe something like "specialized soldiers" or the "SS" for short?
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
lorenz has the same energy as the reddit comment i saw yesterday that lambasted mamdani for the scavenger hunt because it was "nearly impossible" for people with breathing machines or "chronic pain" or "cancer" (???) to join
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i can't wait for eric adams to get fewer votes than curtis sliwa
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
went to both a 1-year-old’s and a 40-year-old’s birthday party today. just experiencing the gamut of human existence
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
suck shit asshole
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
how many people died or suffered life-altering injuries because ingrid lewis-martin wanted to be on a TV show
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
imagine a mayor who loves the city he lives in and is constantly thinking of new ways to show how great it is and how much better it could be
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
okay that’s fair
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
like even george clooney’s face had character even if it was extremely handsome!!
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
Make Movies Sweaty Again
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple is the hottest a man has ever been
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
my husband and i were doing a shoot so we had to rent a car and pick up/drop someone off in inwood and i think my life expectancy decreased by at least a couple years?
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
anyone who chooses to drive in manhattan/western queens is psychotic
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
"i need a car in nyc to make my life easier" i just had to deal with a car here for 24 hours and it was a shrieking, unending nightmare
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
remember how singular and beautiful SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE was
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
he did win, “but at what cost?” in his words
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
whether i win or not i am already in queens after 40 minutes and i got to read a book almost the whole time
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
Mariokart!!!
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
racing against @sparkhurst.net where he has a car and i take the train from the dyckman A train, who makes it to Sunnyside first????
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
surely after the money was surrendered to the authorities the innocent chips could be eaten!
Karen K. Ho (@karenho.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I donate money to @thecity.nyc pretty regularly but I am going to throw another donation at them for that stunning report about chip-based bribery and I strongly encourage other people to donate as well: donorbox.org/nycdonate
Sen. Lemon Gogurt (@ugarles.bsky.social) reposted
can't wait to ultimately learn that winnie greco was told that someone from the city was coming by to pick up some cash and the name of @katiehonan.bsky.social's publication threw her off
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
dewey crowe-ass bribe
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
ray smuckles-ass bribe
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i do want to know if winnie greco ate any of the chips before putting the money in the chip bag
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
i do wanna know if anyone at the city ate the chips
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
eric adams has done a lot of damage to new york but his circle's brand of low-level corruption is so fucking funny. turkish airline flights to paris with a layover in istanbul. trying to bribe a reporter and claiming it's just what chinese people do. incredible
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
“I just wanted to be her friend,” Greco added. “I just wanted to have one good friend. It’s nothing.” try bumble friend mode, winnie
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
absolutely dying at the excuse for this being "UHHHH CULTURAL DIFFERENCES"
THE CITY (@thecity.nyc) reposted
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
brb starting a gofundme for bribes
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
also made some snickerdoodles
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
what's crazy is how CHEAP they are. could probably get a bike lane for like $2500
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
2015-17 oriana, writing article after article about this: come ON
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
you never see people getting charged for bribing officials to install a bike lane
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
reciting, repeating "we're gonna have a cutie-pie mayor" as a spell to repel the wave of despair that threatens to overwhelm me
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
this is so fucking niche but i am WHEEZING
Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) reposted
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn the Inklings’ pub table and turn the Eagle and Child into the Eagle and Shit
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i need to know the psychology of people requesting extremely non-standard (not diet/allergy-related!!!) food and drink when they're working on set
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
reported a comment on reddit that literally said "probably non-whites. they are fucking animals" and according to reddit, that doesn't violate their rules. awesome.
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
this brand of cope is ALLLLLLL over linkedin. thousands of people who in a better world would have been journalists or creative writers but instead had to go into marketing, desperately trying to convince their employers they still matter
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
big 20th of Maine energy
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
mostly people who refuse to believe it can be decoupled from conscious thought, and then the people like me who feel like we're bashing our heads against the wall trying to explain there is no thought in an LLM
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
the decoupling of language from conscious thought has driven all of us insane in different ways
good hyuck, babe! (@markpopham.bsky.social) reposted
I am fucking begging people to go to this website and do what it says and get rid of the AI summaries tenbluelinks.org
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i think if a manager gives you directions created by chatgpt/claude/whatever genAI you should be able to ignore them
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i tried using acrobat last week and had to close it almost immediately. you can't even open a file without AI "features" taking up almost the entire screen, and yet adding hyperlinked text is a multi-step crapshoot
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
i try not to be prescriptivist about words but "stakeholders" makes me want to vomit every fucking time i hear it
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent
film financing is a fucking nightmare lol
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
it's so... fun... and... cool... to read about little indie movies making so much money that the writers and directors never see a dime of
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
a fine is a price
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
the real revelation here is that a lot of these videos were shot on a gh5!!!! defector.com/selling-zohran
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
step 1: destroy the hospitals and kill the doctors step 2: cut off medical and food supplies while continuing to bomb and shoot people step 3: claim that everyone starving has pre-existing medical conditions step 4: have your talking points laundered in bari fucking weiss' newsletter
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
micro soft now
Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted
anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
*tapping the sign*
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
Catholicism in a nutshell: a guy praying a long rosary while his backpack takes up a seat on a packed train
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
anyone else starting to see people in their book clubs coming into sessions talking about what chatgpt told them about the book
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
this has brought out a lot of excuses that are illuminating by which i mean i’ve been wondering how much of the military will collaborate with a fascist regime and it turns out it’s an “uh oh” percentage
Ansley Erickson (@ansleyerickson.bsky.social) reposted
This is the biggest of my small pet peeves. NYPD driving in from the ‘burbs and making the neighborhood less safe for pedestrians and less beautiful for everyone. And now we know they make it less green, too. (& yay @hellgatenyc.com for real local journalism)
oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)
will never understand people who are proud of noise pollution, or insist that you'll get used to it. victorian industrialist propaganda living on