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oriana schwindt

@schwindter.bsky.social

WGAE writer of television &c. sightunseen.xyz

created June 21, 2023

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Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

"invective" is right there, for christ's sake!

31/8/2025, 7:34:38 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

31/8/2025, 6:03:27 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

the drawing a horse meme (with the beautifully rendered butt giving way to a toddlerish half-scribble at the head) with PARADISE LOST over the butt and PARADISE REGAINED over the head
31/8/2025, 1:19:43 AM | 19 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Non-Zenith Martlet 🐦🌌🌊💙 (@zenithmartlet.bsky.social) reposted

Hey Firefox users.

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
29/8/2025, 9:15:36 PM | 11067 6220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

mike did you get a $6 ticket to the NU-Tulane game tomorrow

30/8/2025, 3:13:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

if you’re in the hamptons this weekend we can never be true friends

30/8/2025, 2:51:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

downright revolutionary after a mere three Moscow mules

30/8/2025, 2:24:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reposted

fantasizing about It Happening

25/8/2025, 8:33:54 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

30/8/2025, 1:01:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

have had a few drinks and am at the “WELL CAPITALISM” phase of things

30/8/2025, 12:51:36 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lastpositivist.bsky.social (@lastpositivist.bsky.social) reposted

Could it really be evil if it's convenient for me personally?

29/8/2025, 4:54:35 PM | 322 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

oh yeah that's the stuff

a screenshot of the espn website showing that tickets to the northwestern-tulane game on 8/30 are as low as $6
29/8/2025, 3:04:20 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

it's good! lot going on, easy to cut an hour out of

29/8/2025, 1:56:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

"it's simply not my business," i say out loud as i scroll past

29/8/2025, 1:55:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

steve: hey you wanna finally watch Magnolia tonight? me, not knowing the runtime: sounds great!

29/8/2025, 2:23:25 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

(it's not weird, i know, i know)

28/8/2025, 8:10:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

weird that he's not advocating for bringing down the cost of the c-suite

28/8/2025, 8:10:11 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

can't help but read it in rutger hauer's voice in blade runner

28/8/2025, 5:32:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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????

27/8/2025, 10:08:26 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

i need normie posts most when it's atrocity time though

27/8/2025, 7:28:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

big "what would ya say ya DO here?" energy

27/8/2025, 7:05:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

manifesting

a poster depicting a thanksgiving parade, with many spectators on both sides of a green carpet with a red star that reads
27/8/2025, 6:38:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

manifesting

a pale sun peeks over the top border, illuminating a bear-head with large four-point antlers stuck onto it, set against a red-black background. a title,
27/8/2025, 6:33:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

manifesting

a pink neon outline of a pig against a black background, with the chinese characters for
27/8/2025, 6:30:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

27/8/2025, 5:54:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

27/8/2025, 3:49:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

i knew it was bad but i didn't know it was THIS fucking bad

26/8/2025, 5:14:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

26/8/2025, 5:01:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

26/8/2025, 4:59:15 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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!

26/8/2025, 4:30:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

26/8/2025, 2:19:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

you need an actual denazification, a real reconstruction, and "jail" ain't gonna cut it

26/8/2025, 2:00:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

when do we stop using the euphemism "jail" for miller noem et al

26/8/2025, 1:57:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

a screenshot of the MTA website that shows there are no active alerts for ANY subway line in new york?????
25/8/2025, 8:49:11 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

fantasizing about It Happening

25/8/2025, 8:33:54 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

greyscale president. took a dip in the sorrows president

25/8/2025, 7:00:40 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

gotta give these specialized units a name, maybe something like "specialized soldiers" or the "SS" for short?

25/8/2025, 4:38:42 PM | 9 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

yes, really

a reddit comment that reads:
25/8/2025, 3:39:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

25/8/2025, 3:34:16 PM | 70 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

i can't wait for eric adams to get fewer votes than curtis sliwa

25/8/2025, 2:17:48 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

24/8/2025, 2:19:43 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

suck shit asshole

24/8/2025, 1:19:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

23/8/2025, 4:22:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

23/8/2025, 4:18:24 PM | 67 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

okay that’s fair

23/8/2025, 1:15:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

like even george clooney’s face had character even if it was extremely handsome!!

23/8/2025, 12:57:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

Make Movies Sweaty Again

23/8/2025, 12:53:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple is the hottest a man has ever been

23/8/2025, 12:51:30 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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?

22/8/2025, 5:35:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

anyone who chooses to drive in manhattan/western queens is psychotic

22/8/2025, 5:29:27 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

22/8/2025, 5:27:31 PM | 109 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

remember how singular and beautiful SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE was

22/8/2025, 3:04:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

he did win, “but at what cost?” in his words

22/8/2025, 12:06:12 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

21/8/2025, 11:42:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

Mariokart!!!

21/8/2025, 11:29:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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????

21/8/2025, 11:04:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

surely after the money was surrendered to the authorities the innocent chips could be eaten!

21/8/2025, 12:47:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

21/8/2025, 12:22:04 AM | 123 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

21/8/2025, 12:34:53 AM | 622 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

the achewood from 2/3/2004: panel 1: roast beef in a tie says
21/8/2025, 12:37:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

dewey crowe-ass bribe

21/8/2025, 12:28:57 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

ray smuckles-ass bribe

21/8/2025, 12:26:28 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

21/8/2025, 12:26:08 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

i do wanna know if anyone at the city ate the chips

21/8/2025, 12:20:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

20/8/2025, 11:56:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

20/8/2025, 11:51:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

absolutely dying at the excuse for this being "UHHHH CULTURAL DIFFERENCES"

20/8/2025, 11:50:46 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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...

20/8/2025, 11:38:13 PM | 6410 2067 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

brb starting a gofundme for bribes

20/8/2025, 11:22:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

also made some snickerdoodles

20/8/2025, 10:51:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

what's crazy is how CHEAP they are. could probably get a bike lane for like $2500

20/8/2025, 6:56:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

2015-17 oriana, writing article after article about this: come ON

20/8/2025, 6:33:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

you never see people getting charged for bribing officials to install a bike lane

20/8/2025, 6:27:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

20/8/2025, 6:20:19 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

this is so fucking niche but i am WHEEZING

19/8/2025, 11:55:20 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 11:54:07 PM | 53 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 8:37:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

19/8/2025, 7:15:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 5:47:13 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 3:02:07 PM | 3694 1144 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

big 20th of Maine energy

19/8/2025, 3:23:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 3:22:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

the decoupling of language from conscious thought has driven all of us insane in different ways

19/8/2025, 3:21:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 3:11:02 PM | 940 580 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 2:13:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

19/8/2025, 1:39:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

18/8/2025, 9:06:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social) reply parent

film financing is a fucking nightmare lol

18/8/2025, 7:56:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

18/8/2025, 7:13:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

a fine is a price

18/8/2025, 4:10:24 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

18/8/2025, 2:37:28 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

18/8/2025, 2:30:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

micro soft now

18/8/2025, 1:51:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

18/8/2025, 2:27:19 AM | 9003 1918 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture oriana schwindt (@schwindter.bsky.social)

*tapping the sign*

17/8/2025, 10:52:38 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

17/8/2025, 9:01:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

17/8/2025, 2:06:57 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

17/8/2025, 3:17:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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)

16/8/2025, 11:25:48 AM | 104 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

16/8/2025, 2:16:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view