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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

the kids remain undefeated

Sean T. Collins ‪@seantcollins.com‬ My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers" 2:12 PM · Jan 12, 2026
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

If your impulse is "don't tell the newbies how to edit the registry!" then kindly redirect your anger to the AI corps who made this necessary in the first place.

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨🔨

ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode Every Windows 11 PC is now an Al PC with Copilot at the center of it all. Here's how to get rid of Copilot completely from your computer (1/3) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 1/ Settings App > Personalization > Taskbar > Other System Tray Icons > Switch "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" Off This hides Copilot from your taskbar (9) ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 2/ Press Win + R > Type in ‘regedit’ > Navigate to "HKEY _CURRENT_USER\ Software \ Policie s\Microsoft\ Windows" > Right-click on the "Windows" Key > New > Key > Name the new key "WindowsCopilot’ > Right-click on the new key EY > DWORD (32-bit) Value ABI Bouhmaida @forgoodcode 3/ > Name the value "TurnOffWindowsCopilot’ > Double-click the name of the value > Set the "Value Data" to 1 > Restart your computer Congrats! Copilot is now completely gone from your computer. Hope this helps
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

"Into the space ship, Granny."

I'm rushing up on 60 and, per usual, Le Guin has gotten there first and better and delights me, all in one bit of prose.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/ursula-k-le-guin-menopause/

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

Ok this is getting a little out of control #TBR

Books lining the floor along the wall TBR “pile”
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

PRO TIP3: you can make requests! https://lnk.to/LibrariesRock

#libraries #books #audiobooks #ebooks

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@mark@canuck.social great question! There are many small community solarpunk groups (on discord and other places) where people info-share all kinds of practical tips.

I live in Pittsburgh, so I get the "northern climate" aspect but solar is far more effective even at northern latitudes (for example) than people think.

(I was also impressed with the green belt plan in Ontario when I was driving through! You're ahead of the US in many ways up north)

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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

@mark@canuck.social I have a bunch of info sharing on my blog as well.

Most relevant:

solar: https://susankayequinn.com/2025/04/solar-how-to-get-started-and-why-you-should.html

batteries: https://susankayequinn.com/2024/11/backup-power-battery-options-for-the-climate-crisis.html

farm share and generally buying local: https://susankayequinn.com/2025/04/how-to-prepare-not-prep-for-uncertain-times-and-build-a-better-world-in-the-process.html

Thrifting: https://susankayequinn.com/2024/12/climate-solutions-online-thrifting.html

Gifting: https://susankayequinn.com/2024/12/climate-conscious-gift-giving.html

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

Got a bookbub deal and let's gooooo little hopepunk sci-fi book!

https://susankayequinn.com/books/the-legacy-human
#bookstodon #SFF #hopepunk

bookbub graphic with The Legacy Human cover by Susan Kaye Quinn was $4.99 now free
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

There's MUCH less of this on bluesky and it's really bothered me. Is it that bluesky has more comprehensive block list capability? Or is it simply the population on each is different (which they clearly are)? I don't think it's uniquely the types of things I post because it's the same on both and the responses are consistently different.

Posting mostly out of frustration, but if anyone has insights, I'm interested to hear them.

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

One approach is to simply limit what I post on Mastodon, which I've already done to some extent. Keep a beachhead here, hoping someday it will get better or maybe a reserve for when bsky implodes and the exodus happens and maybe that provides the necessary corrective.

But shit is real out here in the real world and I need to conserve my spoons — it doesn't take too many vampiric interactions to start to feel like decidedly not worth the upsides.

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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

I get very close, very often, to simply leaving Mastodon. There are lots of wonderfully brilliant people here who know how to interact respectfully online... but there's also huge Reply Guy energy. And a lot of simple disrespect. Hate follows, people who treat others like they're inherently suspect until proven otherwise (and it's impossible to prove otherwise). TONS of friendly fire and purity posturing.

I keep trying to decode how to weed that element out, to no success.

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌞🌱🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

There's MUCH less of this on bluesky and it's really bothered me. Is it that bluesky has more comprehensive block list capability? Or is it simply the population on each is different (which they clearly are)? I don't think it's uniquely the types of things I post because it's the same on both and the responses are consistently different.

Posting mostly out of frustration, but if anyone has insights, I'm interested to hear them.