"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

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Moment of calm with my littlest shadow

Quite literally living this nightmare right now. All it takes is a layoff, and if you weren’t playing the game perfectly all of your stability gets pulled out from under you. I am fortunate to have stable housing by being born into a low income coop building, which is essentially a lottery win.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

I Who Have Never Know Men by Jacqueline Harpman, and The Wall by Marlen Haushofer have me craving a very specific kind of feminine dystopian narrative that is hard to come by. I need more tales of isolated quiet perseverance in the absence of hope… I find it uplifting?

Pigeons are so fucking big and clumbsy compared to… pretty much most birds that aren’t chickens or a penguin.

Xe Sands reading Caitlin R Kiernan’s weird and lovely stories has been my happy place through this last month of pain flare hell. And it has made me appreciate how my love of the voice of one woman has introduced me to not one, but five of my favorite writers/books/series of the last decade.

My kind of Autism is the kind where l’ll do your taxes if you’ll do my dishes. Wrapping my head around spreadsheets and numbers that never add up, is so much more sensorily pleasant than submerging my hands into mucky, probably filthy, soapy water. You got back taxes? I got back dishes.

Walking around the house with an icepack on my chest and one on my neck to try to convince this little rabbit heart inside of me that it doesn’t need to outrun any lions today. #dysautonomia

I cried on my b’day & the spasming diaphragm triggered a costochondritis flare. Now my rib cage wont expand for my lungs + my heart is inflamed. My ribs are pinching my ulnar nerve, so when I breathe pain shoots from my shoulder to thumb. This is the most “I’ll give you something to cry about” bs.

Autistic Kryptonite: trying to help someone who is convinced they are doing a thing correctly when you KNOW 1000% the way they are approaching it is incorrect, but your goal is to help without starting a fight.

When I was 8 my stepfather tried to kill me, at 42 if I saw him bleeding in the street, I would kick him until he stopped moving and would feel no remorse. Because what do you mean you got to steal decades of future happiness and stability from a small child and then you got to go on living a life?

Chronic illness be like, are we jogging or sitting quietly in a rocking chair, I cant tell.

As a teenager I filled a new sketchbook every 4 months. I didnt feel any outside pressure to perform as an artist I just enjoyed the process and exploration. At 42 im trying to rediscover that process and love for sitting down and drawing without any expectations of myself, but it is so hard.

Dysfunctional family life = holidays being a source of stress and trauma year after year after year with no end in sight. Just me? Might just be me. Happy mothers day to anyone who tried to call their mom and just got dragged into a fight.

I get why democrat politicians wont own up to their leadership failures in the 2024 election. I will never understand why democrat voters insist on pointing fingers at other voters instead of the dem leaders who gambled our future on courting never trump republicans to win them the election.

I spent 10 days at my moms house cleaning out her garage that was packed to the rafters with shit from multiple family members using it as a dumping ground plus my stepdad’s hoarding of materials he thinks might become useful one day/ broken thing he might fix. An example of his fixing skills…

The moment the numbers came out in 2020 about which demographics were dying of covid, the entire republican establishment started looking at pandemics as a golden opportunity to move forward their eugenicist goals by simply doing nothing and letting outbreaks do the work for them.

I was excited for Kamala before she promised to continue the work of a guy who did nothing when Roe was lost, continued barbaric immigration policies, failed to protect the ACA, said the pandemic was over while people were still dying, and lied to our faces about a live broadcasted genocide.

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All I want to do is leave NYC forever but somehow when you are born here and have no resources elsewhere that becomes extremely difficult.

"If you're a Democrat who can't decide between people and corporations, my humble suggestion is to get the f*ck out of the party." @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @benmckenzie.bsky.social discuss the influence of the cryptocurrency lobby on the Democratic Party. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/ben-mckenz...

Today a crow grabbed one of the baby doves and terrified the other. I came back into my office and the nest was empty. Luckily I had a camera capturing a timelapse of the little guys, and figured out that baby 2 probably fell off the fire escape into the courtyard. Little guy is back in his nest.

I was gone for two weeks and came home to my basil pot sprouting some doves

Chronic illness is so weird because one day you are totally fine with a perfect combo of meds keeping your body functional, then you do one little thing, like removing 2000 lbs of trash from your parent’s hoarded garage, and BAM! A crippling system wide inflammation flare takes you out.

I was laid off by Omnicom on October 1st 2025. It is now mid April and I have not had a single interview, and im still getting rejection emails from applications I sent in 2025. This is not a unique experience. Long term unemployment is rising, and there is no plan to help people get by. Im tired.

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

The very conservative Rod Drehrer, who attended the Catholic baptism of JD Vance: “Not saying Trump is the Antichrist. But he’s radiating the spirit of Antichrist, no question.”

You’re right. That might not be enough time to bury the Statue of Liberty and distribute 400 million ape costumes.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

We are a generation of endlings, cropping off micro-branches of the human evolutionary tree.

Pam Bondi is a criminal and part of a criminal organization. Full stop.

I don’t see many in the Autism and Neurodiversity communities talk about the challenges of caring for aging parents who are themselves undiagnosed Autistic/ADHD. Many of our parents have gone their whole lives unidentified, unsupported, and bare knuckling their way through life.

I need y'all to understand something: the crack epidemic that destroyed Black communities in the 1980s was not an accident. It was a feature of American imperialism.

Trump is spending billions on war while he tears food and medicine away from children.

If you could rewrite the rules of society what what you introduce beyond the big stuff (access to healthcare/housing)?

If I ever get my dream house in the woods, I’m gonna spend the rest of my life turning it into a museum of my life with little displays of all my trinkets and placards explaining the stories behind them, so when I inevitably die alone in said house, it’ll be like I’m the final unfinished display.

These job postings are getting extra absurd. Work 24/7, get paid “no fixed salary”

Hegseth and Stephen Miller ridiculed "rules of engagement" and vowed this war won't be "politically correct." Now it looks like we may have bombed an elementary school. Hegseth/Miller's certainty that their version of "strength" would have support is imploding. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Unfortunately a lot of those parents are being propagandized to by the American Evangelical movement to believe that empathy is actually undesirable or downright sinful, so relying on individual parents to fix this problem is a dead end. We need a cultural reset to get out of this mess.

“Entitled”

"This is the most shocking, damaging, and over-reaching thing I have ever seen the United States government do," said one former Trump administration AI policy adviser. The DoD has created an impossible mess:

This is the most responsible action we’ve seen any of these AI companies take since coming on the scene.

America is too big to be this fucking stupid.

Every day I get up determined to be productive and everyday the universe starts shooting rubber bullets at me while shouting “its not even lethal.”

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Something I’ve learned on this foray into being poor, unemployed and on #medicaid for the first time in over 15 years is that many medical, and especially #psychiatric providers are not only out of network for medicaid, but have adopted blanket policies to refuse selfpay from those patients.