There's a misguided belief that so long as the system is crafted well enough the output of the system will always be just, and libs want to believe we have that system. The problem is there is no system that can be conceived by man that cannot also be corrupted by man.

What she's talking about haunts me. I'm shelter, the person on the corner isn't. I can pay for something (maybe) in an emergency, they can't. I can get treats and simple pleasures some times that are beyond their means. It's suffocating, paralyzing. It's enough to numb your heart.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Yes and yes. Though not being able to watch like 80% of modern shows and movies and increasingly even books is starting to be a real drag.

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

This is a structural problem that can't be solved within parliament. The function of centre-left parties is to be the responsible manager of society, so that the extraction of profit can continue. People saw the Labour response to covid and thought hey maybe they can do radical things

This is kinda legit true for me. I haven't seriously played anything since. The ending to that game was true creative integrity made actual.

Written decades before gen ai.

This is so perplexing given that Northsky, from what I understand, is largely being created by trans people? I suspect this "controversy" is being created/amplified by bad actors because trans people are successfully creating a safer space for themselves. Northsky, never stop! We love you!

Being a class member against Anthropic is nice and all I guess but I don’t want settlement money, I want the book I carved out of my trauma as a warning against unregulated tech to be taken out of the machine that pollutes small towns to encourage people to kill themselves

Anybody ells getting this on their profile? I wonder if it is because of migrating my PDS from bsky to blacksky. @sharpiepls.com have you seen this before? I used tektite and an alternative domain from that website that offers them for free (can't find it now or remember the domain).

Not exactly cuz it's open source. Signal, proton, Germ Network are all open source and private. It's because they decided to make the network "Locked open" to maximize interoperability and the potential for decentralization. Terrible side effect is the absolute lack of privacy.

I tried to hold my nose and give Microsoft money but I just couldn't do it. So I switched back to Linux Mint. Linux is still frustrating sometimes but a lot less so than last time I had it 4ish years ago. And it's quite relieving to know my OS isn't actively hostile to my interests.

Absolutely this. I'd add that many conspiracy movements focused on women's health exist because the medical establishment has completely failed women. I know so many people whose doctors drove them to strange behavior in desperation.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Why wouldn’t you toot your own horn. What the hell else are you gonna do with it

I would adamantly and furiously demand full reparations, of wealth and land, with interest, to African-American, Indigenous, and all those colonized by the American empire, as defined by them and on their terms, *with interest*, no matter how much I would have to personally divest

@jessiegender.bsky.social talking about the resentment towards the people that didn't vote for Kamala Harris

Every time I sign up for an online service I choose another name. Sometimes off the top of my head sometimes from lists I find online. Because I know these aren't the names I'm using as My Name it gives me a lot of freedom and takes the pressure off. Haven't picked one yet but I like this one alot.

Why would you go to a separate website, login, and check a ledger that lists who precisely has blocked you on this website and when?? Do you also stare deeply into port-a-potty toilet holes? Just gazing at the kind of abyss that can never gaze back because its eyes are crusted shut.

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

I’ve never much cared for the argument that undocumented immigrants deserve respect because they’re “hardworking” or that they take the jobs no one else wants. That feels ick, because it diminishes people’s worth to what can be produced for the capitalist machine. They’re human beings. They deserve

Porco Rosso has unfortunately become extremely relevant to our modern lives

I have wondered why underwater basket weaving is used as the platonic ideal for mocking liberal arts education. The indigenous context brings it all together.

the Forest Spirit is fucking woke and gay

Its indie animation day! And our fantasy film will be premiering this year! Thank you so much for all the support, seriously we even managed to get a grant for postproduction thanks to this community! And we are doing our best to make it the best thing it can be!

beach episode where aika keeps trying to drink ocean water

The point is that if I go in the scifi chromosome swapping machine and then implant a uterus grown from my own cells, the political opposition to trans rights will STILL say that their political categorisation of my sex is more real than the material structure of my body.

Maybe we won't have to? Northsky (for the gays) & Blacksky (for, well, it should be obvious) are currently & actively creating alternative infrastructure that will potentially allow us to preemptively flee BS (heh). If worse comes to worse they may even be able to de-federate their servers from BS.

They would be best of friends in that battle of wills/frienemies sort of way. Like their personalities are so close they would be constantly trying to outcompete each other. The earth would shake with their disagreements but low! Let none stand in their path if they're united.

I really want openmeet.net to take off. meetup.com was such a good idea but they sold out and are now owned by venture capital and their website is terrible. Not to mention suddenly quite expensive. Openmeat Is still in beta but it's based on ATproto so maybe it could be something really cool.

It should be noted that almost everyone is guilty of doing this at least on occasion, myself included. Sometimes we come across such great ideas, how could they not be universal!? It's not whether we have the thought "everyone should do this one particular thing!" rather it's how much we believe it.

I think the point is to wear us down. The more places we see the hate the more we're likely to get demoralized. It's specific, intentional bigotry.

This is good stuff. I've been calling it one-true-path-ism and I use it as a litmus test. If someone thinks they know the one true path I start being pretty skeptical of their ideas.

I spend so much time thinking about children, childhood, and how we’re all going to have to change to save the future. apple.news/Al_f4FTpmSEu...

Same.

Not being able to differentiate between a feeling you have inside and a person DOING something to you is a long-standing, often ignored, addressable problem. How much could change if it wasn’t typical to experience new information as a hostile confrontation when it makes you uncomfortable?

PILOT ANIMATIC THIS WEEK!!!! 🌟

Sometimes I wonder if this sort of thing is an unintended consequence of tools like blockenheimer.

Also, an option that a lot of people don't know about is just taking blockers for a while. See what it's like without T on the brain. Blockers generally don't cause irreversible changes if you ever decide to stop using them. Later, if you feel more comfortable you can start E gradually.

The biggest thing I can say that will definitively help: If you can, find other trans people. Preferably in person. Spend time with them, talk to them about their experiences and your fears. The hardest and most dangerous way to transition (or to stay in the closet) is alone.

But what i am going to say is measuring things by your own values blinds you to other people's intent

There's this Buddhist saying that has helped me a lot with despair "beyond fear, beyond hope." To hope for one thing is the be afraid of something else. If the world seems hopeless let yourself be unmoored from hope.

Speaking as someone how does some kind of buddhism there is a lot of examples of people doing horrific shit in the big B's name. Myanmar and the samurai come to mind. But none of this is religion per se, it's unaccountable power. Plenty of secular institutions have done the same or worse.

We have fun here, but never forget: shit ain’t sweet, when white neoliberal tech dorks run the streets, and refuse accountability 🧵