so they will actually be using money and violence to do this btw the ai is a red herring

i would fuck up a burrito so bad rn

morgenthau plan would have worked as a rebuke of this

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this is porn, to me

ok fine i do want one more pizza pocket fuck it

i have a theory that they are actually a kind of egregore, as in esotericism’s conception of a collective consciousness, emerging spontaneously from social media substrates all over cyberspace. the most durable, coherent egregore i’ve encountered seem to emerge specifically from microblog substrates

every time two people agree with a post, and then get in a fight where they’re each asserting that the post condemns the other, i think the app should play audio of a bell being rung for everyone who has it open

For some reason recent events have made me think about that period where some people were really insistent that a 30 year-old trans woman being involved with a 26 year-old trans woman was "pedophile-coded."

⚠️ if you live in the province of ontario, canada, you need to know that the flu strain circulating this season is more dangerous to you than the strain that drove the past few flu seasons — and it is everywhere. read this thread for what you need to know, and do, to protect yourself:

there’s still time to mint the coin

every time two people agree with a post, and then get in a fight where they’re each asserting that the post condemns the other, i think the app should play audio of a bell being rung for everyone who has it open

i think the exercise in torturing language to do this is important, though, because it ends up being what people need to be able to indulge the fiction that what they are doing is actually restorative retribution, the good kind. the disguise is just the lie that people tell to themselves

these are so often just a call for retribution that someone has crudely attempted to disguise with language resembling that used in discussions about restorative justice. people rush to answer it, but i don’t think the disguise succeeds in fooling people — retribution is exactly what they carry out

being a victim doesn’t make you “king for a day”, so to speak. a lot of people seem to believe otherwise, driving many of the long-running conflicts in left-of-centre internet spaces. tells: increasingly specious description of harms, months of demands for accountability, grandiose proclamations

“believing victims” is actually about providing victims the support they need in their healing process without gating it behind arbitrary qualification of their victimhood. “believing victims” does not obligate you to prove that belief or to agree to any and all requests or demands a victim makes.

or at all, really

a robin’s song is a form of prayer

be careful with what you let yourself read right now

a very handsome bird! www.reddit.com/r/birding/s/...

protect your peace, look at birds

okay, muting some epstein related keywords for a bit, that’s my sign

Look at this duck I met today 🥰🥰 🪶

ah yeah today is pedo-hunter christmas. timeline doesn’t seem to be a minefield of triggers like it was for a while after the previous release

ok this has to be like the mildest and most bizarre possible case of norovirus or something. no vomiting or nausea or fever. constant need to run to the bathroom but the volume expelled would barely fill a shotglass each trip, which is honestly annoying me twice over.

sociopolitical shifts are a kind of iceberg i think

At last night’s dinner for my DSA chapter endorsed congressional candidate (openly socialist with socialist rhetoric) was an entire table occupied by white suburbanites, primarily women, who drove in thirty minutes from a suburb that local polling showed swung from +18 Trump to +3 Harris (iirc)

rob reiner was a good man

⚠️ if you live in the province of ontario, canada, you need to know that the flu strain circulating this season is more dangerous to you than the strain that drove the past few flu seasons — and it is everywhere. read this thread for what you need to know, and do, to protect yourself:

nazis tend to be very lucky* * normalcy bias is a thing in this universe

huh, even the admin got lucky with this already seemingly powerball-odds solve. the suspected shooter was a green card holder, so they get an immigration policy win (a reason that they consider enough to just suspend the program entirely)

that is an absolutely wild story about the brown shooting case. a reddit comment!

excellent games journalism, 5/7

i was just informed that the common term for the process i have described here is “journalism”

posting on bsky to get an answer to a question so that someone will google for a reddit thread asking the same question where someone had replied with an answer that they found by googling the question asked by the OP of that thread. sometimes metafilter ends up in here too but less often anymore

likewise I believe the most common reason for reconstructive testicular surgeries among pediatric patients is sports injuries

feels like a safe bet that like 99% of the times that phalloplasty or other penile reconstructive surgeries are actually performed on pediatric patients, a botched circumcision was involved — or burns

“death at the gates again. howling my name. can’t greet you today. i have a war to win.”

so they have finally declared total war against us, then

gonna be mostly offline today. ¡feliz jueves!

excellent use case here for that “suicide coach” thing LLMs are apparently really good at

idk what does an egg cost rn

This. I'm a caregiver in a memory care facility. I mostly work in a women's ward. I work there not because I've infiltrated a women's space, but because the women there trust me. If a big right-wing stochastic terrorist picked me to be next, my life would be ruined, & my residents' lives disrupted.

good thread here!

ok the worst thing ever is waking up specifically cuz u gotta shit. like omg what an ordeal

neat event for folks who live out that way :)

i still think this is partly about smoke-testing the armed forces for anyone in command who has an undisclosed red line or a long-frozen but potentially thawing moral compass

at this point i think it’s pretty reasonable to believe that they might actually just be repeatedly chickening out, which is good mostly. that lurching timidity where they seem like they’re afraid to test the limits of their power too much at once esp. with anything involving the DoD is consistent

and here it is.

this ain’t war, but the breaking of Seals… the undoing of life itself