the most deceptive take i regularly see re: genAl is that gobbling resources to do things quickly that would take longer for a human to do is nbd, bc the human would use more resources in that longer time. the human will use those resources regardless!!! to stay alive!!! you've saved nothing!!! /1

*comes up for air in the middle of packing* i just saw the preview for the cancelednation doc on dramageddon and my buggest takeaway? proceed with caution. their website shows upcoming episodes on RFKjr, plandemic, elon musk, etc. and the copy Gives Me Pause about the channel's motives. /1

you can always trust that if you see a social media post anywhere where a woman discusses a medical issue that caused alarming, rapid weight loss, you WILL find at least one woman in the comments joking that she wants the same condition so she can lose weight, too

labelling literally every thing that any person might participate in as part of the alt-right pipeline is alarmist and reactionary, actually. is this our yourfaveisproblematic for 2025??? the alt-right pipeline is very real and important, don't dilute the meaning to include everything ever

I invited my younger self to coffee. She apologized that it took forever to email me back, shes been sooooooo busy these days, but she'll make time. She'll have to keep it brief, though- she has plans tonight with our dear friends, who she still calls by names that will be changed before too long.

It was really encouraging to see so many people opt-in to the economic blackout yesterday. Most of us are feeling the burden of the current economy and the state of our government at all levels, and it's great to move together as a part of something bigger. But what's next?

every reelshorts ad on on tiktok stars a stunning woman acting the hell out of a weird script opposite a ken doll who just came to life last week and is Trying His Best to seem human, surrounded by a cast of grads from the disney school of TV acting for wacky supporting friends & cartoony villains

it's the most wonderful time of the yearrrrrrrrrr #project4awesome #p4a

i signed up for a trial of @groundnews.bsky.social because i want this to be the year i fix my news consumption habits. super disappointed to see AI summaries all over the place. What an insult to the journalists who wrote the original pieces that Ground News's work is based on.

with bows probably nearing the end of their trend cycle and diy-inspired (lol) personalization like bag charms, mixed-metal jewelry stacks, pins and brooches etc. still going strong, who else thinks we're ready for a revival of gaudy ruffly 80's/90's barettes? i'm dead serious

also, watching online spaces go from needing 25 disclaimers and trigger warnings for every communication to "if it doesn't apply let it fly, i'm not catering to every disabled tenderqueer snowflake on dolly parton's internet so learn to cope" with barely any stops in between has been... something

watching the tiktok ban almost feels like speedrunning the early pandemic. people in denial til the last minute, panicking and banding together right as shit hit the fan, a lockdown period, then people fully acting like the ban went away while a few town criers beg people to remember it's not over.

trying to complete a health screening for my new insurance plan and idek how to answer these questions about stress and emotions over the last four weeks

gender reveal party but it's for your instacart shopper

it is my duty to remind ppl every so often that in 2022, covid gave me a dog allergy that is rapidly getting worse. i always had dogs growing up, now i take 5 medications just to visit my sister and her dog, and i STILL feel miserable.

Get weirder immediately. Now is the time to get weirder

for some reason tiktok is "working" on my phone right now- i can see five videos on my fyp, and my cart in the tiktok shop (apparently i put something in there once). this is the last video i can view.

visiting my sister and her roommate. we're all watching muted tiktoks at the sushi restaurant. i haven't gotten the warning yet.

spending today finding/following tiktok ppl wherever y'all may be. i have the same username on youtube, substack, rednote (where apparently i just post vibey transit videos lol), ig, and discord as i do here.

i'm on xiaohongshu with my usual username. does anyone else keep getting notifications that rednote is using a ton of battery in the background? www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile...

@thegirlwiththelist.bsky.social congrats on 1mil girl!!!

i spent too much of today writing too many posts about how i fell into and got out of a crunchy cult over the 2010's, and bc it's all a reply to someone else, probably most of you won't see it organically. here's the thread, though. i hope it's helpful to someone. bsky.app/profile/inci...

the number of broken links i'm finding in linktrees (et al) while i try to find everyone on Other Places is going to make me chew through the bars on my enclosure, PLEASE make yourselves easier to find!!!

if you open tiktok on your browser, click on your profile, then click "following", you can highlight the entire list and paste it into a spreasheet. Throw a filter on the column, select "following" and "friends", then delete all those rows. You now have clickable links to every tiktok you follow.

possibly my hottest take is that i like fb, i've always liked fb, and watching meta flush itself down the toilet over the years is actually devastating. fb has been the best way for me to stay connected with IRL communities since high school and there's nothing poised to fill that function next.

every app with an in-app browser needs to figure out how to play nice with other apps. i don't want the browser version of substack that i'm not logged into inside of instagram. i want to open the substack app and go to the actual article i clicked on from an instagram story!!!

one of the funny (??) things about my mom getting sucked into a health cult in her final decade of life, is i've already lived through all the crunchy trends. i had a castor oil pack applied when i actually needed an ER visit in like 2012, y'all are behind the times!!!

idk what it is about 1a hair that makes every white woman with any other hair type think they know how to care for/style 1a better than those of us who've lived with it for decades??? istg i've had so many curly haired ppl on my fyp this week yapping about straight hair specifically. shut up lol

someday i will cave and finally write up something about the weird cult that is the strictly kibbe facebook groups, bc i've been in all of them for several years and it's a goofy place. not today tho.

Based on the responses I'm getting to a comment I left on tiktok, it looks like makeup getting messed up is a big barrier to masking for some people, which I reallllllly understand- I feel like myself when I have lipstick on, lol. I wear makeup most times I go out and I always mask, so I have tips!

tiktok has diagnosed me as a knitter which is like... so aspirational of them tbh

New Bluesky tool alert: If you follow @listifications.app, they will DM you noting when you've been added to a list, starter pack, block list, or someone's blocked you and which user did so.

re: tiktok pajama drama: if you're in the market for pjs at that price point, i highly rec understance's pjs. i bought some in the black friday sale and they're by far the best pjs i've ever owned. garment construction is stellar (i'm a seamstress so i know what i'm talking about lol)

Some Horrible Woman advice: Stop trying to love the way you look, and just start lying for fun. It's far more rewarding 💅 #feminist #bodyimage #selfhelp #adviceforwomen youtube.com/shorts/_amm_...

went on vacation and forgot bluesky existed oops

My shows are “masks required” because we need to protect ourselves and each other. Covid is a mass disabling virus. If you get REALLY sick do you think the insurance companies are going to care? HINT: Absolutely not. We take care of us. Understood?

not to be a stereotype but i fkin love trains!!!

the people on my fb timeline who are passing around a post about how you can't touch grocery cart handles bc you'll die of an OD from traces of fentanyl, a thing which has never happened, are also people who are multiple covid infections deep and refuse to mask 🙃🙃🙃

on this the last night of eras tour i would like to personally thank @forkinablender.bsky.social for tolerating the person i have been for the last year and eight months

i don't remember how i found youtube the very first time, but i DO remember the first time i tried to show it to my dad, because this story about a drug-sniffing chihuahua named midge was on the news and he was mad he didn't see the whole thing. the story never actually made it you youtube lol

i keep blocking accounts that are clearly finding me via mass following, but i don't love that it's still counting all those blocked followers in my followers number? i have five actual followers, who decided it should show up as 17???

as News Comes Out re: a popular fund raising group, think back on how aggressively some of the most prominent members vilified established nonprofits who've been working in the area for years + vilified the people who chose to fund those established groups. that behavior should ALWAYS be a red flag.

omg happy bday @itsbabs.bsky.social !!! i'm wearing a mask as we speak!!! (ps what are we feeling for mastermind??? i'm STUMPED)

i follow 800+ accounts on tiktok alone (granted, a good chunk are people's backup accounts lol)- i've tried typing in every reasonable variation of every single username on here and found around 200. if you want your followers to find you, please pick a username AND display name that will help them!

i forgot to do mastermind so now i get to sigh dramatically and say "i was gonna guess that one!!!" every time taylor changes outfits, it's the closest i'll ever get to a score >90

time to pull up a grainy livestream and refollow everyone from all the other apps on this place i guess