Deactivated IG only to hop on here for a min.

Can't believe I'm just seeing this, but reposting for posterity (or more for myself to have a record, rather!)

TIL the word 'jumbotron'

MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.

So glad we fired all the DEI hires with "advanced degrees" and "expertise" and finally installed some qualified people

fucking incredible to leave a lorem ipsum in the copy during The Year of Our Lord 2025 a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable

I got mad.

You know it's *unconditional*, *unwavering* and *true* love that you're not even slightly mad at the fact that your cat literally broke the brand new shoots off a cutting that's been nothing but a stalk, leaf-less and nearly dead, for two years. It started showing signs of life just a fortnight ago.

Started two little (personal) projects today - setting up a friendgroup newsletter, and Substack. Pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the latter is to use.

Apart from all the great presentations at this symposium, one thing that stands out is that I REALLY need to package my work /self better.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can start writing (non academic) and warm up in media again, I'd like to maybe give it a go (again). Just to keep in touch with my older /ex self, in a way, if that makes sense? I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.

Rereading Hunger Games, and it never gets old. On Mockingjay now, and feeling sad that it'll be over, much like the first time reading it.

Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do

Anyway I have a 2000 word assignment on Platform societies due tomorrow and have done a poor 30 word intro so far that has nothing to do with platforms, nor the society shaped by it.

Finished Sunrise of the Reaping earlier today and just cracked open my old copy of The Hunger Games to do a lil re-read. Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.

One person literally just said maybe you can also speak about Palestine, so maybe it's not all of us, it's just you.

At the cost of sounding catastrophic, Meta's lack of fact checking is EXACTLY what led to ethnic riots in SL eight years ago. They had to be banned, and with this, they started introducing regional Trust and Safety teams. Thanks to layoffs these were mostly crunched down, and now? What a mess.

The US's spiral and Zuvk's spiral is both horrifying and fascinating to watch

The account and the thread don't make sense together but what a brilliant and deranged thread

The open source challenges are also a great opportunity to explore Bellingcat’s Online Investigations Toolkit! The toolkit offers a variety of tools that might be helpful in solving the exercises: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

Finished "We'll prescribe you a cat" yesterday, and saw "The Blanket Cats" in a library today. Both by different Japanese authors.

Just learned about Bonnie Blue and thinking, Aus is cautiously on the right way with their socials regulations for minors, because it's predatory and insane.

If you’re going to read one article this weekend, let it be this piece of accountability reporting with a long view back. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

Watching this 2013 film called Vendetta (not like fantastic) but also not terrible, very creative ways of killing people in it. For vigilante /revenge murders they're quite satisfying?

Black Doves was actually solid as far as a murder (?) mystery goes

I’d also invite you to consider what stops you. I thoroughly understand weighing the cost of public speech vs other kinds of action, but I do think it’s a weighing that should come from a place of honest self-scrutiny.

Why am I constantly hungry

I just donated one blanket each for North and South Gaza. If you can spare the cash, please do the same! One if you can't do both, or boost the appeal below if you can't donate.

No you don’t understand, the tech billionaires are oppressed by the woke deep state

I don't hate Aus's Social Media 'ban' for minors. Pretty good tbh, and about time. Corps do need to take more responsibility re the harm that occurs through their platforms. archive.ph/2024.11.29-1...

Really hoping Blusky won't give way subs and advertisers as its primary user base and fuck this space up. Dropped into twt and it's even worse than it was last week (how is that possible)

Had an inkling of it but properly experienced Pen Elitism among sketchers just today - where an artist at the Sketchers meet was saying how he loves his (seemingly expensive, v fancy) fountain pen bc it's that much better than the Sailor Fude (which imo is expensive enough tbh)

Joining everyone else who's incredibly disappointed with Netflix for (among multiple other reasons) cancelling Kaos, a beautifully chaotic and ridiculous show.

This is very cool :D (also just figured out how separate feeds work, WHOA noobta magic moment)

Is there a way to mute reposts by people you follow, cos goddamn some of yall are constantly on that :')

Men Writing Women is still a genre I see

Nothing as quietly, softly heartbreaking as seeing your cat suddenly seem to age overnight

First presentation to the Research Supervision Panel tomorr. Fingers crossed. Also learning my super is keen on us finishing within 3yrs, so that's exciting :'D (no sass)

Stunning news

Classmate today asked the professor if she picked that particular font for the presentation bc it's viral. Prof was confused, and said it's just Ariel. Turns out it's viral and booming rn bc Charlixcx made it so by using it as her album cover 🫠

Honestly, none of this would matter if it snowed. Why is it 'feeling like -3' with just lashings of rain and mad winds? Unfair.

Keen on following news channels but their activity here is NIL. Even AJ Investigations

I continue to update! go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

At a workshop, a German participant asked ChatGPT 4o (free version) about “Love Jihad” (a conspiracy theory popular in India) and the result is pure hallucination. 🫠

Usually the best thing to come out of SL during elections are the memes. This time it's a bonus. We got memes AND a whole lot of good news.

Was off of here for a few months and now my handle is invalid? Dahell bro

I saw this posted on twitter but I don't think that user is on BlueSky and I wanted to share it here... This interview with Ethan Hawke perfectly describes the importance of art.

I need to use Bluesky more (and most importantly remember that there's a better alternative to twt)

Three months since I've dropped in here? Dang.

Waiting for a long-lost relative to have passed and left me their fortune era.