Tertium Quid

ok so the best summary of all of this is that google figured out how to give a robot CPTSD traits as part of the training process bsky.app/profile/did:...

The whole supervised mall trick or treating thing is legitimately one of the saddest, most fucked up generational changes I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. When I was a kid, we had the horrible “check the candy for drugs! don’t accept anything homemade!” bullshit, but at least we still WENT. We still..

Me too! I evaded the knife, as my variation is mild, but endured a lot of unnecessary suffering out of ignorance. Wild how cool societies are with operating unnecessarily on literal babies and then have huge issues with lifesaving gender-affirming even for adults.

Australia, like no other country, understands the Power of Swearing. May it fucking save us all from shitfuckery.

bisexual expectation: I can date ANYONE bisexual reality: I can only date other bisexuals

Dear neurodivergent crew I propose a motion to replace "spoons" with "spell slots" for our next AGM

When a powerful group is determined to always see themselves as victims, you have to ignore them. No amount of pipelines or placating will get right wing Albertans to stop seeing themselves as put-upon whipping boys, so the correct course of action is to just work around them, forever.

yeah sure we could use AI for this, or maybe, just hear me out on this, you could just go fuck yourself man

The torment nexuses from beloved sequel "For Fuck's Sake, At Least Stop at One"

When I say "transphobia is just the antisemitism playbook with some words changed", this is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I'm so sick of all the "evilest person you know disenchanted with Trump. Switches sides after being personally impacted. Says, "I thought they'd only go after the [insert slurs]" headlines with a bigoted loser staring wistfully out a window. Fuck them & fuck the outlet for covering them. Go to hell.

Currently hosting some bastard thing giving me the classic chills, nausea, hurty skin, 100.7 fever Not really that bad but I have medical crap over the next two days, some of which took 6+ months to set up I am going to make myself a Problem if I have to reschedule the ASD eval

It feels like there was a moment around COVID where a certain corner of the web’s “Talk shit and add nothing” culture became the totality of the internet. It’s like we made this our container for our rage in a time of powerlessness and a lot got hooked on that feeling.

I say it all the time IRL but it bears repeating that the New York Times is and long has been an instrument of evil

Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.

Once again my timeline is issuing personal attacks

if your ability to organize is solely dependent on a social media platform that can arbitrarily delete or remove access to your account then you didnt actually have the ability to organize.

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Something I wrote on (clinically administered) ketamine is getting reposted and I don't know what lesson to take from this Relatedly, ketamine clinicians, you should not let patients have cell phones on them, come on

dont make me tap the sign

Oh you thought you knew what Illuminated's work is like? Wrong. Well, "resolutely absurdist" *might* encapsulate it, I guess

Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...

Not that she needs boosting from me,but if you aren't following Rosemary Moscow I just don't know what to tell you. Beautiful and funny bird comics and generally great science communicator.

Been playing Talos Principle II the last week or so. Am I the only one who finds the dialogue mostly really tedious, stoned undergrad-philosophy stuff?

Hell yeah sister

I too have difficulties with pathological demands, which are surprisingly common

I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

This one is for my friend @joefulgham.com

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” has gotten me some solid results.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

everything Meta does reeks of desperation; their style is so obviously needy and greedy, in a way that stands out even among the needy-greedy aura the tech industry has been exuding powerfully, lately

Fascism is never permanent, and anyone telling you it is is contributing to the illusion of power that fascists desperately cling to in order to appear invincible & inevitable. Fascism is a weak, self destructive ideology that inevitably eats itself alive or overextends itself until it is devoured.

Excellent linguistics work here. One of my favorite things about Bluesky