Ivy

when we all have more emotional distance from our period we'll admit that Bernie Sanders was the substitute figure for Ross Perot

if this does end up killing me I think it’s fine, I could never live like one of them

hard to really bring myself to be angry with some of the women i once knew

the ones at least that were honest in saying the future is not for people like me,and I agree with them

the thing that i needed to do differently to 'make it' was be a cis woman and all of these things were meant to happen

it seems like now there's a cost for every moment being back to my old self and i think that's just not a way to live

re: bsky leadership change

how many of you (tech folk) have stayed at a startup long enough to see leadership shuffles? it just be like that.

2 weeks to a psych appointment is some kind of unheard of magic!!

so crazy i once had to wait for 2 years

welcome toni!

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just like... i've been lucky to have been part of multiple special moments in time and it's always someone like them that takes a hammer to the beauty that's been created

really clear when an extractor shows up to strip mine value others have made and it's always excused with 'oops just capitalism'

i'd rather forever live in poverty and be on the edge of homelessness than be like them

maybe the future does belong to hypercapitalistic skinwalkers, i'm happy to be on its do not invite list

seeing how truly vile some of the nyc women are makes me appreciate all the good ones i met since coming out in faraway places

i can't avoid peeling off these bandaids any longer and it means things are going to hurt a lot, now, and maybe they won't ever stop

the thing that really tipped over understanding for me of fractal / vibecamp as culty things were the repeated insistence of leaders that one person can't change the world or influence change so it's better you don't pay attention to the world

biggest bit of cowardice pumped out of that group

not often US gov makes you pine for the stable and secure days of zell miller

in a weird way you can think of Trump himself as being a kind of human stock market. Stochastic day-to-day, with people slinging takes as equivalent to day traders. Trends visible over time. Very hard to "beat the market"

the hyperfinancialization of rave culture is something that bothers me a lot

i feel so lucky to have been part of the re-emergence of raves during the pandemic in vancouver, i will never forget how that energy felt

those people who i saw 7 or 8 times and never again, they were all so special

it's nice at least for the vibecamp org team to be honest and talk about 'office hours' as part of a marketing funnel

perfect next step of the consequence free environment brooke's created

i should have been able to tell what those ppl were and seeing them doing victory laps on the damage they've been able to do to another human being is... idk

i'm so glad vancouver has SAFER and everything

haven't lost half a day in a while, things are so dark and i would 100% be back in the ER were it not for seroquel probably

Fran’s ending words about the fact that you don’t have to go quietly, you can become an organization’s worst nightmare if you want to have helped a lot

also the words she used to describe what happened to me, cruel and disgusting

going from endless promise to maybe permanently being on disability is a shift and it happened because i started believing the 'there's good in everyone' positivity marketing copy

anyone who shames you for having a worldview congruent to your experiences is one of the most dangerous kinds of ppl

part of me feels bad for rationalists because for whatever reason they always seem to meme themselves into this kind of hermetically sealed psychosis

gosh it sucks we always tell the truth wonder what it's like to be an outsider though

allegedly the person running new york office hours is resistant to any rules about behaviour saying that they prefer 'online social norms'

and GOSH what a surprise when the mothership event covers up sexual assault that no one else wants to do anything about poorly behaved men either

person i used to be friends with posted the latest installment of 'we don't need more women here', referred to what happened to me as 'a woman being swallowed by politics' and someone on the vibecamp org team is writing a thread to intellectualize boundary crossing poorly behaved men

the wheels further coming off of the tpot empire makes me feel better but also worse, it is so clear that it's really a critical mass of pick-me's enabling poorly behaved men

i would recognize it now i think, maybe their 'illegibility' talents were really just that good

fran is so eloquent in saying this, this is the core issue imo

24 was really breaking ground in 2001 with the representation of lesbian mercenaries

in my laura palmer fire walk with me era

cliche but all you have to do is say no you won't one more time than the creeps say yes you will and find a way to keep breathing whilst their boot is on your neck

it still amazes me a factual recounting of my experiences backed up with the history of rationalism's problems rattled some ppl so bad

badly enough one of the fractal nyc ppl said 'you should just surrender, you're never going to be understood'

one of my DBT ppl recognized that the picture i put on the front page of my worksheet binder was laura palmer and it was a really happy moment