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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape

No one else is doing it like Cain Culto. Inspiring work.

The fact that more people aren't just telling men to GET FRIENDS is wild to me. Tech billionaires want to sell you an AI friend and it's appealing bc AI will fake the transactional surface level things with none of the labor it takes to connect with a real human. You still don't have a real friend!!

"Getting no b--ches" is not a social contagion. Men caught up in this are just not doing the work it takes to not be lonely. They're looking for meaningful, emotionally intimate, supportive, steady relationships and it actually needs to start with having platonic friendships with each other.

But friendship skills are possible to learn and pick up. It's just harder and more uncomfortable to do that work than to outsource it to women and blame them if they'd rather not be subjected to that work and all the other effects of being around someone without any of those skills.

Admittedly culturally, we pretty much do not teach boys how to have emotionally intimate friendships and we normalize them not knowing anything about the guys they hang out with. We don't offer many models for emotionally deep friendships outside stories of war and sometimes team sports.

A gf is not supposed to manage all your emotional & social needs. If y'all knew how to have and manage your own emotionally intimate friendships, not only would YOU have that human need met without a gf, but you become way more datable than the men who want an unpaid social secretary / therapist.

"Male loneliness epidemic" keeps being framed around them being single, and I think the actual solution is to start framing it around them not having emotionally intimate friendships.

"Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the vastness of it all, remember: every intervention, every site of contestation, every kindness and act of courage matters."

I didn't get the job but i have booked some meetings and received lots of support. 20k impressions in 24 hours. I've got to believe that the things that make me hard to quantify into a simple story is exactly what someone will eventually hire me for. I think i have to be myself outloud.

Sometimes you decide to make a pop-up book for the first time because you want a job at a tech company in marketing. Did they ask for it? No. But you are committed to the idea of getting hired for exactly who you are: a creative strategist who knows how to connect with humans and fight for a vision.

Some people want the tech because they want the ultimate yes man to validate them at all times. And some people want it because they want someone who can never tell them "no." Both are incredibly messed up but don't mistake all enthusiasts for the former. Many more than you'd hope are the latter.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material

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Paper cutting portrait of a person with shoulder length hair.

Been doing some paper cutting art recently.

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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I am still on the hunt for Timeless (the original Parasol Protectorate Series) and both Prudence and Imprudence (the Custard Protocol series). 💛

In other good news, I have finally completed my collection of @gailcarriger.bsky.social's Finishing School series! I adore the Parasolverse and have been diligently hunting for all the books at my local used bookstore for over a year now. 😌

All things are possible through 2000s teen vampire fiction. ✨😌🧛🛐🙌🏼

I have had this Notion set up forever and so many people have loved it but it was only through the power of rereading 2000s teen vampire fiction that I found the spiritual energy to get it all set up.

If you are feeling petty, you can send the gumroad link to someone you like enough to share the resource but dislike enough to want to make them pay full-price. Sometimes the only satisfaction we can find is through our small pettinesses. 😭

Job Hunting Dashboard & Planner - Notion Template — Bold Wish Studio This easy to use Notion template includes: - A job application tracker that helps you easily track, filter, and prioritize job listings. It comes with 10 handy fields and 5 default views. Customize...

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Product graphic for Job Hunting Dashboard & Planner Notion Template from Bold Wish Studio. Includes some screenshot of various notion pages and lists some of the features including: application tracker, plan outline template, interview story page, job board links, etc.

I finally got my first digital product online! It's my job hunt dashboard that all my friends have been obsessed with and I finally got it on my website and on gumroad. boldwishstudio.gumroad.com/l/job-hunt-n...

Really trying to internalize the idea that price of the life you want is the life you have.

Do you care about access to COVID vaccines?

Here's something you can do that's more effective than ranting on Bluesky (and takes about the same amount of time)!*

* No shade to ranting, I do a lot of it myself.

another example of the vague use of "AI" in the genAI whitewashing. This has to be iterative machine learning (because there either is or isn't a croc), but it's being lumped in with chatGPT and other slop. #AIWashing

Your life changes for the better when you start cutting kitchen sponges into thirds. Improves my willingness to wash dishes by 2000%.

I have been in so many rooms with so many disastrous ideas. Ideas that could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars from a client and month to keep a creator and their team going for months. And when there aren't people like me in the room to divert to better ideas, it is a nightmare.

It also required so much oversight and a crunched timeline for something of that nature and it was like, you are asking for a short film and the kind of creative writing that takes months alone. It's hard to even pull of a prank video in 360 because you can't dictate pacing or sequencing of info.