Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack

I’ve see so much of this reaction among corporate feminist types and I swear the idea that women should be present at the tables where they decide to exploit people is so viscerally disgusting to me

columbo but mole

Molumbo

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

In Buffy S7, there’s a scene where Willow thinks she’s talking to the ghost of Tara, but realizes with dawning horror that she’s talking to a malevolent entity wearing Tara’s face.

Imagine that kind of mental record scratch, but it’s an ad for Squarespace or something.

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Screenshot of Tumblr post by lurker-at-thresholds: Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”. Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny. Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Ah I gather from R4 that govt are announcing a programme today where Microsoft and Google offer training to everyone in the country to use their AI tools, which I'm guessing this research was commissioned to justify. Also, great to be in a govt-backed multi-level marketing plan

Makes you wonder just how dangerously invested the UK is into ai stock and companies if they’re pulling a move this desperate lmao

A photo of a book. The title is The Othered Woman: how white feminism harms muslim women, by Shahed Ezaydi. There is also a leaflet from the other explaining how she reverted the rights of the book from Unbound and it's now punished through Pluto Press

So glad this book made it through the Unbound nonsense. Can't wait to crack it open!

what can you do to make future you’s life a little easier or nicer? Your sense of control and efficacy is important in the face of helplessness.

For some reason, it felt like a good time to put out a (free) newsletter on how to look after yourself when things are terrible:

buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

A belief that only through commitment to a sort of misery associated with adulthood (and what they mean is alienation from seeking outcomes that might make life and peace and society worth living with) has been a defeatist project that allowed narcissistic mavericks to look like they have a dream.

Absolutely.

I’m disappointed to see so many MPs who support Trans+ History Week backing a social media ban.

We need to be much more considered in our solution.

And I’d encourage them to read this piece to develop that understanding more.

Annoyed that this is the poem of the decade

This. It's OK if your writing doesn't save lives. It's OK if your writing only saves you.

i love when everyone insane online converges on an event & decides it's a posting holiday

The reporting on this stuff is always very vague - what’s on the screens (there is a brief mention of this)? What would the child be doing instead? What other environmental factors might improve/impede vocabulary? Why is there a conflation with a social media ban for teenagers in this article?

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.

So the zealots whose entire conception of "feminism" is defending the legitimacy of 'woman' as mother and womb are buying into nationalist, reactionary politics?

The story here is actually how shit most people's definition of "left-leaning" is.

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

the extremely capable, performing better than a human, and close to achieving conscientiousness AI systems, y'all

One more reset bro one more reset

It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are

which political views? which ones specifically

i am running into a new year By Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me

Always worth a post