Willow

Staying strong so far

went to this community organizing thing a bit ago and ended up on a variety of signal chats and like. wow. how does one keep up with all this while being employed? i’m glad there are folks who can do all that, but man. i burn all my energy just getting through the day. there is nothing left.

Don't go searching for OP, leave them alone. I just think that what they uplift is important and explains why many people simply cannot engage in activism and organizing regularly. And the truth is that it's hard to figure out actual ways around this because organizing in fact a labor.

Omg til Amazon has a product called mechanical Turk now and I can’t decide if that’s worse than Palentir or not.

This is Mechanical Turk erasure.

Best we can do is Clever Hans.

U2 is the fourth highest grossing arrest ever according to the folks who track this stuff. Still trying to dig into how much of their revenue is post 2014.

I don't have a strong opinion about U2 just numbers and personal awareness as a proxy for cultural relevance.

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

This guy is going around saying people don't understand innovative tech

That makes sense, it might have been some principles + other tools. I just liked having words to be able to categorize the lies my brain tells me and specific things to do so it was like a project I could work at vs my prior therapists where I felt like I complained to them and nothing changed.

I always wonder when I see posts like this, is the issue CBT or the therapist? I had such a positive experience with CBT and I can’t tell if I’m just weird.

What if I could sleep through the night?

You’re a fucking adult, and trans people need your support more than you need to buy some fucking hufflepuff branded scarf, or watch some shitty tv show. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BoycottHarryPotter

An illustration of a woman trying not to barf with the text “Me when i think about how much l've overshared in a conversation”

Oh god not again

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.

this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

it's awesome how much money grocery chains are willing to spend on Theft Deterring Infrastructure like chest high traffic gates and "AI"-augmented cameras and riot-geared rentacops, but they absolutely refuse to pay for more than one cashier to man their four dusty checkout lanes at any given time.

Oh noes!

Kirking out.

Goodnight everybody. Try to be less stupid in the morning.

hey does anybody have any video clips that are both morally and viscerally disturbing, maybe with some audio that will stay with the listener for years? ideal if they're also a metaphor for our political age. thanks!

has anyone told the kurds who are allegedly supposed to be fighting the ground war?

I wonder what Steve Daines and Ryan Zinke see on the ground in Montana that they were both like "actually you know what? We're gonna dip"

Me: apologizing for apologizing for apologizing

That senator from Montana: oh, you’re a veteran? Let me break your arm.

40% of people voted for Hoover in 32. 40% voted for Mondale in 84. It’s pretty much the floor.

I just want to live in a society that isn’t run by 4chan rejects is that so much to ask?

Pure godless evil.

Not gonna share the video of Republican US Senator Tim Sheehy breaking a protesting Marine's hand, but you can find it on @charlotteclymer.bsky.social's timeline.

I'll just say that in a functional country, Sheehy would be expelled by the Senate.

Democratic Senators should publicly push for that.

For you younger posters out there who wonder what March 2003 was like: Picture the exact way the government, Fox & CBS are acting right now BUT ALSO 70% of your neighbors and Glenn Greenwald believe them.

the self-abolition of Congress is fucking unbelievable