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Remember that time when Ireland rerouted an entire highway to avoid pissing off the fairies that truly nobody believes in but we’ll just in case

If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment.

You care about others?
Prove it.

Wear a mask.

Hayao Miyazaki looking upset

When you've read too many posts

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Not me watching Alien: Earth and thinking, "I'd love to be a hybrid."

Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

Skyward photo of light pink and green aurora over PNW in November with tall pines in the foreground.

I didn’t think we’d see anything, but early this evening we got lucky❤️

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

Why Everyone's Talking About MDMA & Recovered Memories Can MDMA help retrieve lost memories? This year’s hottest memoir, Amy Griffin's 'The Tell,' has reopened a thorny debate.

Saw this article in my feed earlier. Saw Dr. Loftus's name in it, which I recall from grad school.

You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams.

The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵

My first publication was a letter to the editor when I was six or seven. What a thrill, to be heard and valued.

He: You spent money on an AIR PURIFIER?

Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed]

He: You really should be in sales.

Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.

Threads post with a photo of angry Oscar Isaac: me loving every minute of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein only to realize at the end it didn’t pass the Bechdel test

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man

Why are people

"Oh, I've got a consistent moral compass, how fucking bizarre."

But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.

This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

This person would likely label themselves a progressive. They volunteered, they cared about their causes, they could talk circles around others on so many topics

But they lost all humanity when faced with something they couldn't understand, they hadn't had to do, that their family didn't live

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.

New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)

running out of ways to say they keep making him sound cool

Me too 😅

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.

We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Because some of my mutuals still follow the AltNPS account, please watch this video, it outlines how they're grifters who distract from real activism. Put your attention and money elsewhere.

Food pantries also really can use MONEY. This lets them buy food they get at a discount and, for some, it lets them have fresh food to offer.

And if you want to donate food items, elementary school teachers frequently need healthy classroom snacks. You can just call the school to ask what's best.

Oh jees, oh f**k, I shouldn't have looked into the maws of AltNPS on Facebook. It's so much worse there. I've been following @katmabu.bsky.social's indictment, so I know what happened, and they just lied! The incident that started the indictment and the video they stated are not the same ones!

Donate to your local food pantries and shelters. We still have no idea whether the emergency funds will be released and they’re not enough to cover full costs.

Build mutual aid. The only way we get out of this mess is to reinvigorate our sense of interconnectedness.

A black-and-white cartoon shows a man standing at a counter labeled “CLIMATE SOLUTIONS.” Behind the counter is a man with a mustache wearing a shirt and tie, standing in front of shelves of bottles. On the counter sits a pile of rocks. The caption reads, “It’s a new climate solution—you throw it at anyone who is emitting too much CO₂.”

This new climate solution rocks!

People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.

If you have mental health vulnerabilities (or even if you don't), please stay away from chatbots.

FTC complaints allege that "ChatGPT had caused people to experience incidents that included severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises."

🔹️One complaint...

1/7

www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

It's not just SNAP. The social safety net as a whole is rapidly fraying and it scares the shit out of me.

Knowledge is Worth Your Time Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...

Wrote this yesterday chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is...