Text: "Asking AI companions or bots for advice or information about sexual health, abuse, relationships, gender, or pretty much anything is never a good idea. Chatbots give bad advice in large part because they are designed to give bad advice. Find out more in s.e.smith's Bad Counsel: AI Assistants and Chatbots Give Bad Advice, by Design at Scarleteen," alongside a smiling poop emoji with a text bubble that says "well, that's crappy!"
Turning to AI for support and advice, especially in times of distress, is never a good idea. @sesmith.lol provides the facts on bots, the effects of prolonged use of AI, and offers alternatives to these crappy "companions."
www.scarleteen.com/read/bad-c...
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Text: "Always wanting more? Heather Corinna breaks down some orgasm myths in their new article. Read now at Scarleteen," alongside a dog gazing up from an empty food bowl.
Heather Corinna digs into what sexual satisfaction looks like, and why it's often about way more than orgasms. Here, Heather breaks it down with research-backed insights plus advice on exploration and giving yourself permission to want the yummy stuff in life:
www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-s...
17.02.2026 17:01 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
Saaaaaaaaaaaame
12.02.2026 01:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
YouTube video by Bruce Ojard
Harold and Maude ending w/no freeze-frame of car going over cliff
We lost one of my all-time favorites today. ๐ฅบ๐
May Bud Cort get the very best next incarnation possible.
12.02.2026 00:28 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Civil disobedience is synonymous with disobeying the law. That is entirely what it is. That is what it has always meant.
If you are against civil disobedience against ICE you would have been against it for the civil rights movement
08.02.2026 17:49 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How you feeling today?
08.02.2026 17:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
This is creepy when we recognise contemporary AI is all humans all the way down, just obfuscated behind the screen or dashboard. Based on stolen data, stolen labour, stolen humanity... AI is not currently emancipatory and just serves the privileged and deskills those who think this is automation.
07.02.2026 07:40 โ ๐ 148 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3
โIn the end, you feel blankโ: Indiaโs female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
โAbout 80% of data-annotation and content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds. Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities and towns, where rents and labour costs are lower, and a growing pool of first-generation graduates are seeking jobs.โ
07.02.2026 12:28 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 2
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
16.07.2025 21:23 โ ๐ 1803 ๐ 592 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 38
Yes. โค๏ธ
06.02.2026 14:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
โDemocracy Dies in Darknessโ Wasnโt a Warning; It Was Our End Goal
โJeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, announced a major shift to the newspaperโs opinion section on Wednesday, saying it would now advocat...
"This change is just the nail in the coffin of a carefully calculated plan to turn the United States into the tin-pot dictatorship of my dreams. Itโs definitely not because Iโm scared of any investigations that the DOJโs antitrust division may or may not launch."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dem...
04.02.2026 18:27 โ ๐ 199 ๐ 56 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 8
Just alt texted the demands it needed to be a thread
bsky.app/profile/blac...
05.02.2026 13:09 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after โข Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
04.02.2026 14:12 โ ๐ 3090 ๐ 1298 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 100
One of the stupid things about the Epstein files is people keep pretending we're going to find in them the facts the victims, who are also the witnesses, have been testifying to for years and years. We already know. Of course he doesn't want to. Of course X is its own child-abuse nexus.....
05.02.2026 12:49 โ ๐ 505 ๐ 88 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 3
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
04.02.2026 22:10 โ ๐ 29601 ๐ 4320 ๐ฌ 790 ๐ 324
Chris was one of our first writers at @scarleteen.com who was not me, and was just a wonderful and delightful person all around. He will be missed. ๐
04.02.2026 20:20 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
IMHO, sodomy is always more delicious in the South. I think itโs the greater proximity to people it makes so very mad. ๐
04.02.2026 20:17 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Text: "Love is infinite. Care is revolutionary. And when home fails you, you can always build another one. Jade Wilson writes about growing up queer, learning how to love, and how to build your own chosen family," alongside a cat and dog cuddling with each other.
Text: "Read 'Chosen Families, Chosen Care: How My Queer Community Raised Me' at Scarleteen," alongside a cat and dog cuddling with each other.
This powerful piece from Jade Wilson is a reminder in troubled times that if we do not find love and family in the homes we are born into, it is possible to build and nurture it for ourselves. We all deserve care and community. www.scarleteen.com/read/relat...
03.02.2026 18:01 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
28.01.2026 20:45 โ ๐ 20394 ๐ 5112 ๐ฌ 716 ๐ 443
MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage.
Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
28.01.2026 14:59 โ ๐ 8584 ๐ 2119 ๐ฌ 152 ๐ 132
Multiple parents detained by ICE in Ypsilanti around school campus, bus stops โข Michigan Advance
Multiple parents of students at Ypsilanti Community Schools were detained by ICE agents on Tuesday, according to a letter sent to the district by Superintendent Alena Zachery-Ross.ย The arrests came a...
Multiple parents of students at Ypsilanti Community Schools were detained by ICE agents on Tuesday, according to a letter by Superintendent Alena Zachery-Ross. The arrests came after reports of ICE activity in Ypsilanti, specifically around the school campus.
By @kdailey.bsky.social
28.01.2026 14:28 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Very little if anything seems to have changed on the ground. ICE is still out there terrorizing neighborhoods and trying to disappear neighbors. None of us on the ground are buying this bullshit. We will keep organizing and fighting.
28.01.2026 13:27 โ ๐ 7881 ๐ 2602 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 75
yes, it will be much harder for them to murder people and then go to work the next day as if nothing happened
28.01.2026 12:46 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.
28.01.2026 10:51 โ ๐ 150 ๐ 53 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2
Ilhan Omar about to punch a slime bucket of a man, just an absolute potato sack looking motherfucker.
nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre
28.01.2026 05:00 โ ๐ 6940 ๐ 1210 ๐ฌ 63 ๐ 80
@ the ONION
DHS Warns Any Action By
Americans Will Be Treated As
Domestic Terrorism
RawStory
Shock as leaked doc shows Trump's DHS
considers Americans nation's 'main threatโ
I give up
23.01.2026 15:07 โ ๐ 221 ๐ 63 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 2
Good morning friends! Some things to remember when you call your senators today:
1. Renee Good's killer is still at large and has not faced justice
2. Alex Pretti's murderers are still at large, unnamed and still working on our dime.
3. 35 people died in ICE custody last year. 35 shattered families
27.01.2026 12:53 โ ๐ 1041 ๐ 431 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 28
โNo application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.โ
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
27.01.2026 13:38 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"Because the women were all adults and the man who generated the pornographic deepfakes didnโt necessarily distribute them, no apparent crime was committed. Over 80 women were victimized."
The non-existent "guardrails" in the AI industry mimic the non-existent guardrails in society.
27.01.2026 12:50 โ ๐ 109 ๐ 49 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
I feel like he might run for 2028. I hope so.
27.01.2026 13:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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i probably peaked in high school
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Working on human made queer comics at https://topazcomics.com & https://ohjoysextoy.com
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We are a group of white people organizing for collective liberation from racism as part of a multiracial movement for a more just society. We do this in community with the Peopleโs Institute for Survival & Beyond.
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Writer. Lover of poetry. Loves the world still.
Here to read, interested in what others have to say. I appreciate humor and fact-based arguments. Teacher. Not a fan of A.I. Sadly, Idiocracy was a documentary.
Iโve reported on immigration under Obama, Trump I, Biden, and now Trump II.
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Retired WHO.
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I work with the dying, the dead, and the things left behind.
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Not the queen of heaven, but still the refuge of sinners. Mad writer, friend of #NukeSky, zinester, and verb-er of analog games. Your favorite cis girl's favorite cis girl. Polyam queer. she/they.
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