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Too overwhelmed by all of the negative news & horrible shit going on. It's hard to step back when I've spent my whole life being Online but I think I need a break. A few days at least. Cheers

its hard to coexist with "huh llms calling tools are crazy useful" with "my boss' boss' boss force-enabled this in the hope he can fire me in three quarters, and it's actually counter-productive"

i'm not disagreeing with the overall thrust but i am presently engaged in a multiple round trip set of tickets with IT to allow me to disable the auto-summary function in m365 that distractingly summarizes my still-being-drafted docs. a lot of that traffic IS bullshit

Powerful start and absolutely correct all the way through.

spiralling again. gotta go for a walk. staring into my computer won’t calm me down or make me feel better. it’s a hard world, of course i am feeling threatened by all the evil out there. gotta step away

transition is a choice that anyone can make for any reason, and if I do it because of the Latent Transsexual Genes Lurking In My Head and some other bitch does it because she wants to attract lesbian librarians by bending over in a pencil skirt by the periodicals we are both right to choose it

my politics

if ur going on elons decrepit ass CSAM site or any of the AI slop meta zuck fuckery to get info on a school shooting to share the most unconfirmed transphobic engagement bait bullshit you’re the fucking problem and the people posting and those billionaires just get money off your Dumbass engagement

The Roles We Play A meditation on the shifting expectations society places on us, how our identity is a negotiation with our environment, and how our ideas of the world shape our reality.

i wrote an essay about how people started treating me differently once i became a father, and how our social roles shift as we age:

okayfail.com/2026/the-rol...

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i think its great the rcmp is not identifying the shooter. the right wing wants to glorify these people

YouTube video by About Here How to make streets safer with just a brick

I assume you’ve seen this, but for any that haven’t…

yes literally exactly!

post on reddit: cars keep blowing past the crosswalk where my kids go to school and its extremely unsafe, what do we do?

me: throw bricks at them. i'm not kidding

reddit: you've been banned for 3 days for threatening violence

🤔

a friend of mine asked why was this impacting me so much (i spent several days spiralling last week, feeling disabled) since i already believed most of these people were evil

& there’s something wounding about knowing just how disposable these people think we are

“its very important that my cool clique keep meeting on the pedo and rape app” wow too hard to share signal user names? i just don’t get it, i am increasingly seeing it as a lack of moral strength. matt at the very least is trying to influence media, programmers with 5k followers piss me off

immutable protocol layer and all that

i don’t know that i find the use of llms here objectionable - he’s meticulous enough - but i do gotta say i don’t comprehend people who are still on twitte, it’s disappointing every time

is edit even possible?

how else will the civil eng companies get their cake?

hi, church boy here. this isn't funny, Christians only do this when they're in extreme distress

it's probably a good sign for our democracy that every member of congress who has been in the secret epstein document room walks out saying stuff like "every powerful person in the country knew, they're all rapists and pedophiles, they should be tossed into a pit and crushed under boulders"

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

The Roles We Play A meditation on the shifting expectations society places on us, how our identity is a negotiation with our environment, and how our ideas of the world shape our reality.

i wrote an essay about how our social roles are determined by our society’s modes of production, and how when these change over time so does our sense of identity and our relationship to each other:

okayfail.com/2026/the-rol...

The Roles We Play A meditation on the shifting expectations society places on us, how our identity is a negotiation with our environment, and how our ideas of the world shape our reality.

i wrote an essay about how people started treating me differently once i became a father, and how our social roles shift as we age:

okayfail.com/2026/the-rol...

The Roles We Play A meditation on the shifting expectations society places on us, how our identity is a negotiation with our environment, and how our ideas of the world shape our reality.

i wrote an essay about how gender is not a spectrum — it’s a high-dimensional vector space whose manifolds we climb and descend over our lives (plus, some history):

okayfail.com/2026/the-rol...

this is a meandering essay so how do i pitch this properly? gonna try a few different tactics

every other day i log on to this app and i think "david is trying to make me mad" and its like strength training

david i know you are trying to troll me personally but i want you to know that i am not gonna rise to it

its humbling to also bear witness your voice training progress!

this was originally a magazine piece but it got spiked; it’s not my usual style, this is me straining a bit, but it’s also an attempt to explain how i conceive of gender? whose preamble turned into a book review