✨gemsky✨
@gemvolsky.bsky.social
✧˖°.⁺‧ awake ˖⁺‧₊˚♡
continually seeking
truth & empathy
AuDHD, queer, disabled
& healing from trauma
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continually seeking
truth & empathy
AuDHD, queer, disabled
& healing from trauma
lift.bio/gemsky
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a long conversation between two speakers (bold and unformatted respectively), formatted in the style of an old text-based adventure game, that reads as follows:
There is a werewolf in the town.
Is that bad?
There is a werewolf in the town.
I'll take that as a yes.
How do you suggest we resolve this?
Well, what exactly is the issue?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, okay, I heard you the first time. Is the problem that he is sometimes a wolf, or that he is sometimes a man?
A werewolf is a werewolf. How do you suggest we resolve this?
Work with me here.
The problem is that there is a werewolf.
What do you expect? Do you want me to un-make him? There are many men in the town, and a good number of domesticated wolves. What is the problem? That he was first a man, or first a wolf? Does that even matter? Why is the werewolf an issue?
He was first a man, and now he is a werewolf. There is a werewolf in the town.
Has he actually done anything wrong?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Was this forced upon him? Or did he choose to become a werewolf?
A werewolf is a werewolf.
I see. I think I understand now.
How do you suggest we resolve this problem?
You do not want there to be a werewolf in your town. As I see it there are three options. You could force him to pick between wolf and man, an agonizing divorce from his true being, simply so you do not have a werewolf in your town. You could force him from the town, which may come to be a blessing in the long run- for him, not you. Or you could allow him to integrate and accept that, in our society of men and wolves, there also live werewolves.
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, there is. Isn't that beautiful?
How do you suggest we resolve this?
I am beginning to believe that the werewolf is not the problem here.
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Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
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What a gift he was.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What a gift he was.
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If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
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Breaking: Judge orders SNAP benefits funded by tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Breaking: Judge orders SNAP benefits funded by tomorrow.
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
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90% of the worst queer discourse is driven by people either in the closet or otherwise terrified about what committing to their authentic selves means for their lives, and while we should be patient and loving to these folks we need to stop taking them seriously
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
90% of the worst queer discourse is driven by people either in the closet or otherwise terrified about what committing to their authentic selves means for their lives, and while we should be patient and loving to these folks we need to stop taking them seriously
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Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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This combined with
“I am me- not someone else’s idea of me”
“I am me- not someone else’s idea of me”
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
This combined with
“I am me- not someone else’s idea of me”
“I am me- not someone else’s idea of me”
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"[...] the unicorn screamed. It was not at all like the challenging bell with which she had first met the Red Bull; it was an ugly, squawking wail of sorrow and loss and rage, such as no immortal creature ever gave."
[ #thelastunicorn #amalthea ]
[ #thelastunicorn #amalthea ]
November 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"[...] the unicorn screamed. It was not at all like the challenging bell with which she had first met the Red Bull; it was an ugly, squawking wail of sorrow and loss and rage, such as no immortal creature ever gave."
[ #thelastunicorn #amalthea ]
[ #thelastunicorn #amalthea ]
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"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
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Finding out you’re autistic isn’t a personality update.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Finding out you’re autistic isn’t a personality update.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
It has potential for a full nervous-system rewrite.
Your past starts making sense in real time.
Your future suddenly feels negotiable.
And you finally stop apologising for being built differently.
And this makes HUGE changes to YOU.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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Hooptober complete!! only 2 days late - but I wasn't able to start early this year so I'm really pleased overall
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Hooptober complete!! only 2 days late - but I wasn't able to start early this year so I'm really pleased overall
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You are not a patriot if you have contempt for people who use SNAP benefits to eat while simultaneously not caring about a $300 million dollar ballroom, you are exactly what they molded you to be, a pawn in their game to divide us and enrich themselves. Congratulation, you lose.
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
You are not a patriot if you have contempt for people who use SNAP benefits to eat while simultaneously not caring about a $300 million dollar ballroom, you are exactly what they molded you to be, a pawn in their game to divide us and enrich themselves. Congratulation, you lose.
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November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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We're not going to berate ourselves out of overthinking. "Just let it go" is not a strategy.
We want to meet that habit w/ gentleness & respect for where it comes from-- just like we meet ALL of our trauma wounds in realistic recovery.
Shame is not ever a recovery tool.
We want to meet that habit w/ gentleness & respect for where it comes from-- just like we meet ALL of our trauma wounds in realistic recovery.
Shame is not ever a recovery tool.
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We're not going to berate ourselves out of overthinking. "Just let it go" is not a strategy.
We want to meet that habit w/ gentleness & respect for where it comes from-- just like we meet ALL of our trauma wounds in realistic recovery.
Shame is not ever a recovery tool.
We want to meet that habit w/ gentleness & respect for where it comes from-- just like we meet ALL of our trauma wounds in realistic recovery.
Shame is not ever a recovery tool.
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“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST