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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

Pinhead pulling two needles out of his head to knit a sock with while waiting for the current schmuck to finish solving the puzzle cube

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

What kills mutual aid projects is ambition: the entrepeneurial instinct to "scale up", to "have a bigger impact".

Keep it small, keep it local, keep your circle tight, make sure the makeup of your group looks like the community you work with.

It's not a non-profit. Success looks different.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

Mutual aid is a lot easier to get started with than people realize. I started by going to where the tents were and just walking around, getting to know people, handing out cigarettes, water, and asking what folks need

And then just keep coming back, every week, for 4 years. A group will form.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

we need mutual aid, antifascism, and community defense REGARDLESS OF WHO WINS and frankly i'd feel a lot safer if more people understood that

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · Dec 15

you need to be maxxmaxxing. you need to pursue everything to its highest possible extent. you need to see how far you can go. don't you know that to break a thing by overdoing it is the purest expression of its essence? you need to drink 9 espresso shots. you need to be maxxmaxxing

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 2d

So, yeah, a mind-vaporizingly huge explosion in space *may have been from a white dwarf ripped to shreds by a black hole*.

yeGADS

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-white-dw...

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A white dwarf may have been torn to shreds by a black hole

Just writing that sentence made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

You would have exactly the same reaction if some random guy barged into your conversation with a friend and began describing, in extreme detail, that time he ran over a dog.

"Woah, what the fuck. Why the fuck are you telling me this? Who the fuck even are you?"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

A lot of the trauma dumping people experience online, it's not the "telling me about their problems" part that is the problem.

It's the "I have no fucking idea who this person telling me this horrifying story as if we were close friends" part.

It's the parasocial part.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

You get food poisoning and spend the night with terrible diarrhea.

The way you describe this to your grandma will be different than to your spouse, your boss, your coworker, the barista you recognize, etc

The absolute total stranger who did not ask for a play by play of the terrible night your had

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

That's rare irl but online it is considered perfectly normal for people to face a total stranger and begin telling them, with uncomfortable levels of totally non-existent intimacy, about the worst thing that has ever happened to them.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

Imagine you are meeting a friend at a cafe to catch up.

You both are taking about what life has been like when they, mid-conversation, turn to the absolute stranger at the next table and then begin telling them about how they got these scars.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nowadays, odds are that most of the trauma dumps you see are people you have absolutely no fucking idea who they are. Online, not irl.

They're not telling their problems to friends, but total strangers they for some reason perceive as close friends. With intimacy levels wildly inappropriate.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

The term was initially describing someone venting their problems, with too much intensity, to people they *are in some kind of relationship with*.

*Not* absolute strangers

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 1

The term trauma dumping was created to describe irl interactions.

It was created *before* online parasocial relationships allowed random people to wildly misperceive the intimacy level of their relationships with total strangers.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 6h

okay gang i figured out how to make git work including the auto deployment of pghrt.diy meaning that now it's as easy as a click of a button to publish an edit.

happy to say to all software engineers who were mad at me that i get it now. it's very satisfying. plus version control actually did help.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 4h

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 5h

With immigration raids across the US devastating the agricultural workforce, the conditions for bringing in new guest workers have been made even more exploitative by allowing employers to charge for housing, on top of employer tie and prohibition on organising www.freedomunited.org/news/agricul...

Temporary agricultural worker policy has exploitation baked in - FreedomUnited.org

Immigration raids have devastated the agricultural workforce in the US but Americans don’t want the jobs. To bring in affordable guest workers a new rule has been added that is full of exploitation lo...

www.freedomunited.org

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

Great Creepsmcpasta creepypasta: why I no longer shower with my eyes closed

Capitalism is the real monster in the story.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=7BwM...

"Why I No Longer Shower With My Eyes Closed" Creepypasta

YouTube video by CreepsMcPasta

m.youtube.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6h

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She is very cool

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jan 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJI...

"billionaires want you to know they could have done physics"

I *am* intermittently binging her videos, they are all awesome.

billionaires want you to know they could have done physics

YouTube video by Angela Collier

www.youtube.com

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 7h

I've thought about these two Achewood panels a lot over the last year

Two panels from Achewood. In the first, Ray is riding in a motorcycle sidecar. He is looking at Roast Beef and saying, "Damn. This is a thing, isn't it?"

In the second panel, Roast Beef is driving the motorcycle, looking ahead. He is saying, "This is completely a thing. Our every move is the new tradition."

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 16h

One day I’m going to have to defend someone who was told to commit a crime by ChatGPT huh

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 16h

If the Palisades Fire suspect goes to trial, he’ll be one of the first people in the U.S. to have his ChatGPT history used against him in a criminal prosecution. I spoke to tech and legal experts about the future of digital evidence:

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

www.rollingstone.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

Guy who has spent a lot of time thinking very hard about how to kill a day of the week. He has spent the last 20 years plotting how to murder Tuesday.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 14h

Heartbroken because I'm certain he's neither the first, nor will he be the last.

Heartbroken because cops of all flavors have always been dangerous to Autistic people, and especially Autistic BIPOC.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 21h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Arlan Skellington (scary) 🦇 @thehell.zone · 7h

men only want one thing and it is disgusting

cover of the Achewood collection The Great Outdoor Fight, which features a silhouette of two men engaged in a brawl, while others watch

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 8h

Given that the list of people Jay is willing to endorse and promote includes Laurelai Bailey I am forced to view any other endorsement by her in that light

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

Nate Silver: I bet you $60,000 this costs under $10.

Clerk: the price tag is right there, its-

Nate Silver: $100,000 says it's under $10.

Clerk: it's $50 dude, look at the price tag

Nate Silver: oh you're good *hands over a bag of cash*

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