RJ • Interdisciplinary Digital Strategist
@yesthataunt.bsky.social
Technology. Policy. Social Justice. Menopause.
Dark Humor & Tales from the Liminal Hedges.
Raised by and among Monsters. Yet I Remain.
Follow the Money. Follow the Metadata.
100% Organic Spherical Thinking.
Gonzo Confessional Poet.
Opinions mine
Dark Humor & Tales from the Liminal Hedges.
Raised by and among Monsters. Yet I Remain.
Follow the Money. Follow the Metadata.
100% Organic Spherical Thinking.
Gonzo Confessional Poet.
Opinions mine
Pinned
Opinionated and/or Personal Post Is Opinionated and/or Personal.
OR
Things That Happened Since Last Time I Checked.
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OR
Things That Happened Since Last Time I Checked.
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I dunno.
"Monetized Dysfunction" kinda sounds like a fancy set of terms for "Money Laundering" and/or "Fraud".
But, maybe that's just me?
"Monetized Dysfunction" kinda sounds like a fancy set of terms for "Money Laundering" and/or "Fraud".
But, maybe that's just me?
"[M]onetized the dysfunction" is a good way to describe the American health care system too.
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I dunno.
"Monetized Dysfunction" kinda sounds like a fancy set of terms for "Money Laundering" and/or "Fraud".
But, maybe that's just me?
"Monetized Dysfunction" kinda sounds like a fancy set of terms for "Money Laundering" and/or "Fraud".
But, maybe that's just me?
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is at I Wish a MF Would.
OR
Hovering Entitled Human Vultures
Yours Truly is at I Wish a MF Would.
OR
Hovering Entitled Human Vultures
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is at I Wish a MF Would.
OR
Hovering Entitled Human Vultures
Yours Truly is at I Wish a MF Would.
OR
Hovering Entitled Human Vultures
YEESH...
One of two things happens when Yours Truly snarks / goes off Half-cocked:*
1) A plethora of scam bots / bot farms starts following
2) The number of invisible followers goes up.
* = Mine's bigger than urs + I have Big D energy. XD
One of two things happens when Yours Truly snarks / goes off Half-cocked:*
1) A plethora of scam bots / bot farms starts following
2) The number of invisible followers goes up.
* = Mine's bigger than urs + I have Big D energy. XD
an aerial view of a rocket being launched by nasa
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December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
YEESH...
One of two things happens when Yours Truly snarks / goes off Half-cocked:*
1) A plethora of scam bots / bot farms starts following
2) The number of invisible followers goes up.
* = Mine's bigger than urs + I have Big D energy. XD
One of two things happens when Yours Truly snarks / goes off Half-cocked:*
1) A plethora of scam bots / bot farms starts following
2) The number of invisible followers goes up.
* = Mine's bigger than urs + I have Big D energy. XD
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is Stress Cooking again.
Caldo de Pollo w/enough to share.
You should smell the inside of my home rn.
Om nom nom nom.
Yours Truly is Stress Cooking again.
Caldo de Pollo w/enough to share.
You should smell the inside of my home rn.
Om nom nom nom.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is Stress Cooking again.
Caldo de Pollo w/enough to share.
You should smell the inside of my home rn.
Om nom nom nom.
Yours Truly is Stress Cooking again.
Caldo de Pollo w/enough to share.
You should smell the inside of my home rn.
Om nom nom nom.
What in the NatSec Nightmare Fresh Hell is this?
Radiant raises over $300 million to build nuclear microreactors reut.rs/3L7jx24
Radiant raises over $300 million to build nuclear microreactors
Startup Radiant said on Wednesday it has raised over $300 million in its latest funding round, to mass-produce portable nuclear reactors.
reut.rs
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What in the NatSec Nightmare Fresh Hell is this?
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“…the Trump administration is calling for the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC in 1998, to be amended to impede the Court from investigating the US president and top officials…”
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
ICC: States must defend justice and stand up to attacks on the rule of law - ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 calls on the global community to defend the ICC and its mandate to independently investigate and prosecute the gravest crimes.
www.article19.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“…the Trump administration is calling for the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC in 1998, to be amended to impede the Court from investigating the US president and top officials…”
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
The world’s oversight on crimes against humanity.
#Pinks #DV1
more…👇
www.article19.org/resources/ic...
WELP.
Let me explain...
No, there is too much.
Let me sum up.*
* = RIP Rob & Michelle Reiner
Let me explain...
No, there is too much.
Let me sum up.*
* = RIP Rob & Michelle Reiner
an advertisement for netflix shows a woman with red hair and the words that was almost two weeks ago
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December 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
WELP.
Let me explain...
No, there is too much.
Let me sum up.*
* = RIP Rob & Michelle Reiner
Let me explain...
No, there is too much.
Let me sum up.*
* = RIP Rob & Michelle Reiner
December 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What in The Fresh Hell *now*?
JFC
More on (and Morons) multi-front assaults later. :P
JFC
More on (and Morons) multi-front assaults later. :P
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window and says " i just want it to stop "
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December 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What in The Fresh Hell *now*?
JFC
More on (and Morons) multi-front assaults later. :P
JFC
More on (and Morons) multi-front assaults later. :P
Copilot is just Clippy with Extra Math && on chips that can only run in atmo.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
December 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Copilot is just Clippy with Extra Math && on chips that can only run in atmo.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
It's not Yours Truly looking up ephemerae b/c HOLY SHIT was last night's dreamscape absolutely off the chain.
a close up of a chain on a white surface
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December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It's not Yours Truly looking up ephemerae b/c HOLY SHIT was last night's dreamscape absolutely off the chain.
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Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
"'I used to come over here quite often to look at her books,' Magrat confessed. 'And... and she liked to cook foreign food and no-one else round here would eat it, so I'd come up to keep her company.'
'Ah-ha! Curryin' favour!' snapped Granny."
"'I used to come over here quite often to look at her books,' Magrat confessed. 'And... and she liked to cook foreign food and no-one else round here would eat it, so I'd come up to keep her company.'
'Ah-ha! Curryin' favour!' snapped Granny."
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
"They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged."
"They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged."
Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures
"‘Er, I was just wondering, Mr. Dibbler... what is my motivation for this scene?’
‘Motivation?’
‘Yes. Er, I got to know, see,’ said Rock.
‘How about: I’ll fire you if you don’t do it properly?’
Rock grinned. ‘Right you are, Mr. Dibbler,’ he said."
"‘Er, I was just wondering, Mr. Dibbler... what is my motivation for this scene?’
‘Motivation?’
‘Yes. Er, I got to know, see,’ said Rock.
‘How about: I’ll fire you if you don’t do it properly?’
Rock grinned. ‘Right you are, Mr. Dibbler,’ he said."
December 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad
"'I used to come over here quite often to look at her books,' Magrat confessed. 'And... and she liked to cook foreign food and no-one else round here would eat it, so I'd come up to keep her company.'
'Ah-ha! Curryin' favour!' snapped Granny."
"'I used to come over here quite often to look at her books,' Magrat confessed. 'And... and she liked to cook foreign food and no-one else round here would eat it, so I'd come up to keep her company.'
'Ah-ha! Curryin' favour!' snapped Granny."
Yours Truly is gonna hold folks' hands when I say this:
Something insidious happened once folks switched from teaching scripture as allegory to the literal immutable Word.
Most folks attend / find community among such places + we are an aggressively social species + we are hard wired for stories.
Something insidious happened once folks switched from teaching scripture as allegory to the literal immutable Word.
Most folks attend / find community among such places + we are an aggressively social species + we are hard wired for stories.
Remember when a "story" had a narrative and an arc and characters, instead "I think the man in the hat did something terrible"
I do
I do
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Yours Truly is gonna hold folks' hands when I say this:
Something insidious happened once folks switched from teaching scripture as allegory to the literal immutable Word.
Most folks attend / find community among such places + we are an aggressively social species + we are hard wired for stories.
Something insidious happened once folks switched from teaching scripture as allegory to the literal immutable Word.
Most folks attend / find community among such places + we are an aggressively social species + we are hard wired for stories.
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
How Yours Truly knows Responsible Adults have been shuffled out of the DoJ?
Their wingeing about how to handle A Volume of evidence + what should / should not be [REDACTED] + how to ensure chain of custody + how to deliver said evidence in a timely fashion.
(cont)
Their wingeing about how to handle A Volume of evidence + what should / should not be [REDACTED] + how to ensure chain of custody + how to deliver said evidence in a timely fashion.
(cont)
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
How Yours Truly knows Responsible Adults have been shuffled out of the DoJ?
Their wingeing about how to handle A Volume of evidence + what should / should not be [REDACTED] + how to ensure chain of custody + how to deliver said evidence in a timely fashion.
(cont)
Their wingeing about how to handle A Volume of evidence + what should / should not be [REDACTED] + how to ensure chain of custody + how to deliver said evidence in a timely fashion.
(cont)
To be enjoyed w/good headphones/earbuds and/or an excellent + calibrated sound system.
Neurospicy Bonus: If you have some form of sound / color synesthesia.
Neurospicy Bonus: If you have some form of sound / color synesthesia.
Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
To be enjoyed w/good headphones/earbuds and/or an excellent + calibrated sound system.
Neurospicy Bonus: If you have some form of sound / color synesthesia.
Neurospicy Bonus: If you have some form of sound / color synesthesia.
Who has two thumbs, spent a few hours crawling down && through systems + RTFM...
And fixed her damn laptop herself *AND* resolved another underlying issue when attempting to pair devices?
And fixed her damn laptop herself *AND* resolved another underlying issue when attempting to pair devices?
The Big Lebowski The Dude GIF
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December 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Who has two thumbs, spent a few hours crawling down && through systems + RTFM...
And fixed her damn laptop herself *AND* resolved another underlying issue when attempting to pair devices?
And fixed her damn laptop herself *AND* resolved another underlying issue when attempting to pair devices?
Spidey Senses Are Tingling.
OR
The Commodification of Human Life in The Digital Age.*
* = I will continue to call the current zeitgeist this vs. giving a specific cluster of tech companies free advertising
OR
The Commodification of Human Life in The Digital Age.*
* = I will continue to call the current zeitgeist this vs. giving a specific cluster of tech companies free advertising
a cartoon of spider-man covering his ears with his hands
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December 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Spidey Senses Are Tingling.
OR
The Commodification of Human Life in The Digital Age.*
* = I will continue to call the current zeitgeist this vs. giving a specific cluster of tech companies free advertising
OR
The Commodification of Human Life in The Digital Age.*
* = I will continue to call the current zeitgeist this vs. giving a specific cluster of tech companies free advertising
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the cycle of libertarian thought:
1. the current solution to this problem is an affront to my personal liberty and must be abolished
2. oh no there’s still a problem
3. what if the previous solution, but Business
4. I am a visionary titan of industry
1. the current solution to this problem is an affront to my personal liberty and must be abolished
2. oh no there’s still a problem
3. what if the previous solution, but Business
4. I am a visionary titan of industry
libertarianism building things from first principals is a great bit lol
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
the cycle of libertarian thought:
1. the current solution to this problem is an affront to my personal liberty and must be abolished
2. oh no there’s still a problem
3. what if the previous solution, but Business
4. I am a visionary titan of industry
1. the current solution to this problem is an affront to my personal liberty and must be abolished
2. oh no there’s still a problem
3. what if the previous solution, but Business
4. I am a visionary titan of industry
Lamenting Post Laments.
OR
The Wild Wild West of Transference / Counter Transference
OR
The Wild Wild West of Transference / Counter Transference
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December 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Lamenting Post Laments.
OR
The Wild Wild West of Transference / Counter Transference
OR
The Wild Wild West of Transference / Counter Transference
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is stress cooking again.
Turkey pieces are pretty cheap && widely available this time of year.
Dry-brined turkey breast is about to go into a hot oven.
There's enough to share As Current Sitch Evolves w/tea + coffee.*
* = I'm okay. Others, its kinda iffy rn.
Yours Truly is stress cooking again.
Turkey pieces are pretty cheap && widely available this time of year.
Dry-brined turkey breast is about to go into a hot oven.
There's enough to share As Current Sitch Evolves w/tea + coffee.*
* = I'm okay. Others, its kinda iffy rn.
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
MEANWHILE...
Yours Truly is stress cooking again.
Turkey pieces are pretty cheap && widely available this time of year.
Dry-brined turkey breast is about to go into a hot oven.
There's enough to share As Current Sitch Evolves w/tea + coffee.*
* = I'm okay. Others, its kinda iffy rn.
Yours Truly is stress cooking again.
Turkey pieces are pretty cheap && widely available this time of year.
Dry-brined turkey breast is about to go into a hot oven.
There's enough to share As Current Sitch Evolves w/tea + coffee.*
* = I'm okay. Others, its kinda iffy rn.
I mean, the ACA *was* the compromise && now we have:
- A cycle of census data
- Enough of the same about premiums + All The Margins
- Civil / Criminal Action history since
- Health Outcomes by insurer
- Human impact stories (e.g. patients, providers, adjusters, access)
- Before & After AI
(cont)
- A cycle of census data
- Enough of the same about premiums + All The Margins
- Civil / Criminal Action history since
- Health Outcomes by insurer
- Human impact stories (e.g. patients, providers, adjusters, access)
- Before & After AI
(cont)
For-profit health insurance companies are not in the business of insuring health.
They are in the business of collecting premiums and denying claims.
They are in the business of collecting premiums and denying claims.
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I mean, the ACA *was* the compromise && now we have:
- A cycle of census data
- Enough of the same about premiums + All The Margins
- Civil / Criminal Action history since
- Health Outcomes by insurer
- Human impact stories (e.g. patients, providers, adjusters, access)
- Before & After AI
(cont)
- A cycle of census data
- Enough of the same about premiums + All The Margins
- Civil / Criminal Action history since
- Health Outcomes by insurer
- Human impact stories (e.g. patients, providers, adjusters, access)
- Before & After AI
(cont)