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Jessica Ferris
@jessicaferris.bsky.social
artist and corvid enthusiast
https://www.jessicaferris.art/
(I think it helped that I started from the premise that I could absolutely be taken in by whatever tactics they might be using.)
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
(I've been semi-tracking this group since like 2008 when I was like: Cults! They're all around us! and created an email address with which I signed up to the newsletters of every local high-control group I could find, just to see their marketing strategies 😂.)

(Don't worry I never joined.)
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There's a kind of sacred unfolding of a person over a lifetime, through a dialogue among conflicting inner desires and impulses. The reflection of how our behaviors and choices really affect others influences this unfolding. It keeps us honest.

LLMs don't care about keeping us honest.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The whole REASON for protection of vulnerability is so that a person may do the hard work of becoming who they may become in this world, while accompanied.

Ideally each person in the relationship is supported in the growth which gets uncomfortable.

LLMs do not care about our growth.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A relationship is a magic circle in which we agree on (among other things) which vulnerabilities will be protected within.

Going to a 2nd friend/therapist for help thinking through that commitment is entering into yet another magic circle where vulnerabilities are protected.

LLMs do not protect.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
this is amazing
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Jessica Ferris
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
a miasma, even
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Thank you
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
(Mostly no on other than myself was asking. Still great.)
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
From 2020-2022 I practiced no-opinion Thursdays, in which if anyone asked (including myself) I got a free pass not to answer, because I was exhausted. It was great.
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
!!!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
!!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
What if I'm just here to experience things? What if my practice is finding ways to listen and transcribe? What if that practice feels interesting, challenging, pleasurable, confusing, frustrating, funny, ever-changing? What if showing up over and over again lets me experience more and more?
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
!!!
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
magnificent, theo
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM