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#AO3 downtime starts in one hour! We expect it to last about 15 hours.
#AO3 will be going down for about 15 hours of maintenance at 08:00 UTC. Check what time that is for you: ao3-news.org/maint20260121
Starting 24 hours from now, #AO3 will be down for about 15 hours while we make some improvements to searching bookmarks and series. More information: ao3-news.org/maint2026012...
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM
#AO3 downtime starts in one hour! We expect it to last about 15 hours.
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Any medical or mental health professional saying otherwise is embarrassing themselves
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Any medical or mental health professional saying otherwise is embarrassing themselves
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It’s not that COVID is causing autism
Autism is genetic. People are born with this neurotype.
It’s that Covid is causing dysautonomia aka messing with your autonomic nervous system, which is making autistic sensory challenges worse & emotional regulation harder for *everyone*
Autism is genetic. People are born with this neurotype.
It’s that Covid is causing dysautonomia aka messing with your autonomic nervous system, which is making autistic sensory challenges worse & emotional regulation harder for *everyone*
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 PM
It’s not that COVID is causing autism
Autism is genetic. People are born with this neurotype.
It’s that Covid is causing dysautonomia aka messing with your autonomic nervous system, which is making autistic sensory challenges worse & emotional regulation harder for *everyone*
Autism is genetic. People are born with this neurotype.
It’s that Covid is causing dysautonomia aka messing with your autonomic nervous system, which is making autistic sensory challenges worse & emotional regulation harder for *everyone*
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And the trauma of it (both having it happen to you & the vicarious trauma of knowing it’s happening to others) is meant to keep us submissive, quiet, afraid, and controlled
Our biological stress & fear responses are being purposely used & manipulated
bsky.app/profile/quee...
Our biological stress & fear responses are being purposely used & manipulated
bsky.app/profile/quee...
Chapter 12: The Basics of Fear & Anxiety
Welcome to Unit 3!
This video, chapter 12, covers:
- More info on neuroception
- What fear is
- What anxiety is
- And how our vagus nerve helps us with stress tolerance as the foundation to talk about trauma
queeringpsychology.com/2024/09/17/s...
Welcome to Unit 3!
This video, chapter 12, covers:
- More info on neuroception
- What fear is
- What anxiety is
- And how our vagus nerve helps us with stress tolerance as the foundation to talk about trauma
queeringpsychology.com/2024/09/17/s...
Somatic Series Unit 3, Ch. 12 - Danger, Fear, Anxiety and the ANS - An Overview - QueeringPsychology: The Psychotherapy Resource
Anxiety is your body having a physical fight/flight response just off the anticipation of something happening at some point in the future...
queeringpsychology.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
And the trauma of it (both having it happen to you & the vicarious trauma of knowing it’s happening to others) is meant to keep us submissive, quiet, afraid, and controlled
Our biological stress & fear responses are being purposely used & manipulated
bsky.app/profile/quee...
Our biological stress & fear responses are being purposely used & manipulated
bsky.app/profile/quee...
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I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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Thank you @letterboxd.social and AFI for the free screening, and to Ms. Rachel for always highlighting the children first and foremost.
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Thank you @letterboxd.social and AFI for the free screening, and to Ms. Rachel for always highlighting the children first and foremost.
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#TheVoiceofHindRajab is a sublimely devestating masterpiece.
Kaouther Ben Hania, with the blessing of Hind's family who are involved, have painstakingly and beautifully immortalized Hind and her horrific story for all to see.
Watch it as soon as you can.
Free Palestine.
Kaouther Ben Hania, with the blessing of Hind's family who are involved, have painstakingly and beautifully immortalized Hind and her horrific story for all to see.
Watch it as soon as you can.
Free Palestine.
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
#TheVoiceofHindRajab is a sublimely devestating masterpiece.
Kaouther Ben Hania, with the blessing of Hind's family who are involved, have painstakingly and beautifully immortalized Hind and her horrific story for all to see.
Watch it as soon as you can.
Free Palestine.
Kaouther Ben Hania, with the blessing of Hind's family who are involved, have painstakingly and beautifully immortalized Hind and her horrific story for all to see.
Watch it as soon as you can.
Free Palestine.
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I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL
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This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data.
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
"If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own."
https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429
January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This is simply not technically possible. You cannot generate enough writing in-house to train an LLM. You cannot generate enough art in-house to train a GAN. People who think they have a model "trained on our own material" are using a base model of mass-scraped data, unknowingly or disingenuously.
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Thompson has the words "yes" and "no" tattooed on opposite arms. "I'm constantly wrestling with ... my cynicism and my optimism," she says. In addition to Hedda, she stars in the series His & Hers. n.pr/3Z46YYG
'Hedda' star Tessa Thompson wrestles with cynicism but chooses optimism
Thompson has the words "yes" and "no" tattooed on opposite arms. "I'm constantly wrestling with ... my cynicism and my optimism," she says. In addition to Hedda, she stars in the series His & Hers.
n.pr
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Thompson has the words "yes" and "no" tattooed on opposite arms. "I'm constantly wrestling with ... my cynicism and my optimism," she says. In addition to Hedda, she stars in the series His & Hers. n.pr/3Z46YYG
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It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision.
It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision.
It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
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The one thing I wish I could import to younger women?
Notice when somebody keeps trying to tell you how you feel .
Notice when somebody keeps trying to tell you how you feel .
January 7, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The one thing I wish I could import to younger women?
Notice when somebody keeps trying to tell you how you feel .
Notice when somebody keeps trying to tell you how you feel .
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I've been streaming for 4-5 years and I just learned that I should be doing vocal warm-ups prior to stream and that's why i've been getting vocal fatigue after streams recently...🧍
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I've been streaming for 4-5 years and I just learned that I should be doing vocal warm-ups prior to stream and that's why i've been getting vocal fatigue after streams recently...🧍
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Lenée has generously given of her heart, her mind, her body, to the community. She has a gentle touch with griefwork and is so, so important to so many people, including me. Let's see what we can do to help her out now!
gofund.me/60826ddf1
gofund.me/60826ddf1
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Lenée has generously given of her heart, her mind, her body, to the community. She has a gentle touch with griefwork and is so, so important to so many people, including me. Let's see what we can do to help her out now!
gofund.me/60826ddf1
gofund.me/60826ddf1
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And bluntly the only reason most people are really concerned about literacy right now is because it’s becoming very very evident
That rich white people are very illiterate ( many through the escapism and inefficiency of homeschooling and STEM FIRST!!)
And that POC are more literate
That rich white people are very illiterate ( many through the escapism and inefficiency of homeschooling and STEM FIRST!!)
And that POC are more literate
January 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
And bluntly the only reason most people are really concerned about literacy right now is because it’s becoming very very evident
That rich white people are very illiterate ( many through the escapism and inefficiency of homeschooling and STEM FIRST!!)
And that POC are more literate
That rich white people are very illiterate ( many through the escapism and inefficiency of homeschooling and STEM FIRST!!)
And that POC are more literate
It’s worth the time, to. I believe that and I keep reminding myself that it’s not a deterrent that I takes more time—esp when I catch myself thinking “hey wanna take another swing at that?” and wanna brush that voice in my own head off cuz it’d be quicker/simpler/getting to my next “hit”
It’s funny to me to listen to people talk about literacy difficulties …. When my first thought tends to be
“ yall are really damn mean and as much as you are bemoaning other people’s literacy you have no ability to understand how you come off or care to”
“ yall are really damn mean and as much as you are bemoaning other people’s literacy you have no ability to understand how you come off or care to”
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
It’s worth the time, to. I believe that and I keep reminding myself that it’s not a deterrent that I takes more time—esp when I catch myself thinking “hey wanna take another swing at that?” and wanna brush that voice in my own head off cuz it’d be quicker/simpler/getting to my next “hit”
A reminder I keep coming back to when I’m talking myself through, thinking and feeling my way through something I see online (instead of letting myself post or even not post but still have imaginary back and forths in my head for days)
I do believe we have a literacy problem … but a lot of the issue is that we have a head to toe widespread empathy and pedagogy problem
January 7, 2026 at 12:41 AM
A reminder I keep coming back to when I’m talking myself through, thinking and feeling my way through something I see online (instead of letting myself post or even not post but still have imaginary back and forths in my head for days)
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literacy is racialized and classed as problems so lay people didn’t realize how bad it was getting
Literacy requires a level of empathy that isn’t being taught because
“Tell me what that person is trying to say “ is hard to do when the sign of power is to not listen
Literacy requires a level of empathy that isn’t being taught because
“Tell me what that person is trying to say “ is hard to do when the sign of power is to not listen
One commenter (caveat lector) had a story about a dude with a science masters degree earning a six figure income and "it took him the same time to read a paragraph as it took for me to read a page", other commenters also saying "now ask him to explain what he read to check comprehension"
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
literacy is racialized and classed as problems so lay people didn’t realize how bad it was getting
Literacy requires a level of empathy that isn’t being taught because
“Tell me what that person is trying to say “ is hard to do when the sign of power is to not listen
Literacy requires a level of empathy that isn’t being taught because
“Tell me what that person is trying to say “ is hard to do when the sign of power is to not listen
Lend your eyes, I need sunshine 🫐☀️ (+🍌)
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Lend your eyes, I need sunshine 🫐☀️ (+🍌)
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Me, on this day five years ago:
"Armed far-right extremists breached the United States Capitol today. … One might call this series of events shocking — but on reviewing the sweep of American politics over the last 10 years, one could just as certainly call it inevitable."
"Armed far-right extremists breached the United States Capitol today. … One might call this series of events shocking — but on reviewing the sweep of American politics over the last 10 years, one could just as certainly call it inevitable."
A republic, if we can keep it
We remember how democracy is supposed to work, right?
americaninterregnum.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Me, on this day five years ago:
"Armed far-right extremists breached the United States Capitol today. … One might call this series of events shocking — but on reviewing the sweep of American politics over the last 10 years, one could just as certainly call it inevitable."
"Armed far-right extremists breached the United States Capitol today. … One might call this series of events shocking — but on reviewing the sweep of American politics over the last 10 years, one could just as certainly call it inevitable."