Vellamo Swift
@vellamoswift.bsky.social
Ms. Worldwide 🏳️🌈🇬🇧🇫🇮🇺🇸 //
ADHD, CPTSD & generally wonky brain //
Streams @ https://www.twitch.tv/vellamoswift
ADHD, CPTSD & generally wonky brain //
Streams @ https://www.twitch.tv/vellamoswift
“In our individual lives we all too often distill our frustrations into an essence of bitterness, or drown ourselves in the deep waters of self-pity, or adopt a fatalistic philosophy that whatever happens must happen and all events are determined by necessity.” - MLK Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“In our individual lives we all too often distill our frustrations into an essence of bitterness, or drown ourselves in the deep waters of self-pity, or adopt a fatalistic philosophy that whatever happens must happen and all events are determined by necessity.” - MLK Jr.
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January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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The Doctor made me walk again...
Because I had to sell my car in order to pay the hospital bill!
Because I had to sell my car in order to pay the hospital bill!
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
The Doctor made me walk again...
Because I had to sell my car in order to pay the hospital bill!
Because I had to sell my car in order to pay the hospital bill!
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please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
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Your Netflix package is about to cost more, and your cinemas will have fewer movies to show, but *jazz hands* Thaaaaat’s Capitalism, Baaaaaby!
Breaking news: Netflix has agreed an $83bn takeover of the studios and streaming businesses of Warner Bros Discovery, in a deal set to reshape Hollywood and create a new global entertainment powerhouse. on.ft.com/3MGC59K
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Your Netflix package is about to cost more, and your cinemas will have fewer movies to show, but *jazz hands* Thaaaaat’s Capitalism, Baaaaaby!
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history
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ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences.
You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences.
You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
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The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet
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"The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug," I mutter under my breath like a mantra, trying to remind myself
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
"The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug," I mutter under my breath like a mantra, trying to remind myself
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The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
June 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.
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Begging yall to develop a more sophisticated analysis and critique of tech power than “all AI is bad” when you have been using machine learning tools for more than a decade without even realizing it
May 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Begging yall to develop a more sophisticated analysis and critique of tech power than “all AI is bad” when you have been using machine learning tools for more than a decade without even realizing it
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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Historians of the ancient world who specialize in collapse are in the stands, sobbing
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
April 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Historians of the ancient world who specialize in collapse are in the stands, sobbing
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Andor (2022)
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
March 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Andor (2022)
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
I was going to quote “oppression is the mark of fear” but this one's not bad either.
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Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Love this from Denmark
February 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Love this from Denmark
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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.
February 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Was reading George Orwell on the Spanish civil war last night and this part stuck out.