please can we focus on the real victims of the Jensen Huang affair: a guy who had just bought a leather jacket and was super excited to soft-launch it

Jokes aside, I am worried by the duration of this outage, and its impact on things like hospitals, GPs, and safety critical services. They won’t admit this was AI/vibe coding even if it was, but whatever the cause, maybe we shouldn’t rest the entire world’s operations on the shoulders of 2 companies

James Parker@jamesgroundshatter.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Microsoft outage is amazing. Businessmen gambolling through fields, tech executives meeting their children for the first time; I saw a data centre being repurposed by cute woodland creatures and turned into a cake stall

When you talk to someone who people pleases about their people pleasing pattern, they'll talk about how difficult it is for them to choose to do something they want to do over what other people want. Simultaneously, they find it difficult to know what they want, or to make a decision at all.

I’ve been thinking about self abandonment recently. Self abandonment is when you step away from your wants, needs, values, in order to fulfil something else. This can show up as people pleasing, where you do things you don’t want to or don’t align with your wants in order to please someone else.

Talia's really nailing something crucial here: it's about parents' domination and ownership over their kids' bodies/autonomy/destiny, which is deeply embedded in cis straight adults' minds/worldviews. Reactionaries have tapped into this well, which includes quote-on-quote "progressive" cis people

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 5d ago

I feel like we should be more explicit about the reactionary strategy here. Conservatives lost big in the fight against gay marriage. They've spent the decade since Obergefell in the US recalibrating and have landed on a winning formula: "parents' rights" and cishet discomfort with queer kids.

Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate

the millennial urge to buy a knitted dress the second it becomes autumnal

the huang situation has me thinking about one of the headlines of the year again gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...

Can’t believe that an AI industry leader would get misled by flattery and being told what they wanted to hear.

Self sabotage is seductive. Half the time we don't even realise that's what we're doing until we slow down and look at our patterns, thoughts, and feelings with intention. Most of the time, it feels easier to pull out early, give up, not try, than to do something and fail.

This health issue is still floating around and I'm still learning to manage it, so let's throwback to this newsletter from May: I have some more health stuff going on. It's more of an unknown probably-nothing-but-maybe-something thing.

Mundane Halloween returns! Halloween is great, but the greatest part of Halloween is the annual "mundane Halloween" costume contest sponsored by Japanese website @dailyportalz Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year...

SOMEONE GET EYES ON IAN MCKELLAN STAT!!!

Shaka, when the walls fell.

Goddamnit, this is the year from HELL

Aaron@kleinman.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOOOOOOOO www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

ffs, I moved to proton to avoid the AI stuff 1pass was shoving into the app. Time to move again, I guess

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago

this story is extremely wild, major investigation from @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/manifestos-f...

I'm recovering from a cold, so here's something from a book I'm on again off again writing: "Building a relationship with yourself, reflecting on your wants and needs can help you figure out what self care means to you. For me, figuring out self care meant spending time figuring out who I was.

You think that's cunt you're serving?

meeting a lesbian couple: "so which of you is going to lose the time war"

The reason I ask about client's relationships with self care, is because self care requires 4 things: Noticing that you need care/what care you need Having the time/energy/etc to provide that care Allowing yourself to care for yourself Allowing yourself to receive care from yourself.

There's resistance from people because many people are having to budget to even do the weekly shop & now Govt are telling us to buy extra to stick under the bed. What would Govt do in crisis, why aren't they telling us about their responsibility, water points, food distribution, information sharing.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3w ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

Just stockpile essential medicine, is it. Do you think my Dr will accept 'Wes told me to stockpile' as a reason for ordering extra meds? I mean, a couple of them are prescription painkillers, whicb is a pain to get to begin with, but if Wes said to, surely that's a good enough reason?

Went ahead and confirmed with an onlyfans link. Looks like Bluesky decided sex work isn't something they want seen now that they have a user base. SW and furries were a lot of the early user base because they weren't censored. Now they aren't appropriate for bsky's ai bro culture goals.

🔞🏳️‍🌈 Domi, Best Boy & OnlyWans’ Prince @ comms open in pinned! 💜⛓️😈@domiwoof.xxx · 3w ago

wait what fansly is blocked on bluesky?

Learning to live with chronic illness or disability means a level of learning to do things your body needs, regardless of whether you actually want to do those things or not. Things like remembering to take meds, managing triggers, managing energy, resting when you flare.

This is why boundaries are difficult. You’ve got to figure out what you want to protect or maintain, then figure out what people are doing to cause harm, then figure out what actions you feel comfortable taking when people continue this behaviour and then communicate that to the people you need to.