Me learning that character AI filed for bankruptcy

I have once again drifted into the area of the unwell. Making an enemy of my own future.

Hey, give this a read? There's never any obligation to help materially, but give it a read? gofund.me/da73b4ecd

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I saw Nigel Kneale’s adaptation of The Woman in Black on transmission, aged 11, and it was one of my most formative television experiences. It was an utter dream to be invited to a cast reunion podcast to discuss this greatest of ghost stories.

Episode 200 - THE WOMAN IN BLACK CAST REUNION

Podcast Episode · The Folklore Podcast · 7 October · 1hr 36min

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Yes, absolutely this

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness@tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a reason that AI is so attractive to fascists. It allows its users (adherents might be a better word) to hand over their decision-making, their thinking, their autonomy, to something they can convince themselves is bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.

This’ll be good.

The Folklore Podcast@folklorepod.bsky.social · 2w ago

The 200th episode finally revealed! Coming this week in our special 200th episode, I reunite the cast of Nigel Kneale's classic TV adaptation of The Woman in Black after nearly 40 years to discuss the show, the ghost story and THAT SCENE! (iykyk!!)

CAMP MIASMA IS ON MUBI IT'S ON MUBI NOW OK calm down Sian NO, DON'T YOU HEAR ME, CAMP MIASMA IS ON MUBI

Dangerous. (I do not have a pile of shame. I've got one kit on the go, and one in the wings)

Hammer House of Steven Horry@stevenhorry.bsky.social · 2w ago

You: Steve you should try Gundam Me: ok, but lol, I’ll never have a pile of shame. Me, surveying the models I haven’t built yet: ffs.

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Nineboat@nineboat.bsky.social · 2w ago

Received: ten copies of Atlantis Through Time, not as magnificent an octopus as the one in Aquaman but still pretty good, now available worldwide. You should get one too.

With all that's going on in the world, let's just see Jeremy.

Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 4w ago

Jeremy ate a grape

Hey, it's my birthday, just saying gofund.me/80f259a2f

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Atlantis Through Time is now available in the UK, fans of weird facts.

The Sian from Atlantis@parthenoid.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's from @crossedcrowbooks.bsky.social BTW and while it's on preorder here it seems to be up for order in pretty much every online venue. Or even your local bookshop. www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...

Only $28 these last few days. Amal is far off the $3000 she estimates she needs to keep this baby safe fed and warm. Please help if you can. 🍉❤️🙏 gofund.me/3b4f33878

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Anna Horroridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · 4w ago

Amal: "I’m uncomfortable these days, and the pain in my back and pelvis has been getting stronger. I’m also feeling very anxious because the birth is getting closer and I still haven’t been able to prepare the basic things for my baby. I’m trying to stay strong" gofund.me/3b4f33878 Please help.

The gentry, y'all. I'd add what I was talking about the other day: trans communities are overwhelmingly working class, lean heavily radical and our very open existence punctures elite myths about societal hierarchies being "natural," so they view us as a threat.

Doc Vivi's Personal Account@personalvivi.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lot of analyses are placing the blame for Dem consultants advocating transphobia on e.g. cowardice, but the better explanation is "modern transphobia is a quintessential elite panic, and these consultants, being elites, have fully bought into it"

Please please help her if you can. She’s in a really bad spot.

I wish I wasn't pushed to this, but it is what it is. Help me out? Or if not me, help someone. gofund.me/5f5075c5e

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Been to see the physio, she told me I am at my threshold, I'm burned out and I have to stop I would really like the body to stop keeping the score now pls

I'm absolutely not the first person to observe that this lady opposes integration and I'm sure I won't be the last

Vikram Bath@vikrambath.bsky.social · last mo.

Note to self Do not get into Facebook arguments with genocide enjoyers Do not get into Facebook arguments with genocide enjoyers Do not get into Facebook arguments with genocide enjoyers

Amal is starting to get aches and pains in her abdomen and feels the baby is coming soon, but has only amassed about $400 of the vital expenses below. If anyone can spare up to £20 today, if you leave a receipt in the replies, I'll do my best to match at the end of the day. gofund.me/3b4f33878

Anna Horroridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · last mo.

It's really hard that the figure has just got stuck. Her baby's coming in a matter of weeks and she really doesn't know how she's going to get by now that winter is approaching and she doesn't have the basics together. 🙏 gofund.me/3b4f33878

Having leftovers from a delicious lunch knowing you're not going to eat later but feeling stupid about binning them you might see someone you love. You might say "This is great, I brought you some" It's true, and the inferred desire to give them pleasure is real, but your desire is to be rid of it

Dr. David Pecotić@djp1974.bsky.social · last mo.

It is hard to understand yourself properly since something that you might be doing out of generosity and goodness is the same as you might be doing out of cowardice and indifference. - #Wittgenstein

The unitary self is bunk. Being is emergent.

I'm scared.

This rule is designed to benefit one (1) person.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.

Bluesky rolled out rules against dog-piling but I think we all understood that they meant dogpiling *by* trans people; dogpiling *on* trans people is still allowed and even encouraged.

I hope you're not tired of this yet. I'm living in an increasingly dystopian dystopia and I'm kind of needing this. gofund.me/943723084

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Coincidentally, me too. This thing slaps.

Karlo Yeager Rodríguez@kjy1066.bsky.social · last mo.

Currently ~100 pages into The Night Lands by William Hope Hodgson and it's so wild to see one of the first examples of the subgenre be the must Dying Earth thing ever Amazing

This is basically how it's playing in the UK too.

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · last mo.

Trans folks, especially those of us who organize, it's worth being prepared for the following: if transphobic Dems lose, the consultant class will try to scapegoat us (again). If they win (due to Republicans being wildly unpopular) they'll take it as a mandate and escalate to more anti-trans laws.