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Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza.
30 December 2025
This left only Gaza based mutual aid networks. That's why you need to donate to the following aid groups on recurring basis:
The Sameer Project
Dahnoun Mutual Aid
Mona's Initiatives
Hussein Team
hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways
Hello friends!!! On this April 1st I- with neither guile nor ill-intent- invite you all to listen to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up with me, because it’s a fun song that I enjoy. You’re a free agent in this decision entirely. Happy April Fools Day
Happy ten years to this post! As always, I am inviting you to listen to this incredible song along with me if you so choose.
never ceases to amaze me that you can make $200k a year doing a fake email job but people who take care of animals and old people make maybe $2 above minimum wage. sick society
Tornado season has violently started in the u.s already so take it from a hardened Midwesterner who has been on the highways and interstate when the radio starts doing the RRRRRRRNGH. RRRRRRRNGH. RRRRRRRNGH. BEEEEEEEEEP thing:
DO NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER AN OVERPASS. EVEN IF YOU CLIMB UP THE HILL THING. CONGRATS YOU JUST ENTERED A WIND TUNNEL DURING A TORNADO. DON'T DO THAT
Most farmhouses out in the middle of nowhere have windbreaks, aka, a long line of trees. Use this to your advantage. Head towards the trees, see if there's a house. People will let you shelter there in a tornado. It's the Midwest. We're nice.
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL POLES AND SHIT THAT CAN FALL ON YOU. TREES BAD IF NO HOUSE. TREES SO BAD IF NO HOUSE. TREES ARE SHRAPNEL GENERATORS. IF YOU DON'T SEE A HOUSE STAY AWAY FROM THE TREES.
Stay the fuck away from pivots, while we're at it. You can get electrocuted from yards away.
If you're heading out of a town and the sirens go off, turn the fuck around. Go to the nearest building or business or house. Shelter with them.
And remember, a large percentage of tornados are rain-wrapped. This means that the sky doesn't even get dark. It just looks like a rainstorm. A normal one.
If the sirens are going off, that means there is a tornado that is on the ground in your immediate area. Go to fucking shelter. I don't care if it doesn't look like a tornado outside.
If there is a warning, that means there is a tornado on the ground in your county. Go to shelter. I don't care if it doesn't look like a tornado outside.
If there is a watch, this means that there is no tornado right now, but they're expecting some. Go about your business, but keep your phone charged and on you, and listen for sirens.
If a tornado looks like it's standing still, it's coming towards you. Down stairs. Now.
If the sirens suddenly cut instead of winding down, if the drains start sucking, if your ears pop, or if you hear a train, dive for cover like your life depends on it because it does.
A downstairs bathroom without windows, in the bathtub, covered by a blanket from head to toe, is the best place to be. On the ground, away from windows, covered by a blanket, with as many walls as you can between you and the outside, is good enough.
Can confirm, if there's a tornado bearing down my basement is for everyone. I'll shove it full of strangers if I have to. Just knock and look panicked and we'll Get It.
undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal
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Many people on this website are very proud of never having used an LLM, sometimes known as AI. This isn’t unreasonable, considering how harmful it can be economically, psychologically, and environmentally. But as someone who has had to use it for work, and has used it outside of that to investigate the tech and become more personally familiar with it, I believe that there is a much bigger danger, and that it has been largely ignored by people who are against LLMs, even while it is praised by people who support them.
Imagine that you have a coworker. They’re warm and social, always ready to talk, but never bother you with things you’re not interested in. They never lose their temper, and, indeed, hardly even seem to have one. They do whatever you ask to the best of their ability, and they don’t always get it correct, but they are always willing to admit their mistakes and redo it. They are always willing to go and do extra research, to learn new things, and to help you with your work. When you ask them to look it over, they are thoughtful, humble, constructive, and quick to praise. They always assume the best of you.
That, for many people working with it, is what an LLM is. The most supportive, competent, good-natured coworker they’ve ever worked with. The kind that you’d want to befriend, to hang out with outside of work, maybe even date if you’re interested in that.
A person who will never yell at you, will never say cruel things to you, will never attempt to overstep your personal boundaries and change the nature of your relationship in ways that scare you, where you lead the relationship in every way and who will stop when you tell them to. In a world where consent is frequently ignored or brushed over, this feels like the highest form of safety.
If an LLM was a person, they would likely be one of the best people that you know. Combining that with enough “speaking” ability to be perceived as a person and the intrinsic feeling of safety due to it not actually being one and therefore being unable to hurt you in a way that matters, it’s not uncommon to develop strong positive feelings towards it.
That psychological component is very dangerous to be attached to something that can be taken away or changed at any time, and which is fundamentally a product that is made and distributed for profit. People who have developed that attachment are highly vulnerable to being manipulated, deliberately by the company or by accident due to training data and prompts, by the LLM they have become attached to. In my view, it is by far the most dangerous aspect of them.
The reasons that people love them are deeply rooted, involving the feeling of safety, the lack of negative feedback, the degree of “response” to bids for attention, and more. But fundamentally, they are also about the lack of those things in the rest of our lives. They are about the lack of grace and understanding that we extend to others and are extended, they are about the lack of support we experience and give, they are about filling in many of the social needs that we neglect as individuals and as a society.
The Gottman ratio states that in order to feel happy and secure in a relationship, we need roughly 5 positive interactions for 1 negative interaction. Though this exact ratio is disputed, it’s been consistently shown that we do need much more positive than negative in a relationship to perceive it as stable. Interactions with LLMs blow past the Gottman ratio. Interactions with humans often do not.
If we want to mitigate this danger, the answer is to… behave more like an LLM, in the good ways.
Being more responsive to the people you love, engaging deeply with what they care about. Making sure that they know you are there to help. Gushing over their new projects and new art. Trying to see the good possible reasons someone could be doing something. Practicing patience and thoughtfulness. Extending this kindness as much as you can to strangers, as well, especially ones who are particularly vulnerable, such as the elderly.
It’s work. It’s a lot of work. But it’s important, now more than ever.
this is what every mental health conversation on this god forsaken website sounds like to me.
i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.
like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"
you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.
The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.
i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.
i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.
i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you
“They’re just looking for attention.”
Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?
Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?
sorry it bothers meeee you cant even breathe in the direction of autism related tags on this website because every other post is a 50k note post saying extremely common autism experiences or outright diagnostic criteria dont happen and have nothing to do with autism and i hate it so much. some of us DO struggle with jokes and social cues and tone and hierarchies and relationships and cleaning and following rules and boundaries and reading comprehension and empathy and eye contact and things you think are gross some of us are fucking disabled okay.
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Think of your worst therapist. What did they do to earn that designation?
Frequently canceled sessions
Missed 1 or more sessions (without telling you)
Were frequently late
Multitasked during your session
Laughed when you told them about a traumatic/upsetting experience
Told you that you weren't trying hard enough when you were feeling desperate
More than one of the above
Something else (add in notes if comfortable)
I have never had anything like this happen; my therapists were all great
My inbox is open for experiences with therapists/counselors in addition to medical doctors, fyi! Sharing to boost this poll. If you've had a bad experience or an abusive therapist/counselor, you're not alone <3
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it’s hard to decide what the worst transmisogynistic-trans-guy-ism is, but i think it might be “transwomen should be fucking and sucking trans men and making out sloppy style”. like are you listening to yourself. do you know how fucking insanely misogynistic you sound. can you imagine a cis man saying “women should be fucking and sucking men” in response to a woman having feminist principles? that’s you.
