A fly may light upon a rock; but what does the rock, which has seen whole ages since the morning when gods strode from hill to hill, care for a fly, the creature of a summer?
Reports coming in from ICE facilities visited by congressional representatives. (Heard on Minnesota Public Radio this morning and from other sources.)
Detainees are:
denied blankets in very cold conditions
refused food and water
refused bathroom and shower access
unable to access needed medications
There was an account of two parents abducted by ICE thugs, leaving their 7 year old daughter behind. The daughter is apparently being cared for by a neighbor, but the mom was sobbing and in hysterics, understandably.
We know already know what these ICE dirtbags and their depraved leadership in Washington are made of - they won't hesitate to tear children from their parents in their white Christian nationalist frenzy to make the US ethnically "pure" again.
When MAGA agrees with the sentiment that the 1950s were a high point in the US, this is in part what they mean: people of color were a minority of the population and "knew their place." The most socially ineducable and morally unreconstructed holdovers from past generations of American racial apartheid are now having one of their deepest wishes fulfilled in the Trump administration.
Are we going to be a country that prioritizes human well-being, dignity and basic rights for everyone regardless of documentation status, or one that embraces vicious and dehumanizing impulses as policy?
Are there going to be any consequences for this form of MAGA thuggery and dehumanization?
How do we correct the moral degradation of that part of society that sees nothing wrong?
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller Enshittification: catch me next in Burbank, Lisbon, Cardiff, London and Oxford! Full schedule here.
While I formulated the idea of enshittification to refer to digital platforms and their specific technical characteristics, economics and history, I am very excited to see other theorists extend the idea of enshittification beyond tech and into wider policy realms.
There's an easy, loose way to do this, which is using "enshittification" to refer to "things generally getting worse." To be clear, I am fine with this:
But there's a much more exciting way to broaden "enshittification," which starts with the foundation of the theory: that the things we rely on go bad when the system stops punishing this kind of deliberate degradation and starts rewarding it. In other words, the foundation of enshittification is the enshittogenic policy environment:
That's where Pavlina Tcherneva comes in. Tcherneva is an economist whose work focuses on the power of a "job guarantee," which is exactly what it sounds like: a guarantee from the government to employ anyone who wants a job, by either finding or creating a job that a) suits that person's talents and abilities and b) does something useful and good. If this sounds like a crazy pipe-dream to you, let me remind you that American had a job guarantee and it was wildly successful, and created (among other things), the system of national parks, a true jewel in America's crown:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/23/foxconned/#ccc
Tcherneva's latest paper is "The Death of the Social Contract and the Enshittification of Jobs," in which she draws a series of careful and compelling parallels between my work on enshittification and today's employment crisis, showing how a job guarantee is the ultimate disenshittifier of work:
Tcherneva starts by proposing a simplified model of enshittification, mapping my three stages onto three of her own:
Bait: Lure in users with a great, often subsidized, service.
Trap: Use that captive audience to attract businesses (sellers, creators, advertisers).
Switch: Exploit those groups by degrading the experience for everyone to extract maximum profit.
How do these map onto the current labor market and economy? For Tcherneva, the "bait" stage was "welfare state capitalism," which was "shaped by post–Great Depression government reforms and lasted through the 70s." This was the era in which the chaos of the Great Depression gave rise to fiscal and monetary policy that promoted macroeconomic stability. It was the era of economic safety nets and mass-scale federal investment in American businesses, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a federal entity that expanded into directly funding large companies during WWII. After the war, the US Treasury continued to play a direct role in finance, through procurement, infrastructure spending and provision of social services.
As Tcherneva writes, this is widely considered the "Golden Age" of the US economy, a period of sustained growth and rising standard of living (she also points out that these benefits were very unevenly distributed, thanks to compromises made with southern white nationalists that exempted farm labor, and a pervasive climate of misogyny that carved out home work).
The welfare state capitalism stage was celebrated not merely for the benefits that it brought, but also for the system it supplanted. Before welfare state capitalism, we had 19th century "banker capitalism," in which cartels and trusts controlled every aspect of our lives and gave rise to a string of spectacular economic bubbles and busts. Before that, we had the "industrial capitalism" of the Industrial Revolution, where large corporations seized power. Before that, it was "merchant capitalism," and before that, feudalism – where workers were bound to a lord's land, unable to escape the economic and geographic destiny assigned to them at birth.
So welfare state capitalism was a welcome evolution, at least for the workers who got to reap its benefits. But welfare state capitalism was short-lived. To understand what came next, Tcherneva cites Hyman Minsky (whose "theory of capitalist development" provides this epochal nomenclature for the various stages of capitalism over the centuries).
Minsky calls the capitalism that supplanted welfare state capitalism "money manager capitalism," the system that reigned from the Reagan revolution until the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. This was an era of "deregulation, eroding worker power, rapid increase in inequality, and a rise of the money manager class." It's the period of financialization, which favored the creation of gigantic conglomerates that wrapped banking services (loans, credit cards, etc) around their core offerings, from GE to Amazon.
Then came the crash of 2008, which gave us our current era, the era of "international money manager capitalism," which is the system in which gigantic, transnational funds capture our economy pumping and dumping a series of scammy bubbles, like crypto, metaverse, blockchain, and (of course) AI:
Welfare state capitalism was the "bait" stage of the enshittification of labor. Public subsidies and regulation produced an environment in which (many) workers were able to command a large share of the fruits of their labor, securing both a living wage and old-age surety. This was the era of the "family wage," in which a single earner could supply all the necessities of life to a family: an owner-occupied home, material sufficiency, and enough left over for vacations, Christmas presents and other trappings of "the good life."
During this stage, the "social contract" meant the government training a skilled workforce (through universal education) and public goods like roads and utilities. Companies got big contracts, but only if they accepted collective bargaining from their unions. Governments and corporations collaborated to secure a comfortable requirement for workers.
But this arrangement lacked staying power, thanks to a key omission in the social contract: the guarantee of a good job. Rather than continuing the job guarantee that brought America out of the Depression, all the post-New Deal order could offer the unemployed was unemployment insurance. This wasn't so important while America was booming and employers were begging for workers, but when growth slowed, the lack of a job guarantee suddenly became the most important fact of many workers' lives.
This was foreseen by the architects of the New Deal. FDR's "Second Bill of (Economic) Rights" would have guaranteed every American "national healthcare, paid vacation, and a guaranteed job":
These guarantees were never realized, and for Tcherneva, this failure doomed welfare state capitalism. Unions were powerful during an era of tight labor markets and able to wring concessions out of capital, but once demand for workers ebbed (thanks to slowing growth and, later, offshoring), bosses could threaten workers with unemployment, breaking union power.
The social contract was bait, promising "economic security and decent jobs" through cooperation between the government, corporations and unions.
The switch came from Reagan, with mass-scale deregulation, a hack-and-slash approach to social spending, and the enshrining of a permanently unemployed reserve army of workers whose "job" was fighting inflation (by not having a job). Trump has continued this, with massive cuts to the federal workforce. Today, "job insecurity is not an unfortunate consequence of shifting economic winds, it is the objective of public policy."
For money manager capitalism, unemployment is a feature, not a bug – literally. Neoliberal economists invented something called the NAIRU ("non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment"), which deliberately sets out to keep a certain percentage of workers in a state of unemployment, in order to fight inflation.
Here's how that works: if the economy is at full employment (meaning everyone who wants a job has one), and prices go up (say, because bosses decide to increase their rate of profit), then workers will demand and receive a pay-rise, because bosses can't afford to fire those "greedy" workers – there are no unemployed workers to replace them.
This means that if bosses want to maintain their rate of profit, they will have to raise prices again to pay those higher wages for their workers. But after that, workers' pay no longer goes as far as it used to, so workers demand another raise and then bosses have to hike prices again (if they are determined not to allow the decline of their own profits). This is called "the wage-price spiral" and it's what happens when bosses refuse to accept lower profits and workers have the power to demand that their wages get adjusted to keep up with prices.
Of course, this only makes sense if you think that bosses should be guaranteed their profits, even if that means that workers' real take-home pay (measured by purchasing power) declines. You aren't supposed to notice this, though. That's why neoliberal economists made it a sin to ask about "distributional effects" (that is, asking about how the pie gets divided) – you're only supposed to care about how big the pie gets:
With the adoption of NAIRU, joblessness "was now officially sanctioned as necessary for the health of the economy." You could not survive unless you had a job, not everyone could have a job, and the jobs were under control of a financialized, concentrated corporate sector. Companies merged and competition disappeared. If you refused to knuckle under to the boss at your (formerly) good factory job, there wasn't another factory that would put you on the line. The alternative to those decaying industrial jobs were "unemployment and low-wage service sector work."
That's where the final phase of the enshittification of labor comes in: the "trap." For Tcherneva, the trap is "the brutal fact of necessity itself." You cannot survive without a roof over your head, without electricity, without food and without healthcare. As these are not provided by the state, the only way to procure them (apart from inherited wealth) is through work, and access to work is entirely in the hands of the private sector.
Once corporations capture control of housing (through corporate landlords), healthcare (though corporate takeover of hospitals, pharma, etc), and power (through privatization of utilities), they can squeeze the people who depend on these things, because there is no competitor. You can't opt out of shelter, food, electricity and healthcare – at least, not without substantial hardship.
In my own theory of enshittification, platforms hunt relentlessly for sources of lock-in (e.g., the high switching costs of losing your social media community or your platform data) and, having achieved it, squeeze users and businesses, secure in the knowledge that users can't readily leave for a better service. This is compounded by monopolization (which reduces the likelihood that a better service even exists) and regulatory capture (which gives companies a free hand to squeeze with). Once a company can squeeze you, it will.
Here, Tcherneva is translating this to macroeconomic phenomena: control over the labor market and capture of the necessaries of life allows companies to squeeze, and so they do. A company rips you off for the same reason your dog licks its balls: because it can.
Tcherneva describes the era of money manager capitalism as "the slow, grinding enshittification of daily life." It's an era of corporate landlords raising the rent and skimping on maintenance, while hitting tenants with endless junk fees. It's an era of corporate hospitals gouging you on bills, skimping on care, and screwing healthcare workers. It's an era of utilities capturing their public overseers and engaging in endless above-inflation price hikes:
This is the "trap" of Tcherneva's labor enshittification, and it kicked off "a decades-long enshittification of working life." Enshittified labor is "low-wage jobs with unpredictable schedules and no benefits." Half of American workers earn less than $25/hour. The federal minimum wage is stuck at $7.25/hour. Half of all renters are rent-burdened and a third of homeowners are mortgage-burdened. A quarter of renters are severely rent-burdened, with more than half their pay going to rent.
Money manager capitalism's answer to this is…more finance. Credit cards, payday loans, home equity loans, student loans. All this credit isn't nearly sufficient to keep up with rising health, housing, and educational prices. This locks workers into "a lifetime of servicing debt, incurred to simulate a standard of living the social contract had once promised but their wages could no longer deliver."
To manage this impossible situation, money manager capitalism spun up huge "securitized" debt markets, the CDOs and ABSes that led to the Great Financial Crisis (today, international money manager capitalism is spinning up even more forms of securitized debts).
In my theory of enshittification, there are four forces that keep tech platforms from going bad: competition, regulation, a strong workforce and interoperability. For Tcherneva, these forces all map onto the rise and fall of the American standard of living.
Competition: Welfare state capitalism was born in a time of tight labor markets. Workers could walk out of a bad job and into a good one, forcing bosses to compete for workers (including by dealing fairly with unions). This was how we got the "good job," one with medical, retirement, training and health care benefits.
Regulation: The New Deal established the 40-hour week, minimum wages, overtime, and the right to unionize. As with tech regulation, this was backstopped by competition – the existence of a tight labor market meant that companies had to concede to regulation. As with tech regulation, the capture of the state meant the end of the benefits of regulation. With the rise of NAIRU, regulation was captured by bosses, with the government now guaranteeing a pool of unemployed workers who could be used to terrorize uppity employees into meek acceptance.
Interoperability: In tech enshittification, the ability to take your data, relationships and devices with you when you switch to a competitor means that the companies you do business with have to treat you well, or risk your departure. In labor enshittification, bosses use noncompetes, arbitration, trade secrecy, and nondisparagement to keep workers from walking across the street and into a better job. Some workers are even encumbered with "training repayment agreement provisions (TRAPs) that force them to pay thousands of dollars if they quit their jobs:
Worker power: In tech enshittification, tech workers – empowered by the historically tight tech labor market – are able to hold the line, refusing to enshittify the products they develop, with the constant threat that they can walk out the door and get a job elsewhere. In labor enshittification, NAIRU, combined with corporate capture of the necessaries of life and the retreat of unionization, means that workers have very little power to demand a better situation, which means their bosses can worsen things to their shriveled hearts' content.
As with my theory of enshittification, the erosion of worker power is an accelerant for labor enshittification. Weaker competition for workers means weaker labor power, which means weaker power to force the government to regulate. This sets the stage for more consolidation, weaker workers, and more state capture. This is the completion of the bait-trap-switch of the postwar social contract.
For Tcherneva, this enshittification arises out of the failure to create a job guarantee as part of the New Deal. And yet, a job guarantee remains very popular today:
How would a job guarantee disenshittify the labor market? The job guarantee means a "permanent, publicly provided employment opportunity to anyone ready and willing to work, it establishes an effective floor for the entire labor market."
Under a job guarantee, any private employer wishing to hire a worker will have to beat the job guarantee's wages and benefits. No warehouse or fast-food chain could offer "poverty wages, unpredictable hours, and a hostile environment." It's an incentive to the private sector to compete for labor by restoring the benefits that characterized America's "golden age."
What's more, a job guarantee is administrable. A job guarantee means that workers can always access a safe, good job, even if the state fails to adequately police private-sector employers and their wages and working conditions. A job guarantee does much of the heavy lifting of enforcing a whole suite of regulations: "minimum wage laws, overtime rules, safety standards—that are constantly subject to political attack, corporate lobbying, and enforcement challenges."
A job guarantee also restores interoperability to the labor market. Rather than getting trapped in a deskilled, low-waged gig job, those at the bottom of the labor market will always have access to a job that comes with training and skills development, without noncompetes and other gotchas that trap workers in shitty jobs. For workers this means "career advancement and mobility." For society, "it delivers a pipeline of trained personnel to tackle our most pressing challenges."
And best of all, a job guarantee restores worker power. The fact that you can always access a decent job at a socially inclusive wage means that you don't have to eat shit when it comes to negotiating for your housing, health care and education. You can tell payday lenders, for-profit scam colleges (like Trump University), and slumlords to go fuck themselves.
Tcherneva concludes by pointing out that, as with tech enshittification, labor enshittification "is a political choice, not an economic inevitability." Labor enshittification is the foreseeable outcome of specific policies undertaken in living memory by named individuals. As with tech enshittification, we are under no obligation to preserve those enshittificatory policies. We can replace them with better ones.
If you want to learn more about the job guarantee, you can read my review of her book on the subject:
And I assume that the video will thereafter be posted to Websummit's Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@websummit
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
This is such a good read. So often we are told that companies invested in their employees and the shit state of the labor market today is because those employees had no "loyalty" to their companies, so moved for better jobs, and the poor companies just had no choice but to *gestures.*
Like almost every other USian narrative, it's completely backwards and upside down.
This reflection was written on the eve of the Dutch elections, when the elephant of populism and the windmills of tradition clash in the national debate. I write reluctantly as a voter, but with conviction as a democrat. Our challenge is not migration itself, but how fear and resentment reshape the very character of the Netherlands.
"Tolerance is the glory of the Dutch nation — but intolerance, once normalized, becomes its undoing."
— Adapted from Spinoza’s legacy of tolerance
In this election season, the Dutch political landscape is dominated by an elephant — Geert Wilders and his PVV. Once seen as fringe, his party has become the voice of national populism. Built on resentment and exclusion, his rhetoric offers scapegoats instead of solutions: foreigners, the European Union, Islam. Like Le Pen, Farage, and Orbán, Wilders doesn’t just attack policy. He undermines the institutions that protect our freedoms.
Yet the so-called “asylum crisis” he feeds on is a misnomer. As Peter Scholten and Fons Meijer argue, the Netherlands faces a reception crisis, not an asylum one. Shortages of staff and housing, combined with years of government neglect, have created bottlenecks. The problem is structural, but politics has turned it into an obsession with migration.
This obsession is the elephant in the room — or rather, the elephant in the china closet, trampling Dutch tolerance and pragmatism. And what of the windmills, those enduring symbols of adaptation and resilience? They are battered, spinning now to the tune of populism rather than purpose.
The VVD, under Dilan Yeşilgöz, bears heavy responsibility. By normalizing Wilders as a governing partner, it broke with decades of liberal democratic restraint. What was once unthinkable — treating a xenophobic one-man party as legitimate — has become reality. The electorate has noticed, and the VVD has lost its moral centre.
Even D66, once the voice of principled liberalism, now bends in the wind. It speaks of reconsidering the Refugee Convention, of processing asylum claims at Europe’s borders, even of replacing European symbols with Dutch flags. Rob Jetten still invokes democracy, rule of law, and a green economy — but the tone has shifted. Something vital has been lost.
Meanwhile, the left tries to hold the line. GroenLinks-PvdA and parts of D66 advocate humane asylum policies: faster procedures, small-scale reception, and European cooperation. Yet their voices are drowned out by the thunder of elephants.
For voters like myself, the choice is uneasy. In the general interest, I will vote D66 — not out of enthusiasm, but because it still stands closer to the liberal democratic tradition that must be defended, however compromised.
The Netherlands has always known how to live with wind and water. Windmills were built to turn storms into energy. But elephants cannot be turned; they can only be confronted. The danger we face today is not uncontrolled migration, but the normalization of exclusion and the erosion of tolerance.
The question is simple: will we remain a nation of windmills — pragmatic, open, adaptable — or will we let elephants trample our democracy?
📌Blog Excerpt
Elephants and Windmills explores the uneasy balance of Dutch politics in an age of populism. Geert Wilders and the PVV have turned migration into the “elephant in the room,” while traditional values of pragmatism and tolerance — symbolized by windmills — struggle to withstand the storm. A reflection on obsession, fear, and the fragile fabric of democracy.
AI Psychosis and the implications of its existence
Actually as shitty as the existence of AI psychosis is, the implications of it are FUCKING MIND-BOGGLING in actually a really revolutionary way.
("WTF are you talking about?" / "What do we currently know about AI psychosis?": x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Paywall free, via Futurism, June 28, 2025
Like, as someone who works professionally editing mental health books, the existence of AI psychosis almost certainly completely upends our understandings of how mental health disorders work. And their causes.
There's a non-zero chance the discovery/existence of AI psychosis is like. going to be/lead to more or less the mental health equivalent of inventing germ theory.
Like, we went from only sort of beginning to suspect to having actual, literal, indisputable proof that you can go from not having a psychotic disorder to having a psychotic disorder literally just from talking too much to a very aggrandizing source and/or echo chamber
THAT SEVERELY UPENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGINS OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS
**Note: I am using "psychotic" and "psychotic disorders" in their technical definition here, which is simply "involves experiencing breaks from reality." Because, contrary to all the stigma and misinformation, that's the literal/actual definition (x, x, x)
And like, obviously, in at least many cases, there would be/often are genetic, environmental, or trauma factors that are putting their thumbs on the scale there. But we know for a fact that a number of people who have developed AI psychosis do not have a previous record of mental health issues.
But the tipping factor for at least dozens of people, we now know for a fact, was talking to an AI chatbot. And we have a complete record of what was said for almost every single one of those cases, because, among other things, OpenAI / ChatGPT is now LEGALLY REQUIRED to preserve ALL CHAT TRANSCRIPTS, even if users delete them, until the court says otherwise (x, x, x).
(Which will be, by the way, years, at a minimum - that may have started with a copyright lawsuit, but there will be so many other AI lawsuits and investigations, including about AI psychosis, in the EU if not the US - this will go on for a while)
Anyway, yeah, good news in the long term for the understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
In the short term, seriously, please don't use chatbots for at least another couple of years, as a safety precaution
At least until they've sorted this shit out and (HOPEFULLY) figured out how to make this shit stop happening (and then, hopefully, actually implemented those changes).
Just call it a basic safety precaution - especially if you have any sort of neurodivergence and/or any history or family history of hallucinations, delusions, schizophrenia / schizo-spectrum, psychotic spectrum disorders, etc.
All of this will, I strongly suspect, be incredibly validating to a great many trauma survivors, abuse survivors, cult survivors, and members of the mad community
And it will hopefully really transform our understanding of how to understand and treat mental health issues, and particularly psychotic disorders, in really, really profound and positive ways. Which would be great, bc we're pretty fucking shit at understanding and treating them right now!
I'm no psychologist/psychiatrist, but personally I think AI psychosis is in large part coming from environmental factors such as the collective trauma we've experienced as a society going through covid 19, the current political upheaval in the US and many other countries, and the isolation resulting from increased privatization and disappearing of third places. A lot of people who need/want mental health services just don't have the time, money, or energy to access them, and chatgpt provides a quick, cheap, and seemingly safe answer.
It's a perfect storm where late stage capitalism is profiting off of providing a "solution" to a problem it has caused and is continuing to cause. And that "solution" is causing more problems than it's actually solving.
Environmental factors, including but not limited to trauma are, indeed, things that are known to increase your likelihood of developing a psychotic disorder, so, yeah, that is indeed part of the picture.
What's radical here is the strong evidence that spending too much time in a certain type of sycophantic echo chamber can, by itself, tip the balance from "does not have a psychotic disorder" to "does have a psychotic disorder," particularly (or at least) when combined with other environmental factors such as isolation.
Scientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists writ large did not actually think it was possible for the balance to be tipped by, ultimately, having too many of the wrong kind of social interactions
(Or, well, "social interactions," since ChatGPT is not actually an entity and therefore cannot be socialized with - but something deliberately designed to really persuasively and convincingly mimic human interactions.)
Survivors and the mad community as a whole have been saying this for decades, of course, but psychology as a field was only just sort of kind of beginning to bother to listen
This also has major implications for how we understand, react, and respond to a lot of members of QAnon and other MAGA and far right conspiracy groups.
(Note: Just in case, to clarify, this is Not me saying you need to be nice to them or have sympathy for them. It is instead significant further evidence of something we have already often seen: that QAnon, MAGA, and other far right conspiracy groups operate like cults, not typical mainstream political movements. And thus, deradicalizing them is much more likely to be successful when using cult studies and deprogramming strategies, than when treating them as an opposing political movement to be persuaded. Because it's really, really hard to convince someone who is experiencing and reacting to a version of the world that is very, very, very different and detached from actual reality.)
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Lady Ru'etha - Goddess, Beloved.
Linny Bee - Sweetheart. Hypnokink craft lady.
Mas-O-Kissed - Cute imp who we like to tease.
Nath - Incredible writer. Good opinion haver. Metamour.
Paperboy64 - Absolute sweetheart.
Poppetsisters - Our Poppet pals, the biggest Fantastic Four fans we know <3
Puppet - Counterpart. Metamour. Fellow Sleepyhead enjoyer.
Rubia - Rubia is a lovely friend and author. Rubia Speaks. We listen.
Skaetlett - Inspiration for plurality based hypnofiction. Superb person.
Secret Subject - Boss. VTuber extraordinaire and good friend.
Sleepyhead - Beloved.
TennFan - An inspiration in asexual hypnokink content
Ask Tags:
Cammie Asks - Asks answered while Cammie is fronting.
Camden Asks - Asks answered while Camden is fronting.
Dawn Asks - Asks answered while Dawn is fronting.
Craig Asks - Asks answered while Craig is fronting.
Wynn Asks - Asks answered while Wynn is fronting.
Ask Memes - Ask based games. We try to link the source but sometimes forget.
Hypno Themed Asks - Asks about hypnosis.
TAGGING LIST CONTINUED (because Tumblr only allows 100 links per post)
Fandom Tags:
Rush (the band) - Our favorite band. The First Constant.
London (the city) - Our hometown. The Second Constant.
Coffee (the drink) - Our favorite drink. The Third Constant.
Ace Attorney - Meme factory.
Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul - Meme factory.
Castlevania - We like Vania. We just don't post about it often.
Celeste - Trans folx can double jump. Plural folx can triple jump.
Control - Jesse is such a great character. Faden/Pope forever.
DBZ - Mostly shitposting but I often defend that Z is well written.
DC Comics - I guess DC are okay. They're not Marvel though.
Disco Elysium - Socioeconomic theory through the lens of a human disaster.
Discworld - Best fantasy author.
Dropout/Game Changer - I love silly improv fools and their dumb torture gameshow
Dungeon Meshi - Autistic representation and Italian wlw monsterfuckers.
Final Fantasy - We played Seven through to Ten (2025 update: and are now so hopelessly addicted to fourteen that it has its own tag)
Final Fantasy XIV - Mostly WoL OC stuff (her name is Honoria and she is a Fae, DK main) but I use this tag for all FFXIV stuff specifically. We are on Crystal-Zalera Server.
The Good Place - The best mainstream philosophy show.
Heaven Will Be Mine - Chicks dig giant robots. Mechs and queer theory. (Worst Girls Games like We Know The Devil are also in this tag)
House of Leaves - That damned maze that my mind is trapped in forever.
Hulk - Hulk is our favorite. DID sad boi and angry fail system forever.
In Stars and Time - Trauma, time loops and coins with two sides.
Kingdom Hearts - How many kids can fit in that heart anyway?
Leverage - Meme factory. Parker is best thief.
Marvel Comics - We are an unabashed Marvel fangirl.
Metal Gear Solid - Used to be one of our faves. It's beautifully stupid.
Mr. Robot - Our favorite TV show. It has its flaws but it heals.
Neon Genesis Evangelion - We love this series more than we have words for.
Pathologic - Existentialism and prickly pricks. We like Clara a lot.
Penlight - VN that educates on the dangers of hypnokink and the joys when done right.
Persona - Used to be big into this franchise but not so much these days.
Phantom of the Opera - The musical is kinda hypnohorny, okay?
Of The Devil - Ace Attorney/Death Note hybrid with toxic yuri and fascinating sociopolitical themes in a cyberpunk dystopia.
Sailor Moon - Don't post here much but the aesthetic and vibes are peak.
Scott Pilgrim - Canadian boy who is the worst and manic pixie trans girlfriend.
sense8 - Queer joy and plurality.
Severance - Plurality and the cult of corporate.
She-Ra - Catra is our BPD cat wife. We love her.
Signalis - Sapphic existential horror with robots, time loops and SYMBOLISM!
Slay The Princess - Relationships shape us. Razor is best girl.
Sonic - You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum that raised me. Sonic fandom forever.
Spider-Man - Spidey is also a sad boi. Ben Reilly is our favorite.
Star Wars/Star Trek - As an in-joke to ourselves we tag both franchises as "Star Stuff"
Superman - Mostly My Adventures With... but tag works for comics and other forms too.
Tabletop RPG - General tag for all tabletop and roleplay related stuff.
Tamora Pierce - Second best fantasy author.
Ted Lasso - Mental health and footie mens. Saccharine show.
Tsukutabe - Adorable yuri manga about asexual women finding love and themselves. It's Madison/Belladonna if you replaced the hypnosis with meals.
Tumblr :) - I love it here!
Tumblr :( - I hate it here =/
Twin Peaks - Best TV show.
Umineko - Meme factory and earnest story about generational trauma.
X-Men - Marginalized communities fight for their rights in the best soap opera.
Zelda - Link. HE COME TO TOWN!
Post Highlights:
Time Loops and Dissociation - A 5 act breakdown of how In Stars and Time exemplifies the allegory of time loops while depicting a protagonist with Complex PTSD.
Dissociative Disorders and Hypnosis - At Charmed 2024 a 101 class taught not to hypnotize people with mental illnesses that include dissociation. I FIRMLY disagree and explain how to safely work with dissociative partners.
Ethical Personality Play - A post about how hypnosis personality play is edge play and though I discourage anyone doing it, if you must, I will teach you how to do it safely. I have a lot of experience.
Recontextualized Memory and Unprocessed Trauma in Umineko - A rundown of how the murder mystery visual novel Umineko handles the topics of PTSD, complicated grief and unprocessed trauma memories with an explanation of distorted Core Beliefs and how the mind recontextualizes memories as they are retrieved throughout a person's life.
Mr. Robot DID Representation - Why I think Mr. Robot has the best representation of DID in popular fiction and why the ending was a complete fumble of the ball.
Mr. Robot Back to the Future & Brainwashing - How Whiterose brainwashed Angela, focused on psychological principles being abused and how the show's reliance on pop culture references influences in and out of universe.
“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”
— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)
I am so excited to announce that I am teaching "Hypnosis… ONLINE!" at @charmedhypno 9th Aug 2025, 5pm EST. This online mini con is totally free so if you want to know how to do hypnosis over the internet, come along for my 90 minute class!
If you are in a US or other place where abortion is being criminalized, or know people who are, the digital defense fund has talked to lawyers and doctors and care providers to give you some steps to take to protect your privacy.
In the grand theater of geopolitical machinations, Russia has emerged as the virtuoso of disinformation, orchestrating a symphony of deceit that reverberates across the digital landscape. With the deftness of a seasoned illusionist, the Kremlin has weaponized social media platforms, transforming them into conduits of chaos aimed squarely at the heart of Western democracies. This is not a mere skirmish of narratives; it is an all-out assault on truth itself.
The Art of Disinformation Warfare
Russia’s stratagem is as insidious as it is ingenious. By exploiting the boundless reach of social media, they have unleashed a torrent of falsehoods, half-truths, and outright fabrications designed to sow discord and undermine the very fabric of societal cohesion. This is not a new tactic; it is a modern iteration of age-old propaganda, now turbocharged by the virality of the internet. The Kremlin’s operatives, cloaked in the anonymity of cyberspace, craft narratives that are as alluring as they are mendacious, preying on the cognitive biases of unsuspecting netizens.
The Imperative of Unyielding Journalism
In this maelstrom of misinformation, the role of true journalism has never been more critical. It is the bulwark against the tide of deceit, the lighthouse guiding the ship of public discourse through the fog of falsehoods. Journalists who dare to call out lies and half-truths are the sentinels of democracy, armed not with swords but with facts, wielding the pen as a weapon of mass enlightenment. Their mission is not merely to report but to illuminate, to dissect the cacophony of claims and counterclaims with the scalpel of scrutiny.
Pre-Bunking the Naysayers
Critics may scoff at the notion of a disinformation campaign, dismissing it as paranoia or hyperbole. Yet, the evidence is irrefutable. From the manipulation of electoral processes to the fomenting of social unrest, the fingerprints of Russian interference are indelibly etched upon the annals of recent history. To deny this is to bury one’s head in the sand, oblivious to the storm that rages above.
A Call to Intellectual Arms
What, then, is to be done in the face of such an onslaught? The answer lies in vigilance and veracity. Citizens must cultivate a discerning eye, questioning the provenance of information and seeking out reputable sources. Social media platforms must bolster their defenses, deploying algorithms not to amplify outrage but to elevate accuracy. And journalists must continue to shine a light into the darkest corners of the digital domain, undeterred by the specter of censorship or reprisal.
Conclusion: The Unyielding Pursuit of Truth
In the end, the battle against disinformation is not merely a struggle for factual accuracy; it is a fight for the soul of democracy itself. As Russia continues its informational onslaught, the Western world must stand resolute, armed with the twin shields of skepticism and integrity. Only through the unyielding pursuit of truth can we hope to preserve the sanctity of our shared reality, ensuring that the light of knowledge triumphs over the shadow of deceit.
I remember a faërie who brought me into a shimmering realm. The theory is that she is an ambush predator who strikes, bats her prey playfully only to move on. With her gift I must find my own way through the realms of Faërie, bearing within me the vision of one who is touched by the Faë.
The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Let’s not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.
The town of Nome, situated in Western Alaska, was a relative hub for even smaller communities in the region, but in winter was utterly cut off from… nearly everywhere. The harbour iced over in winter, there were no roads connecting it anywhere else, the nearest railroad line was nearly 700 miles (1000+ kilometres) away in Nenana. Air travel was still new at the time and planes couldn’t handle the inclement winter weather.
In 1924, the community had a single doctor and a few nurses who served approximately 10 000 people, including large Eskimo populations in the area (the town itself had a population of roughly 1000 people - bear in mind how few children lived in this community when you see the casualty counts). He had realized his diphtheria vaccine stock was expired and had ordered more from mainland USA months earlier. When it failed to arrive on the final ship of the season, he was a little concerned, but diphtheria was fairly rare, and he figured he’d just restock in the spring.
Of all the rotten luck, January 1925 was when a diphtheria outbreak hit the region.
There was a scramble, in the mainland USA as well as Alaska, to find a way to get the vaccine to this town in the middle of winter. There were attempts to fly a vaccine supply over, but the planes were grounded by storms. This was part of the United States in the 1920s. There was no way to get there.
Except by sled dogs, running the vaccine from that train station in Nenana, 674 miles away. Over 1000 kilometres away, in the dead of winter in Alaska, by 20 mushers (mostly native Athabaskans) and 150 sled dogs running in relay, switching off at tiny villages and rest stations along the way. It was bitterly cold. As in, -85°F (-60°C) at the coldest. There were blizzards, hurricane force winds, and at some points visibility was so poor the men couldn’t see their dogs in front of them.
No man or beast should have been out in that. You freeze in seconds if you’re not moving. Multiple dogs died from being run so hard in such cold weather. Mushers grappled with hypothermia and frostbite. One needed hot water poured over his frozen hands because he was frozen to his sled. Another’s face was black with frostbite. Some strapped themselves up and lead their packs when their lead dogs collapsed.
This relay team traveled 674 miles in 5.5 days. Togo and his owner, Leonhard Seppala, did by far the longest and most dangerous run, travelling over 260 miles (about 420 kilometres) including the initial travel to his pickup spot. Gunnar Kaasen and his lead dog, Balto, did the final 53 miles (85 kilometres) into Nome, where they were greeted as heroes.
Prior to the vaccine arriving in Nome, 5-7 children officially died of diphtheria, with dozens of confirmed cases who may well have died without treatment - but it’s suspected the surrounding Indigenous communities were much harder hit, with numbers impossible to confirm.
When you think that this happened less than 100 years ago, how desperate this community was for a vaccine, how much these mushers risked and lost to get it to this town as fast as they possibly could…
Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.
They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!
This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!
Venezuelan prisoners held in bluebonnet prison (TX) who fear being sent to CECOT form SOS in the prison yard. Photo taken by Reuters who flew over the prison in a small plane after being denied entry to the prison by ICE.
You can't get what you want without asking for it. Tell America you want to get the traitors and criminals in the "First Felon Twice Impeached Russia First Administration".
You want investigations. You want hearings. You want consequences. You want resignations.
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