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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

:D

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queenofsquiggles@transfem.social ("Mistress Fae Squiggles") wrote:

So I've been thinking about something and maybe it'll need to be a proper article to get all my thoughts out properly.

Basically I was creating art ravenously while I lived with my really toxic and abusive ex. Looking back on the things I made during that time it almost feels like a desperate cry for help. Every ounce of my pain was being channeled directly into the art as a way to cope. I was feeling very used and unlovable.

And now that I am well past that time I've been struggling to create nearly as much. And I worry that I trained myself to create art from pain and I am having to go through the difficult journey of learning how to fuel my art through joy and love instead of suffering and trauma.

And it sucks because I don't make nearly as many cool things as I used to. But it's also probably way healthier for me as a person to not stew in that pain forever.

I don't even know if I want comfort or advice in this situation. I know what I need and I know what I don't need. I just don't enjoy how long the journey is.

And the reason I feel like this is worth writing in longer form about is that there is a broad misconception of "The Suffering Artist" in pop culture. This assumption that artists must be in pain or suffering in order to create beautiful things. And that is categorically false. And I want my story to further break down that assumption for people. But I don't know what stage of the journey makes sense to write about since I am very much still in the thick of it.

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sentimentaldom@woof.group ("Michael Integritas") wrote:

@aphyr This is the kind of quote that makes you nod like you understand it, then immediately stare into the middle distance and rethink wolves, holes, desire, capitalism, therapy, language, and whether your group chat is technically a rhizome.

Deleuze and Guattari really went all in on the "stop trying to make the unconscious behave. It has paws. It has tunnels." Not exactly casual beach reading, but definitely the kind of book that rewires your brain if you let it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

"To become wolf or to become hole is to
deterritorialize oneself following distinct but entangled lines. A hole is no more negative than a wolf. Castration, lack, substitution: a tale told by an overconscious idiot who has no understanding of multiplicities as formations of the unconscious. A wolf is a hole..."

Deleuze & Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

My partner saw this play, “PUSH: Black Mamas Changing the Culture of Birth”, about disparities in medical care for black mothers a few months ago, found it super compelling, and has been putting a lot of work into getting it to come to OHSU.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/push-black-mamas-changing-the-culture-of-birth-tickets-1989693929103

It’s at #OHSU but open to all, if you or someone in your life is in the #pdx area and interested in issues around racial justice in healthcare.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Greenness.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/pruning-the-greenery-to-find-more-green/

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

me, logs into the linked in site for a moment just to see what's going on there

WE ARE REFOUNDING AND RE-IMAGINING OURSELVES AS AN AI FIRST INNOVATION COMPANY

ok what did you make before

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO ACCOMPANIED US ON THIS JOURNEY

ok but what did you

AS OF NOW WE ARE SUNSETTING OUR PREVIOUS LINES OF BUSINESS

ok but what did

WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO OUR CUSTOMERS

ok but

WHO SUPPORTED US ALL THIS TIME

ok bu

BUT WE ARE WINDING DOWN OUR CREPE MAKING TEAM

hold up what

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amd@snac.amd.im wrote:

@bkuhn@copyleft.org This is your fifth(+) post in this thread defending the position that users of LLMs shouldn’t be shunned.

My point is this: Anything you have said or done in the past and anything you do in the future will now be viewed in the light of you arguing that we should be inclusive of those that support and use products made in wholly unethical ways by wholly unethical people.

You could have stayed quiet, you chose (and continue to choose) to side with some of the absolute worst people on this planet.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm giving away a signed (and if you want, personalized) advance reader copy of Monsters of Ohio, and you can win it! Go to the link below to find out how to enter the contest, and then leave your entry (there, not here)! You have two days to enter! Good luck!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/19/win-an-signed-personalized-arc-of-monsters-of-ohio/

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary

via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ua4e7n/sankey%5Fdiagram%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fdemocratic%5Fgubernatorial/)

#USpol #USpolitics #MEgov

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

My boss has become an LLM proxy. A problem comes in -- a ticket, an internal report, whatever -- and he copy-and-pastes it into whichever model he's using this week, and then copy-and-pastes the result into Slack. I don't think he reads any of it.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

crush this wherever you encounter it. crime numbers have not appreciably changed - what changed is that SF got a mayor that billionaires were happy with, and the doomloop narrative machine was wound down. rents are up 20% in the last year, homelessness is still really bad it's just been relocated 10 feet outside this guy's line of sight. tech is a scourge, SF is not a progressive or leftist city, it's been ravaged by decades of neoliberalism.

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f800gecko@mastodon.online ("Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧") wrote:

Still a fave...

#mastodon #fediverse #comics

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

highwaaaaaaay toooo theeeeee daaaaata zoooone

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ted_h ("Ted.h") wrote:

@cwebber Write to the senator of the relevant committee. They are being pressured, but their role is to be the sober second look, and there's still a chance they push back. They've already had the first reading (see https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/45-1/c-22) so hurry.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An old potato storage that now stores tires.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #grass #decay #rust

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

That's because conservatives think they can stop anytime they want, they just choose NOT to, you see

https://www.psypost.org/conservatives-view-addictive-products-more-favorably-than-liberals-study-finds/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Trillions invested, entire industries destroyed, our information ecosystem fundamentally compromised, and all we accomplished was, at best, a 0-5% bump in overall economic productivity.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces

All that scaling it up accomplishes is waste. LLM true believers are effectively arguing their tech accomplishes free energy when the costs mean it’s effectively the opposite

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
emilyenough@pix.lgbt ("Emily 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Spotted this turkey vulture circling overhead this morning while I was picking up the yard from the recent storms. Sorry little dude, I’m not dead yet.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“tokenalysis and john henry - Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"”

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/tokenalysis-and-john-henry

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Damselfly@blackqueer.life ("Not Your Damsel") wrote:

Look I love visibility and the appreciation of history but I have yet to see white people engage with slavery or Jim Crow or the Civil Rights movement without it being mis-centered.

It’s all a story about the inevitable outcome of justice in this fair and beautiful country and Black folk become magical negroes in this story of white American’s success.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈") wrote:

#trans #transgender

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Happy day!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/happy-juneteenth-2/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Knoebel wrote:

Bobby Prince the composer of the original 'Doom' soundtrack has passed away at the age of 81.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bobby-prince-the-composer-of-dooms-iconic-soundtrack-has-died-at-81/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We have many reasons to be proud to be from Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/minnesota-pride/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H31bBU4EL44

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

If you need to teach #smolweb to your AI tools such as #claude or #mistral #vibe I share a Smolweb skill definition you can install directly.

I know that many smolweb enthusiasts refuse to use this sort of tool, but if it helps to ensure there are more smolweb sites, I think it’s a good idea to share this.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Juneteenth represents the possibility of us all freeing ourselves from this ugly beginning:

‘The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free”. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.

The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes, and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

By order of Major General Granger.

F.W. Emery, [signed]’

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

Happy #Juneteenth! On this day we celebrate freedom and our commitment to the fight against racism. Our struggles were born from the same roots. Our struggles are one. Su lucha es mi lucha. Together we are more powerful.