hi there!

do you see this shit my liege

"Gaza is now a different colour from space. It's a different texture."

🦀 ⬅️🆑🆎

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🦜⬅️🅱️🆔

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love is a drug and babygirl, im a faggot

addict. what the fuck

get kissed idiot

It nearly fuckeing, chrastmas *Does the harlam shake with all my favorite anime and videogame, characters*

I still think one of the funniest experiences of my life was watching American Psycho with my sister and afterwards we both went "okay. Lets do something more lighthearted now" and put on the dubbed version of Howl's Moving Castle and we both lost our minds when we heard Howl start talking

why are we not talking about this.

I'm your nightmare.

I'm your nightmare.

you dont get to say that here you cant do that.

i love the 😌 and 😔 emojis so much because they convey such specific emotions, but also those emotions are absolutely not "relieved" and "pensive"

need to start describing more things as “now within my grasp” and having “fallen into my clutches”

I wonder how many ppl with vaginas deal with vaginal atrophy without being on HRT but don't know and were given shitty little dismissals or incorrect diagnoses from their doctors

Bc I learned what it was from trans men and knew that's what I was dealing with, had a doctor check and say "oh yeah" and put me on oral estrogen which fucked me up, the correct treatment is vaginal estrogen cream or suppositories

IF YOU HAVE PCOS OR ANY OTHER HORMONE BASED DX and you have a vagina and penetration HURTS, please ask your doctor about vaginal atrophy. This is not something I was ever told about with any of my diagnoses but it's affected me since puberty. I use cream now a couple times a week and penetration doesn't hurt anymore and I don't struggle with dryness. This is a common symptom of having higher T in your body whether it's natural or due to HRT. This does not only affect post menopausal people or trans people on HRT.

Also atrophy can become bad enough that you deal with chronic pain constantly without penetration. Pain anywhere isn't normal and pain in your vagina at all is certainly abnormal.

[ID: tweet from user natalie @ american_sicko, reading, "My Verified Egirl Mother Just Served Us Nothing ... Purr!" - each letter is capitalized.

follow-up tweet reading, "Nobody understands my art," with the planets of the solar system - (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) - relabeled with the words of the original tweet. My Verified Egirl Mother Just Served Us Nothing ... Purr!]

I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.

Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)

But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.

I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:

I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)

They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.

So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.

(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)

Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.

There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.

This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.

SIGNAL. BOOST.

i miss when AI generated content was bad. when the standard was like ''i asked AI to show me a picture of a dog'' and the result is just some furry flesh amalgam with 3 paws and a mis-centered face. when people asked AI to write it scripts for tv shows and it gave nonsequeter nonsense. genuinely got more value out of that because at least it was funny.

i dont want a realistic AI girlfriend trained on human conversations i want AIs like cleverbot that gets stuck in a logic loop and insists my name is steve for no reason. i miss her.

The Homestuck Analyzer’s Paradox: was this well written or badly written or was this badly written on purpose and was it well written badly written on purpose or was it badly written well written badly written on purpose.

Girl stop calling that the atmosphussy that's literally a hole in the ozone layer this is serious

nobody gets me like they get me