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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 43m

update: my phone has never been so QUIET

make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

trying a new thing where every time an app sends me a notification I disable its notifications

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 21h

if you need AI to tell you to message someone "nice to meet you", there are several hundred other reasons why you're not succeeding with women

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 21h

"bitch u really thought" --ancient chronic pain proverb

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 21h

I had all these plans to get some work done this weekend, but my joints had other plans 🙃🙃🙃

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2d

"support at a potentially vulnerable stage in a trans person's journey"

The feigned concern for the imaginary trans people they invented in their heads, because they never listen to any real trans people 😒

What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 2d

I'm 24 years old. I have a mortgage and own my own home, and I have a full time job.

But under Cass' recommendations Levy, I wouldn't be trusted with hormones if he decides to consider it.

Shows how ridiculous it all is.

These new figures come in the wake of 2024's Cass Review of gender services for children, which recommended the creation of a 'follow-through service' for 17 to 25-year-olds. Cass said this would help "ensure continuity of care and support at a potentially vulnerable stage in a trans person's journey" and "allow clinical and research follow-up data to be collected". This sparked fears that access to healthcare, such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) would be restricted or even banned for under-25s -

QueerAF

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

trying a new thing where every time an app sends me a notification I disable its notifications

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

right???

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

I've considered it

make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

even the algorithms think I'm a huge nerd

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

"hey aaminah, what kinds of targeted ads do you get" well,

screenshot of a promoted reddit post from my timeline. it's an ad for audible, and the book featured is "sextus empiricus: outlines of phyrronism - the classic account of skepticism". the cover illustration is a classical-looking marble statue.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

People don't tell people to scram enough these days

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 2d

in an effort to distract myself from The Horrors, I played hades 2 for too many hours, and now my joints are taking revenge by inflicting new and different horrors 🙃

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 4d

of the dozen or so people I love most in the universe, I likely would never have met almost all of them if not for social media.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 4d

I can basically guarantee that I will do this

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 4d

I plan to drink until that is the case!

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 4d

we're doing self-care* tonight, lads

*drinking until we no longer have emotions

selfie taken in a dimly-lit bar. I'm smiling wryly at the camera. there's a full glass with a straw in it on the bar before me.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

if you want us out of sight and out of mind, fine - but the only two ways to achieve that are to exterminate us all (impossible, can't stop more of us being born) or to stop trying to exterminate us altogether (actually way less effort in the long run). it is literally not up to us. it's up to you.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

I have to care about trans justice because my survival is contingent on it. trust me when I say that I also wish I could care as little as cis people do! but that option is not available to me.

I didn't make my identity political. my identity was made political.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot opt out of being affected by violence against trans people. the choice lies entirely with the people perpetrating that violence. I do not have a say. short of detransition or death, I remain subject to the genocidal whim of a society that wants to exterminate me.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

I would love nothing more than never to have to think about trans rights ever again, actually! it would make me so happy to never mention my identity to anyone except my doctor and people I want to tell. but as long as trans people remain targets of violence and hatred, I don't get a choice.

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

"I care about trans people, but there are bigger issues!" well, I sure am glad you get to opt out of caring, but trans people don't 🙃

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

hmmm. do you think it's even remotely possible that while *your* individual gender identity isn't one of *your* priorities, it might be slightly more pressing a concern for people who can't opt out of being targeted on the basis of theirs?

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 5d

Fuck Gavin Newsom. No I'm not voting for him.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

I don't appear to be on any cluster b blocklists and I am honestly very offended now that I know this is a thing

brb scaring the normies by writing honestly and forthrightly about my attachments to the people in my life

make my jay, pvnc. @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 5d

functionally identical politics but with a veneer of civility/respectability that allows them to maintain a position of moral distance from the harm being inflicted, which is much more difficult when the other side so brazenly says all the quiet parts out loud!

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