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You May Whistle For Me
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Productivity blogger; webcomics fan. Maybe I will write a cookbook! Maybe I won't! Could be I've revealed my doin's at https://thefinalfivepercent.wordpress.com/ In these times of breaking, I hope to repair. She/her/sandwich
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Getting back into gear is almost always a bumpy process, especially with an abundance of external stressors, such as what Reader's Digest might call Life In These United States.

At least I have a daily online jigsaw puzzle in these trying times.
Day 308 (11/4) Worklog – Insomnia Is the Scourge of Functionality
Shoving a big project into days that already were out of balance does not increase stability. The work I pushed through on the 3rd put me out of sorts to the point that I couldn’t sleep, so I…
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse
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you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:

1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
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People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.
Today I learned, in a bad way, that the tilde ( ~ ) is a wild card character in Excel.

To be clear, "a bad way" is I chose it as a marker for sorting that I could easily delete later, but the text filter didn't see them, and then when I tried to get rid of them it went, "Oh, delete all?"

Such fun!
Yes, on that guess we are both playing the numbers.
You could reblog your own comments, so it's nothing new.

OR you could get a gimmick! This is a place for that. Themed posts are a different kind of engagement but totally count as real on Bsky. We could all us use more lifting up.

Got a cat, by any chance? It IS Caturday.
That's probably what flagged the person who said they checked your posts. It's easier to see one's self-presentation in a single feed rather than clicking through to comments on other people's feeds, and needing to assimilate each context - and it requires an extra click to even see those replies.
Even a real smarty can aggressively delude himself about who his friends are, if he wants to badly enough.
It read to me as a general "how do I not?"

I don't think you are sealioning, but that question specifically is exactly the kind of thing sealions do say. I am just an irrepressible optimist.

Your timeline pings as fakey - 2K posts, only 3 posts on your feed. Repost and quote post sometimes to fix.
So! To avoid looking like a sealion:

~ Neutral questions out of nowhere are a yellow flag. Engage in the conversation!

~ Think about your reason for asking. Is this a good moment for detached curiosity?

~ Are you generally in agreement with the person you're asking? Say so in your framing!
"Just asking questions" is a commonly used derailing tactic. A questioning framework provides "benefit of the doubt." Calling out sealions stems from the erosion of doubt.

If your innocent question would also be asked by a bad faith actor, your innocence is indistinguishable from bad faith.
It is context dependent. What is the purpose of the conversation, and of your curiosity?

If you spectate rather than participate, asking questions only for self-edification, it's not a give and take; you're only taking - sometimes ok, but sealioning is the exact same action with a different agenda.
I was trying for a redirect angle, as in "it's not so much 'rah rah rah girly' as 'rah rah rah emotional homework.'

That skips the part where cheerleading and feels labor are hard to mesh at all. It might be possible from an inner circle but not something a stranger is likely to randomly manage.
*nodnod* Totally agree. I could have expressed better. I was fighting the character limit.

Successful end points of an iterative process are "made it through this round and will be able to face the next one when it comes." No satisfying narrative there, and it's not a good target for boosterism.
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I've been bedridden for the last 10 months for medical reasons, and I'm still about 1000$ behind on being able to pay for my car and storage. I'm sorry to keep asking, but if you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help.

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The support needed for the situation is "Go go go, you can do that processing!" Said again and again, because it's a rinse and repeat, not a one and done.

Your body of work shows that you've laid the emotional groundwork, so I believe you CAN do it (the processing).

Your comics are so good!
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Anderson Cooper, normalizing an authoritarian: "Shouldn't voters obey in advance? Isn't not obeying in advance a hassle? Aren't I, as an extremely wealthy scion, the wrong person for this job? But isn't my gotcha question sparkly?"
In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.