weird when you say 'the state of israel should not be allowed to murder and decimate palestinians specifically in gaza' and someone interprets it as 'israeli people shouldn't be allowed to live anywhere'

Wrote my first mostly complete short story tonight after a hiatus of ~8 years of not writing really anything creative. Feels pretty great to take that first step to getting back into writing fiction 😊

I’m mostly just mad that there’s no way this spam message will deliver what its Lovecraftian subject line promises

Don’t even know what to do. No job seems to fit and I’m always out of place. I don’t understand how people do it. It feels like I’ll never be able to be good at a job for my entire life. I don’t know how to end this cycle but I don’t know how to keep going.

It’s pretty crazy that The Gambler in the titular Kenny Rogers song knew about the Game Boy decades before it existed. Was he a vengeful spirit from the future?

@potatoslav.bsky.social hiiiiiii!!!!!!

me: sorry I'm late, I broke down on the way here

boss: did they tow your car?

me: car?

I think it’s so funny that there are all these guides about how to make Twitter look and behave like it used to. Like going back to a restaurant that has changed its menu and has a mountain of health violations, but people are still like “how can I make this almost like I’m eating a Big Mac again?”

I’m adrift. I don’t know what to do, and it feels like I am insignificant and forgotten. Like I don’t exist. I can’t make friends or keep them, can’t make connections or I screw it up. I’m unemployed and lonely. I guess this is a cry for help. Nothing I’ve tried to make things better has helped.

People comparing the X rebrand to Facebook or Google’s rebrands are missing the critical bit that those companies had tons of tentacles in other companies out there, and the name of their flagship products didn’t change. Twitter/X has just itself, and it just destroyed any of its familiarity

Maybe social media was always dumb. Maybe it always will be.

Maybe I’ll just vent here. I’m so fucking depressed and don’t even know who I can talk to about my problems without alienating or upsetting the few people in real life I could talk to. I feel like the small amount of grasp I had on things is slipping.

Will I use this app? Hard to say, but having exclusivity is what I crave.