Will Whirl
@whirlwill.bsky.social
call me will.
he/him, butch 🦆 HRT saved my life
y2k survivor
tom homan wants me dead and all i got is this sick ass wikipedia hat
yell at me if i put someone fucked up on your feed
he/him, butch 🦆 HRT saved my life
y2k survivor
tom homan wants me dead and all i got is this sick ass wikipedia hat
yell at me if i put someone fucked up on your feed
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they tanked search on purpose so people spent more time looking at ads (this is documented )
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
they tanked search on purpose so people spent more time looking at ads (this is documented )
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Being able to search engine properly used to be a simple skill, now we wade through sponsored shit and trash to get nowhere except annoyed at the enshittification
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Being able to search engine properly used to be a simple skill, now we wade through sponsored shit and trash to get nowhere except annoyed at the enshittification
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There might be no better example of the war coming home than a CIA trained teen death squad recruit getting asylum in the US and then shooting a bunch of soldiers who were deployed to DC for no reason other than Kabuki Security Theater
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a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe
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when contemplating whether to participate in news cycle chatter* it's good to ask "might I more fruitfully spend my keystrokes reminding people that wolves are cool and badass"
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
when contemplating whether to participate in news cycle chatter* it's good to ask "might I more fruitfully spend my keystrokes reminding people that wolves are cool and badass"
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
*not gonna call it "discourse" I'm reclaiming discourse for undergrad semioticians
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All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!
Fuck that noise, do it even if you're old. I learned tattooing at 43. I learned editing and publishing at 46.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
There is always still time to do or learn new stuff.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All of this. Write. Make. Create. Try. KEEP TRYING. Do new things. BE new things. Reinvent yourself every second Tuesday. Reinvent Tuesdays. Change your *name* to Tuesday. There is no age limit on becoming more than you once were, loving more than you once could, or being happier and more fulfilled!
i love the funky little marxists in my phone & the things they talk about. i get very frustrated with their disdain for anarchists esp bc most of em live in a city where anarchists get a LOT of shit done, but theyre all genuinely dedicated to struggle & outreach and i fw that
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i love the funky little marxists in my phone & the things they talk about. i get very frustrated with their disdain for anarchists esp bc most of em live in a city where anarchists get a LOT of shit done, but theyre all genuinely dedicated to struggle & outreach and i fw that
the other day my professor described the us military "training exercises" he participated in in iraq where they pulled random people out of their homes in the middle of the night, no explanation. he said, "when trump says he wants to run training exercises in cities, this is what he means."
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
the other day my professor described the us military "training exercises" he participated in in iraq where they pulled random people out of their homes in the middle of the night, no explanation. he said, "when trump says he wants to run training exercises in cities, this is what he means."
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In case you needed some back up for your dad who still doesn't understand how you aren't living your best life making $100K this Thanksgiving.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In case you needed some back up for your dad who still doesn't understand how you aren't living your best life making $100K this Thanksgiving.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
more men should wear fun socks in porn
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
more men should wear fun socks in porn
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A dem majority doesn’t have a goal of STOPPING these raids all together???
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A dem majority doesn’t have a goal of STOPPING these raids all together???
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if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
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I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
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Back in 2015 there was a weird news thing about a guy whose hobby was going out in the woods to record nature sounds for youtube videos, who accidentally recorded what was definitely 100% a murder
Halfway through the soothing ambient night sounds you hear voices, footsteps, a gunshot, shoveling etc
Halfway through the soothing ambient night sounds you hear voices, footsteps, a gunshot, shoveling etc
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Back in 2015 there was a weird news thing about a guy whose hobby was going out in the woods to record nature sounds for youtube videos, who accidentally recorded what was definitely 100% a murder
Halfway through the soothing ambient night sounds you hear voices, footsteps, a gunshot, shoveling etc
Halfway through the soothing ambient night sounds you hear voices, footsteps, a gunshot, shoveling etc
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tobyfox being friends with all these japanese game developers is funny because it's like the japanese game industry adopted this little dog they found wandering around boston
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
tobyfox being friends with all these japanese game developers is funny because it's like the japanese game industry adopted this little dog they found wandering around boston
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Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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it's good to join together to go "lmaooooo" sometimes actually
moments of positive morale and communal enjoyment are worth it for their own sake
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
it's good to join together to go "lmaooooo" sometimes actually
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I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I’m gonna implore everyone here to take the W if only to experience the feeling again.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was: