@fedilore this is such a bizarre argument for Ro to make. if you know anything about tourette's, you know that tics aren't at all like a preventable car accident. they're more like a chronic cough or sneeze - something that the person with tourette's can sometimes, temporarily, unreliably, prevent, and then only with practice.

but hey, if it's anything that disabled people need, it's more ableds insisting that we're Not Trying Hard Enough

I wish I could even tell where these spirals come from. usually it's something innocuous and my brain jumps to "people are now talking behind my back about how I'm evil."

CPTSD: Never A Dull Moment [tm]

it's been well over 24 hours, can my brain stop being mean to me now plz & ty

@patchuun people just openly fantasizing about forcibly drugging, isolating, and/or beating up people with tourette's

[checks the current drama on Bluesky]

"is it okay to brutalize disabled people? discuss."

abled people stop being disappointing challenge 2026

Have you seen the new chat app? It's totally decentralized. It's literally peer to peer. It's spammed with CSAM. It's literally got day-zero security exploits. You can probably log on without it erroring out. Dude it's got a standard from 1998. It's a vibe coded original. It's not on iOS. You can't use it on Android. It barely works on Firefox. You can maybe log onto it on Linux right now. Go to the login page. Dive into our single centralized server. You can download the latest open beta from Github. It's on Github. Github has it for you. Github has it for you.

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@YKantRachelRead/116048686479174976

a mere nine days after this post, and guess who called it

@raymaccarthy @infobeautiful @ourworldindata actually, all of these issues can be boiled down to lack of health care, overwork, economic precarity, environmental hazards out of our control, and a society that's pretty much abandoned disabled and chronically ill people to die.

stop blaming individual choices, start blaming institutions

@roughling the difference in my view is that in the bubble scenario, the market will inevitably be flooded with cheap PC parts once the bubble pops and liquidation of all those unused silicon wafers occurs

fyi, the fact that HDDs and RAM are selling out and increasing in price across the board isn't some nefarious plot to drive people to hardware-as-a-service.

the real reason is simultaneously more banal and more ridiculous: hardware and AI companies are racing to squeeze every last cent out of the AI bubble before it pops.

when considering situations like this, y'all need to think like greedy, opportunistic investors, not people trying to make a long-term business plan.

@steff totally valid the only reason why I'm bridged is to keep up with a handful of folks who refuse to migrate to fedi

actively enabling fascism and banning marginalized people I can stomach so long as I get to post into the void, but god forbid something be demanded of me, personally

seeing people on Bluesky, the website that verified ICE's official account and has been banning Palestinians and trans women for no good reason, talking about how everyone should delete Discord sure is um

a thing

@steff judging by how my life went otherwise, I'd have probably been the awkward nerdy girl in grade school-turned-goth slut in college

@steff

The fact is the worst abusers are the ones who know how to manipulate community optics to serve their own narratives. And it’s these people we have to be most wary of.

yes, this! the ones I'm personally most wary of are the Missing Stairs - the people for whom others know what they've done, but they're shielded from consequences because they're a Pillar of the Community and have friends with similar amounts of social clout.

@TransTina I see where you're coming from. and also, I'm skeptical of the idea that we're being too hard on people committing abuse when most abuse goes unreported, and when the bulk of abuse that is reported gets handwaved away, swept under the rug, and/or treated as a resolvable conflict in which the victim shares some responsibility.

I've been abused multiple times in my life, and only come out publicly about one of my abusers - and nobody believed me enough to make any difference.

I feel like a lot of the sentiment otherwise comes from people's fear of being unjustly labeled as abusers, which is a valid fear in queer communities where pop-psycology terms are thrown around without regard for the implications. and also, that's something requiring a cultural change that has nothing to do with abuse or abusers except in a very tangential sense.

@TransTina yep, and also, like I said in another reply, abuse isn't a resolvable thing except for protecting others from the abuser

@angelastella @mira I wish more people realized that "abuser" doesn't mean "person who's rude or mean on the internet," but instead someone who's done certain types of interpersonal domestic violence to someone else

@mira yep, I was going to add something like: "the flip side of 'conflict is not abuse' is, 'abuse is not conflict.'" I've been on the wrong side of people trying to treat abuse as a conflict to be resolved, rather than as violence being done to me, many times throughout my life.

to be clear, not publicly shit-talking others, and back-channeling conversations, is a great approach for resolving conflict.

it's, let's say, not so great when someone is an abuser. dealing with abusers doesn't involve resolving conflict so much as protecting others from the abuser. and the latter requires open communication.