Bell
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she/her, Torontonian, philosophy student, dork
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Holy shit lmaooo
elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Holy shit lmaooo
Random half-baked thought: Way more things are dark-pattern inconsistent-reward Skinner-box traps than we tend to frame as such. There are dark-pattern jobs. There are dark-pattern relationships. There are dark-pattern habits of thought and feeling.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Random half-baked thought: Way more things are dark-pattern inconsistent-reward Skinner-box traps than we tend to frame as such. There are dark-pattern jobs. There are dark-pattern relationships. There are dark-pattern habits of thought and feeling.
Disorienting transition moment of the day: Being told with a straight face that I've got the same approximate vocal range as Idina Menzel and that it's not, in fact, unrealistic to work towards singing Defying Gravity or Let It Go.
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Disorienting transition moment of the day: Being told with a straight face that I've got the same approximate vocal range as Idina Menzel and that it's not, in fact, unrealistic to work towards singing Defying Gravity or Let It Go.
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I used to think charisma builds in RPGs were unrealistic.
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I used to think charisma builds in RPGs were unrealistic.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
For those who've perished on the climb. For those still climbing. And for those who, for now, can only cling to the cliffside till the storm subsides.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For those who've perished on the climb. For those still climbing. And for those who, for now, can only cling to the cliffside till the storm subsides.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
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Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
One loves to be the victim of racist violence on a Sunday afternoon. Or, well, the would-be victim? I don't know how to classify it when someone tries to hit you but can't.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One loves to be the victim of racist violence on a Sunday afternoon. Or, well, the would-be victim? I don't know how to classify it when someone tries to hit you but can't.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
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You guys ever read The Giving Tree and think some people saw that story from the perspective of the boy and others saw it from the perspective of the tree and that explains a lot of things and we should run a study on that or something?
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
You guys ever read The Giving Tree and think some people saw that story from the perspective of the boy and others saw it from the perspective of the tree and that explains a lot of things and we should run a study on that or something?
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The video promoting this thing has convinced me that it's the most evil product to ever exist
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The video promoting this thing has convinced me that it's the most evil product to ever exist
I'm almost surprised it took this long.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
People Can Text with Jesus on A Controversial New App. How Does It Work?
Yes, there's now an app for that.
www.today.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm almost surprised it took this long.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
It's a beautiful day.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's a beautiful day.
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Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
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So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Abraham: “God, you can’t wipe out an entire city if there’s even a few innocents, I will literally fight you!”
Senate Democrats: “Well, I guess if it doesn’t impact me, I’m okay with all the poor dying.”
Senate Democrats: “Well, I guess if it doesn’t impact me, I’m okay with all the poor dying.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Abraham: “God, you can’t wipe out an entire city if there’s even a few innocents, I will literally fight you!”
Senate Democrats: “Well, I guess if it doesn’t impact me, I’m okay with all the poor dying.”
Senate Democrats: “Well, I guess if it doesn’t impact me, I’m okay with all the poor dying.”
I'm reminded of that poem. I'm going to butcher it, but the gist was...
"Meet me in the middle", said the unreasonable party as they continued to walk away.
"We shall meet them in the middle", said the giant rube as they continued to follow after.
"Meet me in the middle", said the unreasonable party as they continued to walk away.
"We shall meet them in the middle", said the giant rube as they continued to follow after.
i can’t quite explain it but “standing up as opposition doesn’t work” doesn’t seem like good optics for an opposition party to have
SENATOR ANGUS KING: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power."
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm reminded of that poem. I'm going to butcher it, but the gist was...
"Meet me in the middle", said the unreasonable party as they continued to walk away.
"We shall meet them in the middle", said the giant rube as they continued to follow after.
"Meet me in the middle", said the unreasonable party as they continued to walk away.
"We shall meet them in the middle", said the giant rube as they continued to follow after.
Thirteen years ago, I got made fun of by a significant portion of my law school class for worrying about an unaccountable Supreme Court doing democratically illegitimate things.
I've already taken a miserable, hate-to-be-right victory lap about this, but I think it's about time for another.
I've already taken a miserable, hate-to-be-right victory lap about this, but I think it's about time for another.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Thirteen years ago, I got made fun of by a significant portion of my law school class for worrying about an unaccountable Supreme Court doing democratically illegitimate things.
I've already taken a miserable, hate-to-be-right victory lap about this, but I think it's about time for another.
I've already taken a miserable, hate-to-be-right victory lap about this, but I think it's about time for another.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
"I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me."
"(nervous quack)"
"(nervous quack)"
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me."
"(nervous quack)"
"(nervous quack)"
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.
I reckon almost everyone quietly knows their own shame-avoidance tendencies skew their thinking and decision-making. I think this makes shame-avoidance itself a phantasm / anti-meme / self-keeping secret. It's very hard to get up the will to study it because to study it is to confront one's own.
These people are viscerally terrified of the possibility that someone else might be able to make them feel bad about something because they find that a deeply disempowering sensation, and I think a lot of their specific political stances are actually *downstream* of this.
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I reckon almost everyone quietly knows their own shame-avoidance tendencies skew their thinking and decision-making. I think this makes shame-avoidance itself a phantasm / anti-meme / self-keeping secret. It's very hard to get up the will to study it because to study it is to confront one's own.