✨gemsky✨
@gemvolsky.bsky.social
✧˖°.⁺‧ awake ˖⁺‧₊˚♡
continually seeking
truth & empathy
AuDHD, queer, disabled
& healing from trauma
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continually seeking
truth & empathy
AuDHD, queer, disabled
& healing from trauma
lift.bio/gemsky
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a long conversation between two speakers (bold and unformatted respectively), formatted in the style of an old text-based adventure game, that reads as follows:
There is a werewolf in the town.
Is that bad?
There is a werewolf in the town.
I'll take that as a yes.
How do you suggest we resolve this?
Well, what exactly is the issue?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, okay, I heard you the first time. Is the problem that he is sometimes a wolf, or that he is sometimes a man?
A werewolf is a werewolf. How do you suggest we resolve this?
Work with me here.
The problem is that there is a werewolf.
What do you expect? Do you want me to un-make him? There are many men in the town, and a good number of domesticated wolves. What is the problem? That he was first a man, or first a wolf? Does that even matter? Why is the werewolf an issue?
He was first a man, and now he is a werewolf. There is a werewolf in the town.
Has he actually done anything wrong?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Was this forced upon him? Or did he choose to become a werewolf?
A werewolf is a werewolf.
I see. I think I understand now.
How do you suggest we resolve this problem?
You do not want there to be a werewolf in your town. As I see it there are three options. You could force him to pick between wolf and man, an agonizing divorce from his true being, simply so you do not have a werewolf in your town. You could force him from the town, which may come to be a blessing in the long run- for him, not you. Or you could allow him to integrate and accept that, in our society of men and wolves, there also live werewolves.
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, there is. Isn't that beautiful?
How do you suggest we resolve this?
I am beginning to believe that the werewolf is not the problem here.
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it's impossible to get good at something new without sucking at it first
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 AM
it's impossible to get good at something new without sucking at it first
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it is sad that people move on so fast from halloween, you could look out your window today and see someone being bitten by frankenstein or someone being flung to pieces by a strong muscle witch or some other beautiful halloween moment and no one would even care to listen to you about what you saw.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
it is sad that people move on so fast from halloween, you could look out your window today and see someone being bitten by frankenstein or someone being flung to pieces by a strong muscle witch or some other beautiful halloween moment and no one would even care to listen to you about what you saw.
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I do think to myself now and then that I would probably make more money than I know what to do with if I could convince myself to become a bigger piece of shit
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I do think to myself now and then that I would probably make more money than I know what to do with if I could convince myself to become a bigger piece of shit
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I need to post ruder
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I need to post ruder
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Me, too, Blanche, me, too.
February 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Me, too, Blanche, me, too.
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"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.
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“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Moving on from toxicity is more than a one time "decision." It's not hard because we're "holding on;" it's hard because our nervous system has been trained to stay focused on threats.
Real "moving on" involves honoring & accounting for that threat, while repeatedly refocusing.
Real "moving on" involves honoring & accounting for that threat, while repeatedly refocusing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Moving on from toxicity is more than a one time "decision." It's not hard because we're "holding on;" it's hard because our nervous system has been trained to stay focused on threats.
Real "moving on" involves honoring & accounting for that threat, while repeatedly refocusing.
Real "moving on" involves honoring & accounting for that threat, while repeatedly refocusing.
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got all dolled up to go out to drinks with my brilliant and beautiful wife
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
got all dolled up to go out to drinks with my brilliant and beautiful wife
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This makes sense if you seen Predator Badlands
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November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This makes sense if you seen Predator Badlands
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Predator Badlands
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Predator Badlands
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Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass
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What a gift he was.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What a gift he was.
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If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
If I ran Jersey Mike's, I'd hire that guy who threw a Subways sandwich at the cop. He could say if it had been a Jersey Mike's sub he would have held on to it. The ad writes itself.
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Breaking: Judge orders SNAP benefits funded by tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Breaking: Judge orders SNAP benefits funded by tomorrow.
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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.
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90% of the worst queer discourse is driven by people either in the closet or otherwise terrified about what committing to their authentic selves means for their lives, and while we should be patient and loving to these folks we need to stop taking them seriously
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
90% of the worst queer discourse is driven by people either in the closet or otherwise terrified about what committing to their authentic selves means for their lives, and while we should be patient and loving to these folks we need to stop taking them seriously
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Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
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August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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