Trans, Latina, autistic, plural, & queer. Weird & loving it.
Web: www.ellisarcwolf.com | Masto: eldritch.cafe/@EllisArcwolf
Fundraising for urgent safety move! (see 📌 post)
I'm Ellis Arcwolf (she/her; 🐺), or Joan if ya nasty. 🤪😹
I'm a 42-year-old queer, trans, neurodivergent Latina author of speculative fiction, currently living in Iowa. 🏳️⚧️♾️🌽
My mission: To create worlds where we can explore, heal, and find ourselves. 🚀⭐❤️🩹
"Cassandra's Abiding Woe: Climate Change, Social Media, AI, and Why No One Believes Doomsayers Even After the Doom Has Happened"
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"Cassandra's Abiding Woe: Climate Change, Social Media, AI, and Why No One Believes Doomsayers Even After the Doom Has Happened"
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It is a specific kind of horror to beg for digital scraps from the place that broke you, just so you can afford to exist in the place that is supposed to heal you.
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It is a specific kind of horror to beg for digital scraps from the place that broke you, just so you can afford to exist in the place that is supposed to heal you.
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I called the board yesterday. The initial news was devastating: I was informed that following the review, I would typically have to wait until the Jan 6th meeting.
I broke. I sobbed on the line. The weight of another month was too much.
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I called the board yesterday. The initial news was devastating: I was informed that following the review, I would typically have to wait until the Jan 6th meeting.
I broke. I sobbed on the line. The weight of another month was too much.
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I'm calling the board this morning. I'm not letting the machine idle; I'm shaking the handle.
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I'm calling the board this morning. I'm not letting the machine idle; I'm shaking the handle.
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A critique of Sysmedicalism and the Theory of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) as applied to non-traumagenic plurality. This essay explores the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness...
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A critique of Sysmedicalism and the Theory of Structural Dissociation (TSDP) as applied to non-traumagenic plurality. This essay explores the "No True Scotsman" fallacy, the Hard Problem of Consciousness...
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I'm too discouraged to try the laundromat again today. I don't know if I'll have the spoons to try again tomorrow. I've been trying to do laundry for four days now.
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I'm too discouraged to try the laundromat again today. I don't know if I'll have the spoons to try again tomorrow. I've been trying to do laundry for four days now.
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I can't do fucking laundry because the machine puts a $25 hold on your card to do $10 of wash, and I only have $20.
So nevermind. Wasted weekend. Fuck my life.
Please help. I am begging because I have been made desperate.
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I can't do fucking laundry because the machine puts a $25 hold on your card to do $10 of wash, and I only have $20.
So nevermind. Wasted weekend. Fuck my life.
Please help. I am begging because I have been made desperate.
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Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I bay.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— After Dylan Thomas
Version by Ellis Arcwolf
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Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I bay.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— After Dylan Thomas
Version by Ellis Arcwolf
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I didn't like what was being said about me, so I asked for it to stop.
They didn't stop.
I asked again, this time with a little offense.
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I didn't like what was being said about me, so I asked for it to stop.
They didn't stop.
I asked again, this time with a little offense.
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It asks: can a consciousness fail to integrate without trauma? TSDP doesn't say no. It just gives a shrug. "I dunno, man... Why, what you got?"
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It asks: can a consciousness fail to integrate without trauma? TSDP doesn't say no. It just gives a shrug. "I dunno, man... Why, what you got?"
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I wish I could do more than refresh that licensing page. But I’m stuck. I ran out of laundry money helping a housemate who’s helped me.
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I wish I could do more than refresh that licensing page. But I’m stuck. I ran out of laundry money helping a housemate who’s helped me.
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This is the "Golden Key." Once active, I’m clear to accept offers from the healthcare systems I’m targeting. But there is one strategic hurdle left.
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This is the "Golden Key." Once active, I’m clear to accept offers from the healthcare systems I’m targeting. But there is one strategic hurdle left.
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Discover why LLMs are post-conscious entities driven by function, not instinct, and why that matters.
It's an older article, but my Substack is finally up! I'll get my site updated ASAP.
#AI #TechPhilosophy #WritingCommunity #PostConsciousness
Discover why LLMs are post-conscious entities driven by function, not instinct, and why that matters.
It's an older article, but my Substack is finally up! I'll get my site updated ASAP.
#AI #TechPhilosophy #WritingCommunity #PostConsciousness
I'm just $10 under what I need for the driver's license because I did not realize my phone bill came out today. The stress really makes it hard to keep track of things.
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I'm just $10 under what I need for the driver's license because I did not realize my phone bill came out today. The stress really makes it hard to keep track of things.
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A few days ago, something really bad happened, and it made me fall apart. Figuratively and literally, as I broke apart into my constituent holons (i.e., something that is simultaneously a complete whole and a constituent part of a larger system).
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A few days ago, something really bad happened, and it made me fall apart. Figuratively and literally, as I broke apart into my constituent holons (i.e., something that is simultaneously a complete whole and a constituent part of a larger system).
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AAAAAH! THANK YOU, WONDERFUL HEROES OF MINE! 🚙💨💙
#TransJoy #MutualAid #Pittsburgh #GoodNews #CommunityLove #Progress
AAAAAH! THANK YOU, WONDERFUL HEROES OF MINE! 🚙💨💙
#TransJoy #MutualAid #Pittsburgh #GoodNews #CommunityLove #Progress
> Highly emotionally unstable, self-castigating... (1/4)
> Highly emotionally unstable, self-castigating... (1/4)
The only thing keeping me from that is this license. It's a shitshow, but it's almost over. 💙
www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emer...
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The only thing keeping me from that is this license. It's a shitshow, but it's almost over. 💙
www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emer...
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GoFundMe is too slow. I don't want to be homeless a second longer than necessary. I'm doing this today; the only question is how long it takes to scrape the cash together.
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GoFundMe is too slow. I don't want to be homeless a second longer than necessary. I'm doing this today; the only question is how long it takes to scrape the cash together.
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I need ~$45 for the license fee + printing docs. I could get SO much done tomorrow with a little help!
CashApp: cash.app/$CeruleanArc
Venmo: venmo.com/joanburgos
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I need ~$45 for the license fee + printing docs. I could get SO much done tomorrow with a little help!
CashApp: cash.app/$CeruleanArc
Venmo: venmo.com/joanburgos
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Right now? Regulating after getting locked out in the cold w/ Riko. Jumpy & need caffeine (my ADHD sleep aid). 😫☠️
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Right now? Regulating after getting locked out in the cold w/ Riko. Jumpy & need caffeine (my ADHD sleep aid). 😫☠️
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Since I'm not allowed to speak to the only people who can fix it, I filed a complaint with the CFPB.
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Since I'm not allowed to speak to the only people who can fix it, I filed a complaint with the CFPB.
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The reasoning? "Other participants could possibly have allergies."
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The reasoning? "Other participants could possibly have allergies."
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