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While I will try to do this myself, as noted, I am a silly creature, and sometimes I err.
I care for you all more than you understand, and it is my fault that you do not know this. I am sorry for this. I love you all.
fin.
I care for you all more than you understand, and it is my fault that you do not know this. I am sorry for this. I love you all.
fin.
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
While I will try to do this myself, as noted, I am a silly creature, and sometimes I err.
I care for you all more than you understand, and it is my fault that you do not know this. I am sorry for this. I love you all.
fin.
I care for you all more than you understand, and it is my fault that you do not know this. I am sorry for this. I love you all.
fin.
So I shall simply say this without any promises. I will and am trying to be better.
This post/thread is part of this.
If we have not talked in a while, and you wish to as I do, please take this as an invitation to reach out.
7/8
This post/thread is part of this.
If we have not talked in a while, and you wish to as I do, please take this as an invitation to reach out.
7/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
So I shall simply say this without any promises. I will and am trying to be better.
This post/thread is part of this.
If we have not talked in a while, and you wish to as I do, please take this as an invitation to reach out.
7/8
This post/thread is part of this.
If we have not talked in a while, and you wish to as I do, please take this as an invitation to reach out.
7/8
Being a silly creature, I become more avoidant as I view myself as undeserving of the relationship, and so the cycle perpetuates.
I am not one for New Years Resolutions. I think they are too easily made and broken.
6/8
I am not one for New Years Resolutions. I think they are too easily made and broken.
6/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Being a silly creature, I become more avoidant as I view myself as undeserving of the relationship, and so the cycle perpetuates.
I am not one for New Years Resolutions. I think they are too easily made and broken.
6/8
I am not one for New Years Resolutions. I think they are too easily made and broken.
6/8
If we have not talked in a while, it's not because I do not care for you (I do, and deeply) but because I feel deep shame and unworthiness at being a distant, absent, and non-communicative friend.
5/8
5/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
If we have not talked in a while, it's not because I do not care for you (I do, and deeply) but because I feel deep shame and unworthiness at being a distant, absent, and non-communicative friend.
5/8
5/8
Thank you for being people I care for.
I love you all, and perhaps (definitely) do not say it as much as I should and certainly not nearly as much as you deserve. I often feel anxiety and shame when trying to interact with people I have not in a long time.
4/8
I love you all, and perhaps (definitely) do not say it as much as I should and certainly not nearly as much as you deserve. I often feel anxiety and shame when trying to interact with people I have not in a long time.
4/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
Thank you for being people I care for.
I love you all, and perhaps (definitely) do not say it as much as I should and certainly not nearly as much as you deserve. I often feel anxiety and shame when trying to interact with people I have not in a long time.
4/8
I love you all, and perhaps (definitely) do not say it as much as I should and certainly not nearly as much as you deserve. I often feel anxiety and shame when trying to interact with people I have not in a long time.
4/8
I am in tears (of gratitude) writing this, which will likely come as a shock to those who know me well. And this too is precious to me, as are all of you, and I thank you for your presence in my life that has allowed me to experience such wonders in my lifetimes.
3/8
3/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I am in tears (of gratitude) writing this, which will likely come as a shock to those who know me well. And this too is precious to me, as are all of you, and I thank you for your presence in my life that has allowed me to experience such wonders in my lifetimes.
3/8
3/8
I don't have great emotional valence, and I'm not great at expressing it. I only have guesses as to why. The strong love and gratitude and care I have for all of you is therefore all the more dear to me despite and because of this.
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2/8
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I don't have great emotional valence, and I'm not great at expressing it. I only have guesses as to why. The strong love and gratitude and care I have for all of you is therefore all the more dear to me despite and because of this.
2/8
2/8
sorry, but I cannot support this. the United Kingdom should be excluded from the list and type-in only so unsuspecting people don't have to get exposed.
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
sorry, but I cannot support this. the United Kingdom should be excluded from the list and type-in only so unsuspecting people don't have to get exposed.
Transport, communication, medicine it was all made for you and everyone else to benefit from. Even government, though it’s gone astray lately.
I think that it’s all of our duties to make it better and ensure that future generations recoil at how crude and cruel the comforts and balms of today were.
I think that it’s all of our duties to make it better and ensure that future generations recoil at how crude and cruel the comforts and balms of today were.
September 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Transport, communication, medicine it was all made for you and everyone else to benefit from. Even government, though it’s gone astray lately.
I think that it’s all of our duties to make it better and ensure that future generations recoil at how crude and cruel the comforts and balms of today were.
I think that it’s all of our duties to make it better and ensure that future generations recoil at how crude and cruel the comforts and balms of today were.
Things are good, and with effort they can be improved. I sincerely hope that one day people will look back at this first quarter of the 21st century and recoil in horror in the same way as we might at life in the 1300s.
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Things are good, and with effort they can be improved. I sincerely hope that one day people will look back at this first quarter of the 21st century and recoil in horror in the same way as we might at life in the 1300s.
I think it’s media painting a biased picture and stoking hate. Governance and hatred have gotten worse, but I do genuinely believe now is one of the greatest times to be alive. The old world was horrible beyond any of our comprehensions. Things are genuinely good now, and can be better.
September 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I think it’s media painting a biased picture and stoking hate. Governance and hatred have gotten worse, but I do genuinely believe now is one of the greatest times to be alive. The old world was horrible beyond any of our comprehensions. Things are genuinely good now, and can be better.
Reverting this behavior won't be a victory. It will not change the ideology behind Grok. This is simply the most open about its values that the AI will ever be.
July 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reverting this behavior won't be a victory. It will not change the ideology behind Grok. This is simply the most open about its values that the AI will ever be.
Serious factual issues with the article and the studies it quotes.
tl;dr: assigns all impacts of domestic violence to strangulation (head/bodily-trauma, etc.), conflates choking with strangulation, sexual choking study doesn't measure brain trauma (likely not significant)
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tl;dr: assigns all impacts of domestic violence to strangulation (head/bodily-trauma, etc.), conflates choking with strangulation, sexual choking study doesn't measure brain trauma (likely not significant)
bsky.app/profile/beta...
The article is conflating issues.
1) the study it gives for stroke risk is associated with domestic violence, which coincides with blows to head, both of which increase stroke risk. it's hard to disentangle these, and strong head-blows are rare in kink for obvious reasons.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
1) the study it gives for stroke risk is associated with domestic violence, which coincides with blows to head, both of which increase stroke risk. it's hard to disentangle these, and strong head-blows are rare in kink for obvious reasons.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
July 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Serious factual issues with the article and the studies it quotes.
tl;dr: assigns all impacts of domestic violence to strangulation (head/bodily-trauma, etc.), conflates choking with strangulation, sexual choking study doesn't measure brain trauma (likely not significant)
bsky.app/profile/beta...
tl;dr: assigns all impacts of domestic violence to strangulation (head/bodily-trauma, etc.), conflates choking with strangulation, sexual choking study doesn't measure brain trauma (likely not significant)
bsky.app/profile/beta...
5b) choking can be harmful, but it's a matter of degrees. it's harmful when done as part of domestic violence, but this is because I hold the controversial opinion that DV is bad and harmful.
there's no data at the moment that shows that sexual choking is harmful. let's not forget that
there's no data at the moment that shows that sexual choking is harmful. let's not forget that
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
5b) choking can be harmful, but it's a matter of degrees. it's harmful when done as part of domestic violence, but this is because I hold the controversial opinion that DV is bad and harmful.
there's no data at the moment that shows that sexual choking is harmful. let's not forget that
there's no data at the moment that shows that sexual choking is harmful. let's not forget that
5a) all of this is then parroted by journalists, psychologists (UK - not doctors, no degree in medicine), and various orgs.
domestic abuse is absolutely a problem and does cause harm, but let's wait for studies that actually measure things properly before throwing the baby out with bath water.
domestic abuse is absolutely a problem and does cause harm, but let's wait for studies that actually measure things properly before throwing the baby out with bath water.
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
5a) all of this is then parroted by journalists, psychologists (UK - not doctors, no degree in medicine), and various orgs.
domestic abuse is absolutely a problem and does cause harm, but let's wait for studies that actually measure things properly before throwing the baby out with bath water.
domestic abuse is absolutely a problem and does cause harm, but let's wait for studies that actually measure things properly before throwing the baby out with bath water.
4h) this is similar to saying:
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating vegetables, going on runs, singing the national anthem, and petting dogs increases your cancer risk.
Technically true, but it's misleading.
But where smoking does increase cancer risk, S100B is not necessarily a TBI biomarker
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating vegetables, going on runs, singing the national anthem, and petting dogs increases your cancer risk.
Technically true, but it's misleading.
But where smoking does increase cancer risk, S100B is not necessarily a TBI biomarker
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4h) this is similar to saying:
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating vegetables, going on runs, singing the national anthem, and petting dogs increases your cancer risk.
Technically true, but it's misleading.
But where smoking does increase cancer risk, S100B is not necessarily a TBI biomarker
Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, eating vegetables, going on runs, singing the national anthem, and petting dogs increases your cancer risk.
Technically true, but it's misleading.
But where smoking does increase cancer risk, S100B is not necessarily a TBI biomarker
4g) what the other numbers are for those 4 biomarkers, so it's impossible to tell if they're raised too, since for all we know, the effect that makes the multivariate significant might be entirely down to S100B, and that is indeed my suspicion here.
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4g) what the other numbers are for those 4 biomarkers, so it's impossible to tell if they're raised too, since for all we know, the effect that makes the multivariate significant might be entirely down to S100B, and that is indeed my suspicion here.
4f) decided to lump in S100B, a biomarker that's not always, and often not, associated with TBI and stroke, with 4 others that are (neurofilament light, tau, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1, and glial fibrillary acidic protein). this is made worse by the fact that the authors don't even publish
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4f) decided to lump in S100B, a biomarker that's not always, and often not, associated with TBI and stroke, with 4 others that are (neurofilament light, tau, ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1, and glial fibrillary acidic protein). this is made worse by the fact that the authors don't even publish
4e) regardless, you are a population who is likely heavily involved in kink (which is associated with a lot of non-stroke-associated injury which still raises S100B) and comparing them against a population that is not, and then saying that it increases the risk of stroke simply because you've
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4e) regardless, you are a population who is likely heavily involved in kink (which is associated with a lot of non-stroke-associated injury which still raises S100B) and comparing them against a population that is not, and then saying that it increases the risk of stroke simply because you've
4d) furthermore, the study focuses on people who get choked in a sexual situations at least 4 times a month against people who don't get choked as often or at all. which means less sex, less exertion, and probably a worse control, though that's admittedly a minor issue.
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4d) furthermore, the study focuses on people who get choked in a sexual situations at least 4 times a month against people who don't get choked as often or at all. which means less sex, less exertion, and probably a worse control, though that's admittedly a minor issue.
4c) first off, sex, and especially kink, which people who engage in choking are more likely to be more immersed in, in general, can often be quite exerting, which would increase S100B. likewise, people who like choking are more likely to like being spanked, which means an increase in S100B
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4c) first off, sex, and especially kink, which people who engage in choking are more likely to be more immersed in, in general, can often be quite exerting, which would increase S100B. likewise, people who like choking are more likely to like being spanked, which means an increase in S100B
4b) the issue with it is that of the 5 single variates, only 1 result is significant on its own. that is for S100B. It is indeed a marker associated with brain injury, but it's also associated with muscular injury too (such as from exercise) faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Serum Protein S100B, a Biomarker for Head Injury or Skeletal Muscle Damage?
Serum Protein S100B (S100B) is a calcium-binding protein that is found in astrocyte cells of the central nervous system. Past research has shown that levels of S100B peak hours within a traumatic br.....
faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
4b) the issue with it is that of the 5 single variates, only 1 result is significant on its own. that is for S100B. It is indeed a marker associated with brain injury, but it's also associated with muscular injury too (such as from exercise) faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
3c) a contributing factor.
4a) which brings us to the last issue which is the last quoted study. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/ it's an okay-ish study, but it has several flaws. the first is that it's a multivariate study on 5 markers associated with brain trauma and traumatic brain injury
4a) which brings us to the last issue which is the last quoted study. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/ it's an okay-ish study, but it has several flaws. the first is that it's a multivariate study on 5 markers associated with brain trauma and traumatic brain injury
Association of blood biomarkers for neural injury with recent, frequent exposure to partnered sexual strangulation in young adult women - PubMed
Young adult women with a history of recent, frequent experience being strangled by a sexual partner exhibited higher serum S100B, an astrocyte-enriched protein, compared to their biomarkers, meriting ...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
3c) a contributing factor.
4a) which brings us to the last issue which is the last quoted study. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/ it's an okay-ish study, but it has several flaws. the first is that it's a multivariate study on 5 markers associated with brain trauma and traumatic brain injury
4a) which brings us to the last issue which is the last quoted study. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40062485/ it's an okay-ish study, but it has several flaws. the first is that it's a multivariate study on 5 markers associated with brain trauma and traumatic brain injury
3b) or blows to other locations which can cause internal bruising. all of this can lead to increased stroke risk. but just because women who experience strangulation as a part of domestic assault have a significantly higher stroke risk doesn't mean that strangulation is the sole cause of that, just
July 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
3b) or blows to other locations which can cause internal bruising. all of this can lead to increased stroke risk. but just because women who experience strangulation as a part of domestic assault have a significantly higher stroke risk doesn't mean that strangulation is the sole cause of that, just