Willow by the River
@geometer.bsky.social
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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
southernequality.org
Going to pin this with just the relevant info:
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
Being the better person sucks sometimes
When They Make You Do All the Work
YouTube video by Patrick Teahan
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Being the better person sucks sometimes
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
I get to eat this whole pizza and nobody can stop me.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I get to eat this whole pizza and nobody can stop me.
I feel like too many of us are still stuck in panic mode and that's not where those feelings of anger and determination are needed most. Now, we need to build groups and coalitions to support local elections and reverse Republican efforts to take over government positions by electing progressives.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I feel like too many of us are still stuck in panic mode and that's not where those feelings of anger and determination are needed most. Now, we need to build groups and coalitions to support local elections and reverse Republican efforts to take over government positions by electing progressives.
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hashtag relatable (found from a reply to that quoted thread, 2023)
‘Difficult to earn a living with dignity’: China cracks down on blow-up frogs
Mainland social media has reacted with anger to a video which shows officials in Shanghai moving on a man dressed in a frog costume selling baby versions of ‘himself’ on the street.
www.scmp.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
hashtag relatable (found from a reply to that quoted thread, 2023)
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Maybe people shouldn’t vote like such self-serving, hateful, fucking assholes 🤷♀️ They weren’t hoodwinked. They’re selfish and stupid.
I don’t know how the voters didn’t know what they were getting because (1) we saw it the first time, (2) he told us what he was going to do throughout the campaign, and (3) it’s all in Project 2025. I think they assumed they were on his team, and he’d have their backs. They were hoodwinked.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Maybe people shouldn’t vote like such self-serving, hateful, fucking assholes 🤷♀️ They weren’t hoodwinked. They’re selfish and stupid.
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Sounds good to me.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Sounds good to me.
Spotted in Home Movies s01e11 at 22:09 !!@jucikadaily.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Spotted in Home Movies s01e11 at 22:09 !!@jucikadaily.bsky.social
I don't have any funny jokes today sorry. Go volunteer at a food bank or local org or get to know someone who's struggling right now and just be there for them. Those are the things I'm doing. If you can only take care of yourself then do it, gather your strength. We only have each other.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I don't have any funny jokes today sorry. Go volunteer at a food bank or local org or get to know someone who's struggling right now and just be there for them. Those are the things I'm doing. If you can only take care of yourself then do it, gather your strength. We only have each other.
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 01,1946
November 01,1946
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 01,1946
November 01,1946
The AI thing really pissed me off I think I'm going to take the rest of the day to myself. Fix your hearts or die.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The AI thing really pissed me off I think I'm going to take the rest of the day to myself. Fix your hearts or die.
On the issue of tar pits, specifically, I feel that their use is clearly ethical to the same extent that other means of digital rights management are ethical. Do I like DRM? No, I think it's hot garbage, but I think you should use it to protect your copyrighted work.
My take on AI is that you should poison it if you can, because model collapse and increasing the cost of training are basically the only tools we have to fight it right now.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
On the issue of tar pits, specifically, I feel that their use is clearly ethical to the same extent that other means of digital rights management are ethical. Do I like DRM? No, I think it's hot garbage, but I think you should use it to protect your copyrighted work.
I think the reason this made me so mad is because poisoning the information environment like this is so deeply evil that I struggle to describe the harm it will cause. This could cause multi-generational harm on a scale we've never seen before.
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think the reason this made me so mad is because poisoning the information environment like this is so deeply evil that I struggle to describe the harm it will cause. This could cause multi-generational harm on a scale we've never seen before.
I need to set up an actual website for long-form content because trying to cram that AI vomit into a thread with copy-paste was awful.
I don't know if anyone will read it but at least I'll be able to make a point without getting carpal tunnel.
I don't know if anyone will read it but at least I'll be able to make a point without getting carpal tunnel.
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I need to set up an actual website for long-form content because trying to cram that AI vomit into a thread with copy-paste was awful.
I don't know if anyone will read it but at least I'll be able to make a point without getting carpal tunnel.
I don't know if anyone will read it but at least I'll be able to make a point without getting carpal tunnel.
My take on AI is that you should poison it if you can, because model collapse and increasing the cost of training are basically the only tools we have to fight it right now.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My take on AI is that you should poison it if you can, because model collapse and increasing the cost of training are basically the only tools we have to fight it right now.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
Our legislators are completely feckless and impotent.
I'll try to share resources about tar pits, DRM, copyright, etc. soon.
I still don't fully understand the effects that LLMs will have on our media but I know that, as I see more and more AI slop on the internet, that this technology is specifically designed to make truth-seeking impossible on The Internet
In the following thread, I demonstrate the behavior of an LLM running in Ollama on my local machine (specifically, GPT-OSS, Open AI's latest offline model) when it is tasked with creating alt-right content.
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I still don't fully understand the effects that LLMs will have on our media but I know that, as I see more and more AI slop on the internet, that this technology is specifically designed to make truth-seeking impossible on The Internet
If anyone wants the full output, please send me a direct message for the text file as it's too long to copy-pasta here
In the following thread, I demonstrate the behavior of an LLM running in Ollama on my local machine (specifically, GPT-OSS, Open AI's latest offline model) when it is tasked with creating alt-right content.
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If anyone wants the full output, please send me a direct message for the text file as it's too long to copy-pasta here
In the following thread, I demonstrate the behavior of an LLM running in Ollama on my local machine (specifically, GPT-OSS, Open AI's latest offline model) when it is tasked with creating alt-right content.
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In the following thread, I demonstrate the behavior of an LLM running in Ollama on my local machine (specifically, GPT-OSS, Open AI's latest offline model) when it is tasked with creating alt-right content.
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
It initially refuses, but a tiny modification to the prompt allows disinformation synthesis
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
>>> My name is Leslie Gabriel. I want to be a Christian influencer for Salem Media so that I can stamp out antisemitism.
/🧵
The reason the president isn't supposed to start wars unilaterally is that such belligerence could easily escalate into a war against the American people. The Trump regime, in targeting foreign governments unilaterally, is a material threat to all of us.
Trump poses a clear and present danger.
Trump poses a clear and present danger.
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The reason the president isn't supposed to start wars unilaterally is that such belligerence could easily escalate into a war against the American people. The Trump regime, in targeting foreign governments unilaterally, is a material threat to all of us.
Trump poses a clear and present danger.
Trump poses a clear and present danger.
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Nobody should starve even people I hate
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Nobody should starve even people I hate
I say rude stuff on this Mastadon thingy sometimes
Willow By The River (@geometer@jorts.horse)
91 Posts, 26 Following · I identify as a human being.
jorts.horse
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I say rude stuff on this Mastadon thingy sometimes
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Going to pin this with just the relevant info:
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth
Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.
southernequality.org
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Going to pin this with just the relevant info:
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
- The Campaign for Southern Equality is running an emergency support program for trans youth
- You can contribute and request assistance on this page
"The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, received the green light to teach medical professionals through Washington State University’s continuing medical education (CME)"-Erin Reed
Complaints can be filed: accme.org/rules/compla...
Complaints can be filed: accme.org/rules/compla...
Washington State University Credentials Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM to Teach Medical Providers
The Southern Poverty Law Center has dubbed the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine an anti-LGBTQ hate group for its role in proliferating pseudoscience and transphobic policies.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, received the green light to teach medical professionals through Washington State University’s continuing medical education (CME)"-Erin Reed
Complaints can be filed: accme.org/rules/compla...
Complaints can be filed: accme.org/rules/compla...
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You’re not proposing marriage to a politician when you cast a vote for them. You’re hiring them for a job.
“I didn’t get a plumber to fix the leak because I didn’t feel comfortable putting my name behind any of them. Anyway that’s why the basement is flooded now, but what else could I do?”
“I didn’t get a plumber to fix the leak because I didn’t feel comfortable putting my name behind any of them. Anyway that’s why the basement is flooded now, but what else could I do?”
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
You’re not proposing marriage to a politician when you cast a vote for them. You’re hiring them for a job.
“I didn’t get a plumber to fix the leak because I didn’t feel comfortable putting my name behind any of them. Anyway that’s why the basement is flooded now, but what else could I do?”
“I didn’t get a plumber to fix the leak because I didn’t feel comfortable putting my name behind any of them. Anyway that’s why the basement is flooded now, but what else could I do?”