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A young 13y/o girl got expelled because she punched another student that had used AI to make nudes of her.

THE VICTIM GOT EXPELLED. FOR CHILD PORN BEING MADE OF HER BY ANOTHER STUDENT USING AI LIKE GROK.

this shit IS harmful and thinking it isn't makes you part of the problem.

Girl, 13, expelled for hitting classmate who made a deepfake porn image of her, lawyers say

A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers...

www.wsaw.com

January 6, 2026 at 10:18 PM

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@roodypatooti.bsky.social

Wish I could internalize this

brightwanderer
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage.

The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.

October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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Distribute Aid

@distributeaid.org

There are 770,000 Venezuelan refugees in the US. Let's be sure to protect them too.

Here's a list of refugee resettlement orgs by state that you can volunteer with or donate to:

rcusa.org/resources/st...

Here's a map highlighting resettlement clusters: