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gregfreed.bsky.social
Therapist, writer, nobody's dad. Austin, TX.
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Used DuoLingo a couple of years ago and it was a bad way to learn a language; started again recently and it's like a real-time Black Mirror episode/maybe something devised by Roko's Basilisk. Theory: the defining trait of the internet is that it is where things get worse faster than anywhere else.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

The "snapchatting you my war plans" thing takes me right back to that sweet, naive moment when we thought "grab 'em by the pussy" was going to rid us of this meddlesome priest. Let's not go back to hoping actions have consequences. It sucks too much when it turns out they don't, at all.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Hm. So. I have been giving this thing a shot, commenting some, posting some. The idea was to feel engaged with some communities I'm interested in (writers, shrinks, Texans...) It is not really doing that, the same way Twitter didn't. It just feels like talking while other people talk. I might bail!

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Social media is/are doing an interesting job of tearing apart my understanding of my own interest in culture. Things that look like casual conversations I would have about actors or films look really fucking stupid when I see them as posts some bot is sharing with ten million people.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Now I have finished Lost and can go back to just being confused by actual life.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

I don't retweet or whatever it's called here because it replicates the part of Twitter I found most gross and baffling, conversation as commodity and medium for instantly evaporating fame. If I made small talk IRL mostly by quoting people and shoving articles at people, who would want to talk to me?

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments