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phazel.bsky.social
The name stays for as long as it's true. Urban hermit, queer crip, knitter, tech ghost, ND, parent, gay married, any pronouns. 🦓🧑🏻‍🦼👩🏻‍💻📚🧶🏴 Previously @phazelic on Twitter.
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Sometimes I wonder if the real goal of AI is to make sure we never know how wonderful it is to make something beautiful or to conquer something difficult

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

The coverage on the Greens' losses is frustrating. As a Greens voter, being "obstructionist" is literally what I want them to do. I want them to make Labor to go the extra mile. If I wanted the things Labor would do on their own, I would vote Labor first. But I don't. I want the better thing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

if my character has to undergo any more development it will die

submitted 455 days ago • 5 comments

"Why aren't young people protesting?" Consider—because they all got their shit rocked by police and prosecutors last year trying to stop a genocide, and you abandoned them.

submitted 9 days ago • 164 comments

Sat in the park today while my wife and baby played on the equipment and just cried and cried and cried. I don’t know what to do. My career is over and it never got started. I don’t know if we’ll have a home soon. I did everything right and I’m still a failure anyway. There’s nothing left to try.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Eugenics isn’t just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it’s about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication.” Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti-blackness from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

The place I was hoping to work at just promoted the guy who doesn't write tests to senior. If I work there I'll have to keep my mouth shut and do bad quality work or else get fired, just like everywhere else. I'm so tired.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

love when people get caught using LLMs for some important analytical task "to save time" and then they're like "don't worry we rigorously vetted the results." man....you either saved time OR rigorously vetted the results, but i promise you didn't do both

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Stop calling them vaccine skeptics. They are child death enthusiasts. They are murderers. Disinformationmongers. Evil. They aren’t critical. There’s nothing real there. Not even kernels of truth. They grasp at the subjectivity of the human experience and manufacture crises to enable real ones.

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

Australian COVID-19 cases update: Reported Cases seem to be rising again at the national level and in most states. Nationally, the Reff (case momentum) for Australia has been in the range of 1.4 to 1.6 lately. #COVID19 #Australia 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

submitted 5 days ago • 320 comments

Modern "tech" is full of dudes who watched the Instagram/Paypal/iPhone/etc. boats sail without them and make their inventors/investors disgustingly wealthy, and refuse to believe there's no one, final ship, just for them.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I can no longer fake enthusiasm about spending all my time with people who hate me.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Companies: How dare you have a career plan for 5 years in the future which does not involve working for us. Your hypothetical lack of commitment is unacceptable so we will not hire you. Also companies: Your 6 month probation period is almost up so you're fired for no reason.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I used to have this shitty belief system that older generations got slowly worse at all forms of technology due to aging. For my generation, it’s going to be withdrawal in disgust at how stupid, corrupt, and exploitative everything has become.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment