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I don't want to be all "leave Twitter, ditch Meta, stop using Amazon" etc because all of this is much easier to say than do, but I do believe the next couple of years are going to require a deliberate disintanglement from huge chunks of the internet for your personal wellbeing.

Google Search, no matter how many lawsuits they lose, is never going to go back to what it used to be. Amazon is not going to crack down on the scam products on their website in any meaningful way. Spotify is going to continue bankrupting artists. I like Bluesky and I've been a creature of Tumblr for, uh, over a decade, but I don't have faith in those places to stay put.

Building better spaces means finding ways to connect both in your local community and with the online communities that matter to do. Talk to your local bookshop owners, librarians, community organizers. (YouTuber F.D. Signifier has a google doc of suggestions to look into.) Get plugged into the issues happening in your town and look into ways to help. Find ways to communicate with your online pals that doesn't rely on Discord or a social media platform (email still works!)

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The urge to write is strong but the ability to focus isn't quite there yet

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I love dandelions!

*puts a dandelion in your hair*

Reblog to put a dandelion in prev's hair

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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the first rule of writing is that there are no rules. the second rule is to save your work every 5 minutes because technology is a fickle god.

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Reblog to give prev a fucking break holy shit y’all

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Quote of the day

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you don’t need to wait for “perfect conditions” to start really living your life

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

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💖🥰💖

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

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my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

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Apparently there’s a website called Public Square where conservatives register their businesses to identify themselves as “anti-woke” so other conservatives can find them. I just thought I would share in case anyone wanted to put their zip code in and learn which local businesses to avoid.

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A boy can dream, can't he?

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googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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It's only too late if you're dead, and you are not dead.