#LinkedIN

[thewritehag]

"Toxic Positivity" is another phrase that gets bandied about so much that the whole of us forget what shapes our tongues need to make to form the right sounds.

Toxic positivity isn't smiling through tears or stiffing that upper lip, it's not hearing "the sun will come out tomorrow" on the old warped record player in your head or making jokes after a tragedy. At worst, those things are naivety and at best they're Hope.

If you want to see Toxic Positivity, capitalized and omnipresent, just to see what it looks like, go to any job recruiters' page on LinkedIn. It's a landscape made of rictus smiles and worn down manifestations; each profile is a shiny altar to a god that won't acknowledge it's been abandoned.

[mouthtapedguy]

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

[jay-brd]

im going to start posting on tumblr like it’s linkedin

I’m so excited to announce that I’ve completed my second full watch through of Fantasy High! I’m incredibly grateful to the cast and crew of Dimension 20 and to those who have supported me personally along the way. It’s been an incredible honor to partake in this journey, and I can’t wait to embark on the next step—rewatching the Unsleeping City.

[correctopinionhaver]

[thegreenhalf]

They're going crazy on LinkedIn

[mysharona1987]

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

[isaacsapphire]

God, at least the responses all find this creepy and inappropriate.

[acorviart]

opened that stupid website recently for Employment Reasons™ . took psychic damage. made a sticker instead

[shop] - May 3 (2025) shop update

[trans-ralsei]

senpai?!!!!!?!?!!!?

[kindahoping4forever]

Calum officially beating the unemployed allegations

[dduane]

Okay, now I'm cranky

Not that I even do more than glance at LinkedIn every few weeks or so, as I have friends there. But THIS is beyond the pale. (Or even the Pale, which is another story. Is this actually a real person based in Limerick?? [I have my doubts.) But if so, they should be ashamed.)

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Hi [(theoretical) person whose name I've obscured],

I'm not at all sure why material from your employer is winding up on my feed.

I am a NY Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter with pushing fifty years' experience in traditional publishing and other media created by actual living, breathing beings out of genuine human experience. AI-based prompt "writing" is utterly antithetical to everything I do in my work... especially as it is founded on machine-based excreta derived from routines trained using material illicitly sourced, without our permission, from myself and thousands of my colleagues.

Assuming that you actually exist except as a prompt-based construct yourself (which is by no means certain), please do us both a kindness and remove me immediately from whatever list caused the system to recommend me to you—as if there is a worse possible fit for our two schools of thought anywhere in this solar system, I can't imagine where that might be. (Somewhere in the Oort Cloud, possibly. No other possibilities immediately suggest themselves.)

Meanwhile, I wish you well in your further endeavours (doing you the possibly unwarranted courtesy of assuming that you're real). ANY possible further endeavours that have nothing to do with this horrific and deeply unethical area of employment, which cannot conceivably do anything in even the short term but damage your (theoretically) immortal soul... not to mention the ecology of our (theoretically) shared planet. 

With the best possible regards under the circumstances, and hopes for your eventual (if not swift) rehabilitation,

Diane Duane

PS: Please try to find an avatar that looks less like it was created by AI.

And also: please say to your heartless and conscienceless employers, on my behalf, "FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON."

[defira85]

I realise Tumblr is hardly the market for this, but for those of us who do use LinkedIn, they've just enabled Generative AI as an Opt-Out setting. It will automatically be set to On unless you go in and turn the setting off yourself

If you're lucky enough to be in the EU, Switzerland or the UK, it should be set to Off by default

Everyone else cosplaying as a grown-up business person like me, go change your settings. If you don't have the email warning you of the change, it's in Settings on your profile under Data Privacy

[kropotkindersurprise]

If tumblr shuts down come follow me on linkedin. We can like eachothers posts about what ansarallah shooting down another american reaper drone taught us about #leadership and #teamwork.

[strawlessandbraless]

The last LinkedIn post from UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson before he was targeted by The Claims Adjuster. The comment section is worth a look 👀

[annieversary3]

hi guys i made a linkedin account, can fellow Lesbianism University alumni follow me? ^-^

im very businesscore and super productivity oriented, i post very insightful business related content :3