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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Hi frens! This is where I’m putting my old Twitter archive since that place has gone to hell. Everything from @StrivingAlly will be here, except the stuff that BlueArk can’t transfer. I love you all. Stay safe. Protect each other. Trans rights are human rights. We aren’t done til we’re all free. 💜

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

So many people have no idea how bad shit is about to get in the USA.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Fuck. I’m so sorry, American friends. I don’t know what to say.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Can someone explain to me, in a way that fucking makes sense, why Neil “The Game” Strauss is now seen as respectable by literally ANYBODY? I have conscious/gentle parenting insta accounts reposting that creepy rape apologist asshole into my feed. What the fuck. PUAs get fucked.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

I still remember when the younger adults in the Trump dynasty faced criticism and scrutiny over their involvement in government matters without any accountability, and there was WEEKS of pterodactyl screeching from the RW commentators about “GOING AFTER THE KIDS!!!*!*!*”

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

The fact I am howling into the social media void about my mental health tonight instead of talking to someone in my life - because there’s nobody I feel okay doing that with - seems to back up my brainweasels on this one.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Intellectually I know that objectively speaking, “nobody likes me and I’m actually alone and nobody cares” is not true. Like there is ever-present, tangible evidence to the contrary. But sometimes when I’m down and things are rough it *feels* very true. And easy to believe.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

Fascinating to see the split of opinion on my timeline about whether the NABJ appearance was a good thing or a bad thing.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Downloading my archive today. Deleting tomorrow. This place has gone full fash.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Slightly behind my deadline. Gonna pull the plug tomorrow. Please come find me at bsky, friends. 💜

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Nuking this account in seven days (13/7/24). There’s just too many things about this place that turn my stomach. I can’t continue to be a part of it. Same handle at bsky. Come find me. 💗🫶🏼

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Republicans will yell about “tyranny!” when the First Lady encourages kids to eat more vegetables, then outright declare that the President can commit unlimited crimes with zero accountability as long as he yells “I’M THE PRESIDENT” while performing them.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Decades watching Republicans work the refs til everyone in media is scared to point out their blatant misconduct, of setting up the court system to make sure they chosen venues have outsized influence to shape the USA, of Democrats too timid to throw elbows… And here we are.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Strongmen play by the rules until they can get away with not playing by the rules anymore, and then they just do whatever the fuck they want because nobody can stop them. And legally speaking, SCOTUS just cut Trump a blank cheque.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Trump. Is. Going. To. Abolish. Term. Limits.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

If you’re one of the smug douches saying something along the lines of “but with these powers, the next Dem President could-“ Just stop. Stop right there. If you think there is going to BE another Dem President, you don’t understand the stakes Trump has been playing for.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Also someone can have been involved in things that are good - like exposing info in the public interest - and *still do horrible things*. A ton of lefties don’t seem to have a handle on the idea that JA might have both done necessary work AND also committed SA.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Shit seeing how many people are celebrating Julian Assange’s freedom is kinda making me not want to be online today. If you listen to anybody who was at Wikileaks before he made it All About Him, he’s basically the Elom Musc of the org - entitled, self-important and a figurehead

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

So yes, you freaky lickers at the boot of Roko’s Basilisk, we DO hate you for using the thing that’s going to replace creative, inspired artistic works - replace them with an endless sea of literary grey goo, perpetual derivative mash-ups & remixes of things human brains created.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

The LLM tech is nowhere near the point where it could write something compelling or memorable. But because neither the hedge fund predators nor the executive suite assholes understand or value the difference between barely readable slop and artistic brilliance, they don’t care.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Because for all their talk of democratisation and what this will do for everyday folks, the customers for this scam aren’t you and me. They’re the suits who hire and manage the people who are currently doing these tasks. And they’re being told AI will cull their employee budgets.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Almost every *actual* use case that has been implemented is basically some variant of “stop paying qualified, trained, experienced, skilled people to do a thing, fire them all and make someone on a lower wage finesse the garbage this black box outputs”.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

They try to paint it like we’re regressive luddites, mourning an old tradition out of sentimentality and fear of the future unknown. Candle-makers scorning the electric bulb. No we’re observers of what happens when VC cons biz execs into cutting personnel “costs” with a gimmick.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

The AI cultists think this is an own but YES, this is 100% unironically what we are saying. AI cannot write something good enough to take the place of a human writer. But it writes basically parseable text that could be used to fool a c-suite douche into canning writers.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

That’s only ten words, Chaya, you need four more.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Bad-faith “DEBATE ME” griefers have always been a part of the internet, and I usually roll my eyes. But the fact that now they can’t even be bothered using their own brains to argue with you pisses me off. If you’re gonna be a douche, at least don’t be a lazy douche.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

God this is pathetic. These fuckers are even outsourcing their sealioning to a glorified autocorrect now. “Fact checked” with a fucking chatbot. Fuck me sideways. Back in my day trolls and assholes took pride in crafting their own antagonistic bullshit.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

What the fuck? What’s happened to Linda Tirado?

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Hard to believe they actually went with a dumber option than “Likes are now Florps 🙃”

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Wait are you seriously telling me that one of the GOP’s current talking points is “well, Jesus was a criminal too!” ?

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

It could make for an interesting study to see how many of the columnists who were supportive of the “Arab Spring” liberation movements are now clucking their tongues at college students who are vocally objecting to Palestine being wiped off the map in a war of aggression.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Okay what the fuck is going on with the onion. I feel like there’s so many layers of memetic irony and reactions to reactions that I have no idea what the original news actually was.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Can someone ELI5 what’s going on with GG2: Electric Boogaloo? I’m completely out of the loop, and I’m guessing it’s not AbOuT eThIcS iN GaMeS JoUrNaLiSm this time, since that entire sector basically doesn’t exist anymore.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

What the fuck circle of Groundhog Day purgatory have I landed in to see “comicsgate” trending again? Is it 2015?

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

The bots and shitty ads are getting ridiculous here, but it’s simply hilarious how easily you can just repackage The Secret and sell it to certain types of dudes if you just use the word “mindset” a lot.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Happy new year, you wonderful freaks and nerds. Love you. 💜

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

When Elon said he wanted to make Twitter a “town square”, the town he was thinking of was Charlottesville in 2017.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Displaced people are a problem for the international community. Changing which groups are displaced doesn’t solve anything.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

At some point we’ve gotta accept that the base foundation of ethnonationalism is inherently violent and that kicking out all of ANY group from an area with historical connections is going to cause greater problems down the track.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Like, you get that there’s a ton of Israelis who have lived where they are for generations and are just trying to live their lives, right? Weird thing is these are often the same people saying “well of COURSE the Occupation radicalizes people!” So does making them refugees!

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

If you’re an American who hasn’t volunteered to become homeless in order to give the land you live on back to the Lakota or the Cheyenne, maybe you’re starting to grasp that shit isn’t as simple as “all Israelis who live on Palestinian land are perpetuating violence”.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Don’t see how “all the Israelis should leave” is any less of an ethnic cleansing than “all the Arabs should leave” but maybe I’m missing something here?

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Yeah look abolishing the state of Israel isn’t actually a solution to anything any more than annihilating Palestine is so so uhhhhh please stop with that kind of talk. The answer to eliminationism is not more eliminationism. Leftie friends please what what you’re saying.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

And yes there are a LOT more innocent people being murdered right now in Gaza than died in Israel in the ostensible precipitating event. But this goes back to my point - that NONE OF IT is okay or justifiable. And once you start saying it is, you’re over the line.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

If you start to play that game you can chase your tail all the way back to Isaac and Ishmael. Slaughtering innocents is horrific and indefensible. I don’t give a shit if you wear a uniform and call them terrorists, or you call it resistance and call yourself a freedom fighter.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I’m seeing a lot of “x justifies y” shit coming across my timeline right now and I gotta tell you some of you need a fucking slap upside your head. Atrocities are not justifiable. That’s the entire fucking point of designating them as atrocities.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

I feel for everyone who is suffering. Everyone who’s lost loved ones. Everyone who has been separated from their families or had their communities ripped apart. Everyone who cannot find safety or peace right now. Everyone who is scared and hungry. Humanity is what matters.

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StrivingAlly’s Archive @archivingally.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

There’s an effective dictatorship suppressing internal dissent and only feeding its people a relentless firehose of propaganda that frames any resistance to IDF actions as an existential threat to Jews worldwide. And even with all that, there’s Israelis marching for a ceasefire.

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