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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 13h

humans famously don't need shelter, and you're never waiting around a train station for elongated times, because trains always run on time and efficiently

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And by love I mean my bank account weeps every time there's a sale on

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(also libation is a lovely little program to... Liberate your books from audible, just saying)

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#NotSpon but I have loved moving to @libro.fm, and they let you download the files! I actually own the books! Magic

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I almost wish I still had an audible account so I could cancel it again

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September was pain awareness month. I knew I wanted to talk about this, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to say. As always, I started writing and eventually something fell out, but later than I wanted it to. However, it's always a good time to talk about chronic pain, so here we are.

Living with pain has taught me a lot about sitting with discomfort, and learning when to distract myself and when to look after myself.

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's not really a message here, just a 'hi, I have pain. If we've met in person I've probably had some pain. It sucks, but I can see some good there at times. Life is complicated, bodies are complicated, and don't feel like you have to be one thing all the time.'. buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

buttondown.com

https://buttondown.com/SelfCareBackpack/archive/september-was-pain-awareness-month/

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chronic pain is complicated. It requires a lot of management at times, which sometimes feels like a burden, rather than the joy of self care. Other times it means I'm living in my body, and being aware of it in ways that are helpful and can make adjustments to help alleviate and avoid pain.

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I too have complicated feelings about the death penalty. I think it's heinous and barbaric and both morally and ethically indefensible. My feelings get complicated when someone I like wants to defend it because it's one of the incredibly few things I would truly and earnestly call uncivilised

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am a planner. I love to make a plan (sometimes that plan even gets executed!) It’s a pattern, one I often use it as a distraction, or a way to avoid sitting with uncomfortable feelings. Read more: buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

Here’s the thing, you get to move through your life with yourself, and that means through all of it, and all of you. Sitting with yourself and letting yourself feel all of your feelings is part of the journey.

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Kansas City Butterfly🦋 @kc-butterfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The glorification of struggle is a coping mechanism. And a terrible one at that.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the whole epidemic of estranged adult children, I wonder if more people are speaking about it now. I've been estranged for almost 8 years, and while I am biased by the algo/community, there is a willingness and ability to speak openly about what can feel shameful and weird to share

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A sign of how people who do make this choice are seen as and treated like children who are mindlessly following trends or being manipulated, or throwing a tantrum, rather than setting a boundary. It's always seen as something you did for attention, not for your own peace

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also also I've had people online do the whole 'your therapist definitely shit talked your parents and that's why you made the choice' which is untrue and hilarious, given I didn't even tell him I was thinking about it until after I did it but also

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so a total of 500-600 parents were cut off? And that is an "epidemic?" Prove to me that this is in fact an epidemic, and not abusive selfish parents being very loud and angry about boundaries. Prove to me why parents who...consume their children deserve to continue to have access to their children.

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✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 27/09/2026

this all isnt that complicated ppl can and are choosing what they listen to at any given moment in much much greater numbers than ever before thus the monocultural Music Industry is dying, and these are its last gasps of relevancy, its final attempts to capture culture

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ᚔᚅᚄᚓᚏᚈ ᚄᚉᚐᚏᚍ ᚅᚐᚋᚓ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

The reason this was such a high profile case was two fold: 1) To demonstrate to trans people that even if you are utterly blameless, the gender cranks will object to you being employed 2) To demonstrate to businesses that there is a hefty cost to employing trans people, critters Will try to sue

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘You can’t hate yourself into someone you love’ ‘If being hard on yourself worked it would’ve worked by now’ Both these things are true, and might give you a moment of pause if you’ve not heard them before. Maybe it gives you an insight[..]where do you go after that? buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

The secret here is: getting to know yourself can be joyful. Spending time with yourself, treating yourself to stillness and gentle kindness can be wondrous.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In my experience the answer is to start bringing nuance into your self talk. You're not all bad all the time, and you can be more neutral to positive about yourself. Read more: buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

buttondown.com

https://buttondown.com/SelfCareBackpack/archive/self-talk/

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's been a while since I've thought about self talk as a subject for content. I been thinking recently about how things like 'you can't hate yourself into someone you love' and 'if being harsh on yourself worked it would've worked by now' are great places to start, but where do you go from there?

This is difficult, and the urge to use this practice to be mean to yourself will be present (god, why can't you just be nice to yourself?), but try to avoid that as well.

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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026

Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is demonstrably proven, via multiple studies as well as commonsense, that preventing young people explore and acknowledge their own identity has massively harmful impacts. Labour reviving Section 28 against trans young people will cause untold harm, just as the original Section 28 did.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/09/2026

Excited to reflect, absorb, and emit light EXTRA WELL today ✨💃⚡️ #BiVisibilityDay

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LLM chatbots on published papers without explicit opt-in from authors is so incredibly disrespectful and completely undermines the idea of a published version of record

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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026

sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too

ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

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Malky @themalky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I drew the new weird cat

Cutesy drawing of a Leopardus tilcayo loafing with its tongue poking out. A short phrase in spanish wraps around its back: un michi tilcayo! (a tilcayo kitty!)

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just like muscles get stronger with work, your own ability to acknowledge, feel, and move through your feelings also grows. I wrote about pole dancing, sinking into a move, and why that's like counselling. Read more: buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

buttondown.com

https://buttondown.com/SelfCareBackpack/archive/sinking-into-it/

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So much of the work in counselling is about slowing down and holding in places that feel uncomfortable. A new ache after a gym session means moving muscles not normally worked in day to day life. A new ache after counselling means a new exploration, or a holding in a place normally glanced over.

We think of acceptance as synonymous with not changing or staying still. Often moving to acceptance can prompt change.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All this Macklemore stuff has reminded me that I've seen Wanz (of 'I'm gonna pop some tags, only got $20 in my pocket') fame on stage talking about software testing. He worked on the MS Scanner and Camera Wizard iirc (also Free Palestine)

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Gem Hill @SelfCare Backpack @carebackpack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If, deep down, you do things for other people because this is a role that was thrust upon you as a child, and it’s how you got positive attention (or simply a lack of negative attention), then this becomes a coping mechanism. Read more about accepting nurturing: buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

If, deep down, you do things for other people because this is a role that was thrust upon you as a child, or young person, and it’s how you got positive attention [...] then this becomes a coping mechanism.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hazard Tarot — Organical Mechanical organical-mechanical.itch.io/iso-tarot

A Tarot deck made up of danger signs.
the sign for danger of falling off a cliff sign for danger of falling off a cliff becomes the fool, a lightning bolt for electricity becomes the magician, biohazard symbol is the empress, and the emperor is a radiation hazard there are 20 trumps and so those are 20 different dangerous signs to start with
The diamond signs labeling hazardous materials for transport are used for the four suits and their numbered cards.

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Sam Grittner @samgrittner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

All the wrong people hate themselves.

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