Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2h"We use the light of our screens to foolishly guide us through the void left by the collapse of these old thought worlds... [...] We've done such an incredible job of shooting every traditional sherpa of meaning in the back of the head." Fuck, man. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hA stethoscope is just a stethoscope... it's fine... but we cede control to technology every day. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hMy doctor comes in and it's uncommon for her to even look at me instead of the screen, let alone touch my body, the object of discussion, the thing that needs help... and an AI makes notes, which she never reads again, because my body's issues exist in 15 minute vacuums... 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hEvery time I'm at the doctor, I check in with an iPad... a nurse leads me to a room without any questions, bc when I booked the appointment via form, I already took 25 characters to say why I was coming in... 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hIf someone objected to the adoption of a stethoscope, you'd think they're stupid, right? It doesn't feel harmful. But isn't there an argument against putting a tool between a doctor and their understanding of the body? 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hI've never really thought much about how people perceived technology in past centuries, why they might object to it... it's always portrayed as this thing that is either immediately embraced as a progress of society and individuals who object are treated as foolish or anti-progressive... 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 2hI really love this video... it has really made me rethink technology and both criticism and worship of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C04B...youtube.comYour Phone Is Not The ProblemYouTube video by Crimes New Roman 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 8hMust be fun to believe in a cosmic power that’s looking out for you or will guide you or whatever and gives your life an inherent meaning or something. I have zero desire to actually believe in such a thing but it would be nice to believe there’s someone else who will take the reins. 000
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 19hUpstairs neighbours are my new nemesis… it’s after midnight why is my ceiling vibrating from your music 000
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026YEAH it’s so bullshit, like at this point I’d happily take plain ass boring bras at a reasonable price … but can’t even get just that! They’re like $90!! FOR WHAT!!!! 010
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What the fuck is this supporting, Mariah. I want them up to my collarbone, not bouncing around my knees. 120
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I miss the tight tshirt push-up moulded bra look, why the fuck is everything a single layer of ugly lace or flimsy stretch mesh now. 210
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026But now I definitely have to get new bras and Understance is gonestatic.klipy.comPiddel Piddel Pain MemeALT: Piddel Piddel Pain Meme 010
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026CW weight loss… finally back down to where I was in late 2019… I would fit Edelgard again 😔 oh well… I get to make new costumes. 130
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every day for years I see“how to make this prop look like real metal” videos and I’ve yet to go “oh yeah that’s metal” even once!!!!! What are we doing!!!!! 010
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’m just going to figure out how to self-treat the rash bc I don’t have the time or energy for this. 200
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Losing my fucking mind. Going to doctor tomorrow about my extreme back pain. It took a week to get the appointment and the next were 3+ weeks out. Now I have a rash that looks to be maybe fungal. I can’t use the appointment for two different things. Another appointment will be weeks away. I hate it. 120
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They have a little, but unfortunately the pain is pretty constant so I just can’t keep up with it. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s so bad I feel like I could throw up from the pain. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-hater... Required reading for hating AI, imo.wheresyoured.atThe AI Hater's ManifestoIf you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to ... 010
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can’t be soon enough!!! But I’m confident in it because momentum to build data centers has already slowed dramatically (to the point that $300 billion worth of chips aren’t even in use/plugged in) and growth in actual usage has completely flattened. There’s nobody more to sell AI to. It’s cooked. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026IMO I don’t think AI at this scale will last. There’s no profit in it, most of it is speculative, and the moment the current stock of chips dies, there simply aren’t the resources to replace them, especially with waning demand. All this shit will never go away entirely but it will diminish. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“AM I FEELING MY FEELINGS OR AM I JUST THINKING ABOUT THEM” brutal statement, felt 020
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And it’s hard to realize what vet care costs now unless you have a pet, so people getting their first as adults or getting a pet again after a long hiatus might be walking into a surprise. Idk man. I don’t know that I’ll ever have animals again and that makes me sad. 030
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Some people still go “well just get a shelter dog/cat for $50” and it’s like… not when preventative care is difficult to afford, let alone emergency care. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Reading stories about people spending 2-3x on vet care now than they did years ago because vet practices are all getting bought up is so sad. It’s now unaffordable for many people to get a pet, but also people who got animals when it was affordable now have senior animals and extraordinary bills. 210
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Haven’t slept more than 5 hrs in weeks and it’s starting to really impact me. 120
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I always just chirpily say “I don’t do phone banking due to scams so I’ll resolve this at a branch location tomorrow, thank you, bye” and this mf started lecturing me on how he’s just trying to do his job and i shouldn’t take out my frustrations on him 130
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Got one of those scam calls where they pretend your account has been compromised (fraudulent e-transfer) so they have to issue you a new debit card and it’s like… so funny how they try to overwhelm you with information overload right out of the gates and then get SUPER pressed when you don’t play. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We will never improve fashion access for fat people with manufacturing outsourced like this!!!!! 000
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like not too much on manufacturing in Asia when the West is chock fucking full of issues, but dude, the AVERAGE woman in North America has a 38” waist, well above an Asian 3XL’s 32” waist. BOTH regions need to improve their access but that’s actively an impediment at this point. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“This artist is making merch in plus sizes! WOW!” It’s literally a t-shirt, the most cutsew garment there is, and this is still impressive because most blanks companies don’t do plus sizes. The bar is in HELL. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But your average company is just buying shit pre-made or out of a catalog with set sizes, and calling it a day. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Nowadays there’s only a few companies I can think of that do that, and they’re all replica vintage companies who still pattern their own garments. And as a result… those companies have large plus size customer bases!!!!!!! 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And you can see the information decay on this practically in real time. When I worked for Forever 21 back in 2011ish, the one thing I will always defend them for is that they did a decent bit of their line in plus, and they REDRAFTED the patterns to suit plus size bodies instead of just scaling up. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But very very very very few people are making clothes like that now. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So everything has to be super general because the knowledge is virtually fucking lost at this point. I’ve worked with extant patterns from the 1800s, back when tailoring was about the body, not a set size… and they work like a dream. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But it’s telling to me that those garments are almost always unstructured knits in really boxy shapes (generally very unflattering!!) and it’s because the factories aren’t any better at producing plus size clothes than we are, they just have the factories and underpaid labour to do it AT ALL. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like 90% of the fat positive small businesses I see online are just selling basics in custom prints, and those basics don’t even seem to be patterned or prototyped by the seller, that’s done by the factory. And I sort of get it, bc it’s not like straight size companies can afford to produce here. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So many sewing techniques are basically endangered species… with schools no longer teaching pattern drafting, much less drafting for plus sizes, and fashion companies hiring few if any designers… idk man… we get what factories produce, and many of those factories consider a US L a 3XL or something. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Obviously fatphobia is an international issue but it’s functionally impossible for North American companies to meaningfully improve their size ranges when the west has largely gutted not only its manufacturing sector but also its design sector, leaving it mostly at the mercy of other regions. 110
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Most fashion companies are not designing, patterning, or prototyping their own clothes… they’re buying them premade from garment factories and white labelling them… and these factories are by and large in Asia. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I liked Shanspeare’s video on Carrie and fatphobia quite a bit but as with a lot of video essays that get into fatness and the garment industry, I always think about how difficult it is to amend size range issues when production is uncoupled from the market. 100
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A day that makes u go “what if we didn’t do blood pool again” 111
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026obvs when you rent space to people you can't hover over people so you can only act on what behaviour you observe, and you can't truly know the dynamics of any given group visiting, but holy shit I wish I had lasers in my eyes to explode obvious sex pests 130
Unidash 🦄 @fanfaronade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No fucking kidding!! Plus the no ad internet experience is sacred. 120
