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Lucibee Feb 2, 2025

Well done, social media, for meaning that I've lost touch with pretty much everyone I ever once knew!!!

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Lucibee Feb 2, 2025

Mastodon is pretty much unusable these days.

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Lucibee Nov 16, 2024

Warning. Self-sabotage self-destructive mood activated today.

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Lucibee Nov 15, 2024

It feels like it was a really stupid thing to do now, moving into the middle of nowhere, where I didn't know anyone.

I tried. I joined clubs and choirs. But never really made any connection. Eventually got ostracised and retreated back to the home and online. I don't now go out at all. I don't see any others outside the house, and haven't done so for nearly 10 years now.

SM was a lifeline. But it looks like that is going too now.

Lucibee Nov 15, 2024

The shenanigans over at Xitter and consequent migration over to BlueSky have left me feeling really quite discombobulated.

Twitter was the SM platform I got on with the best. I made lots of friends there, none of whom I knew IRL. Now they are scattered to the wind - BlueSky is much harder to connect on. This place (Masto) is next to impossible too.

SM is all about content and volume. It's not great for quiet thinky people. :(

Lucibee Jul 13, 2024

Aurynn Shaw Jul 13, 2024

All of us who blocked Threads when they announced fediverse integration saw this.

We told you so.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads

<p>As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The...</p>

Lucibee Jun 10, 2024

For some reason, YT changed the rules around some of my video listings so that I could no longer share them. Even I couldn't see them, so here is one of them I've made public.

It shows why picking the longest waits matters when trying to clear a waiting list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og9O10i1MTc

Waiting List Dynamics [no audio]

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Lucibee May 29, 2024

Given how the World is right now, I'm not sure I want to be in it any more.

(Please don't worry. I simply don't have the motivation to do anything about that either.)

I just felt I needed to say it.

Lucibee Feb 19, 2024

Everyone is talking about the AI-generated images in this review, but not the potentially AI-generated text. To me (as a (former) editor), that's much more concerning.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a389b/ai-midjourney-rat-penis-study-retracted-frontiers

Study Featuring AI-Generated Giant Rat Penis Retracted, Journal Apologizes

A peer-reviewed study featured nonsensical AI images including a giant rat penis in the latest example of how generative AI has seeped into academia.

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