Chinese people are currently review-bombing Stellaris because Paradox is releasing a meme alt-history path for India in a completely different game where they can form the "Silk Road Empire"

The Chinese consider this unacceptable pic.twitter.com/pSzC7KsLVD

— Ante D. Luvian (@uncle_deluge) February 17, 2025

@DestoryerCarbine @Wolverine anyone of you concubines should ping HOI4 for it

Love third world nationalists, they fuel my Hate-O-Meter @Szrotmistrz

lol https://old.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/1iok5pn/silk_road_empire_will_be_in_new_dlc_and_i_blame/

AIO, my boyfriend is mad at me because, as a healthcare provider, I help women access abortions even though it's illegal here. I know I'm risking my license, jail time, and a huge mess, but I refuse to stand by while children suffer in a country with a homeless crisis. Society here is brutal to women who conceive out of wedlock. many are abandoned, left to raise a child alone, or even killed for having s*x outside marriage. I can't just watch and simply refuse to help a woman who comes to me asking for help, so I do all I can. From providing medications to assisting the process. And I don't take any money for it, so it's not about personal gain.

Literally Jesus Christ of the state.

gangstalker voice to soul border cabal hates civil diastimikí exogíini psychí on par with dead g*mer soulaunger number thousand bion clone assessipet asset dead g*mer dead. DEAD G*MER. !illuminati !gangstalkers !r-slurs !schizos

Sometimes you rake the leaf...and sometimes the leaf rakes you

...well, I hope you can enjoy the win in your communist libcuck canuckistan...because /ourboys/ will get the gold next year!

Hopefully...catch you round then?

!burgers fricking leafs rigged it with the icing call smdh

!hockey we should do this again sometime soon, ah?

A tale as old as hardware requring online-services: Extremely predictable product failure ends with the rug pulled from under anyone dumb to buy it.

For those that don't know, this is an AI pin. Imagine a smartphone without the screen or really any interface, without all the functionality of a phone, which still needs to pair to your phone or have a separate cellular connection + montly fee to use the subscription AI service to interface with basically any features. And all the features are just asking a LLM things, and asking the thing to identify shit that you hold in front of the camera. Oh yeah, and it costs approximately as much as a mid-range smart phone.

The broad strokes:

Humane, creator of the Ai Pin that received a wave of negative user reviews, is shutting down and selling its assets to HP for $116 million.

HP will get Humane's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform called Cosmos, its technical staff and intellectual property with more than 300 patents and patent applications, Humane announced Tuesday (Feb. 18). The Humane team will form HP's new innovation lab, HP IQ.

The HP acquisition marks a swift downfall for the AI wearable, which began shipping less than a year ago. It was aiming for sales of 100,000 units but fell far short at 10,000. Now, the startup is telling Ai Pin owners that their devices will stop working after Feb. 28, and all stored data will be deleted.

Humane was founded by Apple executives Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, who are married. The startup raised $230 million since its 2018 inception, according to Crunchbase. Its investors included Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank and Microsoft.

Someone once said you can use Time's 30 under 30 to figure out who will be indicted for corporate fraud in the next 10 years nearly without fail. You can probably do something similar with this best invention thing and failed products.

Once named a Time magazine best invention of the year, the Ai Pin disappointed users who complained about malfunctions, its high price and overheating problems. Due to sluggish sales, the Ai Pin had to cut its price from $699 to $499. Users also had to pay $24 a month excluding taxes and fees for connectivity and cloud storage.

The Future? HP is still bloated and directionless, and thinks it has Apple money to waste on shit. HP has no idea what it's doing and is just going to mash AI into everything and hope it sticks/adds value somehow. Probably just wanted this shit company for patents.

For HP, the deal marks a significant step in its strategic transformation toward experience-driven computing and AI-powered devices.

"This investment will rapidly accelerate our ability to develop a new generation of devices that seamlessly orchestrate AI requests both locally and in the cloud," Tuan Tran, president of technology and innovation at HP, said in a statement.

HP plans to integrate Humane's AI capabilities across its entire product line, from AI-enabled PCs to smart printers and connected conference rooms.

THE FUNNY- The Humane FAQ page

1. Why is Humane discontinuing the Ai Pin?

We are winding down the Ai pin as we are moving onto new endeavors. We will share more in the future. Thank you for your support throughout this journey.

Translation: we suck, lol

2. When will the Ai Pin stop working?

Your Ai Pin will continue functioning normally until February 28, 2025, at 12:00pm PST. After this time, it will no longer connect to Humane's servers, and .Center access will be fully retired.

YOU DON'T EVEN GET A 2 WEEK NOTICE for your 700 dollar piece of shit

3. What will happen to the Charge Case recall?

Due to the Ai Pin service shutdown, we will no longer be providing the replacement Charge Case as originally planned. If you previously chose to wait for a replacement instead of receiving a refund, you will automatically receive a refund for the portion of your original purchase price that was allocated to the Charge Case after February 28, 2025.

Even the recall is canceled. Good luck charging your useless brick, lol

2. Will I receive a refund for my Ai Pin?

Refunds are only available for customers who are still within the 90-day return window from their original shipment date. You are eligible to receive a refund if your product shipped on or after November 15th, 2024. All device shipments prior to November 15th, 2024 are not eligible for refunds. All refunds must be submitted by February 27th, 2025

Eat shit. Although 90 days is a large percentage of the time that the product was for sale, I'm assuming most of the sales were in the initial hype window.

1. Will my Ai Pin work with another cellular provider after the shutdown?

No. Once the service is discontinued, your Ai Pin will no longer function as a cellular device or connect to Humane's servers. This means no calls, texts, or data usage will be possible.

It won't even connect to the internet after this

And the best one

3. Can I still use my Ai Pin for offline features?

Yes. After February 28, 2025, Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc., but will not include any function that requires cloud connectivity like voice interactions, AI responses, and .Center access.

The only offline feature they could think of was checking the battery level

Anyway, if you bought one of these, LMAO sucker.

Hamas fanclub

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1isgr8w/hamas_says_it_will_release_bodies_of_four/

India muslims all support terrorism

https://old.reddit.com/r/Kerala/comments/1isbe4d/bjp_files_complaint_over_display_of_hamas_leaders/

Hamas eats dead babies

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1isef4z/hamas_says_it_will_release_bodies_of_four/

Keep calm and exterminate the mad brutes

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/1it174i/this_war_has_turned_me_into_a_very_hateful_person/

Hamas could literally r*pe to death an entire orphanage and western cute twinks would still support them

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1isgsor/hamas_says_kfir_and_ariel_bibas_2_and_5_and_their/

American Jews cope they suck and are about to die

Shouldn't have been such cucks.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1iso5nt/losing_friends_due_to_ip_conflict_and_the_rise_of/

Hamas copes they suck and are about to die

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1isrki2/hamas_offers_to_free_all_hostages_for_israels/

Bomb Massachusites.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WorcesterMA/comments/1isccle/central_mass_chabad_alleges_antisemitism_at_city/

Israel wants revenge

https://old.reddit.com/r/Israel/comments/1isly5j/hamas_said_offering_to_release_all_remaining/

Spiegleman remains a cute twink and longs for the death camp as "conservative" white men long for big black peepee

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1ism8l0/the_art_spiegelman_gaza_comic_dropped_yesterday/

Corbyn's fanclub celebrates their upcoming deaths at Hamas's hands

https://old.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1isdatp/englands_top_judge_condemns_starmer_and_badenoch/

More fake Jews long for the death camps for real jews

https://old.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1isd8z0/the_spiegelmansacco_comic_on_the_gaza_genocide/

Jews are such cucks and weaklings

https://old.reddit.com/r/jewishleft/comments/1irzuzr/never_again_and_again_and_again_by_joe_sacco_and/

Some Nazis are leftwing. They call them beefsteak nazis: brown on the outside and red on the inside.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/1is8qre/huge_l_from_sacco_and_spiegelman/

Lebanon copes that they suck

https://old.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/comments/1isfnsz/as_deadline_for_withdrawal_lapses_israel_says_it/

Fake and straight

https://old.reddit.com/r/RareHistoricalPhotos/comments/1isbz3d/uzi_meshulam_a_jewish_rabbi_was_the_first_to/

Cute twink shocked that Jews regained their spines

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1isgdxz/selective_outrage_when_hate_comes_from_the_right/

Redditards cry over Eichmann

https://old.reddit.com/r/Historycord/comments/1isn25i/israel_found_and_secretly_captured_holocaust/

Redditards cope someone made reddit great again

https://old.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1isfmdv/i_removed_all_traces_of_trump_elon_50501_putin/

All reddirards are nazis and must be punched

https://old.reddit.com/r/InternationalNews/comments/1isej85/hamas_says_it_will_release_the_body_of_israels/

Jewish cucks long for the gas chamber like black men long to be buckbroken or white women long for doggy peepee

https://old.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/1issd0e/after_seeing_the_2_nursesdoctors_video_what_is/

I don't know what this cute twinkry is but I hate it

https://old.reddit.com/r/Drizzy/comments/1isgf0f/azealia_banks_making_too_much_sense_sheesh/

Jews can always find time to be annoying

https://old.reddit.com/r/Judaism/comments/1ish8z8/how_to_talk_to_christian_in_laws_about_messianics/

Jews long for the death camp like arabs and catholics and teachers long for the butts of little boys

https://old.reddit.com/r/Syria/comments/1isduq4/syrianjewish_community_are_getting_back_to_syria/

Oliver Cromwell did nothing wrong

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskIreland/comments/1isg6ln/offensive_to_irish/

Jewish. Rapper. Lamest thing ever.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1isnfcn/jewish_rapper_dissing_macklemore_and_kanye_and/

The UK medical system is full of ducking Nazis!

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1isz999/the_shocking_full_extent_of_antisemitism_at_the/

Being a Jew is the ultimate cuckoldry

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jewish/comments/1ismbwd/what_causes_some_people_to_genuinely_hate_being/

🚨 JUST IN: U.S.-Russia peace plan involves Ukraine holding new elections - Fox

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 18, 2025

Alright let's get to the board:

• nazis are bad unless Ukraine

• across state lines unless Luigi

• audit u good, audit govt bad

• my body my choice unless Pfizer

And I'll add the newest one here..

• democracy unless Ukraine

People comparing this to making an episode about “a boy getting his first erection” is literally proving why an episode like this needs to exist. Periods are stigmatized as sexual when they are not and should be normalized as a natural part of growing up, Kids NEED this. https://t.co/3LPoWVsli0

— Tavrium 🏳️‍⚧️ (@tavrium_) February 16, 2025

Adria plans a special mother-daughter bonding day with Lunella after she gets her first period.

“Full Moon” premieres TOMORROW at 10:30AM EST on @DisneyChannel, streaming NOW on @DisneyPlus. #MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur pic.twitter.com/ODIUJk9yKi

— DTVA News (@DTVANews) February 14, 2025

https://boards.4chan.org/co/thread/147547846

!nonchuds !khive

!chuds !nooticers

Most Based Comments

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

2019 - daycare fraud.Covid - Feeding our Future, doesn't even need a link or explanation at this point. Feeding our Future bribery case. 2024 - autism fraud cases All public fraud cases taking state or federal funds by Somali immigrants while Ilhan was in Congress. But yeah, I guess I'm the jerk for noticing. (12)

Wasn't the leader on feeding our future a white woman or you going to say she was Somalian also? (-7)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

Not surprising. Somalia is literally the most corrupt country in the world. Fraud is the expectation in that community, which is why we see so many of these scandals traced right back to the same group. Ilhan and her clan know if they cry racism then the mainstream press and democrats in Minnesota will look the other way. Very important to keep a close eye on her. (102)

"It's very important that we closely monitor certain individuals because of their country of origin"Insane amounts of fraud and corruption happening right out in the open, yet this subreddit is SO CONCERNED about the possibility of fraud from Ilhan Omar because she volunteered and is Somali. God bless this country. (-14)

Basedness: 🔥🔥🔥🔘🔘

I drive Uber on this side, recently had a recent college grad who was born in Somalia and raised here in MN. He was talking about how taxes are bad and "his community" does everything they can to avoid paying taxes and a ton of people work under the table to dodge taxes. He was very proud to tell me that as I was sitting there like "hmm, ok" (59)

Isn't no taxes a right wing staple? (-13)

Angriest Comments

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Pattern recognition is how humans learn. Telling people it's bad to see those patterns is exactly why this B.S. is allowed to continue (4)

See the pattern all you want. That wasn't at all the point I'm making. The point is, people are all but convinced or convinced, that Ilhan committed fraud because she is a Somali woman. That's the only "evidence". I bet there's much stronger patterns over time of corruption by White people, should we start assuming any white person in office is corrupt because of that? What I'm saying is so non controversial. If this was the same situation and it was Trump instead of Ilhan, the comments would COMPLETELY different and any lib calling for him to be investigated would be ridiculed mercilessly for that weak butt evidence. Sorry guys but you don't actually believe in the principles this Country was founded on. You're falling for the oldest tricks in the book and completely blinded by your ideology.This isn't a partisan issue. This is simply believing in the rule of law and due process. Investigating someone because they are Somali is FRICKING RACIST AND IMMORAL. Same way it would be racis... (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

Pattern recognition is how humans learn. Telling people it's bad to see those patterns is exactly why this B.S. is allowed to continue (4)

Have you heard of pareidolia? Telling people it's bad is because those patterns don't actually exist. Black people aren't criminals because they're black. Poor people ARE more likely to be criminals because they are poor, and due to historical examples of racism and structural racism that still persists, more black people are likely to be poor.Sometimes, clouds look like people. Do you think that means giant cloud people exist? (1)

Angriness: 😡😡😡😡😡

GRRRR I GET SO MAD WHENEVER ILHAN OMAR....feeds people? (-2)

That's the nonsense you people were saying when they tried stopping the Feeding Our Future fraud "oh so you're against feeding children" or "you're a racist" and it's beyond pathetic. Don't you get tired of getting stolen from? (9)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/One-Tower1921

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Number of comments: 7

Average angriness: 🔘🔘🔘🔘🔘

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#BREAKING FBI Houston received information yesterday that two underage teenagers from the Houston area were plotting a mass casualty attack at a local school. Our Threat Mitigation Team immediately responded to help @houstonpolice & @MCTXSheriff identify and arrest them. #HouNews pic.twitter.com/FjzPJpGQ0e

— FBI Houston (@FBIHouston) February 20, 2025

The image attached is ironic, read to find out why!

CHAPTER 1: PRELUDE

An observer of internet culture from the years will have no doubt prototypised the phenomenon that will be referred to as the "Satanic Fandom Process." This is the process upon which "media" with a certain set of traits will tend to attract the "archetypical fandom" and the necessary consequences of such a development. An astute observer will easily be capable of listing examples such media entities, including: Rwby, Steven Universe, Homestuck, Undertale, Five Nights at Freddy's as well as many examples of foreign and especially Japanese media entities, that will follow a very similar "life cycle", the aforementioned SFP.

Before, however, we chart the SFP, we must discuss the shared traits of these media entities. The major shared traits, that any fandom will have likely a significant amount of, but will not necessarily have all of, can be defined as follows:

The series must be exciting and watchable on the surface level, with big moments that can stick in popular perception and attract new fans, This trait is always present. It should also be easy to find, on a platform such as youtube for instance, this trait is often present.

The characters do not have specific depth or complexity, they do not stray far from the archetypes they are based on, or at least this should be the image presented to the fandom. A series of shallow archetypes as main characters is easy to relate to and project on, which will attract the casual viewer, but crucially, this is necessary to appeal to a key fandom growth group, the "fanfiction writers." and will allow plenty of freedom to transform the original media. This is commonly done by putting the characters in foreign situations, the shallowness will aid in accurately determining their actions without going "out of character". Especially crucial to this is the characters being "cute" or "angsty", as this provides for compelling fan created drama, especially when the two traits are two sides of a dialectical process.

The entity is likely a visual medium, and will have a aesthetically easy art style. This ties into the "watchability factor" discussed earlier but also appeals to another key fandom growth group, the fanartists. An aesthetically pleasing and easy art style will make it easy to create eye catching fan pieces which will appeal to the casual audience, especially considering...

Vaguely socially liberal political undertone. Liberal ideas about race, sexuality and economic hierarchy is likely to be present throughout the series. This will make it easy for a typical young person to project themselves on the shells of characters. The liberal ideas about sexuality are the most crucial here, as the aforementioned fan artists will feel comfortable creating pornography. It goes without saying that pornography is almost always the single biggest driver of fandom growth and especially fandom retention.

On a meta level, a strong level of communication between the fan base and the creators. This will inevitably create a parasocial relationship between the two, with a high chance of overt worship of the creators.

Once, these traits of the media entity have been determined, we can outline the "Satanic fandom process" in a vague chronology

Step one: The media entity will be created

Step two: The earliest fandom will be attracted. They will stick around due to the promise and begin creating fanworks to attract more fans.

Step three: The creation of subreddits and groomercord communities creates a sense of community amongst complete strangers

the following events are not guaranteed and may occur in any order

a major figure in the fandom is outed for sexual predation which destabilizes the fandom, especially if the response proves to be inadequate

the creator makes a "misstep" in their supposed liberal values (this could also be the figure outed) and thousands of people send death threats due to the loss of faith in their "hero"

as a consequence of the previous two or not, video essayists and other miscellaneous critics jump on perceived flaws in the writing quality and create drama and groomercord

if these contradictions are resolved or avoided, the series can end with minimal issue

if not, the creator is run off the platform, either chased or tired of the "harassment" and "stress" the process of creation has fostered in them.

This concludes the archetypical example of the Satanic Fandom Process

Chapter 2: OBSERVATIONS

Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning is a series that has "archetypal fandom" traits that has, to my admittedly limited knowledge, suffered only a mild to negligible dose of the "Satanic Fandom Process." It is not the focus of this post. What is important is a piece of fan work that was created for it.

Namely, a music video intended as tribute.

What is important to our story is that this music video was, itself, parodied.

this parody would become what is now known as "Fundamental Paper Education" was a reanimation of the video with original characters, created by a very young, obviously mentally unstable child

(Kid doesn't even know a planet with the Lehman Brothers on it 😭🙏)

The video is now deleted, but amassed tens of millions of views while it was still up. The unexpected popularity of the series caused the bewildered child to make wild promises about creating a full series.

Now, you see the inherent problem. A person 15, 16 years old making wild promises of a full series based of a series of funny drawings they made to a baldis basic tribute music video.

The pressure built up, and on november 24th 2024, they unlisted the original video (THE ONE SINGLE SINGLE PIECE OF CONTENT THE FANDOM WAS OPERATING OFF) released a statement relaying the idea that they were already burned out from the sudden surge in popularity but remained hopeful this would resolve. This was identified as a "misstep in liberal values" and she was summarily sent threats and harassment, with defenders and detractors also coming under fire.

On january 27th, every FPE related post on the creators twitter page was removed without notice. They changed their bio to "I just want to start over again" and shortly after removed that as well

On February 11th, the entire twitter page was summarily purged and she deleted every community post on her youtube channel

On February 14th, has made all of her videos private and also hid her last post on her YouTube channel, as well as changing her bio to "Fall is my favorite season🍁". Before erasing this as well.

The Satanic Fandom Process, though accelerated, has reached it's inevitable conclusion.

This is where the project currently stands. completely scuttled before it even left the harbour. Throughout all this there was never a single official episode.

Chapter 3: SATIRISM

But here is the promised subversion. Throughout this entire process, the fandom has been almost completely unreactive. The subreddit has been posting fanart of the characters without missing a SINGLE BEAT. They literally don't even care there is ZERO official content, the fandom has become the content.

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqpami/art_tips/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqkebd/amalgamation_mx/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqorvz/nothing_much_today_just_oliver/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqjm8n/since_i_liked_the_last_one_lets_give_them/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqejbr/if_fpe_fandom_make_fpe_movie/

The mods has banned talking about the fact that, y'know, THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT.

And look at this

The redditors want to build a fandom off NOTHING. That was the irony of this post's image, the IMDB page is for a tv show that DOES NOT EXIST AND HAS NEVER EXISTED.

This is the punchline of the whole living joke. It's a vicious parody of earth by the world itself. There is NO content for there to be a fandom of and the cycle repeated ANYWAYS. The Satanic Fandom Process occurred to NOTHING. People were threatened over NOTHING, people were harassed over NOTHING. The reaction has BECOME THE OBJECT. It is a living, breathing, pulsating SATIRE of the entire fandom process.

There is a strong possibility that the meeting between Putin and Trump will result in agreement. Putin is in the position to ask for it all. He might demand an election, the occupied territories, and Ukrainian neutrality. All these ideas have been teased.🧵6/17

— Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 (@GLandsbergis) February 15, 2025

Get ready for the trenches you fricking peasant scum.

How we all pretty much feel

https://archive.is/Yyd1I

No one gets married thinking they'll get divorced, in the same way we don't board a plane expecting to crash. But I really never thought I would get divorced. Especially not just after giving birth to my first child and especially not in the shadow of my husband's new relationship with a celebrity. In this season of shock and mourning, over a year after the end of my marriage was made public, I deeply miss the life of invisibility I created for myself as a psychologist specializing in women's mental health.

During graduate school for clinical psychology, I learned about transference: the way a patient uses the anonymous therapist as a fun-house-mirror reflection of their own unresolved relational needs. The patient and therapist piece together a deeper understanding of the patient based on the echoes of outside relationships that inevitably play out in the therapist's office. As a therapist, part of what I could offer my patients was the experience of being in relation with someone else without the complexities of a personal relationship. I was never meant to be fully known to them. Research consistently indicates that the strongest predictor of success in therapy is the therapeutic alliance — the rapport between therapist and patient — and traditionally, therapists rigorously protect this for our patients with clear boundaries. By reducing the white noise of personal information, or self-disclosures, therapists provide patients with a unique opportunity to feel connected to another person by care alone. To be there in feelings and not in facts was the superpower I had always wanted.

Periodically, my patients' imaginations and interpersonal needs would bump up against my own reality. Throughout my pregnancy, I worked as a psychologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, supporting women pregnant with babies facing severe or fatal diseases. I willed my healthy son, glowing inside me, not to overhear these conversations — survival rates, palliative care, congenital anomaly. Please be okay, I tried to communicate to him. I swaddled my healthy pregnancy in baggy sweaters, bracing for the day a patient would notice my growing good fortune and ask: Why me and why not you? It was the first time a fact about me was announcing itself to a patient. But no one said a word.

At eight months pregnant, I lumbered into the waiting room at the Children's Hospital to greet a patient who I had not seen in several months. From her seat, she was eye to eye with my son, curled up and kicking. "There's something different about you," she said knowingly. She then complimented me on a haircut I hadn't gotten and pulled herself up to standing, saying, "I'm really observant." Despite my patients being thoughtful, curious, and attentive, not a single one acknowledged our shared condition. I truly believe they did not allow themselves to see my pregnancy at all. Knowing that the person they asked to witness their grief was floating through a healthy pregnancy was too much to contend with, so they looked away.

I loved my life working in a helping profession and being immersed in the details of other people's stories rather than documenting my own narrative for public consumption. The week before my 18th birthday, I deactivated my Facebook account. I didn't want to measure my birthday in how many messages I did or did not receive from people across the family-to-strangers continuum of a Facebook friends list. Becoming a psychologist solidified my detachment from social media. Professors urged me and my graduate school peers to be wary of the conclusions an understandably curious patient might reach if they were to unearth online artifacts of our real-world lives. My partner was on a different path, in which social media and exposure were not impediments but rather necessities. We puzzled through this predicament on walks, over pizza, in our apartment and excitedly concocted rules of engagement of how and what he would share about our lives together. It was a tenuous balance — my profession, which requires privacy, and his, which is measured in applause — but it worked well while life was unfolding according to our plans.

During my pregnancy, I had never felt happier nor more aware of how precarious happiness could be. When my baby was first placed on my chest, still tethered to me by his umbilical cord, I sobbed with relief. We had done it. He had arrived. I survived preeclampsia, a life-threatening birth complication, and finally, our family was whole. Mine is a story of worrying in the wrong direction. As a perinatal psychologist, I knew all the statistics — how vulnerable a marriage is in the postpartum period, how vital community connection is in preventing depression and anxiety, how new parenthood impacts a whole family — but I confidently moved to another country with my 2-month-old baby and my husband to support his career. Consumed by the magic and mundanity of new motherhood, I didn't understand the growing distance between us.

Motherhood, I have learned, fills your time but not your mind. In the countless hours I spend rocking my son to sleep, pushing his stroller, marveling at his sweaty little hands grasping a crayon, I work diligently on my private project of accepting the sudden public downfall of my marriage. This, I tell myself, is nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide. Slowly but surely, I have come to believe that in the absence of the life I planned with my high-school sweetheart, a lifetime of sweetness is waiting for me and my child. While our partnership has changed, our parenthood has not. Both of us fiercely love our son 100 percent of the time, regardless of how our parenting time is divided. As for me, days with my son are sunny. Days when I can't escape the promotion of a movie associated with the saddest days of my life are darker.

Even as people from my past have reached out to say they saw my face in a tabloid, my patients have remained silent. Was some algorithmic or karmic force protecting my patients from seeing a tabloid drama in which I play the role of a voiceless ex-wife? Or did they know about my divorce and didn't know it's okay to tell me? Because of the clinical frame — that promise the psychologist makes to the patient to not take up emotional space — I don't explicitly share any part of myself until they've already found out by themselves. Recently, while eating muffins with my son at the Sunday farmers' market, I locked eyes with a patient who was in treatment because of the grief of a miscarriage. It was her decision whether to discuss our in-the-wild encounter in my office the following Tuesday. But I held the moment in mind, thinking through what her acknowledgment or silence would mean in the context of our work together.

It's hard to measure an absence, and I can't say for sure how much my career has been impacted by what's out there online. But there have been hints along the way, like the job offer that dissolved without explanation after yet another tabloid news cycle or the patient who's scheduled for a first appointment but seemingly vanishes. On my darker days, I railed against the unfairness of a public divorce, asking my therapist (we're all just a Russian nesting doll of therapists supporting therapists), Who would trust a cardiologist who had a heart attack because they never got an EKG? Of course, I am not owed anything, whether it be a job or the privilege of being any given person's psychologist. Still, even as someone who spent years researching how people respond to ambiguity, I hate not knowing if the way my story has been told has impacted my opportunity to help others sort through their stories. I have the deeply human propensity to find evidence for my worries in the unknown. As a visitor in this digital land I thought had successfully chosen not to live in, it is uncanny to see myself in a shoddy mosaic of others' words and impressions. I have puzzled alone, for nearly two years, about what to say as someone who is, by personality and profession, equally allergic to being the center of attention and to being erased.

At the Children's Hospital, my invisibility was welcome protection from hard conversations for me and my patients. And while I still firmly believe in following my patients' leads and not presuming to know what parts of my personhood resonate with them, the publicity I did not consent to increasingly feels like both a challenge and an opportunity. If I'm discovered — as what, being vulnerable? — perhaps it could be a point of connection rather than a clinical liability. My entire adult life, I feared that loss of control and postpartum depression would destroy me. One day in London, I looked up and found that they had both arrived. And I am okay. If I can't be invisible anymore, I may as well introduce myself. You know how a sponge is most effective at absorbing liquid when it's already a bit wet? Maybe we can think about my messy not-so-personal life in that way: a dose of my own loss, rage, powerlessness, sadness that helps me hold yours. I cannot resolve the incongruity of a career in helping others prepare for the exquisite fragility and beauty of pregnancy and postpartum and then having my own world upended. But I can start hearing myself when I tell patients that avoidance maintains fear, and maybe it's time to accept that I'm not unknown anymore.

So consider this essay my message in a bottle sent out to sea to maybe wash up at my patients' feet someday: I'm sorry I can't be invisible anymore (really, more than you know, I'm sorry). This information about me will rush in like water filling all of the blank spaces where you could have, should have, would have imagined me to be whomever you needed. I hope this is okay, this psychologist of yours who had a window into her life pried open. Knowing what you now know, I can say with both personal and professional authority, you are so much stronger than you assume. Some of what you loved most about your partner was actually your own goodness reflected back to you; it's yours to keep and carry forward. I'd tell you (and myself) to let go of the worries — our anxious minds are creative but not particularly good guessers about the future. If you want to or need to, we can acknowledge what you now know about me, and then we'll quickly work our way back to your story with a question that is a therapy classic for good reason: And how did that make you feel?

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NEW FALSE DOGE CLAIMS?

A friend knowledgeable about govt contracting noticed some DOGE claims of money saved that are... unusual.

I'm trying to follow his explanation. I might just share DM screenshots and let you all figure it out lol.

I haven't seen these reported.

1/ pic.twitter.com/IR4CieyLfZ

— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) February 19, 2025

!chuds !neolibs

>They're saving so much money

the money:

src

It sucks. !leafs I wish I was a snowbird

Top Drama

Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)

autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

Celina 52 Diner is a fake business/troll page that posts all sorts of AI-generated images with the hope of baiting normies. They are very good at it and sometimes catch a whopper in the form of a as they have done with Michael.

How it started:

The aftermath:

Comments from the original post with the raw chicken:

1. "I'm deleting negative comments, this is getting rediculous"

2. People in on the fun

Comments from the Michael Hayes post:

1. "someone sent us his workplace, we contacted them"

Somehow still catching

2. "your chicken is clearly RAW!"

lol