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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸<p>I had a very sweet conversation a bit ago.</p><p>I had made a post on the Tourettes subreddit about a year ago describing a bunch of tics I had.</p><p>Someone read this and realized they had a lot of the same problems, and didn't know why they were always in so much pain. They went and got treatment and I saved their life.</p><p>It made me think.</p><p>I told them that I didn't save their life -</p><p>They did by being aware of what they were feeling and seeking out info to help themselves.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rant</span></a></p>
RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸<p>I am always studying how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> works as I have a few very complicated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disorders</span></a> associated with it, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neurology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurology</span></a> so my desire to understand myself leads me to trying to understand the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> of why.</p><p>I was studying how different <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> affect the nervous system, and into the topic of mixing them, and how that leads to your perception.</p><p>You can't get "high" in multiple ways at once.</p><p>Your brain turns it all into one input, and it's like an entirely different drug.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>addiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Archimage<p>I’m planning the death of two of my characters.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Kristen Hall-Geisler<p>I hand write the first drafts of my translations in cheap spiral-bound notebooks using a fancy-ass fountain pen. This essay on hand writing in an age of AI by Deb Werrelin is preaching to the human choir, but it's still a good read. </p><p><a href="https://electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electricliterature.com/ai-cant</span><span class="invisible">-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>Working through 'Writing A C Compiler'</p><p><a href="https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkingThrough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingThrough</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCompiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCompiler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCompiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCompiler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechBlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBlog</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with “AI Tracks” and Rethinking Student AI Agency <a href="https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester</a> (interesting instructor reflections on giving students choice of 2 tracks, AI free or AI friendly) <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AI" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23education" target="_blank">#education</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23writing" target="_blank">#writing</a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with “AI Tracks” and Rethinking Student AI Agency <a href="https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com</span><span class="invisible">/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester</span></a> (interesting instructor reflections on giving students choice of 2 tracks, AI free or AI friendly) <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
David Todd McCarty<p>Jane’s best friend lost her husband. This was just the other day, the day before yesterday. Jane is my wife. One minute, the husband was fine, or so everyone thought, and the next he was gone. Collapsed in his own house. Lights out. A snap of your fingers.</p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medium</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memoir</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://medium.com/ellemeno/what-to-do-with-whats-left-781e9afaf392" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/ellemeno/what-to-do</span><span class="invisible">-with-whats-left-781e9afaf392</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>I said this and I will say it again. After the AI hype cycle is over, we writers and developers have to come in to mop up the mess.</p><p>Look, AI is great for some use cases. One uncommon narrative that should be said more is that it helps people with cognitive impairments or who are neurologically divergent cope better in a world not set up for them, especially if they are knowledge workers.</p><p>But AI as content/code generators and replacements of writers and devs? Can we just move on from this already?</p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@travelbugg/note/c-132683979" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/@travelbugg/note/</span><span class="invisible">c-132683979</span></a>? and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp</span><span class="invisible">9v2o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
David Todd McCarty<p>I think many people struggle with procrastination and find other things to distract themselves with, so they can avoid sitting down to write. I do the opposite. I look for opportunities where I can shirk my other responsibilities and find a little time to write. It’s not as if it’s paying the bills. It’s not keeping the lights on.</p><p>I do it for myself.</p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medium</span></a><br><a href="https://medium.com/ellemeno/the-waiting-game-c85ad0fb705f" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/ellemeno/the-waitin</span><span class="invisible">g-game-c85ad0fb705f</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Well beyond the rarefied world of polo, the match is hailed as historic. This is the first time anyone has played a polo final on six identical horses, let alone won with them." —Matt Reynolds for Wired</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cloning-came-to-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso/?src=longreads" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/cloning-came-t</span><span class="invisible">o-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso/?src=longreads</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/polo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/horses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ponies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ponies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cloning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a></p>
alxd of Story Seed Library<p>I missed last month's <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> essay from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@AndrewDanaHudson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AndrewDanaHudson</span></a></span> , but I think the 10-year-check-in is a worthy read: </p><p><a href="https://www.solarshades.club/p/the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk10" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">solarshades.club/p/the-politic</span><span class="invisible">al-dimensions-of-solarpunk10</span></a></p><p>The world has changed. Solarpunk influenced it, even without a single Masterpiece. We are continuing to build from multiple sides.</p><p>People are doing a lot on the ground - whether in the North or the South - and we're finally getting a language which can share their stories.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/manifesto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manifesto</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/climateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateChange</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Liyah Mackenzie Writes<p>*Philosophical Somethings from a Rambler*<br>_Part 5_</p><p>Writing my frustrations is easy,<br>Yet enunciating them is difficult.</p><p>Everyone should have a journal<br>Just to write about issues.</p><p>That would vent much steam<br>And cool our warming planet.</p><p><a href="https://toot.io/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/venting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>venting</span></a> <a href="https://toot.io/tags/5wl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>5wl</span></a></p>
juma<p>what can i tell you<br>Mr. Butters needs to eat<br>24/7</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoetryCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MrButtersTheCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MrButtersTheCat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tell</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@stevencudahy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stevencudahy</span></a></span></p>
Steven Cudahy<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> for Saturday 12 July 2025 is:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tell</span></a></p><p>The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.</p><p>@ me, if you like, or just include the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.</p><p>If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a></p>
WetdryvacPoem, Chocolate, Testing
WetdryvacPoem, Crass, A Bad Word, The Dead, Unsuitable Families, Funerals Could Be So Much Better
thelinuxcast<p>Seeing A Different Web <a href="https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/tech/seeing-a-different-web/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/tech/seeing-a-different-web/</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/webtakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webtakeover</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/amblogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amblogging</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogs</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/amwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amwriting</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>I can't help but reflect how using AI for writing is a lot like using AI for coding. I mean they are both composing something using a language of sorts, after all.</p><p>Anyway, it's just so much more work and time wasted fixing what AI generated that it's much better for me to write my first nasty draft and then rewrite it. If I want to use AI it's only if I am stuck with rephrasing something or structuring the article. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114837341567783793" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@carnage4life/114837341</span><span class="invisible">567783793</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a></p>
RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸<p>I once heard stories about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internmentcamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internmentcamps</span></a> of WW2 when I was younger, and I was glad to think I'd never see that again where I lived.</p><p>Land of the Free, right?</p><p>Yet here I sit looking at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aligatorauschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aligatorauschwitz</span></a> hearing stories of magot filled food, and people being sent there for minor infractions...</p><p>...It looks remarkably similar and it's horrifying.</p><p>Though instead of being at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> we're at war with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> loses its crown.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>