I had to “break up” with my long-time circle of friends over this kind of behavior. We had known each other for over 10 years, but the last few years of our “friendship” I had been increasingly flaked on, until I had started to develop anxiety any time I even thought of trying to make plans, because I knew how it’d feel like pulling teeth. Once I started identifying patterns like, I suggest plans on x date > they counter with x date + 1 month > 1 month later comes, everyone is “too busy” (but not too busy to have made plans amongst themselves during the same time) as well as several other obvious and embarrassing signs of being excluded, I just stopped trying and effectively “quiet quit” the friend group.

One particularly egregious example, the last event of theirs I was invited to, a small condo housewarming party of ~10 people, I quickly took notice of how they’d systematically move the group away from me, one or two individuals at a time, to a new spot any time I joined the conversation, until I was left alone, and this process repeated a few times until I gave up and scrolled on my phone alone on the couch, until my friend’s girlfriend apparently took pity on me enough to strike up a short convo (which was genuinely kind of her), but aside from that brief gesture I left a short while later feeling pretty dejected and quietly humiliated. Why invite someone to a gathering if you have no intention of talking to them? Why treat someone like that and then also still try to maintain any kind of friendship??

A whole six months of radio silence after the “quiet quitting,” one of them finally texts me asking if I wanted to “catch up” over lunch. I turned him down and (admittedly not so kindly) explained why, which was met by him pulling in 2 other “friends” to dogpile and gaslight me over how they were just “really busy” all the time, and how I should have tried talking to them about it because they had “no idea.” When I offered multiple examples of how they had systematically ignored and excluded me, they’d just circle back to the “we were soooo busy” and “had no idea” excuses, like broken records. Except for one of the friends, who just gave sort of a meek “I hear you, if you don’t want to talk to us anymore I will respect that,” which felt more like an admission that he didn’t care enough to keep me around than anything else. After a while of , I just blocked the two that kept arguing in circles. The rest of the “core” group (all people I had known for years btw) just simply never talked to me again.

Months later from that, I happened to reconnect with a couple of friends (both of whom I wouldn’t be surprised if they were also on the spectrum) that were mutuals with the above mentioned friend group (but also never super close to them), and they shared similar experiences of being excluded and feeling gaslit by the same individuals. So, at least I got some closure that it wasn’t “just me.” But, goddamn, it felt really shitty to learn that some otherwise apparently-well-adjusted neurotypicals like to keep us around just to be set pieces for their larger gatherings or some shit.

Suffice to say, I have lots of problems trusting and forming any kind of bonds with most neurotypicals, and tend to keep my distance from them nowadays. I still don’t fully understand why they behave the way they do around me, but at least I’ve come to realize and accept that it’s something wrong with them, not me.

Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat

There goes the US manned space program, I guess? What else is there, besides Boeing’s crap bucket that ended up stranding astronauts on the ISS for 9 months?

Edit: Apparently we’re still using Soyuz, lmao. Decades-old communist technology is still doing laps around privatized space flight.

Wrote this guy off when he was doing “it’s complicated, listen to my podcast for my full nuanced take” in response to people calling him out for his silence months into the Palestinian genocide. So, yeah, just a reminder that he stood his ground on not speaking out against genocide harder than he stood behind this shitty crypto grift.

I remember watching all this shit go down live.

I will never forget how, only 4 years later, the governor this all happened under was (and still is) propped up by liberals as some sort of progressive hero that “we” had to unite under to defeat Trump. (To say nothing about vp Harris also being complicit in genocide at the time.)

I can’t tell if either there’s too much of a critical mass of disgust against Israel that it broke the consent manufacturing machine (doubtful ), or if they haven’t really spun it up for whatever reason.

I mean, I didn’t even see it on r/all of today, like they didn’t even bother turning on the hasbara botnet for this??

My initial thought is that it’s fairly likely that the shooter is also Israeli

Edit: Looks like they have a suspect https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooting-dc-jewish-museum-rcna208427

Even worse (but funnier), said doofuses are rapidly being replaced with AI on both ends of the slop pipe, so it will soon be, if it’s not already, AI models spitting out reviews for books written by AI models.

Imagine, an entire industry worth millions (billions?) of dollars in political bribes being laundered behind a thin facade of AI slop regurgitating itself over and over

Another day, another feckless loser launching their ActBlue spam campaign of asking me for $10 (a bold step up from their usual ask of $5) to “send a message that Democrats will not tolerate authoritarian behavior.”

I’ve been getting texted pretty much every 1-2 days, each day a new campaign, for the past month, so it must be a profitable grift, probably lots of donations flying in from liberals scared away from brunch at the moment. It’s unfortunate that I can’t even take any pleasure in cussing them out, because I know no real human is behind the mountains of text they’ve been spewing out.

Talk shit, get lit

Edit: whoops meant to reply to op

Al-Quds Brigades announce two operations against Israeli occupation forces

In a statement, the Brigades reported that their fighters, upon returning from the frontlines, confirmed the detonation of an MK84 bomb—originally left behind by the Zionist enemy—which had been pre-planted to target an enemy military convoy in the same area last Saturday.

The group also claimed responsibility for the precise bombing of an Israeli military D9 bulldozer as it advanced east of Al-Tuffah, emphasizing the operation’s high accuracy.

MK84 is a 2,000lb bomb. Congratulations to Palestine on their new space program

I expect we’ll see more of this as the shoe drops from the tariffs and it becomes increasingly impossible to ignore the emporer strutting around buck naked because China stopped selling him cloths.

Sold down the river by who?

China’s Thorium Revolution - 60.000 Years of Cheap Energy - found this on my FYP, never heard of either of these guys, but the guest is completely over China’s thorium reactor while the host seems pretty stunned at the claims about its potential. Near the end, the host asks what his guest thinks about claims of “China stealing their thorium tech from the US” and is answer is a blunt, “no the US literally handed them their thorium research,” and even goes so far as to point out that the US had no interest in further developing thorium reactors because they have no use in creating weapons.