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I finally broke. Mental health reached a breaking point

I reached my breaking point today . Walked into my managers office and said I couldn’t hack the job anymore . SSA has caused me to break As someone who fights demons from military service , dealing with chronic health problems finally hit a breaking point and cried for the first time in public . I served my country honorably as a combat engineer in the US Army for 15 LONG years . Before I hit year 5 , I had already spent almost 29 of those months in Afghanistan doing route clearance . After two deployments , I finally found my purpose in life and started a family . Fast forward a tad , I start a wonderful career with the federal government, and was amazed at the opportunities, and benefits that came with working , and continuing to serve my country. Since starting working for SSA, I have had a large portion of my colon removed(complications from diverticulitis), a minor stroke, shingles , AFib that resulted in two heart surgeries . I’m still in my 30’s.After hitting my 10 year mark , I made history by publicly crying. I hit my breaking point . I never thought I would admit I’m mentally exhausted . But it happened. The constant barrage of insults from the public . Mad because work isn’t being done . You’re mad because you know why it’s not being done, but you have to become the emotional punching bag . I must say that admitting that I mentally broke today feels really good, but it still saddens me that we’re being deliberately mistreated . What tops it off , is that if you mention anything about it to people outside of work , they chalk it up as being “ left leaning conjecture “. My heart goes out to all my VA folks. I’ve noticed that feds from across the government ether are pretty tight knit . PS. I’m good , I’m getting the help I need . I wanted to share because one thing I have learned is that you should not suffer in silence . After all I have been through , it was rather embarrassing crying in front of another grown man , but having humility will soothe the soul .

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    Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

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      Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994

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        'DOGE Failed. Trump is a Liar,' Says A Hedge Fund Manager As U.S. Debt Forecast To Hit $64 Trillion In A Decade

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          Kristi Noem fires pilot over a blanket – but is forced to reinstate him to fly home

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            Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show

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              Kash Patel Under Fire As Leaked FBI Docs Suggest Possible Shielding Of Sex Traffickers

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                Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

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                  [?]Chuck Darwin » 🌐
                  @cdarwin@c.im

                  France summoned billionaire
                  to a
                  “voluntary interview”
                  as authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X,
                  the Paris public prosecutor’s office said.

                  “A search is being conducted today at the French premises of the X platform,”
                  the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

                  The investigation was then broadened after additional reports criticised the AI chatbot Grok’s role in disseminating Holocaust denials and sexual deepfakes on X,
                  the prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.

                  The social media platform, which has denied the allegations, also in July called the investigation “politically motivated”.

                  In late January, the European Union hit X with an investigation over Grok’s generation of sexualised deepfake images of women and minors.

                  newssummedup.com/summary/Franc

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                    [?]Terry Hunter 🌈⭐✌🏼✌🏿✌🏻✌🏽 » 🌐
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                    🤔💭
                    Hmm... I wonder why everyone refers to Trump and Republicans as Nazis and calls ICE the Gestapo???

                      [?]TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀 » 🌐
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                      [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
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                      this may be the first thing i've ever posted where i got significantly more engagement on the than on the hellsite. feels like the hellsite might be throttling discussion of the somewhat.

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                        [?]Kevin LaRose, no ICE please » 🌐
                        @Thumper1964@mindly.social

                        I’m wondering if there is an actual decent out there or are they all money-grubbing jerks? I’m kind of leaning toward the jerks. Taylor Swift and Dolly Parton could both be billionaires several times over, but they either give most of their money away or invest it in worthwhile causes. That’s being responsible, or in Biblical terms, good stewards. And then there’s who has said he actually aspires to be the world’s first trillionaire. Nice aspiration there, Elon, considering the only real way to make that happen is to squeeze everything he can out of the resources he has, including those who work for him. Yeah, I’d say he was a jerk.

                          [?]TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀 » 🌐
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                          [?]ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋 » 🌐
                          @Lydie@tech.lgbt

                          "Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter"

                          EDIT: unpaywalled: archive.ph/IJe1c

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                            [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                            @kkarhan@infosec.space

                            Shitter, Musk, CSAM, Grok, AI [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                            Seriously, how much must release till there's a literal arrest warrant for and his engineers and his businesses (not just "") are banned as ?

                            youtube.com/watch?v=TEKYOPI6D_4

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                              [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
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                              uspol,socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                              xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

                              xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.


                              arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -csam -safety -musk

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                                [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
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                                uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                DOGE did not find $2T in fraud, but that doesn’t matter, Musk allies say

                                Musk allies spin DOGE as having a

                                Archive: ia: s.faithcollapsing.com/jnndg
                                arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -trump -musk -budget

                                A man with a black cap featuring the word DOGE is speaking with a visible bruise on his face.

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                                  [?]Chuck Darwin » 🌐
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                                  While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
                                  it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.

                                  In 2025,
                                  💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
                                  entered the lexicon,
                                  a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
                                  that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
                                  as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inhuman.

                                  The year ended with a Vanity Fair photographer capturing a close-up portrait of 28-year-old White House press secretary
                                  that appears to show visible injection spots on her lips.

                                  Billionaire ,
                                  the self-proclaimed “First Buddy.” also invited the world to take a closer look at his sexual proclivities in 2025,
                                  having installed himself in government to run the pseudo-agency Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while proclaiming he would destroy the
                                  “woke mind virus.”

                                  Musk wants everyone to think it’s progressives who are weird,
                                  mostly because they accept trans people.

                                  Instead, we learned that he has a fetish for impregnating women,
                                  which he justifies with an even stranger claim to be single-handedly battling the imaginary threat of depopulation.

                                  Musk frequently hits up strangers on X to ask if they’re interested in having his babies
                                  — of which he has at least 14 already.

                                  If they’re game or greedy enough to say yes, he reportedly tends to forgo the typical impregnation technique
                                  — which most people cite as the most fun part of the process
                                  — in favor of having a doctor do it for him with IVF.

                                  Musk’s kink swept through MAGA.

                                  🔥To hear movement leaders talk,
                                  it’s a woman’s duty to be pregnant as often as possible,
                                  ideally non-stop.

                                  ” content that fetishized female submission and over-the-top fecundity was everywhere in right-wing bubbles in 2025.

                                  When pop star Taylor Swift became engaged to NFL star Travis Kelce,
                                  Charlie Kirk ranted that she needed to
                                  “submit to her husband”
                                  and “have lots of children.”

                                  🔥MAGA media was also awash in disinformation painting birth control as dangerous and unnatural,
                                  enabling the Trump administration to destroy millions of dollars worth of contraception,
                                  rather than let poor women have it.

                                  Nearly all women who have sex with men use contraception at least some of the time.

                                  But in 2025, MAGA was infected with online ideologies like “
                                  — short for “involuntary celibacy”
                                  — and the “,”
                                  a misogynist worldview that treats dating as a dominance battle between men and women,
                                  instead of a shared activity.

                                  It’s why Nick Fuentes professes pride at being a virgin.

                                  The online right is flooded with sexually dysfunctional straight men
                                  who argue that their romantic woes aren’t due to their own failures,
                                  but because feminism has “ruined” women.

                                  Bored, angry men are a lucrative audience, so it makes sense that the grifter-heavy right would churn out endless content appealing to the bruised egos of these malcontents.

                                  But their dysfunction is seeping into politics in ways that are increasingly distorting and dangerous.

                                  The phrase that cinched this bizarre, inverted worldview in 2025 was
                                  .”

                                  Technically, it was coined in late 2024 by Fox News’ Jesse Watters to describe Stephen Miller,
                                  who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff.

                                  But the term got new life in September when Miller’s wife Katie repeated the phrase on Fox News in a moment that was too confusing to be upsetting to anyone outside of the bizarre world of MAGA sexuality.

                                  On some level, it seems they were trolling Stephen Miller,
                                  who by conventional standards does not exactly exude sexual magnetism.

                                  salon.com/2025/12/31/the-right

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                                    [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
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                                    @m0xEE things are so bad on X (the everything app) that even buterin is calling out for manipulating the algorithm to push russian talking points

                                    @VitalikButerin
The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged...

I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top.

It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism.

(I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe)

It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.

                                    Alt...@VitalikButerin The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged... I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top. It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism. (I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe) It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.

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                                      [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
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                                      uspol,socialmedia [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                      Elon Musk’s X first to be fined under EU’s Digital Services Act

                                      The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.


                                      arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20 -checkmark -services-act -musk -ads

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                                        [?]𝙳𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙 » 🌐
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                                        has a very good point. The people of Earth should stay on Earth.

                                        Elon Musk says Italians should stay in Italy and the Japanese in Japan.
Then why the hell is this White European South African in North America?

December 16, 2023

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                                          [?]Lisa Gets Politik » 🌐
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                                          "Earlier this year, Elon Musk built a gas-burning power plant large enough to power a small city, claimed it was exempt from air pollution laws, and placed it next to Boxtown, a Black neighborhood in Memphis where he had built a new data center. People in Boxtown started breathing polluted air – and dying faster. This is what the AI bubble looks like today." - Dwaign Tyndal





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                                            [?]Steven Saus [he/him] » 🌐
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                                            uspol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                            (24 Nov) DOGE “cut muscle, not fat”; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts

                                            Government brain drain will haunt US after DOGE abruptly terminated.

                                            s.faithcollapsing.com/1c65w

                                            -of-government-efficiency -trump -musk

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                                              [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
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                                              spoiler: this is painfully close to the contents of the Infinite Jest videotape

                                              @elonmusk
Grok Imagine prompt:

She smiles and says “I will always love you”

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                                                [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
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                                                men will create their own version of with just so they can rewrite the page before they will go to therapy

                                                Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
GROKIPEDIA VS WIKIPEDIA: HOW BITCOIN EXPOSED THE WAR
ON TRUTH
Wikipedia treats Bitcoin like a suspicious side hustle, while Grokipedia
treats it like what it actually is: a revolution with a blockchain.
Wikipedia’s Bitcoin page reads like it was edited by central bankers after
a bad day on Coinbase.
It calls it “speculative,” parrots Krugman’s “Ponzi scheme” insult, and
cries about energy use like fiat printing presses don’t run on fossil fuels
and hypocrisy.
The whole thing is padded with IMF talking points about “volatility” and
“criminal use,” basically begging you to stay safely in debt.
Grokipedia, on the other hand, doesn’t flinch. It spells out the obvious:
Bitcoin’s fixed supply means no inflation theft.
It’s “digital gold” in an age of paper lies, born from the ashes of the 2008
bailouts that proved governments protect bankers, not people.
It even breaks down how mining is pushing renewables faster than most
“green” bureaucrats ever did.
The difference couldn’t be clearer.
Wikipedia worships “neutrality” while quietly defending the financial
status quo.
Grokipedia calls it like it is: Bitcoin is the first real check on state power
since the printing press.

                                                Alt...Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal GROKIPEDIA VS WIKIPEDIA: HOW BITCOIN EXPOSED THE WAR ON TRUTH Wikipedia treats Bitcoin like a suspicious side hustle, while Grokipedia treats it like what it actually is: a revolution with a blockchain. Wikipedia’s Bitcoin page reads like it was edited by central bankers after a bad day on Coinbase. It calls it “speculative,” parrots Krugman’s “Ponzi scheme” insult, and cries about energy use like fiat printing presses don’t run on fossil fuels and hypocrisy. The whole thing is padded with IMF talking points about “volatility” and “criminal use,” basically begging you to stay safely in debt. Grokipedia, on the other hand, doesn’t flinch. It spells out the obvious: Bitcoin’s fixed supply means no inflation theft. It’s “digital gold” in an age of paper lies, born from the ashes of the 2008 bailouts that proved governments protect bankers, not people. It even breaks down how mining is pushing renewables faster than most “green” bureaucrats ever did. The difference couldn’t be clearer. Wikipedia worships “neutrality” while quietly defending the financial status quo. Grokipedia calls it like it is: Bitcoin is the first real check on state power since the printing press.

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                                                  [?]Marc-Uwe Kling » 🌐
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                                                  Und wie drückt ihr euch um den Abwasch?

                                                  &jeff

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                                                    [?]⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯ » 🌐
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                                                    tucker carlson interviewed nick fuentes and the coalition is in absolute meltdown.

                                                    - on one side you have the pro-israel, pro-netanyahu neoneocons who are shocked - shocked! - that there is grotesque antisemitism going on in this establishment.

                                                    - on the other side you have MAGA influencers with enormous followings finally just taking the mask off and saying "it's the jews"

                                                    ...and the groypers are swarming everyone's replies with non-stop memes.

                                                    i feel like this interview finally put the match to the antisemitic gasoline that Candace Owens has been pumping for years now.

                                                    incredible drama 🍿

                                                    Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire
I watched the Fuentes interview

It was benign, which is the op
Take an extremist, 10x his platform, but with a new moderate version of
himself

Now his credibility extends "| watched that Fuentes guy, he's not that
bad"
Then he's normalized
The same has happened w/ Mamdani

                                                    Alt...Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire I watched the Fuentes interview It was benign, which is the op Take an extremist, 10x his platform, but with a new moderate version of himself Now his credibility extends "| watched that Fuentes guy, he's not that bad" Then he's normalized The same has happened w/ Mamdani

                                                    Hodgetwins
@hodgetwins

Look at everybody that is mad about Tucker interviewing Fuentes

They all got one thing in common

11:24 AM - Oct 28, 2025 - 281.1K Views

                                                    Alt...Hodgetwins @hodgetwins Look at everybody that is mad about Tucker interviewing Fuentes They all got one thing in common 11:24 AM - Oct 28, 2025 - 281.1K Views

                                                    Madeline Schultz
@madelinefry
my mentions rn

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                                                      [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                      @abucci@buc.ci

                                                      Anyone concerned with the present dangers of deployment should listen to @emilymbender@dair-community.social and @alex@dair-community.social deconstruct Driving US Innovation in Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Policy in the United States in their excellent podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/15280581-episode-34-senate-dot-roadmap-dot-final-dot-no-really-dot-docx-june-3-2024

                                                      "Automated Immiseration" is how I read, at a coarse level, what's being proposed. Austerity politics handed down by machines.

                                                      The endgame of austerity economics has historically been some variation of fascism. Clara Mattei's meticulously-researched book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism is a deep dive into how this has played out, especially after WWI. Mattei brings receipts: she has direct quotes indicating economists at the time knew full well what they were doing. The purpose of austerity measures, as spelled out explicitly by the people who invented them, is to discipline citizens and laborers--to keep them from getting any ideas about receiving too many benefits from government--and to re-affirm the position of capital holders at the top of the pecking order.

                                                      One comment I had about the "reskilling"/"upskiling" part of the conversation: I don't have the references on hand, but I believe it's been amply documented that "upskilling" almost never happens. It's a word that's thrown around as a salve, to reduce alarm about intended market destruction and job loss.

                                                      If upskilling were a serious part of this so-called roadmap, there'd be more specific plans for whose jobs will be displaced, which colleges and universities will educate these displaced folks, how that education will be funded, and which jobs are waiting for them on the other side. The upskilling plans, if serious, would be as detailed and spelled out as the AI/corporate plans are. If the upskilling plans were serious, the presidents of Ivy League and state universities, vocational institutions like coding bootcamps, and other educational institutions would have been present to share their insights and views, especially as regards the realism of re-training as many people as this roadmap and the rhetoric of boosters suggests might be displaced. It'd be wise to include high school educators as well, since such a significant shift in the workforce affects students in high school as well. I didn't read the backgrounds on all 150-ish participants in these Senate forums, but I didn't see or hear about a large contingent of educators among them. As it stands the roadmap document only vaguely refers to "legislation" that doesn't yet exist.

                                                      Frankly, I see little that sounds serious in this "roadmap" aside from the danger it represents. It reads like a whitepaper a corporate middle manager would pound out (using probably) in an afternoon. Emily and Alex referred to Chuck Schumer as "an fanboy", and I think that's what this document reflects. This is The Boring Company of government policy proposals.


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                                                        [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                        @abucci@buc.ci

                                                        Sorry. Your Car Will Never Drive You Around.

                                                        Brutal takedown of the bullsh&*# that is "self-driving cars": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

                                                        It's a long video but frankly you can get the gist of most of it by scanning over the chapter titles. "Hitting Fake Children". "Hitting Real Children". "FSD Expectations" is a long list of the various lies has told about "full self driving" Teslas. Also the "Openpilot" chapter has a picture of Elon Musk's face as a dartboard.

                                                        The endless hype and full-on lies of the self-driving-car con from roughly 2016 to 2020 resembles the about like going on right now. If you've been in this industry long enough and have been honest with yourself about it you've seen all this before. Until something significant changes we really ought to view anything coming out of the tech sector with deep suspicion (https://bucci.onl/notes/Another-AI-Hype-Cycle).