Mrs D

Just to update my @pickaxsocial Journey... I got paid again, the community on there is amazing, the site is growing rapidly and it's free. Y'all should check it out! I added a paid partnership lable to this post, but Pickax does not pay me post about them. X just whined about it so I have to lie.

Curious about out Pickax? Come check out this space. teapawt.net/i/spaces/1YRnvEPBevekL…

To every creator wondering if Pickax is hostile toward the use of AI Here's my take on the atmosphere... the difference between personal opinions and platform policies, and why I don't think you should let the noise keep you from giving it a chance.

It's just that easy, I know because I'm a creator on Pickax and it's going way better than I ever expected.

Yesterday the Supreme Court quietly kept a lower court order in place that blocks the Trump administration from cutting off hormone therapy, surgeries, and items like makeup or wigs for transgender federal inmates. ­ ­The unsigned order came with no explanation. ­ ­Roughly 1,000 such inmates are in federal custody and about 600 received hormones last year. ­ ­The Court has restricted transgender rights in other cases before. ­ ­What stands out to you about this temporary decision?

Trump canceled the planned livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution after bipartisan backlash. The Fort Hood shooter, who killed 13 and wounded 32 in 2009, is still set to die by firing squad on Dec. 3 at the same base. It would be the first U.S. military firing-squad execution since 1945. Victims’ immediate families can attend in person if they choose. Should executions ever be made public, or does keeping them private better serve justice?

My pastor mentioned a poll today that stuck with me. People were asked if they’d rather make $100k a year while their neighbors make $50k, or make $200k while everyone around them makes $400k. **The original poll was in 1998 and we're half of these amounts. I changed it to make it accurate to today's economy. Most chose the lower number so they’d still come out ahead of the people next door. It got me thinking about how competitive we are as humans. We say we want more money, but a lot of us seem to care more about ranking higher than the folks we actually see every day. Absolute comfort takes a back seat to relative status. Are we really willing to take the lower amount just to have that social edge? Or does that say something deeper about how our brains are wired?

I guess when you decide this app is no longer worth $40 bucks they are just going to shut you down all the way now. 🤷‍♀️

Canada just paused plans to let people seek medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone, saying the system is not ready. It still allows the option for people with incurable conditions, and about 5% of Canadian deaths are now medically assisted. In the U.S., medical aid in dying is authorized in 13 states plus D.C.: Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Delaware, New York, and Illinois. Rules generally require a terminal illness, a prognosis of six months or less, mental capacity, and self-administration of the medication. Montana’s authorization comes from a court ruling rather than a statute. How do you feel about states offering this option?

A 28-year-old tech at Russia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute dies of “pneumonia of unknown origin.” ­ ­Local reports say she broke a tube holding the pneumonic plague pathogen. Officials say no accident, no work-related bacteria in her samples, she was vaccinated, contacts negative. ­ ­Nearly 200 people still got monitored. ­ ­WHO calls the risk abroad very low. ­ ­Rubio is telling Moscow to share more. ­ ­Sound familiar? ­ ­After COVID, a death inside a lab that stores the Black Death bacterium, followed by shifting stories and a transparency demand, is the kind of thing that does not stay local. ­ ­I readn the Plague responds to antibiotics if caught early. ­ ­The open question is how a researcher at a plague institute dies of mystery pneumonia while the paperwork says nothing happened. 🤐

So, sometimes when I call Johnny Ringo to come inside he tries to be ignore me... He loves being outside. ­ ­He doesn't realize that I can see him on an app on phone no matter where he is at. ­ ­It has an option to whistle and that sound comes from his collar to recall him. ­Here is his sneaky covert operation as he tries to hide along the tree line to go over to my neighbors pool. 🐾 ­ ­Sound up 🔊

Premium+ is $40 and quietly hands you SuperGrok-level Grok, Grok Bot, and an ad-free timeline. The new X Subscription looked at that and said, what if we made it a group project. Plus is $30, which feels like a win until you notice the AI allowance is one shared pool with Cursor. And it says Cursor, not Cursor Pro. Super will be $100 per month if you want the grown-up limits back. So the cheaper plan might be cheaper, or it might just be your Grok budget splitting rent with a coding app. I use Super Grok now and I only use it to make short humorous AI videos. Sometimes it takes me a few hours just to complete a 30 second video due to 90% failed video generations. So that's a no for me on this price increase. I'm not even monetized on here anymore, so there is no way to even offset the cost. I do earn RevShare on @pickaxsocial and that site is free. Are you switching, or are you staying on Premium+ and pretending you did not see this?

Well Creators on X... Does this seem like a good plan? I know a place that does not charge you rent to post and monetize. This place shows your content to your followers for free plus allows you to freely engage with others without punishing you for it. @pickaxsocial has RevShare without all this BS.

Jeff, I can confirm the complaint. For the last year my feed has been full of people politely begging the algorithm to show their posts to the people who already hit follow. Wild business model. Charge rent, then hide the tenant from the guests they invited. @pickaxsocial doesn't do this to their Content Creators.