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Anka ~ Introvert ~ 34 ~ German ~ Asexual/Demisexual ~ Ships some guys ~ Also reblogs a bunch of nonsense ~ Deal with it or go away

[myjourneywithfnd]

I saw a video today from a chronically ill woman about the fact you can feel so guilty when doing fun things.

She talks about how, as a kid, you learn to finish work before you can play and that you take this with you into adulthood. So you keep the mindset of having to finish 'have to' tasks/chores before being allowed to 'play'.

But when you're chronically ill, this is literally impossible! If you'd do that it would be all work and never play. That wouldn't be healthy at all. We need to remind ourselves of this. We don't need to feel guilty for doing something fun!

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[vintageandroid]

fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.

[draconym]

I think it sucks that you have to go to so many different kinds of doctor to take care of yourself. It's the 21st century. I should be able to go to a single office where they scan me with a big xerox machine and tell me what I'm allergic to and why my tummy hurts and if I have any cancer or cavities or if my glasses prescription has changed. And then I should get a sticker.

[wildmansters]

The thing that really boils my potatoes about AI in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this AI generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the AI Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.

I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[catchymemes]

[charlesoberonn]

You just keep brewing more potions and let the lingering effects of the previous potions add up over time like a lingering stew.

[mythlorn]

Sometimes you gotta do it out of spite...

I'm astounded by the abject stupidity I've absorbed by proximity over the last two years. Now my book, that has been a total struggle to write and is taking forever, is being accused of being "Written by AI" because I, get this, use em dashes. That's right. This shit just gets funnier and funnier. First I was cancelled because I call my series an inclusive series (which it is!) And this is supposedly a red flag for gaslighting, poor writing, and queer-baiting. Then I had plot flow and conflict in my narrative, which is, you know, part of what writing an actual book is about (which made people uncomfortable!), Now my art and writing are being ignored because they "look/read" too well, and are therefore "Made by AI." Folks, you can go back 25 years and find my creations, while evolving, have not changed drastically. What has changed is that AI has stolen my art, writing, and stylistic traits (and many other people like me, who were also big in fandom) and used it to feed/learn from. No consent was given, but here we are.

You're currently "ousting" olds from fandom spaces because our creations look too realistic, or are too "good" to belong and must not be real. Many creators are actively not attempting to better their styles/skills/writing because if it looks/reads like shit, they are at least allowed to be in fandom without an AI witch hunt. We've been through the tropes are evil phase. We've been through everything is C-S-A or non P-C. We have even been through the unflattering phase of "Writing can't have conflict in it because it makes me feel uncomfortable." phase. Now freaking what?! Back in the day the worst thing I had to do was explain that I was not a net nanny and that the internet was, by default, an adult space. I don't know how ya'll went so far left you've gone right, but it's a really bad look. So here's what's gonna happen. I'm going to keep writing and painting anyway. Maybe I'll share it with you, maybe I won't. But I WILL keep creating, and certainly write what I want to write. And at the end of the day, it's going to be good, not AI garbage. Read it or don't. I'm sick of begging people to pull their heads out of their collective asses or acquaint themselves with common sense. I make good stuff. It makes me happy. I don't have the time, emotional capacity, or fortitude to stomach any more childish crap. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. Your bullshit, hate, virtue signaling, and performative activism are cancelled. I'm going to call this phase of my life "Joy", and you can die mad about it.

[goldensunset]

gamers who spam through tutorial instructions or skip cutscenes and then complain that the gameplay is frustratingly unintuitive or that the story sucks are equivalent to those online cooking weirdos where they substitute carrots for chocolate and then complain to the author of the article that the recipe is a failure. bestie perhaps look inwards

[luainthewild]

I wish I woke up tomorrow in a world where I don't have to see a single AI generated image ever again

[segamascott]

[riflebrass]

You just had to be there I guess.

[ouroborosmoons]

[skyethepuppygirl]

"72 hours were it not for some regulatory hold ups" I hope this makes it crystal fucking clear to everyone. This is a metal box shitily put together with 0 regard to the people that will be forced inside it. It took them 8 days WITH regulations, and what you see is 1500 bunk beds put into a metal cage within a bigger metal cage. It's optimised to take away people's comfort and privacy.

And if they didn't have regulations it would have been worse.

Building this in 8 days isn't impressive. It's a disgusting testament to the lengths of cruelty people will go to just to lock up and torture and harm anyone who isn't white.

Make noise about this. Never stop making noise until everyone can live safely. This is disgusting.

[inkskinned]

i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[maidmarians]

And Littlefoot knew for certain that he was alone. 

[sleepysmilesamirite]

#second saddest scene in the movie #honestly i found this movie to be way sadder than say the lion king or bambi #because of this scene and the ones around it #while the other two movies just kind of glanced over the child’s reaction to their parent’s death #the land before time spends quite a lot of time focusing on littlefoot right after his mother died #and how much he struggled with the loss #and it’s extremely painful to watch as this small child #goes through the different phases of grief #blaming his mother #not eating #being in down right denial #and then this scene #this freaking scene #when he finally realizes and accepts that she is gone for good #it is much more powerful than any scene in the lion king or bambi #littlefoot’s mother is THE saddest death in animated movies for me#and i will fight you over this #because while the death itself is quite sad #it’s the aftermath that makes it memorable (via benvoliotheorphan)

Bambi and Lion King immediately tried to distract children from the deaths of the parents. Bambi had the sweet little birds come flying in, and singers coming in to sing about them. Lion King, while they showed Simba running away, Scar ascending the throne, we can’t focus on that TOO much so let’s throw in a wacky, zany song by two new characters who sing about forgetting your worries! No, quick, jingle the shiny keys in the sad child’s face before they get too sad about the dead characters!

But Don Bluth and his team brought a movie that showed actual stages of grief with this little dinosaur and it is powerful to this day. 

[jermaine-main]

[kleefkruid]

hate how this 1) manages to make fun of Belgium without bothering to mention us 2) every single person in the notes knows this 3) it's true

[triple-fisting]

[bookshelfdreams]

EVERYONE went "actually fuck English" this year and I respect that so much