when lucifer first created the world,

ominous dyke -- (Ian/Max/Craig, he/him, ze/zim/zis or ne/nym/nys, 20s) -- icon by dijon-mayonnaise header by Narelle Portanier

[melongifts]

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

[melongifts]

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

[melongifts]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[leftoverlondoner]

A very pleasing poster design from 1974 and the slightly unexpected hand of Edward Gorey.

[mobius-m-mobius]

#works just as well in reverse tbh 😂

DANIEL CRAIG and JEFFREY WRIGHT in CASINO ROYALE (2006) // WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025)

[json-derulo]

endlessly funny that some pets will just decide they are service animals now without any training or feedback from humans. babygirl no one hired you. you do not have a license for this

[json-derulo]

I’m not talking about humans pretending their untrained pets are service animals so they can bring them places they shouldn’t be allowed. I’m talking about my dog, who took one look at the two people with severe ADHD time-blindness and executive dysfunction who adopted him and was like, “Great. I am your Watch Dog now, as in, dog who functions like a watch. That is, if your watch was a seven-pound furby that could run this house like the goddamn navy. I will catapult myself onto your chest and nip at your hands when you fail to get up and Do Things in response to my incessant whining that it is Time For You To Eat Lunch/Get Out Of Bed/Go Exercise/Take Your Meds/Etc Now Now Right Now. This is a service I provide for to Helping You. No, you cannot opt out of the Helping You. Do not attempt to resist the Helping You.”

[json-derulo]

⬆️ Trained Professional

[json-derulo]

[ineffectualdemon]

My cat knows when I should stay in bed and screams at me until I do and then sits on me so I don't get back up. If I do get up she follows me and screams until I sit down again

She knows by sniffing my mouth first. Which she does at least once a day

When I am struggling to eat she'll do her "I need food" act even when her food is full until I eat

[fallowthistlefield]

@thebibliosphere I think we've found Holly Mop's people

[thebibliosphere]

Some beloved critters really take the ‘companion’ role so seriously they train themselves to go above and beyond to the point where you’ll find yourself being bullied into lying down by a 10lb Shih Tzu. And then they’re right. You were getting a migraine. (It’s me. I’m in bed with a migraine with a 10lb Shih Tzu lying on top of me.)

[cloistergardens]

Hi, I am on this impossible search for the user who went by the url goethes (and later changed into bastard-lesbian), I understand that you were close at one point, no worries if you don't know what happened to them, though, I am just running out of places to look, I don't mean to upset you or anything, I hope you have a good day and I am sorry if I bothered you

hi!! not a bother at all! I know he’s been active on instagram fairly recently so he’s still around, but unfortunately I fell out of touch with him a few years ago so I’m not sure if he’s still on tumblr or not :/ I’m sorry I couldn’t be more helpful!!

[molebucks-deactivated20150826]

how can i communicate to wild bunnies that i am their ally

[dandelionjack]

i work at exit level job they pay me maximum wage i commute 5 millimeters every morning to the nearest blade of grass yesterday my manager isopod said he is promoting me to butterfly i am getting paid leave to go chrysalis mode

[unusual-suspects]

[tsunflowers]

people writing historical romance seem to love having a guy with a bad leg who walks with a cane but I’d like to see this energy in contemporary romance as well. there are handsome guys among us today who use canes

[segamascott]

[thefuturewithoutus]

[karmajam]

inspired by prev tags

[frightfullytreeish]

[twixnmix]

James Dean and Eartha Kitt attending a Katherine Dunham dance class in New York City, 1955.

Photos by Dennis Stock

[nintendometro]

Penguins Sherbert Land ‘Mario Kart 64’ Nintendo 64 Support us on Patreon

[catsuggest]

evil & cozé

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

Good news, everyone! Encountered a kind of library book damage today that I've never seen before!

Someone embroidered a page in a Hardy Boys book.

[liprairian]

[nodding in comprehension] you deedle, yeah

[grumfy]

i had a 4 hour drive today so i put on the revenge of the sith audiobook and the part where palpatine tells anakin to kill dooku came on right around the time that i saw a cybertruck and for a brief and beautiful moment when he said "do it" i had the urge to ram my honda full on into that shitty ass car

[grumfy]

everyone who says that anakin’s fall in that movie was too sudden has never been so angry at an Elon dickrider trying to cut in front of you at a traffic standstill while a droning, pleasant British voice tells you that murder is okay and necessary. I’m sorry guys but I would have folded too

[wickedcriminal]

Hedgehogs when they see a weird bug