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30s | Not US American | No minors please.

[dadpilled]

Think this often about my boy

[earl-grey-hot]

Peaches knew ♥

[overseer-picard]

Star Trek TNG (with DS9 sprinkles) incorrect text posts part 8

[throwbackblr]

[missroguebirdie]

[kropotkindersurprise]

An Irish far-right streamer attempts to interview an antifascist. Sound on. [video]

[kropotkindersurprise]

Update from the Twitter account of the hero in that video:

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[queen-mihai]

Oh sweet FUCKING LORD

HEY COMPANIES

If we really fucking wanted the products you're trying to force down our throats

You wouldn't have to force them down our throats

Gawd these freaking idiots somebody take their fucking money seriously

Give some of it to me when you do sweet lord

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[terminators]

Happy 35th Anniversary to Terminator 2: Judgment Day!

[toastyglow]

my cats aren't comfortable meowing for food yet but this evening they did both peek around the couch to stare expectantly at me. artist's rendition below

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aralintheobsessive]

getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?

[qqchurch]

[warsamongthestars]

IT INTERESTS ME AND I HATE IT, BUT I SHALL RETURN TO IT'S PYRE AGAIN AND AGAIN.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Thanks for the warning @goofishh and @wellcome-to-chaos stay safe out there guys

[fractiousrvt]

The "I accidentally reported your account" scammers are out in droves this morning

[fractiousrvt]

They blocked me :(

[talesfromtreatment]

Am I just... collecting every type of common scam on this website today? What next, raybans???

[fractiousrvt]

I forgot about the art scam. I'll have to remember to incorporate that into my now sadly standard greeting.

[fractiousrvt]

Blocked again :(

Oh well, I got a message asking if I wanted a long post about sexual differentiation in hag fish and OH BOY DID I and now I have some fascinating reading material for the evening.

[fractiousrvt]

I think this gives me the current full set!

If you get any message or mention for something like this IT IS A SCAM. Just look at the fucking username. Don't fall for this.

[drememoto]

sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like

[drememoto]

(I would like to emphasize the “non-judgemental” portion of the caption)

[madnessbrainworms]

two different but very similar energies

[woolandflax]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[roxinova]

I applied to be a police officer just before Covid. No record, not even a speeding ticket. They did a polygraph and asked again, if I did anything like weed and was just never caught. I was considered "weird" for having nothing. So, live your life, even if you play their game exactly the way they want, then they judge you for having too clean of a record, too, which apparently makes you like a sociopath? Fuck 'em.