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[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[weirdplutoprince]

insane how people think i can just do things. "can you mail me this?" and get killed by the post office desk workers?????!!!?

[saltingthecookingwine]

For added context, people who don’t remember the 1980s, there were a serious of deadly shootings carried out by postal workers against their coworkers.

It was mostly covered by the media as a joke, as I recall.

[weirdplutoprince]

[weirdplutoprince]

post office scary

[starlightshadowsworld]

I was nodding along like yeah the post office is scary….good lord.

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

we should bring back the directional (Locative) Adverbs: Hither, Hence, Thither, Thence, Whither, Whence, Yonder, and Yons

lets go through the meanings to better

Hither means to here, so come hither means come to here to this place

Hence means from here, from this place (hence its other meaning of from this idea to another)

Whither means to where? what is the place it is going?

Whence means from What or Where? from where something came (go back whence you came)

Thither means to there, to that place (go thither and do your task)

Thence means to That or there, Thither is the place they will go

Yonder means to Yond (Yond is a form of There but for distance) so it means to that place far away

Yons means from that place far away, from Yence it shall go

unfortunately a couple of these have been rendered superfluous by Grammatical shifts and To deletion, but they are useful for writing if you want to sound cool

Yonder is also fun because its not a native English one its a borrowing from Old Norse hence why it has a different form

[skaldish]

I think about this a lot.

[computationalcalculator]

may I add also “butt dial” vs “booty call” vs “bottom text”

[clitorius-maximus]

Hand job vs manual labor

[ohgreatblackbunny]

Tags deserved to be seen

[starrgazr]

Always delighted when this poat crosses my dash. May I humbly submit: "I want to be used, master" vs. "I want to be useful, master"

[eraserspiral]

oh nice final chapter you're editing thee. be a shame if the lette stopped woking popely, wouldn't it? vey fustating

[elodieunderglass]

Excellent from the tags @a-kind-of-merry-war

[rylandgraces]

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode

[puzzled-on-main]

am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat

[whatcha-thinkin]

The bar is closing and you and your drunk friends are hungry! In your opinion what's the best drunk food?

tacos

pancakes

hot dogs

chicken wings

burgers

pizza

nachos

Philly cheesesteak

ramen

peanut butter & jelly

dude see if there's a [tag] nearby

I would never bring this garbage into the temple that is my body

Remaining time: 18 hours 7 minutes

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[starlightshadowsworld]

This is what’s known as Algorithmic bias.

It’s when AI produces discriminatory outcomes as a result of being trained on data that is biased which results in these AI systems replicating and reinforcing those biases.

That very well could be why Google Doc’s spellcheck is regurgitating this kind of bigotry because it’s literally what it was trained to do.

Side note this is why BAME folk are so concerned about the rise of facial recognition for criminal investigations. Cause not only is facial recognition less accurate for us than it is for white folk (cause they make up the majority of that trained data) but also because the police systems are institutionally racist.

Which is being reflected and perpetuated by these AI systems I mean people are already being misidentified and wrongfully arrested because of this.

[the-rainbow-suit-dude]

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

[starlightshadowsworld]

I’m in all of these pictures and I hate it

[limbel]

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i really appreciate seeing all the posts on my dash recently to the effect of "shutting down conversations about race/gender/minorities in fandom spaces because 'fandom is meant to be fun' is just an excuse to not think critically about the bigoted behaviors you are exhibiting". i hope that this energy carries over into the gaming sphere next pleaaseee

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

pokemon is a series about building Your own team and going on Your own adventure with creatures that You collect and befriend, and is designed from the ground up to be personal and immersive. i have never been able to look like myself in a pokemon game. if i bought pokemon z a today and booted it up and tried to customize myself, i would not be able to look like myself. just fuck me i guess.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ok yay

[doodle-mochi]

@creatingblackcharacters

[wowwforever]

The Weeping Angels are really scary until you realize if any organism sees them they are fucked so they get hard countered by geckos, who don't blink and can see in the dark. If the Doctor strapped like two geckos onto him he'd be fine.

[the-only-failure-is-never-to-try]

i love logical solutions to illogical whoniverse problems

[greelin]

[GUY WHO HAS THE MANNERISMS OF A NEUROTIC PREY ANIMAL VOICE] yeah i really believe that i am always a pretty calm person. cool. Collected, even

[punkitt-is-here]

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

[totally-cis-offical]

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

[moon-of-curses]

we're actually in a youtube video if this turns out to be funny enough

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

actually we're in a reddit post if it's really not

[zyzscribbles]

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