Fox's Digital Den

Catalog Librarian. Vinyl snob. Horror enthusiast. Cat parent. #fantomfox Fan of all things musical and nerdy.

[goth-queen]

[hellowearerats]

[wilwheaton]

“Let me be clear: I will not vote for a Democratic presidential nominee who looked at this moment and chose ambition, optics, and algorithm-friendly outrage over intervention. If you cannot use power now, I do not trust you with more of it later.”

— AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATS - Alyssa Milano

[hellowearerats]

The House has already passed the spending bill that gives ICE more money. The Senate returns to session on Tues, Jan 27th (tomorrow) and the deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown is Jan 30th.

Now is the time to contact your senators to tell them not to give ICE more money.

I've put together a page with a few links and resources on actionable steps, including scripts for calling your senators, and easy templates for emailing them. Calling is better, but doing one is better than none.

I hope the page of links can be a resource for those who might easily feel overwhelmed with ways to help (I am that way myself). I'm sure it's far from perfect, but I hope it helps. Please take a moment to check it and see what ways you can act.

Take Action

Actionable steps + Resources

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[memecucker]

Chuck Jones is the best counterexample to “the curtains are just blue” because you would not believe the amount of thought and art theory he put into his silly little cartoons

[memecucker]

I need to dig out my Chuck Jones books but one time he was talking about the Wile E Coyote gag where he runs off a cliff and continues running for a little bit before noticing there’s no ground underneath him and then turns to the camera and holds up a sign saying “Help!” before plummeting and Jones said the reason Coyote does that instead of immediately trying to get back to the cliff edge is bc Coyote embodies anxiety and in that particular moment represents the fear and worry about the judgement of others over and above the desire for self-preservation.

Like, if someone was told that interpretation without knowing any better they’d think it came from some pretentious academic or whatever but nope! It’s literally the creator like those are the thoughts he had in his head when he was creating the cartoons

[candyspider-deactivated20230731]

the Nine Rules of the Roadrunner cartoons always sticks with me. Rule 3 especially

[fantomfox]

Lute: "He's weak." Adam: "Major pussy. Not the good kind." (S02 E02)

[fantomfox]

Adam being Adam (S01 E01)

[fantomfox]

The flood's comin', now you can bet on tragedy Like gravity!

[screenshotsofdespair]

[foxes-in-love]

[leopirate-deactivated20170629]

i didn’t ask for this (source)

[keyblack-hl]

but don’t you dare say you didn’t want it

[crispyporkpanda]

I need an MP3 of this!

[theosos]

true angels

[im-your-paladin]

A gospel choir singing Cruel Angel’s Thesis. This is everything I wanted that I never knew I did.

[officialfist]

When you gotta praise God at 18:00 but the anime club meets at 18:30.

[space-lord-joe-kewl]

The first guys reaction is all of us

[everythingfox]

Gamer kitty

[fantomfox]

A Human, Being

Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth isn't something you buy. Your worth isn't something you gain through status or popularity or stomach crunches or having a really chic kitchen. Your worth is your existence. You were born with worth, as all babies are, and that worth doesn't disappear simply because you have grown a little older. You are a human, being.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[best-of-inspirobot]

[Imagination can often be addictive, literally.]

[best-of-inspirobot]

[The experience of being a decent human being can be a lot similar to being strangled]