The Great and Lovely Descent

im autumn, they/them 27. also @LighthouseHut on twitter, and dogbat.dogbat.space on bluesky

[relvaik]

This is attack seven and revenge six for @ferapes

[krisonthefrontporchwithabeer]

Wormwood

[sandmandaddy69]

[suigintou]

[suigintou]

[dragongirlbunny]

there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.

[magneatio]

image i reference nearly every day

[orteil42]

controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i'm going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i've "been meaning to do" that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could've decided to sit down and watch it, and i did not. how many more decades will slip by like this? conceivably, it could be all the decades i have left. watching the Emoji Movie would not be, after all, a crucial use of my time. much better things to do. i could easily postpone it over and over and over until my final breath where it may not even register to me that i never did watch the Emoji Movie. no great loss, certainly; and yet i find myself intrigued by Patrick Stewart's involvement

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lakevida]

does getting cursed by a witch show up in drug tests

[mollyjames]

No sorry boss, I didn't get a call back number. She just said something about a dragon soul and hung up

[toskarin]

I was born with the dragon soul. you will not put me on hold

[iluvrabbitz]

[creamypancakebatter]

Yurt

[sunbutch]

if you call women “females” i automatically do not trust or like you

[cryptic-crassulaceae]

you really wont like the military then buddy

[sunbutch]

jokes on you, i already hate the military

[hungwy]

swag can destroy you

[ghostlycoyote0]

Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess

[karl-von-moor-official]

it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.

normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!

n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."

m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).

on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear

like so.

and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.

[luasumas]

this was the best chapter ever i love them all.