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[gauntletknight]

It goes without saying I'm magnitudes more """pro-AI""" than this website's median bloody-minded luddite, but it is fascinating that part of the appeal of having LLMs do web searches for you is that having a power hungry, computationally intensive mathematical miracle hosted however many hundred km away fetch the page for you, read the raw code, generate analysis, and then stream output to back to you is on the whole a faster way to retrieve information than fucking rendering JS in-browser.

[gauntletknight]

And then webdevs have the gall to go and block Claude Code or whatever from downloading their websites because "ohhh 🥺🥺 so much downloading is massively costing us so much in bandwidth 🥺 we just can't afford it as if they can't not but send 150MB of CSS and React gibberish.

[meshugenist]

my 0.5 GB substack page #my0.5GBsubstackpage

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one

[razzmothazz]

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

[dovesndecay]

Microaggressions against polyamory in interpersonal interactions are important and should be discussed, but I do wish more of the conversation focused on the ways that systemic amatonormativity impact things like family units, taxes, healthcare, inheritances, housing, childcare, etc.

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

Amatonormativity and polyphobia are not just theoretical "people are kinda mean about this sometimes" -- they are real and materially impactful systemic issues, and they affect all of us.

[redstonedust]

ive been thinking about how some trans spaces and media lack representation of bottom surgery and itd be nice if we could talk about and depict it more. but my attempts to formulate this into a coherent thought lead me to standing in front of the microwave idly thinking "we should normalize men with penises" as if thats a brave new frontier nobody has ever considered.

[sodomit]

I like this post. Because it shows that sometimes, what at the surface sounds like reinforcement of the norm, is actually necessary for a minority that's not included in the norm.

Y'all have seen this post, right?

It was a vaguepost of a trans man who complained about feeling pressure to be feminine. Yet people refer to it completely outside of queer context.

[gumy-shark]

sometimes my Beloved Mutuals will rb a post about a certain character archetype and i will have to physically restrain myself from saying “yeah you would say that wouldn’t you”

[slightly-sigilant]

if you're not playing fallen london you're missing out

[autumnbrambleagain]

Don't tell Happles what happened to its yacht.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[bananonbinary]

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

DO THINGS HALFWAY. NOW YOU’RE 100% BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.

[redheadhatchet]

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

But brushing your teeth for 30 seconds is better than not brushing them at all when that 2 minutes seems exhausting.  Doing ten minutes of yoga is better than 10 minutes of sitting when 30 minutes of cardio sounds impossible.  Changing my clothes is good when a whole shower is impossible.  Standing on the porch for a few minutes is worth it after being in the house for three straight days because I don’t have the energy to go anywhere.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it.

[resetium]

someone please hit me over the head with this post every day for like the next week thanks. a mention, a reblog with text, a message, something.

[blackwoolncrown]

You must understand that perfectionism isn’t striving for excellence, it’s a crippling fear of being flawed and therefore worth abandonment or punishment. It’s a kind of psychological avoidance. You’re avoiding fear and failure , not embracing the thing you want to do bc if it was about the thing you want to do you’d be fine with partial victory.

[thatwavephenomenon]

me: i sure hope the crows are not gonna be solely depicted in veilguard as a brave force who 'fight for all' when they are at their core a criminal organization who is known to buy children to indoctrinate them and turn them into assassins, by putting them in overcrowded warehouses and making them fight for scrapes in order not to starve, to later torture those who reach adulthood to finish their initiations and kill them anyways if they dare to try getting out

bioware: i cooka da pizza

[nuclearloop]

You Must Shed it

[irrigone]

it was so bad for my skin but I do still miss living in a dry climate. my dishes drip-dried in 5 minutes. spilled water was half-evaporated in five seconds. my hand towel was always perfectly dry.

now if I don't hang my towel in just the right way after my shower it will have a damp spot on it for 24 hours. my hand towel is perpetually a little bit wet. you can spill a bit of water on the floor and 3 days later it will still be there. every day I manage to find some tiny bit of water with the heel of my sock.

I may be god's strongest soldier but if the arch of my foot gets wet I will die instantly and ragdoll before I hit the floor. gross! fuck!

[herpsandbirds]

Eyelash Pit-Viper (Bothriechis nigroadspersus), family Viperidae, Caribbean lowlands of Panama

Venomous.

This snake comes in a variety of colors and patterns, but this one is unusually red!

photographs by Ignacio Yúfera 

[decomposedmaw]

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

[proximally]

sorry im still not over this even though it was like 4 hours ago. was having an issue accessing company spreadsheets on sharepoint via browser so had to get the IT guy's help and apparently the reason was because i was using duckduckgo. which the IT guy then told me was a search engine "primarily associated with the dark web" and that i should use google and google chrome. like are you kidding me

[proximally]

sister has suggested "primarily associated with the dark web" booty shorts

[synonymsfordismember]

My new feel-bad story "Dead Wife" is out now with the webzine Horrific Scribes!

Two childhood friends resurrect Nora, the narrator's wife, after a brutal car accident, but balk when she comes back livelier than before. Content warnings for domestic abuse, animal death, explicit sexuality and gore.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for this story, but be sure to check out the wide variety of excellent horror stories hosted here as well! I'm so excited to share this story; it was a potential hard sell and an experiment in form for me, and I'm so pleased how it came out.