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[dchuntress]

bunny moodboard

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

There's a kindergarten near my house and a sometimes they play this cleaning up song at an absurd volume so I'm sitting inside and can hear "pick it up! Pick it up!" and every time I think "that's not a bad idea actually" and obey the cleaning song.

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

when we think of things we take for granted that generations of old would be amazed by i think a lot of us are underrating the easy availability and low price of salt

[flanbolt]

[necromancelena]

I'm going to fix everything in the next three hours everyone wish me luck. if i dont then probably ill dig a hole and lie down in it for a bit in the rain/sun/whatever outside looks like these days

[necromancelena]

the hole isnt even that bad

[hypnostouched]

I have issues with a lot of the pure mechanics but if im honest I really like the direction v6 is going because you can tell that it cares about what players want rather than being based in spite and personal dislike towards certain playstyles and clans

V5 is intended for you to build a Camarilla Neonate and when they eventually added alternatives, they had to fuck around with their own system to let you do it. V6 is as a baseline allowing you to play the character concept you want to play without it being an afterthought mechanic

Theyre returning clan individuality - yes fusing koldunic sorcery and chimestry is weird but when they've separated necromancy and oblivion and rescued vicissitude from hell, you can tell that the intention is to return to more distinct clans. Tellurgy falls flat, yes, but that feels like a fumble rather than the intention

They are clearly wanting to fix the issues of v5. Clan identity, returning the sabbat, allowing for older vampires in play

So as much as the mechanics are rough currently I am glad that the intention behind the game seems a lot better.

This is an early playtest version - they're looking for feedback. I think its too early to flatout call this edition a failure. I think if you look past the mechanics, the heart of v6 is very interesting.

The only issue I have with the intentions being shown is that the focus on player agency is encroaching on the Storyteller's. The storyteller is a player too and I think a lot of the new rules around failure takes away from the Storyteller more than it gives to the players. The World of Darkness is not an easy world to exist in and I think giving the players so much power over their own consequences doesnt align well with that, and it takes away the fear and dread that comes with horror

[modernbaseball]

2 am: bedtime were meant to be broken 😈

7 am: I hope i get in a car accident

[kosmogrl]

[slightly-sigilant]

I have a new standard for the level of haterdom to aspire to, and it's Reddit User KismaiAesthetics, who hates doing laundry so much that he got really good at it, so that he can (I quote) do it right the first time, every time, and get back to watching cat videos on the Internet.

and by "really good at it," I mean that he does a bunch of reading on the chemistry of laundry, subscribes to academic journals about laundry, and buys a bunch of different laundry products (including from outside the US) to scrutinize their ingredients and test them for himself. he writes a bunch of incredibly detailed longposts about his findings on /r/laundry and his website, which is also about laundry. he even got interviewed about his laundryposts, in which he revealed he's writing a book about laundry. this man is like ahab and the white whale, if ahab had a reddit account and moby dick was a pile of clothes with cheeseburger stains on them

[slightly-sigilant]

anyway the reason I encountered this guy was because recently, the household washer has been leaving these gross little oily brown flakes on anything washed in it. this is kind of a big problem for me, given that I not only have (literal, diagnosed, medicated) OCD which includes a contagion phobia, I also sew a bunch of stuff with the intent of gifting or selling it, and sometimes that involves prewashing fabric. only, you know, washing is supposed to make things cleaner, not dirtier.

and my research brought me to (gross photos warning!) Kismai's post on the very topic. apparently this stuff is called "scrud," and it's basically a residue that forms over time inside the nooks and crannies of a washing machine - leftover detergent reacting with mineral traces in tapwater to form a buildup that also traps dyes, grease, and other dirt, which bacteria then feeds on, because it wasn't already gross enough. it forms faster if you have hard water, use too much detergent (which most people do), use fabric softener, wash only on cold and the list goes on and on - point is, scrud is the reason that you have to actually clean your washing machine, or be super fastidious about how you do laundry.

(I'll take "things I wish school/my parents actually taught me" for 800)

so now I am engaged in a lengthy battle against scrud, armed with a tub of oxiclean and a sack of citric acid crystals. (we're renters, so disassembling the machine is out of the question.) pour in a scoop of oxiclean, run a machine clean cycle, pour in a scoop of citric acid, run another machine clean cycle, all while wiping piles and piles of scrud out of the drum at the end of each cycle. I'm on the eighth cycle now. there's still so much scrud. the reddit record for "how many cleaning cycles were needed to get a machine entirely free of scrud" is 22 cycles. help

[slightly-sigilant]

hey so like

it turns out that laundry sucks significantly less when your clothes and sheets and etc actually come out of the machine looking, feeling, and smelling clean, rather than looking, feeling, and smelling like despair dipped in slime

like, I have this pillowsheet I call my Depression Era Pillowsheet, because during a Real Bad Time of my life when 90% of all I could do was lie in bed and cry, that was the pillowsheet I laid and cried on. this went on for weeks, and it was never changed out because, again, 90% of my waking hours were Lie In Bed And Cry Hours. it did eventually get changed out, but no matter how many washes I put it through, it remained stained and slimy. like I'd throw it in every time I washed my clothes and it would still come out feeling like someone had applied a fresh layer of Weeping Slime Laminate to it. someone with more sense probably would have thrown it out but idk, I just never did for some reason

anyway! taking some pointers from the freaks over at /r/laundry, I grabbed an enzyme-based detergent, a booster (thing of More Enzymes and oxygen bleach that you add alongside detergent to make it clean gooder), and washed everything on hot (in a machine without a scrud problem), including the Depression Era Pillowsheet. it finally came out looking and feeling like fresh clean cotton?? what?? I hadn't even done the whole "soak it for 24 hours in various unsettling substances" thing??? wack

[scorpionlafemme]

[arach-tinilith]

i think its a lil sad how often people will like restrain themselves from exploring new identities and hobbies because they don't want it to be an "embarrassing phase" because honestly i think its way cooler to have a diverse and varied lifestyle that you can look back on and say "omg i used to love doing that!" and apply those skills and interests to something else.

[prophcassandra]

People reacting to the V6 Alpha: "Ahhh the morality system is so weird. Apparently we have to try and find ways to feed the Beast now?" Me, a Pack Priest: "Interesting, do go on..." The same people: "And now we have to have a balance between our mortal side and our vampire nature, and ignoring our vampire nature entirely is bad actually??" Me, a Path Scholar: "Sit by my side, young Cainite, allow me to read you some passages from the Book of Nod. I think you will find them very enlightening"

[kata4a]

Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.

chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380

[youzicha]

glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded

You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.

[kermitted-cause]

god i should fuck around with using crayons.... sunset pigeon.....

[phantomrose96]

Fired from the Walmart for having a “usurper’s disposition”

[innerchildabortionclinic]

how about nuance island for a change . does anyone want to go to nuance island

[steampowerednarwhal]

i mean it's more complicated than a simple yes or no isn't it