Dr Pepper Paradox

● Bluesky: @luna-novastrad.bsky.social ● 30s. Northern Ireland. Nonbinary Queer. Spoonie. ● Still swears too much. ● Forget to tag stuff but I try to remember to tag common triggers and accessibility. ● Current gaming obsession: Warframe ● Will always love Lord Of The Rings Online! (Evernight)

[novustrad]

Lemme try and make a new post that I'll pin.

Super rough edition to see how stuff works out.

Starting with tags.

Stuff by me:

Novustrad

Disability related tags, mostly me venting:

Spoonie

Chronic pain

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Degenerative Disc Disease

Cane User

Mobility aids

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Autoimmune

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[nekrotiize]

so staff might be terminating random transfems like dozens of times within a day on pride month and they might be literally taking the trans colors out of the progress flag and they might be perfectly happy letting nazis openly doing constant sexual harassment campaigns with the express purpose of trying to kill the target. but at least they brought pjackks blog back! that makes up for it! happy pride month!

[novustrad]

It's a pride of paper cranes! :D

[3hkowalski]

Oh it’s the trio I missed so much

I love this old render by Glitch

[novustrad]

Also, my first night in Stardew Valley a fairy blessed half my crops

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this

[novustrad]

Started playing Stardew Valley the other day, and yeah

I can see why people love this game so much

[novustrad]

Wtf are you smiling at? I'm gonna drop you in the sink

[novustrad]

Period starting out strong with Hell Cramps

[novustrad]

Of course the dryer would pick 10pm of a Saturday night to pack up

[novustrad]

Outdoor washer/dryer to the rescue but my god £14 for an hours drying

[novustrad]

Of course the dryer would pick 10pm of a Saturday night to pack up

[novustrad]

Don't know why the neighbour who's been having some kind of one-sided problem with our family rescued my (unbeknownst to her around £200 worth of manga) from my rainy doorstep but I'm thankful she did

And also mad as hell that the delivery person didn't knock the door so I'd know it was there

I was worried some random out-of-towner lifted it while praying a neighbour had it

[vespiday]

very in favor of art depicting eridians cuddling with grace or each other but also a fan of the idea that eridians just don't really do that. they're mostly inorganic matter and covered in sensors for audio input so being touched is a little weird. they do their psionic connection thing to bond instead

which means they're just completely perplexed by grace's/human's constant need for touch. hugging? you just grab each other? why? grace will absentmindedly pat his students and even rocky or adrian sometimes. this leads to a new eridian culture trend of scuttling up to your friend and whacking them and going "Look! I'm a human!" and a subsequent conversation about if that's insensitive

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[novustrad]

I don't know what I expected Clover's ending to be like but it sure wasn't this

[refrigerator-art]

Gosh, I really, really enjoyed working on this little series. I can’t believe what originally was just a very self-indulgent drawing ended up taking off the way that it did! I’m so happy that some people enjoyed this as much as I did! <3 _____ PRINTS AND STICKERS INSTAGRAM TWITTER KO-FI

[refrigerator-art]

:D I have calendars now too! I don’t think I ever posted about them here when I dropped them a couple of years ago, but I have the 2025 version of them up now!

[novustrad]

I have a chamomile and honey tea that tastes kinda meh when it's hot but tastes amazing when iced

Almost tastes like vanilla custard

So I've mostly been drinking that today to see if I'll be alright tonight