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once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

exxos-von-steamboldt

delicatefury

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

json-derulo

I have a wild idea. what if we supported our claims of fact by linking to a reliable source. better yet, what if we went hogwild and just straight up linked to the actual unpaywalled study

jimmyhoffathecat

Unfortunately Pickles did not win the magazine photo contest so we shipped him off to the oil rig 👍

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💔

hgedits

Eva Stratt:

eaissilyy

ryland grace’s last time on earth (the last time eva stratt will ever see him)

pocket-dragon

happy world penguin day to eva stratt specifically

apolladay

digital artists, how do you colour?

fill bucket tool

lasso tool/magic wand

by hand

secret fourth thing

see results

digital artists, how do you colour?

fill bucket tool

lasso tool/magic wand

by hand

secret fourth thing

see results

Voting ended onMay 4

#the photoshop fill bucket tool sucks and i generally line then fill in with a larger brush #so it doesn't take that much extra time but im sure if i could outline then fill then that would take a lot less time #usually though i fill in a main character by select > invert > contract selection by 2 pixels > paint bucket #and then colour in clipping masks on top of that #not that anyone will read this or care i just hate photoshop

oneheadtoanother

grand-theft-carbohydrates

pangur-and-grim

I have this selfie I took from when I shattered my right leg into four pieces and was like crawling across the ground, and I thought “wow I bet I look sooooo sad right now”, and anyway whenever I’m asked to supply a photo for like an interview or a book announcement I’m so tempted to give that one

pangur-and-grim

#laugh rule

melongifts

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

melongifts

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

melongifts