Strawberry Hyena says:

* 27 * Female * INFP * Sanguine * Gemini * No, You can't trade your Lowe's points in for frequent flyer miles. Strap in and good luck because this site is always a wild ride. My Voltron side blog: Voltron-Hyena.

[thememedaddy]

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[geekysteven]

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

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[smokeydabear420422]

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[imaginarylands4000]

[introvertsnation]

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[northirish]

Shipping update: Your parcel has been torn asunder by ravenous hogs

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[garbagebinne]

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[weaselle]