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awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
there's this account on bluesky that just randomly samples the last reply someone made before getting blocked by the person they were replying to and it's a really good gimmick blog concept. I don't think tumblr data is public enough to make this possible here unfortunately. some samples:
When you get past all the political stuff/heinous crap, there are QUITE some gems on here
i DESPERATELY want to know the context behind some of these
“how to recognize AI in fanfic” — hey so this is another not-gentle reminder that AI stole from us. it’s using OUR words and OUR sentences and OUR styles.
writing “long” paragraphs is not a sign of AI — it’s a common narrative choice many writers make both in fanfiction and in traditionally published novels, and AI stole it from us.
using an em dash is not a sign of AI. it’s a stylistic sentence choice that’s been an option in place of commas and semicolons for a very long time, and AI stole it from us.
long sentence structures are not a sign of AI, but are yet another stylistic choice writers often make to create a cadence and tone that mimics the flow of poetry, and AI stole it from us.
“YA narrative breaks”? i don’t even know what the fuck this means, but i can guarantee that AI stole it from us.
italics are once again a stylistic choice that many writers love to use to create emphasis, and it’s a more stylistically acceptable and traditional form of emphasis than bold or underline text. oh, and just to be extra clear: AI STOLE IT FROM US.
stop creating fandom witch hunts over AI when you know fuck all about what it means to sit and write a story, and to spend hours fiddling with sentence structure and dialogue to get the exact right tone. writers will stop writing out of fear that their work “sounds like AI” — IT DOESNT! AI STOLE FROM US! AI SOUNDS LIKE US! — and after a while, all that will be available on AO3 is shitty AI-generated fanfiction.
because yeah, people are going to continue to use AI to write fanfiction whether you “call them out” or not. but making a laughable thread on X that uses asinine criteria is not going to fix that problem. it will just push the real writers out because people will accuse them of using AI when they haven’t, and they will (rightfully) stop writing for spaces that attack them.
anyway. fuck ai.
I can definitively prove that every single "marker" of AI has been present in my writing since the year of our Lord nineteen fucking ninety seven. Fuck AI.
Can’t reblog the post going round containing these two screenshots:
So I’ll put my addition here:
This also applies to women who complain about feminism requiring them to work, rather than being ‘ladies of leisure’. Women equivalent to them in the past always worked - who do they think were the maids, housekeepers, cooks, nannies, wet nurses, governesses, washerwomen, spinners, weavers, seamstresses, nurses, midwives, etc - and today’s equivalent of the past’s ladies of leisure can afford to be ladies of leisure now. Feminism fought for women’s work to be acknowledged, valued, and fairly paid, and that fight is still ongoing.
And housewives. The ladies of leisure had staff to attend to the household. The married women of history worked hard as housewives. It is not being a lady of leisure. Feminism is still about acknowledging not only the work of female waged workers, but also the tremendous amount of unseen work that housewives did and still do.
happy birthday to this funny guy
fuck yeaaah thanks y'all :3
pretty sure my actual most controversial minecraft opinion is that i don’t want any improvements made to the end
i don't know how to explain it exactly but my favorite thing about the end is something about it feels existentially horrifying in a way the other two dimensions don't, and the emptiness is a huge part of why
the other two dimensions are full of ruins and treasure and echoes of long-dead civilizations that had values and purpose and goals they were trying to achieve. there's a real sense that they're ruins now because they were destroyed, or abandoned, or taken over
the end cities don't feel like that. they aren't even ruins. they're just empty. it feels less like their inhabitants fled or died out and more like they just...stopped
YES we shall have a spring weddi- [sees icon and url] nvm just making out is fine too
[already getting fitted for a bulletproof wedding dress] hell yeah domestic bliss here i come
each day i come back
from my odd way of life
and i parry attacks
from my spouse with a knife
i unmod the end
like i do every day
and they mod it again
soon as i look away
they poison my tea
when i leave it to steep
i pretend not to see
and i die in my sleep
i wake from the dead
every morning at dawn
make them breakfast in bed
and the cycle goes on
each day I await
the return of my spouse
they’re never too late
they love time in our house
the end is at hand
all teeming with life
yet they load up a land
they prefer filled with strife
I poison the tea
they’ll drink if they dare
the mug is left empty
I know that they care
their heart slowly stops
but at dawn comes the save
the penny still drops
leave my kiss for their grave
[dodges cast iron skillet aimed at my head] YOU HAVE NO FUCKING APPRECIATION FOR EVOCATIVE WORLDBUILDING. DINNER SMELLS GREAT BTW
@codaattheend hey. hey how did you just bring this entire trainwreck full circle with a single sentence. stop making my spontaneous seussian toxic marriage improv illustrative of the very topic it derailed. illegal
idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.
@sparrow-va Seen a lot of people asking this and here's a starter-pack, which others have also added in the comments:
Start on day one. It's almost impossible to scale back if you started out giving 100% —it might be possible though, so don't give up hope.
If you can get away with it, 'waste' roughly half of your time. You can work on a personal project if IT won't clock you, or go for long walks if you can sneak out of the office. I walked 3-4 miles every day when I started my current job. I also walked to Barnes & Noble to sit on the floor and read comics. I've spent a few days just watching TikToks or Fall of Civilizations. If you have Work From Home days, buy a mouse jiggler! (Don't install mouse jiggler software, that shit's traceable.)
If you're still not sure, pay close attention to how much work your worst coworker is doing, and copy that. I bet you it will be 40-60% of what you feel you could easily do, especially if they are 50+.
Never finish anything immediately. If you want to get a project done, knock it out, and then set a reminder to send it at least 2-3 days later. I fuck this one up the most, if I'm honest, 'cause shocking people with how fast I can accomplish things is like a drug.
Remember!!!! Being the fastest and the best will get you NOTHING—except possibly the kind of attention that gets you abused and fired. Promotions for hard work are a myth. It's capitalist propaganda you MUST expunge from your brain. Aim to be the worker your manager expects, not the one they're impressed by—except in a social sense. I got a $2 raise for singing in 3 part harmony with my bosses once.
Survive.
hey because I am curious. what's your weirdest hobby?
I am really enjoying going through the tags on this post. I know a lot of you asked what constitutes "weird", or prefer the term "niche" but I did say "weirdest" for a reason, because that's for you to decide - of all the stuff you do, what do you think would classify as "weirdest"?
Baby Globe, Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot
what if a shrimp was a baby..........................
“…use things to have good days.”
the loading screen trying to convince me to use even one of my 3000 consumables
imagine netflix says 'Alright fuckers, you win. Here's your secret ninth episode of Stranger Things' and you click on it and it's the secret good episode of Sherlock
for the most part the epstein files don't demonstrate anything not already demonstrated by the polanski letter or the subsequent elections of donald trump then joe biden then donald trump again. the world is not ruled by a secret organisation of child abusers—the abuse of women and children just isn't a deal-breaker to most people seeking useful social and financial connections in a misogynist society
you can observe this dynamic at play in microcosm very easily by becoming part of literally any art or hobby scene or getting a job
Hey people who have several pets, with obvious differences in intelligence levels: How did you figure out that one of them is smarter than the other? What do they do?
There are a lot of things that lead me to think my elder cat is unusually intelligent compared to other felis domesticus I have known (understands pointing, can open every door and cabinet in the house except the ones with round knobs or that I added child locks to, understands enough English to know from a phone conversation that a stranger is coming to the house) but in terms of specifically comparing one to the other, there was The Case Of The Mousey Puzzle Box.
When we got our younger cat Skadi, her favorite toy was (still is, but she's calmed down with age) the rattley mouse. She would bring the mouse to be thrown for fetch so many times that not even two human adults in the house could keep up with her. So my partner started making puzzle boxes to put the rattley mouse in that would occupy her for longer.
So, we have a setup: mouse is in the puzzle box, puzzle box is on the floor, younger cat is trying to resolve the puzzle box, elder cat is sitting on the cat tree observing all this. Skadi spends about fifteen minutes trying and failing to get the mouse out of the box. She sticks her paw into the holes. She sticks her nose into the holes. She pushes the box to and fro on the carpet. She meows beseechingly for a human to come solve the problem. Sticks her paws into the holes again.
Finally, she gives up on the puzzle box and wanders over to see if there's any food to be had. As soon as she walks away the elder cat gets up from the cat tree, big stretch, jumps down, walks over to the puzzle box, hooks a paw under the edge and flips the whole thing over, spilling the mouse onto the floor.
Gives the younger cat a look of utter disgust as if to say "That's all you had to do!" and then walks away, utterly uninterested in actually playing with the toy.
Older cat just subjected to fifteen minutes worth of those horrible mobile game ads where the player is failing really badly to make you want to play.
