• mari •

Call me Mari or Cheesy | Leo | 27 | July 28 | She/Her | INFP | Legend of Korra, Square Enix and Fire Emblem treasure.

[dokelsss]

even more land fish

[manuciruja]

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?

[manuciruja]

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

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[mayadile]

WHILE I HAVE GOFUNDME UP! AND WAITING FOR TRANSFERS. I NEED SOMETHING RIGHT NOW FOR LAUNDRY, MEDICINE (for my asthma) AND FOOD IF YOU DONT MIND!!! I NEED CLEAN CLOTHES!! Paypal I've been coughing a lot and have coughed out mucus and tint of blood, so I need to clean my stuff and get cough syrup so I don't activate an asthma attack that is very lethal to my health.

ive been coughing none stop and having hard times sleeping because of the tightness in my chest, I don't want to have another panic attack/stroke again this year 😭 I found my inhaler so I might try and get a refill so I don't wheeze at night.

[mayadile]

Update: I had an asthma attack this morning and I'm in a lot of pain, the left side of my chest feels like a heavy pressure. It's hard to breathe.

I did let my mom make a virtual appointment for me to talk to my doctor so I can get prescribed antibiotics, but right now it's hard to move.

Paypal

[catgirl-kaiju]

[loathsome-jr]

[project-catgirlpiller]

[catgirl-kaiju]

T-Rex actually stands for Transgender Rex

[catgirl-kaiju]

happy pride

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

people will be like "i'm bored" meanwhile there's baking soda and vinegar in the cupboard. make a volcano dude

[titsay]

[importantcatpics]

[emi-drawzz]

Biblically accurate cat

"Be Nyat afraid."

@creatures-in-posts

[creatures-in-posts]

Is this creature biblically accurate?

No, cats are apocryphal

[kroovv]

A little Brushbuddy 🍊

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[guerrillatech]

[glasswhistles]

MLK was a star trek fan

[lieutenant-sappho]

[mollyjames]

I do tend to be suspicious of art that really lauds and worships the idea of being an artist. Like yes, art is cool, I think it's valuable, there's a reason I make it. But let's not get overly self congratulatory here

[mollyjames]

I think it's okay to love what you do, and even celebrate that. But there's a line that gets crossed sometimes where the art goes... "unlike all of those stupid people, who just dont get it." And it's like... hey... who are you making this for, exactly?

[tallspookylady]

reminds me of that "artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, mattresses are our canvas" post or however that goes. always makes me laugh

[trans-seraphim]

also relevant

[titsay]

please don't let go

[dogpuppy]

[amoebasapph]

auto suggest bewilders me

[biglawbear]

No worries! I'm out walking

THE corpse

🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[housegoblin]

spunch

[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]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!