oh i didn't read it! i just know that's what it is.
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oh i didn't read it! i just know that's what it is.
one weird trick to stop genAI from making you witless--unhinged tech billionaire grifters hate it!
Okay so... Fiasco can explain It am not GOOD explanation mind u But can definitely explain if u have an OPEN MIND
there's absolutely an agenda right in front of it. yelling really loudly, in fact.
It’s giving 1930s dustbowl
I’m gonna need everybody to be a fuck of a lot more bold than this, because this cover has plans for the women i caucus with, and FUCK ALL OF THAT.
I don’t know where to begin. It’s hideous. Not just the poorly fitted dress designed for never setting foot past the chicken coop, the frowzy, post washboard scrubbing hair, the lipstick that’s been bitten off with worry about the bills. This is the invisible woman slouching on the cover of fashion.
I know why neurodivergent people go into waiting mode and that is because there is no time more perfectly suited to lock in and forget everything than “i still have 45 minutes before i have to leave for my appointment” (Yes i chased the focus dragon) (Yes im going to be late)
It’s in harmony with my objections too. I’m glad it was written.
The absolute fucking nerve.
The cackle i let out was so bitch coded it had shoulder pads
The school librarian did not like it when I said that.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE WE ARE GETTING A JOHN CHU NOVELLLLLLLLLLL
“You are supposed to take for granted that it must be useful somewhere, to someone, for something, eventually. People who are rich and smart and respected are saying so, and it would be arrogant to disagree with such people.” People have been calling me arrogant since I was nearly six. I’ll live.
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
It’s been two hours. Did you put heating aid batteries in your purse?
And taxing the crap* out of the nauseatingly rich? *like 3 or 5%
Why? Why should she run? Does she actually have policies that make sense? Has she been involved in community action? Does she have a good reason, like an actually good one?
underage woman is ridiculous, an obvious absurdity. what on earth. like calling women females is big ferengi warning and referring to an adult woman as a girl is "I never think of women as people" (calling someone girl directly is...tonal) but "underage woman" is 100% Hubert Humbert nonsense
YES
i am supposed to come back for a follow up to see if i need an adjustment on the first two and then also start T. It's coming!
I don't know why I feel so good right now. I put the gel on three hours ago and I am weirded out by how light I feel. emotionally. mentally. I am in a good mood and it's not being dragged down what is happening?
...that's amazing. oh hydrogen, I can't wait
Hey follow-up question how fast does it work? I got shit to do
It's really too bad we can't just give him a bedazzler and a scrapbook
I have a new book out today! It's a Sapphic steampunk western adventure about the dashing Karen Memery riding to the rescue as Annie Oakley's stunt double in a beleaguered early movie!
GET THIS BOOK PLEASE I'M FREAKING OUT IT'S SO GOOD IT'S SO DARK IT'S SO STRANGE IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL I'M RATIONING IT BECAUSE IF I FINISH THIS BOOK AND THERE'S NO ONE TO YELL WITH I WILL BE SAD HELP
too right!
FINALLY! Happy HRT day to me. Estrogen gel and pregesterone pills. I need to do headache tracking to bring to my follow up may my memory come back from the fish tank
I wonder if i could get the same results using a braising pot in the oven, but i can’t test that until it gets cold
it's not fully automatic but i've settled for a slow cooker on low and getting up to stir them every hour when i'm getting another water. it takes all day, but it's pretty low-effort
Aaaaaaahhhh!!! Congratulations!!! I adore this series! What a perfect gift to readers for Sapphic September! Really, go out, pick up this book, and treat yourself to a wonderful read. If you haven't started the series yet, I'm so excited for you to meet these incredible characters
Um. The answer to that question depends on which kids you are visualizing while asking the question. Next gen wasn’t the first time I saw leVar Burton on tv.
Yeah I never saw sister act. I got a vibe, never went to see it. But i saw all the movies you mentioned and I saw her standup.
Mulroney basically destroyed using trains to travel. I used to take the train to Vancouver from Edmonton because it was cheaper than flying, a bit, but also because I loved 27 hours of safe independence. I think it was $75 for a berth?
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
I can never figure out when to use that plural form
Why are all these doofuses exactly the same doofus
Ernie doesn’t have a deadline coming up
Just me freestyling my ire
I had to trace this back to the start just to make sure you didn’t really just walk into room 12a to buy an argument
*stares in western Canadian* what train?
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Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.
I still don’t get why people didn’t like TENET.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Oh hell yes. Take your barbarian queen precious moments coasters and go, you tacky scammer
Deep Dish/Hot Dish, though…
Oh, so it’s magic!
The mockery is great. If this guy memelords so hard he winds up president…like what
I’ve heard of rubber ducking, of course, it would be hard not to But it doesn’t work. I’m just talking at a duck. The duck can’t talk back
Okay, that would be worse habits
“Framed as a proverbial ‘kill switch’ by many in Brussels, the debate has shifted from whether it could be triggered to when. This, in turn, has prompted renewed calls by the EU and member states to advance the continent’s 'technology sovereignty,'” writes Trevor H. Rudolph.
And all five of mine, and three short stories
That’s basically what happened today
It doesn’t work. The duck doesn’t talk back.
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
why is bitching that I can't write a thing an essential part of my process as a writer
My “not involved in a DUI with a sex worker in my car” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
We are in an unprecedented time--when most people's needs are simply not being addressed by politicians, because addressing those needs will upset the uber-wealthy who hold the purse strings of political donations.
I see we’ve made it to the scab labour stage
I don’t think he’s a non-authoritarian when he wants to oppress trans people and homeless people so bad
I had to find *something*
I don’t object to him fighting back. I absolutely want to know what people who think he should be president are smoking
Its so gross.
But that isn’t true. So he’s a liar and it’s even worse
From the grave, since he’s finally doing a day’s work pushing up daisies
What do you mean? He kicked it on Thursday
I really don’t get it. Is it because he has nice hair? Because he sure as fuck doesn’t have nice policies
i love it
With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
discussion about spec fic trends by critics and readers is great, i'd just caution writers, esp. newer writers, to not let it get in your head too much. just do what compels you. you're unknowingly part of a movement and building out a landscape. it's ok to leave it to others to map out over time.
AN AUNTIE HAS ASCENDED
Honey is getting it left and right
It’s all Fantasy. Yes.
They do have port a potty services and strong exhortations to use them. They were using Johnny on the Spot, but mr. cee doesn’t know about now
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
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No. It’s the best thing about the place. My favourite, in fact.
Thank you for replying to this thread so I can block these people before they bother me directly.
lol, economists.
yeah they're not really my vibe. I never liked how it felt to wear them.
I don’t have any.
Once again I am traveling to a city during its Fashion Week I need to pack wisely
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
oh noooo
I am not concerned by the opinions of someone who outsources their thinking to the slop-o-tron, honestly
there is one dark thing you *cannot* stop everything else can be resisted.
Oh no, lol, I’m finally doing honor mode! I started playing in 2023
I’m doing a durge run for honour mode
I'm running an honor mode finally and I was looking at the splash graphic and remembering that since i deliberately blocked all information about bg3 i didn't know anything going in and so I was genuinely *gasps in surprise* about the Astarion reveal Like I bubblewrapped myself like a champ
I'm not the person who makes these decisions. It wouldn't be useful. Sorry.
Yep, you don't, lol. I said that I first said it in L D Lewis's thread. I *didn't* say that L D Lewis was the one who said it. Sorry for the confusion, I didn't think the conversation would escape the circle.
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:
Have you ever heard a work of science fiction described as having transcended the genre? I think that's what the original person meant. I don't like that, personally. The Handmaid's Tale is science fiction and so is Slaughterhouse Five
Bank robber warns that if he has to compensate EVERY person he stole from, it would financially ruin the bank robbery industry.
do you mean the WGA?
