kirayaykimura:

answrs:

thebigcomed0wn:

putting “lying to kids is ok” on the table immediately looks bad. but theres nuance. because kids deserve to have as much context and respect as anyone else you live with. but also. telling them that leaving doors open will make ants carry away the entire house is necessary until their brains can quantify the heating&air bill

the ants:

#the kid asking me if his wooden toy horse has feelings doesnt need the truth he needs to get something off his chest (via amazingbouncingassbutt)

sonic-adventure-3:

sheriff shadow of floating rock world take 2

cognitohazardous:

ice-cream-asker:

cognitohazardous:

cognitohazardous:

another cool bug on this site is when youre on mobile and suddenly the ads will just move and cover the post youre reading

im so sorry ill make it up to you

enjoy the WOOLLY CHAFER BEETLE

she chafe on my bee til im wooly if im beeing perfectly honest

i hope u know that im holding hostages at the National Innocent Civilian Conference and every time someone mistakes the beetle for a bee i kill another

memewhore:

miijiu:

silvaze weekend 2023 on twitter!

day 1: summer festival🎆

forcekenobi:

loved being like 12 years old and making an OC and saying “yeah they’re a hardened criminal. they’re deeply involved in crime. they’re in a gang” and then never elaborating on that because i didn’t know how crime worked. this is still my approach

etakeh:

In case you think the writers on strike aren’t making good use of their time, think no more!

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Only click the read more if you’re fully prepared. I’m taking no responsibility past this point.

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purblethinkin:

cheer up, little bro!

thefantastician:

don’t mind me out here doodling

bananonbinary:

here’s your fucking feedback @staff

list of problems the removal of icons causes:

• i cant see my friends
• ruins the sense of community
• can’t tell at a glance who’s online right now and what they’re interested in
• literally cannot tell without scrolling back up who put a post on my dash if it has a single addition attached to it. or like. 2 paragraphs in the op.
• i cant click my own icon at the top of the dash to quickly view my own blog
• can’t tell who someone used to be if they change their username
• squashes the margins between the menu and posts, making the whole dash feel more cramped
• ruins the quick visual cue of how long each post is and where it ends when you’re trying to scroll past ones youve seen before
• people put a lot of creativity and individuality into icons, and now i never see them
• makes people who primarily reblog instead of make their own posts all but completely disappear

list of problems solved by removing icons:

• ?????
• who the fuck was asking for this
• ive never in my life seen a website or app that has profile pics forcibly HIDE them, so i guess you did it you made the dash unique again in the worst way

here’s some more feedback: maybe when you run an a/b test you should, idk, actually have a feedback form people can fill out about it somewhere

once-a-polecat:

kimmywithay:

dresswellactbad:

Nothing will ruin your 20’s more than thinking you should have your life together already.

Nothing will ruin your 30’s more than thinking you should have your life together already.

Friends, I’ve got news for you about your 40s, you’ll never believe this but…

trash-bandicoot-official:

wordfather:

this is inexplicably my favorite tiktok ever it brings me to tears every time why did he do thatttt

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

nonbinarhys:

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we’ll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

hey so, just so there’s no ambiguity about what just happened– this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the “vividness” of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that’s not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it’s literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn’t give permission–i can imagine quite a number of authors didn’t give permission either. (oops, i don’t have to imagine–because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn’t give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to “support authors” yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don’t believe me, here’s a link)