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YOOOOO

Some of you might remember me making a vague reference or two to a writing project I had on the side?

THIS IS IT!!!!!!!

I’m officially a Video Game (non-lead) Writer everyone!!!!!!

Please spread around so we can build interest, we still have a LOT of work ahead of us but our team keeps blowing me away with their amazing work!

has anyone noticed that to clean smth u often have to get smth else dirty

massively fucked up

like where does it end

every generation has a - hang on post cancelled I wanna talk about this autocomplete suggestion

#myvenomgland

male entitlement in academic spaces is so boring. can’t tell you how many times i’ve been in a class and a girl gives a short, insightful analysis, and then a dude raises his hand and says “jumping off of that…” then says literally the same thing she said but longer and worse.

I hate to be that guy, but it doesn’t just happen to women. The assholes who do that will do that to anyone who’s analysis isn’t sufficiently complex and long winded for them. 

Been done to me by people of both genders. 

Also I have been guilty of doing this, so I apologize. Because I was overly excited and just couldn’t wait to talk…. yeah. 

(Nothing is ever clear cut eh….) 

dude.

this is art

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

CHILDHOOD IS MARKED BY FEAR WITHOUT THE WORDS TO EXPLAIN IT

beyond parody

I Read Nietzsche And Watched A Cartoon: A video essay

What if Stoicism Was Relevant To My Toys (4h)

To be clear I don't even mind these types of essays. I didn't really think this type of thing existed. I just think its conceptually funny that you can apply Nietzsche to toys on youtube.

Trump is gonna revoke citizenships Jesus fucking christ

I'm white so I know I won't be targeted by any decisions on birthright citizenship

But like... How does he think this works? How many generations does this go back? The two sides of my family are from countries that don't exist anymore, do you know how much of a clusterfuck it would be to track down everyone's documentation going back any number of generations? Jesus fuck

Like it seems dumb to point out logistical problems when there's horrific moral implications, but the fact that there's such glaring logistical impossibilities is a good preview of what the process will actually be: revoke citizenship, deport based on prejudice, ask questions later

EVERYONE SAY HAPPY PRIDE MONTH TO BUFORD !!!!!! 🌈

Zionists will start saying unprompted that killing children is fine and then act surprised when you point out how downright evil that is

Not to be confused with 20-smth IOF Colonels that are literally children.

laughing my ass off at how much this sucks

Every once in a while you’ll see a post on here that makes you say “OP knows conditions have symptoms right?”

It feels like some people’s take away from the “psycho vs. crazy” discourse was that it is always bad to insinuate someone’s facilities may be compromised rather than like, it is bad to evoke bigoted caricatures to describe negative behavior. Like when did we decide that “differently abled” is only cringe and harmful when applied to physical abilities

It all feels very “i didn’t read the content warnings and am upset I was exposed to the content” style

"having sex with your friends is basically incest" is a take of all time

this deserves to go in the takes hall of fame

Love ya like a brother, which is to say, carnally.

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

(ID in alt)

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

(ID in alt)

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

Today’s fish thing is this set of fish glass cups! (Origin unknown)

there are many iterations of this, but this specific color is from the UK-based company gökotta in the colorway Sea Blue.