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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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lmfaooo what these articles sound like. Ppl who finished college before modern social media even took off, ppl who been publicly writing words before gen ai was a thing, ppl who are OLDER than Altman, Zuckerberg et. al. don’t know how to write words? All of us? Oh ok. I guess air in the datasets.
Stop using words! LLMs frequently use words, so you could risk being mistaken for an LLM!
July 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lmfaooo what these articles sound like. Ppl who finished college before modern social media even took off, ppl who been publicly writing words before gen ai was a thing, ppl who are OLDER than Altman, Zuckerberg et. al. don’t know how to write words? All of us? Oh ok. I guess air in the datasets.
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me: i have a bunch of anxiety rn
brain: how bout a coffee
me: idk sounds like a bad idea
brain: iced coffee
me: ok yeah that makes more sense
brain: how bout a coffee
me: idk sounds like a bad idea
brain: iced coffee
me: ok yeah that makes more sense
December 6, 2024 at 5:02 PM
me: i have a bunch of anxiety rn
brain: how bout a coffee
me: idk sounds like a bad idea
brain: iced coffee
me: ok yeah that makes more sense
brain: how bout a coffee
me: idk sounds like a bad idea
brain: iced coffee
me: ok yeah that makes more sense
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June 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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‘“Good Vibrations”, released a few months after 𝘗𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴, may still be the best pop song ever made, a song so intricate and multi-faceted it’s almost impossible to keep up with it while listening.’
Chris Larkin on Brian Wilson, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Chris Larkin on Brian Wilson, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Chris Larkin | I Can Hear Music
Junction 15 of the M25 may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of escapism, but for me as a child...
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June 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
‘“Good Vibrations”, released a few months after 𝘗𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴, may still be the best pop song ever made, a song so intricate and multi-faceted it’s almost impossible to keep up with it while listening.’
Chris Larkin on Brian Wilson, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Chris Larkin on Brian Wilson, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Part of adulthood is learning to discern when your feelings & opinions simply don't matter. You can have them, but you can't use them as bludgeons to control what other people do. Your emotions are your responsibility & so is figuring out when they're out of proportion & how to manage that.
June 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Part of adulthood is learning to discern when your feelings & opinions simply don't matter. You can have them, but you can't use them as bludgeons to control what other people do. Your emotions are your responsibility & so is figuring out when they're out of proportion & how to manage that.
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
June 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s
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well why don’t you put elf ears on the byronic hero and think about the sight of him in pain and then maybe you’ll calm down
May 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
well why don’t you put elf ears on the byronic hero and think about the sight of him in pain and then maybe you’ll calm down
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sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items
May 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items
if you complain about contemporary novelists doing or not doing xyz you need to submit an annotated bibliography to me listing the contemporary novels you read in the last 12 months
May 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
if you complain about contemporary novelists doing or not doing xyz you need to submit an annotated bibliography to me listing the contemporary novels you read in the last 12 months
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Today’s #5amwritersclub via Ray Bradbury.
May 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Today’s #5amwritersclub via Ray Bradbury.
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hunter maddon and lady maria >:D
May 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
hunter maddon and lady maria >:D
tragic: the most noxious person I've encountered in fandom is a good writer and gets recced all the gd time
May 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
tragic: the most noxious person I've encountered in fandom is a good writer and gets recced all the gd time
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Bring me my rose gold iPhone 6S, Lt. Gore. I’ve got a kink to shame.
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Bring me my rose gold iPhone 6S, Lt. Gore. I’ve got a kink to shame.
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“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc
I understand why people are scared but as a red state trans person I just have to laugh at people asking if it is safe for them to have a connecting flight in my state. I feel like after security everyone in the airport is actively dissociating at all times
May 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I understand why people are scared but as a red state trans person I just have to laugh at people asking if it is safe for them to have a connecting flight in my state. I feel like after security everyone in the airport is actively dissociating at all times
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if there were any more gil- named elves of ambiguous patrimony in addition to gil-galad and gildor one would begin to suspect that the gil- is there to let us know we’re going to have major lore ambiguity about where someone fits into the finwëan family tree. a sort of doylist fitz- for bastardy
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
if there were any more gil- named elves of ambiguous patrimony in addition to gil-galad and gildor one would begin to suspect that the gil- is there to let us know we’re going to have major lore ambiguity about where someone fits into the finwëan family tree. a sort of doylist fitz- for bastardy
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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Reading 9/16 Realm of the Elderlings books in ~5 wks has made me lose my marbles in the best way. Not sure I'd necessarily RECOMMEND this pace but jfc the emotional payoff of the 3rd trilogy is wild. It's been the kind of reading experience I used to have as a kid, plowing rabidly through books
May 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reading 9/16 Realm of the Elderlings books in ~5 wks has made me lose my marbles in the best way. Not sure I'd necessarily RECOMMEND this pace but jfc the emotional payoff of the 3rd trilogy is wild. It's been the kind of reading experience I used to have as a kid, plowing rabidly through books
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It's called omega block because shy, shrinking omegas just cannot compete with these naturals
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
May 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It's called omega block because shy, shrinking omegas just cannot compete with these naturals
I'm sorry
I'm sorry