The famous green owl app Duolingo is going even harder into AI made by stolen content. It's not curated by native speakers so you have no idea if what you're learning is correct. Their algorithm overall tries to hit the happy brain juices instead of helping you learn. So here are some alternatives!
We're going to be in LA this year, which means the winners can honestly say "I just won a Hugo and now I'm going to Disneyland," and I think that's beautiful.
My Betazoid therapist's face when I enter the session: Image: Counselor Deanna Troi sitting in her office, elbow propped up on the arm of her chair with her face in her hand. She has a pained expression.
Duh, no. It’s a wind instrument.
The subsequent post throws it right out. I literally can't stop my brain from thinking about what my characters might get up to, and not being able to jot it down would suck, disqualifyingly so. Then again, it's not like my content is getting more appealing to the public.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror
found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page
I don't know how to describe this. Its a very this blood orange colored carrot with an ess curve about 3 quarters of the way up and a bulbous top
cArRoT
No name actually, but I'll be suggesting it.
Hope they enjoyed our concert!
Eep, something else to have to find out whether I have. Thanks? I guess?
So that he can change his underwear?
It's because not being able to understand that the decline is COVID-related is part of the damage. Risk assessment, sense of humor, tolerance for others' errors, working memory, lateral thinking, and evidence accumulation. It's an end result of anosognosia.
Do not be insulting Our Lady Trinity that way
I have a character say essentially this out loud to a (thankfully) rather clueless coworker in draft 2. You can lift the girl out of the environment, but you can't environment the conditioning out of the woman.
I remember seeing people's builds, sleek and symmetrical, and then going back to my collection of small-scale jank and going "what am I even doing." And what I'm doing is progressing through the pack, just not as mightily as they are. Which is fine, as it takes me forever to figure shit out.
I'm already doing at least some things better. My cobble generator is slow, but it'll scale, and so far it doesn't need me to go out and clear items every time I rejoin the world. Same for the vulcanizer. Don't know how I'll add menril to that; it may have to be moved. Which. Is. OK.
Last time through Create: Arcane Engineering I jumped ship at the point where Pneumaticraft came into play. This time I am determined to get past my fear of exploding machines. I also have a goal to move out and build a new base if necessary, which was part of the problem last time too.
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
My whole day so far on this app has been writing and deleting quote posts that say basically "um, I didn't have this purportedly universal experience" because so many people don't know the difference between oversharing and bean soup
Gondorians hearing Isildur’s heir has returned:
My first instructor was really into jazz, so he had me playing chords across 5 frets to force my fingers to shape up. Effective, but incredibly demoralizing. I like my current guy better because he doesn't diss rock music and standard open chords.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
I can *play* an Aaug (x03225) but I can never remember it straight off. Disclaimer: I do not have tiny ass hands (but they are rather inconveniently hypermobile).
Lynne Thigpen as "The Chief" from Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego
Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit.
*Rockapella bops on stage*
Screenshot of two posts from a Bluesky feed. Above, Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist (@nameshiv.bsky.social): "somewhere out there is a mirror universe where Jor El left the baby on Krypton go to throw trucks on farmers in Kansas" and below, Brendel reposts Jill Twiss (@jilltwiss.bsky.social) posting a screenshot of her post from 9 May 2024: "No one ever talks about the miraculous feats of strength it takes for a mom to lift a car ONTO a toddler"
When the TL syncs, it *syncs.*
the “I assure you we’re open” sign from Clerks. this is such a boomer joke I’m sorry
satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz
All those trucks with "Cox: Pulling For America" proudly emblazoned on the back...
Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts.
A trans woman enters the room.
Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts.
Fucking clowns.