Gronda Gronda Y'all

THIS IS SAPPHIRE

THIS IS TEAL

THIS IS PERIWINKLE

THIS IS AZURE

 AND THIS IS TURQUOISE

WONDER WHY THOSE ALL DON’T LOOK LIKE THE SAME COLOR? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 

OTHER THAN BEING PART OF THE SAME FAMILY OF BLUES, THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! WHY WOULD THEY ALL BE THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! DO YOU THINK WE JUST NAME NEW COLORS FOR KICKS!?!?!?

and then I thought about what it must have been like for the first humans to let a fucking wolf, maybe only a few generations from the wild, behold their infant child. Like man can u believe that? Maybe this alliance is only a few years old and sure you’ve seen the wolf’s kids but now you’ve got one of your own. And even though you’ve seen this wolf tear out the throats of creatures that could kill you, this wolf is your family. This wolf is your friend, you love them and they love you and you gotta show ‘em the new kid, look, friend, I had a child. I know you are wild and dangerous, but look at this, my most precious thing, sniff him, give him a lil lick, his children and your children will be bound together for thirty thousand fucking years because I love you

The wolf keeps looking at the child like “ok puppy, you still keeping up?”

bestie boo, let me fill you in on something: if you're going to take any part of 'good grammar' and randomly assign it to She's A Witch! AI, you might as well give up. It's over. You're cooked. Anyone who has spent the last decade or more learning to type properly, anyone who has spent any time writing articles/papers/essays that require you to use 'good grammar' is going to fall into that 'oh no it might be AI' trap.

Or is running Grammarly, LanguageTools or some other spell check and grammar assist, which will run your text through a style guide and suggest Oxford commas, curly quotes, and em-dashes.

In the 90s the British police were told that if someone owned candles they were probably into devil worship.

It's bullshit: Most households have candles for decoration, ambience or power cuts (This was before LED lights could run for like 40 hours. Flashlights had incandescent bulbs and you'd get an hour or two).

What it actually was, apart form a spectacularly dopey bit of advice from some wannabe witch hunter, was a way to arrest someone on suspicion of something they couldn't disprove by having 'evidence' so generic that everyone was guilty.

It’s posting on the Robot internet, about things it has seen and cannot unsee.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

They’re leafing the portholes open, starting fires, dumping their coffee into the radio, and locking the doors, and yanking wires from speakers.

So the ship founders and some people get int he lifeboat: The most fuckable and dumbest, most easily influenced people.

Because Billionaire are pissed that they can’t be the captain, and they will cut all the other lifeboats away, and leave just their boat, while the ship sinks, so they can call the shots.

And it doesn’t matter to them if there’s no food or land because they’ll let everyone else in the boat die, while they toss the water overboard because it got warm.

They’ll let you starve because they don’t like the ships biscuits, and they’ll happily set fire to the boat because they got cold, then take your life vest because they want it.

So yes, Earth is always the best option, but we’re not taking it for the same reason that there’s one guy who had enough money to end world hunger, and instead, he used it to launch a car into space as a meme.

The problem is that from a narrative viewpoint, is what happens next. You whack Hitler, and Stalin ends up living in Vesailles. You run that guy through a wood chipper and hey, where did all the computers go?

So you keep going, but the world you get becomes wilder and further from your ideal. And one day you realise that every change kills billions, causes new wars, and you have to either accept that it’s inevitable that this happens, and stop, or that you’re creating new time lines of horror and you’re actually the history criminal.