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HOWEVER I accompanied my friend to their top surgery at the University of Michigan last year that made Dr. Wolf’s entire process seem back alley and sketchy by comparison. My friend had extensive pre- and post-surgical monitoring and extreme sanitary precautions. Dr. Wolf just had me take off my shirt and slapped me on the operation table still wearing my street clothes and then scraped me up and sent me home the moment I regained consciousness. His bedside manner was offputting and uncomfortable. It has been impossible to contact him ever since, even to ask politely why my stitches look so different from his other results. Other people with much worse results have also been ghosted.

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

This diva

Grabando el nacimiento de un manantial

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People have masturbated forever, and they didn't need HD violent videos to do so. You can do it with your mind, or a nice lil story, I promise. Make your own horny cave painting, idgaf

Promoting imagination or ethical, non-human-based media isn't "puritanical" it's just asking for a world where someone's survival isn't tied to being recorded for a stranger's subscription fee.

An important tweet

Like do you really think it’s not affecting their under-developed brains to see porn titles like “18 year old SLUTTY BITCH gets POUNDED and OWNED by stepfather” which are super common on the main porn sites? Like if you go there you won’t see regular amateur couples having sex on the front page, you’ll see overproduced productions with insanely misogynistic titles just like that. You don’t think that plays a huge role in how they perceive women and sex in general?

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.

[image text: @system-splintered says: My grandmother started having severe memory issues a couple years before she passed, and her husband laminated her recipes and got her whiteboard markers so she could mark off things she did. It let her bake for a lot longer than she would have been able to otherwise. End.]

NOT GUILTY! 🥳