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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

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Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

It FEELS so much like a real ad I expect to be sold some sort of car tyre or something but it’s just about biting

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

Interactive games: I have a whole post here about the various games on ao3, but pokemon, dating sims, minesweeper, cardgame mimics, character creators and an animated point and click adventure game are some real highlights!

The (currently non-canon) HTML Tryhard tag. Filled with many many cool fics that utilize workskins to tell stories or fics that have tutorials with them. (If you'd prefer to search with filters, a good chunk of fics are in the 2025 or 2026 HTML Tryhards Event collections)

Generators -- When I was starting out, workskins were intimidating, but some folks have made generators that allow you to input your text and get the HTML and CSS to just copy and paste. Including Twitter posts, Simple Texting, Minecraft Chats, iOS texting (instr.), Tool Tips & Footnotes (instr.) and Choose Your Own Adventure (instr.)

Anyway, I hope my ramblings can show off some of the REALLY cool things Ao3 allows us fans to do and maybe inspire more to try making things with workskins.

I am in awe! Truly! And I actually poke around and look for these things sometimes!

but! today i noticed that a fic i posted last year wasn't showing up under the "identity porn" tag for that ship, despite having tagged it "identity porn (emphasis on the 'porn')". i thought that it was okay to include that parenthetical at the end of the canonized "identity porn" tag, since it would ultimately get wrangled appropriately, and become searchable for those seeking "identity porn" -- but alas! apparently that never happened...

so i started checking similar tags i'd gotten playful with, including one on that same fic (posted september of last year, so ostensibly enough time has passed for it to have been wrangled by now?), where i'd added "[would-be]" as a bracketed qualifier before the canonical "consensual non-consent" tag. yet once again, when i perform a search for that tag under that ship, my fic isn't listed :(

it seems that wrangling doesn't work quite like i was led to believe, based on those posts. has something changed lately? or is there some other explanation as to why this is happening? i'm currently going through all my 'creative' tags and checking to see if they show up where i'd expect them to, and the results are discouraging. i guess i might have to re-tag a bunch of stuff, if i want my fics to be searchable under certain canonized tags (?) -- thanks for any input you can provide 🙏

I suspect the issue might be that your tongue-in-cheek parentheticals are actually adding a second meaning to the tag or otherwise changing it to mean something other than the canonical meaning.

For example, identity porn is about secret identities and how complicated that can be for the people who have them (and the people who know them).

By adding (emphasis on the porn) to that tag you added a second meaning, one related to sex. If you separate them into identity porn and (emphasis on the porn) the the first tag will direct to that canonical and the second will either go unwrangled or will redirect to Sexual Content or another sex-related tag.

In order for a tag to be wrangled (attached to a canonical so that it can be sorted and filtered for), it needs to be a clear match for that canonical. if you're finding things that aren't wrangled, I'd recommend separating your single tag into two (or more, as needed) so that you can have the fun you want without removing the sort and filter ability.

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge