This Is The Part Where I Say Something Witty

AI is trained off of actual writers. "You write like AI." No. AI writes like them.

Not all fic writers have English as their first language. They are writing fanfiction in their second, third, fourth, etc. language. Do you know how hard that is? Do you know how ridiculous the English language is?

I see people say that certain stylistic choices automatically mean AI. Wrong. WRONG. People were using these styles before AI.

If I see people claim that em dashes are an automatic tell for AI one more time I'm going to fucking scream. People have been using them for a LONG time. And you know why AI uses it? BECAUSE IT WAS TRAINED OFF THE WORKS OF ACTUAL PEOPLE

I am so adamantly anti-generative AI but people need to stop immediately jumping to the conclusion that fic writers are using AI because of tiny little things. (And don't tell me you ran it through an AI checker because those things are bullshit. I've seen friends run their old high school papers through those and it came up 100% AI when that's literally fucking impossible.)

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

Every single day I wake up thankful I don’t live in the United States. Jesus fucking Christ.

It’s went from criminalising abortion, to claiming its first-degree murder, to permitting deadly force be used against women who seek an abortion.

So you could get a scenario where a rapist impregnates his victim, and can legally execute her for pursuing an abortion.

Wish nothing but death on everyone behind this bill.