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A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can’t remember

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

Reblog to save a writer’s sanity (the last bit that’s left)

OneLook thesaurus is a lifesaver!

Self reflecting 🪞

'Lil Horse Advice

Credits: Lovely piece made by Sheycra of Furaffinity You can favorite it here

Caught my first student using ChatGPT to write their report yesterday! FUN TIMES

@aelaer:

So: this was actually for a module on the Masters course that I don't teach. But the first tip off was a claim about a local museum that my friend, who was second marking, thought "I didn't know that was a place." And so looked up. And it doesn't exist.

But it had a citation attached, which the student had used heavily throughout the site background section. So my mate looked up the citation, and it also was fake. Real journal, but non-existent paper.

So he called me, and I was like... Well, that is the big giveaway for ChatGPT, isn't it? It's just a glorified autofill service. It often spits out "lies". So I had him show me the paper, and immediately spotted a second bit of bullshit that claimed that the site was named after a family who settled the area in the industrial Revolution, whose founding father was called John, when in fact that family did not exist and the name actually comes from the Welsh word "Dyfnant". That led to another two cited references turning out to be fake.

So we scoured the internet, couldn't find this info literally anywhere. And finally went and asked the robot itself. It wouldn't confess to having written it, but when we asked it about the site history, it promptly gave us the same made up bullshit (including John, who once again, does not exist ANYWHERE else), and cited three references - two of which we'd already clocked were fake, the third of which was also in this guy's paper.

Interestingly, it kept telling us that these references were hypothetical. Almost as though its training set remembered being asked for those exact references, and having to explain to someone before us that they weren't real.

So I looked through the reference list for anything else mentioning this made up site, and found a fifth, which again, wasn't real.

So, we've forwarded everything on to the head of school, and I'll be speaking to Academic Quality today. Best case scenario for the student is that the uni doesn't consider this proof of ChatGPT, BUT he will still be excessively marked down because he made up, like, a third of the paper (that I checked). And, to be super clear - academically speaking, the paper was garbage anyway. He was already barely passing, because there was no depth whatsoever to it.

But if the uni DOES consider it proof, that's academic malpractice, and worst case scenario is he might be thrown off the course and barred from further study at this university. (It's unlikely to go that far, but the possibility exists)

We (a bunch if PhD students and research assistants) were chatting about this the other day at lunch and how we weren't sure what it would mean for marking papers next year.

As we were chatting there was a Twitter thread I came across from a seperate field where they got the students to use it and to grade the essay it outputted for their assignment (as in chatGpPT made an essay and students graded it for their assignment) and they realised it was just spewing falsified stuff and was garbage essentially.

https://twitter.com/cwhowell123/status/1662501821133254656?t=ouRgB6ozIdq6epNvpQ9nQg&s=19

Personally I haven't been on it yet, but I can't see how using something even comes into someone's mind for a whole paper or anything other than maybe a broad summary of a topic, because we as researchers or postgrads are working is specialist areas and, you know, research integrity alarm is blaring in my mind at its use for a whole damn paper? O_o

It's certainly going to make it more interesting next academic year marking labs and essays and things...

Ooh, this is a good idea! I'm already putting together a session I can run on it for the students next year, because it's clearly past time we started talking to them about it so they know not to even be tempted. And so they know the ways in which it can help, and the ways it's just academic misconduct with a side order of "What you wrote was easily-spotted bullshit anyway".

I can tell you, though... in terms of marking, it's pretty damned obvious. There is absolutely no depth whatsoever to these papers, because the robot is just autocompleting, not analysing; it's threading together likely words and sentences. So you read it and go "At best... this might scrape a pass." The paper in question here was to create a management plan for a site of their choosing, and he chose an old overgrown brickworks. The closest he came at any point to saying something analytical and meaningful was a suggestion that he would block off one of the streams to try and dry the site out a bit, but the stream actually feeds a nearby wetland which is a Priority Habitat, so he had to be marked down for it anyway. Beyond that? Nothing. He hadn't even provided a list of priority species on site to manage for, which is management plan 101.

And, of course, chunks of it are made up. That's a dead giveaway.

I want the writer’s strike to last until they get everything they demand and more. I want the SAG strike to last until AI is entirely forbidden across the board in the entire industry. I want CGI artists to unionize and strike. I want animators to strike. I want composers and directors and designers and VAs and techies and producers and stage hands and game devs and programmers and recording artists to strike.

I want every aspect of the entertainment industry brought to a grinding halt for months or even years to take it from the corps and put it back in the hands of the artists.

so i doubt it will do anything, and most of my audience is non german, BUT

my little brothers bike got stolen today, it was expensive (for us) and its his only vehicle, he needs it to get around as he has trouble walking for longer distances

i doubt we will see it again as it was clearly done by "professional" thieves, in broad daylight and the lock literally sawn through with a motorized saw; its a rather unusual model though, so if me sharing this raises the chances of getting it back even a tiny bit its worth doing

here a screenshot of his tweet about it with a photo

i emerge from the depths of Real World Job to give you an idea dump.

ID in alt text.

JuliArtWorld on Instagram

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.

TOTK: Failure

Unmute !

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

I love tumblr.

Winter, spring, summer and fall Four seasons, four loves

for zukka week day 3 // song lyrics

Can I just say

The physical distance between them, getting closer and closer through Spring, Summer, Fall

Then taking a big step back in Winter, not for lack of love, but

What’s better than a vampire? What’s better than a horse. A Vampire Horse, of course. I made this comic a few months ago.

Over a 100???? It was just the guy in the photo a couple days ago djsjdjks

no but jokes aside this is actually really great. malicious compliance in the best way.

here's a quote from a Pink News article about this that really stuck with me:

the whole point is to show how "afab" being used as a replacement for woman is fucking stupid and fundamentally incorrect and. whatever else. and it gives me hope to see the community rising up like this. solidarity and unity and peace on planet earth.

July art