i accidentally got obsessed with the jade tx-cat i designed

temporal xanthosis ninth

been deep in reading harrow the ninth so like. i mean i gotta.

o.o

Mario Music of the Day: Desert Land from Super Mario All-Stars?

me 3 years into transition and grandmas still giving me boy clothes on my birthday and wont take the pretransition picture down from the wall

A friend once said to me "I feel like I'm not actually working at my job because there's so little to do" and I was like "the way I see it, if you can't sleep and you can't jerk off, you're at work no matter what".

And I just realized this gives me a new perspective on homelessness. There's a certain baseline amount of labor you're expected to do in public, finding places to exist unobtrusively, moving when the cops tell you to. No one is ever truly "off the clock" until they're in their own home, if they have one.

I'm sure Michel Foucault or somebody wrote about this long before I did.

Or to put it another way, if home is the "first place" and work is the "second place" then the removal of third places from society means that if you don't have a first place everywhere defaults to being a second place

If existing in public is a job then police are the managers, and calling the cops on someone for sleeping in public is, in effect, snitching on a fellow worker. I guess this functions as an explanation for why police unions "don't count".

Nobody should be using GPT detectors for anything important.

This is from a recent study that found that GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time (!!!), compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.

It is irresponsible to use AI-generated text detectors as evidence of academic misconduct, and that's putting it mildly.

The Merry Melodies cartoon "Greetings, Bait" about a worm vs. a crab dd SUCH an imaginative abstract gag here that really only works with a stalk-eyed character design. It's too bad they never used the crab in anything else.

Kurzgesagt is literally just like… democrat PragerU.

The exact same template of ‘studio-produced channel, with a single narrator to make it seem personal, focused on supposedly-Apolitical technical subjects, also sneaks in obvious propaganda about, say, how despite it seeming like we live in an age of constant war, the world is actually super peaceful (and that the ‘war between Israelis and Palestinians’ is senseless factional violence)’ has been repeated so many times it’s old hat.

whenever i see “democracy” graphed on a chart like it’s a quantifiable data point, i only think of this

being an artist is much like being a horsegirl in that your wrists are a skittish creature constantly threatening to snap its own legs under the slightest pressure and also you occasionally wake up from an artistic fugue state and must frantically scoop fistfulls of oats and water into your mouth before you expire

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you have to put on a skirt