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In Search of the Happiness Max

@rhube / rhube.tumblr.com

Rhube is a writer, reviewer, and general consumer of all things SF&F. This Tumblr is a place of geekery, cats, feminism, beautiful men, and occasional bouts of rantery. Quite a lot older than 18. Please don't send me messages or replies, it triggers my anxiety. Follow me on Twitter @Rhube to interact more.
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I'VE GOT FROGS???

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM??

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I keep forgetting the frogs are there, and then I swipe over them and they ribbit and it's great.

Did one of you get me frogs?? Does everyone have frogs now?? What's going on?

Thanks, if you got me frogs, they're great!

I'VE GOT FROGS???

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM??

AO3 muted user message count bug

OK, so, a while back I had to mute a couple of people on AO3 and block one. You have to both mute and block if you don't want to see them at all. It was fine at first, but for a couple of weeks I was getting a '(1)' unread number in my inbox even if I had read everything.

AO3 warns you this may happen if you mute people with a message you can't dismiss (which is a bit anxiety making), so I knew why it was happening, but it was bugging me.

I unmuted everyone to see if I could find the message and delete it, assuming one of my muted people (not the one I blocked) had said something nasty to me. I didn't really want that.

But even after I unmuted everyone, I still got the '(1)'. Even if selected all and then Unread. Even if I scanned back several pages, marking everything read. This was distressing.

Then today I had a brainwave. Or maybe more of a facepalm.

You can filter your messages by 'Unread'.

I did this.

It showed me one unread message from 583 days ago. Not from anyone I had muted or blocked.

A perfectly innocent message from one of my favourite authors who had never been less than lovely. I had marked it read over a year ago.

This told me: 1. the incorrect message count bug you get if you mute people has nothing to do with who you mute, and 2. how to fix it.

So, I thought that was info worth sharing.

TL;DR:

If you get an incorrect message count after muting someone, it's probably not the person you muted.

Go to your inbox and select Show unread > Filter. Mark any messages that display as read.

This should fix the problem.

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celebrities will really be like “i am non-binary” and people will just ignore it

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gerard way will literally be like “i used to dress in women’s clothes at school and i really enjoyed it” “i don’t really identify with masculinity and i have considered myself to be a trans girl” “this self-insert character i created and portrayed in a series of music videos is a non-binary lesbian” and people will just be like “oh yeah gerard is a man, he’s male. definitely of a masculine gender”

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janelle monae has come out as non-binary, publicly, in magazine interviews, TWICE now and ppl are like oh yeah! janelle is a woman. she’s female. 100% womyn

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BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG WILL LITERALLY WRITE A SONG ABOUT HOW HES BEEN CROSSDRESSING FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE AND WEAR THONGS ON STAGE AND SOMEONE WROTE “BILLIE JOE IS ACTUALLY A CUTE YOUNG LESBIAN” ON HIS ASS ONE TIME AND PEOPLE WILL BE LIKE WOW THAT SURE IS A MALE DAD

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Suzy Eddie Izzard will state time and again that she's genderfluid and half y'all will say she's a trans woman while the other half still insist she's a man.

I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

I would marry this man

guys we broke another post because this one’s not showing any notes

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When I liked it, it flashed “0 notes”

It’s showing -1 notes

i’m gonna keep reblogging this and you can’t stop me

I liked it and it said ‘1 note’

tf is this crap?

1 NOTE I’VE ONLY COME ACROSS 3 OF THESE POSTS IN MY LIFE

ITS STILL SAID 1 NOTE WTF????? 

legendary

What the fuck

YES BUT DID HE GET HIS CAMERA BACK?? WE NEED TO KNOW!

WE WILL NEVER KNOW… =((((

IT still says 0 notes?? WTF!!

This is the first thing I saw on my dash

I’m shook

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKERY

WTF-

SAME HERE!!! I JUST GAVE IT A LIKE AND IT DIDN’T STAY

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1 note WTF.

3rd time and it’s still broken. This lovely cursèd post.

THERE IS ANOTHER ONE?????

still not-works

still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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still + notworks = stotworks.

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Portmanteau Bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop.

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portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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portmanteau bot happed upon a null-notes post and got stuck in a loop

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A day will come when i won’t reblog this…

But it is not today

What the fuck is even happening with this post??? Also it’s got 1 note again.

I got a notif saying I was mentioned in this post but I clearly wasn’t

HeY tumblr what the FUCK

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Did the man get his camera

I have seen posts that broke the notes. But this is the first time I’ve seen a post that broke the bots. 

I know this is long but holy hell I love it when bots run amok

I know this is long

but holy hell I love it

when bots run amok

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

ZERO NOTES STILL?? WHAT HAPPENINGING?

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I've only seen this as a cute camera post before. This one has gone off the rails in so many ways??

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom You should no more have to ask your health care workers to mask up than you should have to ask them to wash their hands. These things should be automatic and are not a patient's burden to ensure. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 12:59 PM · May 30, 2023

Anonymous asked:

I once nearly pissed myself in a catholic church. Really had to pee but thought a scary bishop man in a tall hat would beat me up if I got out of the pews. Like, he would come from a secret passage

No that's real. There's a secret bishop who patrols the "piss catacombs" of every church

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Oh dear.

So as some of you may know, I love to point and laugh at bad legal arguments. And as fun as legal dumpster fires are when they are made by people who aren’t lawyers but think this whole “law” thing seems pretty simple, it’s even funnier when an actual, barred attorney is the person dumping gallons of kerosene into the dumpster.

And oh boy folks, do I have a fun ride for y’all today. Come with me on this journey, as we watch a lawyer climb into the dumpster and deliberately pour kerosene all over himself, while a judge holds a match over his head.

Part two! My apologies for the accidental cliffhanger.

When we left off, a second attorney had just entered the picture, a Mr. "Steven Schwartz." However, I had recognized his name from somewhere...

I know most of you are here for the cats and the chaos, not the law, but I've been keeping an ear out on this case, because pretty much as soon as I heard they were trialling AI for legal stuff, I figured someone would be dumb enough to do this. And sure enough...

Part of what makes this aggravating is that after you've been doing it a little while, legal research isn't hard. It's time consuming, sure, and you can potentially chase down rabbit trails of caselaw forever, but it's not like other professions where you might have a lot of separate databases to trawl through--with very little work and very few exceptions, you can find the bulk of American law in Lexis or Westlaw, and most of it is also posted free on government websites, though in less easily trawlable format. It's the law; it has to be accessible. So it's not like you'd have to put in much effort to check your citations, and you should never trust an out-of-context quote anyways! It could mean something totally different in the context of the case it came from.

This was a deeply stupid move. I have to assume that the attorneys who did this are of the particular flavor that's not tech savvy enough to know better than to trust new toys, but they really kept digging when they should have stopped.

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I hate ChatGPT and everyone who is trying to persuade us to use it so much.