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we should bring back the supernatural fandom somehow having an extremely specific gif for literally every occasion though
i know you guys are still out there. i know you still have your .gif folders. don't pretend you're not.
you. you get it.
Quick reminder that July is disability pride month. Not “gay wrath month”.
When ableism is a massive issue in the queer community and most pride events aren’t accessible maybe y’all should. Idk. Try a bit fucking harder to educate urselves this July.
Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this
[ID: A roblox player in front of a wall with a bunch of different pride flags, labeled "Wall of Pride," as they say, "where mexico". End ID.]
Over the past 24 hours
- Affirmative action is now illegal
- There is a constitutionally protected right for businesses to refuse service to minority groups as long as they can shoehorn the words "religion" and "free speech" into their justification
- No student loan forgiveness
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AND indiana's Supreme Court blocked the abortion ban injunction so now Indiana has a now-total abortion ban in effect
AND Virginia banned porn. You cannot access “any description or representation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse” unless your ID is collected and verified as being of an adult resident. We live in a theocracy <3
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Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”
Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops
Are you sad that June is over and you don't have a pride month anymore? Fear not, friends! There's a different pride month just beginning! lgballt
Just a heads up to everyone that is the outdated version of the disability pride flag, that version was causing people eyestrain triggered migraines and in some cases risked seizures. So the original creator edited the design and the current disability pride flag looks like this
It's less saturated and no longer has the lighting bolt like shape to it
At my brother’s suggestion I started to use ChatGPT to generate customized vocabulary lists for the languages I’m studying and unfortunately it’s just as useful as he said it is. I’m very angry about how much faster it is than trying to put together a list yourself.
There’s a lot wrong with this thing. A lot of the stuff it writes is bad or inaccurate. But it’s nice to say, hey. Please give me a list of 20 beginners level vocabulary words in Spanish about the publishing industry with definitions and grammatical gender included. And then you just get it instead of having to comb through user made Memrise flash card sets that may or may not exist.
It just does it. It just. I don’t have to dig. It’s just there. I’m so conflicted about this.
Ok, here's the thing. Setting aside the ethics of large language models for a moment -- at their core, what ChatGPT is, is a regurgitator of the exact statistical average of responses. Which means it is the perfect tool for a handful of specific tasks -- one of the biggest being "assembling a basic list that meets specific criteria that would take a while to look up and sort through."
It's not great at being creative or coming up with new things, but it is fucking stellar at assembling a list of obvious answers.
(sometimes those answers will be a lie, so you'll have to check them, but it's still easier than trying to trawl through a bunch of sources to assemble a starter list)
It's kind of like using a thesaurus -- it's great for prompting you with information you already knew but had temporarily forgotten. Not so great for learning brand new information from without verifying it.
Most of my experience with ChatGPT before now is people writing really bad and inaccurate answers to test questions with it in the English class I used to grade for and people writing really bad stories with it. Nobody I met seemed to be using it for mundane tasks. If I can quickly get grammar explainations and list suggestions from this thing and if that’s all it’s actually used for I’m fine with it. As a creative writer I’m sill worried about its potential to steal peoples work and be used by greedy people who want to replace me with bad stories written by a thing meant to regurgitate the average of the internet.
when i was post op after top surgery i had a good friend there with me to help recover. but the nurse didnt get the memo and when i woke up she was like “ok i’m gonna go get your girlfriend and bring her in to see you!” and i remember being so zonked on anesthesia and so disoriented i just laid there thinking wow…… all that an they’re bringing me a girlfriend too this place is amazing
this is so funny. ducklings from wish.
Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
nobody is coming to save you. get up
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Holy fuck
This works best if you keep windows closed.
Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.
This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.
PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Terrell (who is, indeed an MD and works in the Otolaryngology unit at the University of Michigan Hospital) built that DIY filter using a MERV 13 rated air filter.
I repeat, you only get high-quality air filtration if you have MERV 13 or above rated filters.
Most standard furnace filters are MERV 3-5. Using those will catch pet hair, and very little else. There’s a lot of false listings these days, too, so make very sure that you are buying from a reputable brand and that each filter is printed with the MERV rating somewhere. A pack of 2 MERV 14 filters, rated for 3 months use, from 3M, will run about $60 usd.
Still way cheaper than a whole-house commercial unit. But please know what you’re making, and choose parts that will actually do the job.
reposting this bc i thought it was really sweet
edit: added an ID by @starberry-skies <3
[Image Decription. A Reddit post labeled as "Discussion", with the title: "Splatoon and LGBT". The post reads:
What about splatoon makes it such a common place to find LGBT individuals? I feel like it's pretty often I'm seeing either gay or trans related community posts and it makes me think that it's pretty common in the community. I'm curious as to why...
The post ends there. A reply by AwfulDjinn reads:
in addition to what everyone else mentioned (the lack of voice chat, the more gender neutral character designs esp in Splat3, etc) I think a big part of it is the way the whole vibe of the series really focuses on self expression and being true to oneself. there's this whole sort of theme of "do what you want, wear what you want, all that matters is that you're Fresh, and Freshness is just a state of mind"
that really resonates with LGBT+ people for obvious reasons that and the fact that it's explicitly a future, post apocalyptic setting... but a very bright and hopeful one? humanity is gone, but our dreams still live on, and they're trying to fix what humanity got wrong and be better than we were. when you're a marginalized person living in the modern world, that's a very comforting idea. that no matter how messed up and broken the world may get, there's always hope, and there's always people who want to make things better.
The reply has 773 upvotes and 8 awards.
/End ID]