it's funny how a male character can be a huge asshole and will be my absolute least favorite but the second i smell a whiff of transfemininity i'm like "i forgive her i mean she's got a lot to work through yknow"
if a man is an asshole he's just an asshole but if a trans woman is an asshole can you really blame her? the circumstannies
this post is awesome
Y’ALL!!
THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!
Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"
It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.
Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.
Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.
You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:
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Is this gay baptism
we’re all boring to someone, annoying to someone, ugly to someone, but it’s not that deep
Having online friends is such an odd thing. I love you. I don’t know what color eyes you have. Have you drunk water today? You know more about me than anyone who knows my face. I hope we can meet someday. I love you even though you’re across the world. You’ve never layed eyes on me but you see me. In my brain, you’re a bird because that was your profile picture when we met. I love you, go to sleep. Goodnight- I just woke up. I wish I could hug you. I wish I could protect you from them. Can you feel how much I care for you? Maybe we can meet. I’m going to be near you soon. I love you. I hope you can feel the little nudges and gentle bonks and headpats. I love you. I love you. I love you.
@toxictitties @inbetweenrain @archfeykoi adore you so so much
Did i ever post this here
Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that
How never having seen a single Dan and Phil video feels right now
im terrible at being a real person but i think i'd make an excellent fictional character
This is your reminder that the admins still have not been paid. Keep that in mind while you're seeing all this "2" nonsense.
Not quite sure if I'm understanding what you mean, but I'll explain context anyway.
From March 2024 when we found out none of the admins have been paid (either improperly or not at all) until now at this very second, a year and a half later, NONE of the QStudios admins have been paid. At all.
Quackity and QStudios went radio silent about the server for this length of time to let the dust settle, to let people mistakenly think that all admin matters had been handled properly, and then came back with this "qsmp 2" once the heat died down. To anyone's knowledge, nothing has changed. And this whole unpaid, horrific conditions thing will undoubtedly repeat with "2."
I've talked to and am friends with multiple ex admins who have confirmed everything I'm saying here, everything I've said in past posts, and anything else I may say in the future. (I don't cite them to avoid getting them harassed or worse. Which, they still get harassed on Twitter to this day, from Quackity stans, btw.)
There's more knowledge I have about the first QSMP's fallout that I've learned from these friends, but for the sake of not kicking a hornet's nest or getting anyone harassed or worse, all of the details that have been discussed in these conversations has been kept off social media. I've only ever posted about things that wouldn't explode like that, or kept things vague.
The only downside to talking to small children like they’re normal people and treating them like normal people (as per my mom) is that as they develop into bigger children they are viscerally aware of every single moment in which they are pandered to like stupid little accessories (as per my dad, my teacher, the special ed aide, every adult in my middle school) and you end up getting a lot of phone calls from people reporting your kid for (checks notes) “undermining authority”, “disrupting the classroom environment”, “disobeying elder peers”, and “unionizing the grade eleven gym class with intent to incite a mutiny” (as per me) and you end up with a Grown Adult who will absolutely encourage and enable other people’s children to fuck the sustem
Anyhow the most empowering shit you can say to a kid in my experience has to be
16. “I understand you’re upset and you’re right to have those feelings, but the way you just spoke to me was rude. Sometimes I snap, too, so I get it. But let’s work on what we can say instead.”
17. “If another kid tells you to do something that will get you hurt or that will hurt somebody else, you don’t have to listen.”
18. “If anybody says something to you that is rude or disrespectful of your boundaries, you can always tell them ‘stop’ or ‘no.’”
19. “If anybody touches you in a way that makes you uncomfortable, even if they’re not touching a private part, you have every right to tell them to stop and to defend yourself. You do NOT have to be polite.”
20. “If an adult ever denies your access to medicine or help, yell until you get that medicine or help.” (Re: the story of the kid who called 911 and asked the fire department to open the school office door so he could get his insulin.)
It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.
It’s like. When I was told to “just be yourself” as a kid I thought it was a passive thing. Like oh easy I just have to sit here and be myself. but the reason so many people think that “being yourself” is bullshit advice is because you actually have to make active choices to do this and it WILL make your life way more fun. You have to wear t-shirts of bands that were popular ten years ago because you like them. You have to do your hair in a way that you find cute or comfortable even if it’s “so nineties”. If your friend says a food you enjoy is gross to them, you can’t be afraid to admit you casually disagree. You have to do hobbies that you’re interested in even if you’re bad at them and you cant feel like you have to get good at something before you tell people it’s an activity you do. You have to read manga and comic books in public and get piercings your relatives think are unattractive. You don’t have to tell people you dislike that you dislike them, but you don’t have to give them your time and attention either. You have to rewatch that kids show you’re nostalgic for even if you’re in your 30s. You have to change your name if you hate it, even if only a few close friends can know. You have to get fun girly drinks at the bar. You have to order hot chocolate when you don’t like coffee and black coffee when you don’t like sweet things. I am still bad at practicing this but it is the only way to make it all tolerable.
First you have to realize that "yourself" is a construct built by the decisions you make. Then it becomes clear that being yourself is a deliberate and intentional practice, not a passive state of existence.
hello everyone, an acquaintance of mine died in a car accident yesterday, and her family set up a gofundme to help pay her kids hospital bills, gas and other things
donate if you can spare anything, but its not mandatory. but itd mean a lot if you could help out.
Hello everyone! I had a friend who was very dear to me that I knew for a long while, unfortunately, she recently passed away unexpectedly due to unforeseen circumstances.
She was an amazing, kind, funny, bright and lovely friend who was so much fun to play games with and have conversations with. Her name was Artemis
Do not feel obligated to donate, only do it if you are able to, take care of yourselves first. With that being said, I know I have been saying it in every social media I have but I do want to spread this link as much as possible.
Artemis, thank you for such an amazing friendship filled with laughter, chaos, support, being silly and goofy and for all the memories and moments we have made together alongside others.
Please consider donating to support her family through this difficult time.
