Reblogged sniperct
I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...
official library post
Reblogged defectivegembrain
People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.
some well needed water lol
Reblogged defectivegembrain
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
happy 10 years of spiders georg everyone
“average meme lasts 5 years” factoid actually just statistical error. average meme lasts 30 days or less. Spiders Georg, which started on this day 10 years ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Happy 13th anniversary to Spiders Georg!
Reblogged lychee-grayson
Reblog to make it die faster
Reblogged defectivegembrain
jesus fucking christ trump has just kidnapped a world leader
apparently this post is how people are finding out. the president of venezuela and his wife have just been kidanpped and taken to the usa. this follows a sudden invasion and bombing of venezuela
Reblogged defectivegembrain
i'll do it for sam
And when there was only one pair of footprints in the sand, that's when Samwise Gamgee carried me
I think we need sam more than ever this year. But we WILL get through it.
Reblogged defectivegembrain
all texts are risky texts if you have sufficient fear in your heart
Reblogged defectivegembrain
the term “feminine hygiene” being used so universally in stores makes me incredibly sad and it shocks me that more people don’t find it frustrating. why can’t we just say menstrual products??? it’s more straightforward! what does “feminine hygiene” even mean??? “menstrual products” doesn’t imply that menstruation is “unhygienic”, it doesn’t imply that you have to be “feminine” to need them… it’s a better term in every way. so WHY is “feminine hygiene” the one companies are obsessed with using!! fuck!
the term “feminine hygiene” stems from a time when menstrual products and similar were classed as illegal, “obscene” products in the US. why are we still using a term invented in 1873. I should not be seeing this term in every supermarket I enter. I’m going to turn evil
this post is for transgender people. I don’t want anyone nasty about people like me touching this post please. if you’re trans exclusionary you can block me and go on with your life. if you’re trans I’m giving you a juicy piece of fruit and I love you
Reblogged sniperct
really like this reply i came across. skill issue. stop consuming media and start engaging with it. really good sentence.
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If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…
Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.
Including (sigh) the em dash.
There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.
A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.
No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.
You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.
Defend the em dash.
(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)
