Anonymous asked:
do you have at least one openly queer family member? (not including yourself?
yesornopolls answered:
adults every generation when the children that were born 10 years ago don't know what was going on 15 years ago
"my 10 year old doesn't know what CDs are!"
have you told her what a CD is? do you use CDs? has she ever seen one? then how the fuck is she going to know what a CD is. are you fucking stupid. im going to kill you
"my son tried to introduce me to Green Day's music after finding it out on youtube" he knew about Green Day for one day and immediately told you about it but you let that young boy reach puberty without telling him about the best worst pop punk band of all time. i am on his side.
i hate it when people say things that exclude the disabled and then say "i wasnt talking about disabled people" like yeah you never are that's the issue. you never think about disabled people
I've said it before and I'll say it again, disability absolutely needs to be brought up when discussing homelessness due to there being a rather significant amount of homeless people who also happen to be disabled in some way, shape, or form.
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.
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