avoiding AI tools in 2026

Herman Melville, guy who has only done whaling, doing anything else: Getting a lot of 'whaling' vibes from this.

whoever made it so you can download an epub off of ao3 is my friend forever

Through a combination of having a well-selected group of mutuals and keeping myself to the OnlyPosts feed, i think i have missed at least two rounds of The Discourse and i have never been happier.

So when I was a kid i didn't know that an adder was kind of snake so I assumed that Death Adder in Golden Axe was a guy who Added Death.

Man, old graphics tablets (back when they were CAD devices and not art devices), would *beep* when you plugged them in. I really was born like 20 years too late for my line of work to be cool.

You’re asking me about my five-year plan yet you hate communism. Interesting.

YOU DON'T NEED SPOTIFY. I'VE LISTENED TO HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF ALBUMS IN THE LAST YEAR AND I DIDN'T NEED SPOTIFY FOR A SINGLE ONE.

CATMARCH LOL.

Many of you

So occasionally I am reminded of the bizarre short-lived 1983 TV series Automan, and with it I always remember the phrase "Automan: The world's first fully automatic man" And now I am realizing i cannot remember if they actually said this in the show or if it's just a meme like morbin time

FINALLY SOMEONE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SAY IT.

To this day I will pretty much always say "What happen?" In speech they difference is subtle enough i don't think anyone's ever noticed.

Can't believe there's a programming language called futhark AND IT USES THE ROMAN ALPHABET

I know I'm a little bit old to ask about the birds and the bees, but why call it that? Specifically those two animals do not fuck or have offspring like humans do. Neither do flowers to trees.

FYI since I remember everyone getting mad about it: Achewood rolled back the upscaled images, and it's serving up the original files again.

Man, for a fucking Slop VC Whale to lose the respect of the wider sloplord community, dude has to be a complete and utter tool

Deeply cursed fact: gas mileage is two-dimensional area measurement

lillie moment #voidstranger

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Mad libs? Oh, you mean Bluesky? 😎

review of arachnophobia modes in games www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKQI...

Final Fantasy IV when the Giant of Babil is on its rampage and then the red wings theme kicks in when everyone comes to help

When you pick the Good Ending in Saints Row 3 and "I Need a Hero" starts playing.

Dudes rock.

I had a dream that i was at a restaurant getting breakfast but then i woke up before i got to get any food.

i was describing to my boyfriend how the smooth jazz station in chicago would play versions of actual lively jazz songs that had all the energy rounded off in the mix, and we came to the conclusion that smooth jazz is basically lo-fi hip-hop beats to study to for boomers

Ah hah, but the Linux world has you covered too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're sitting on the fence about trying Linux, just take note that every single program you run is actually an ELF

rip baudrillard you would have loved Terry's Orange Free Chocolate Orange

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

i need sprites like these but for modern stuff like gunfire and explosions and crap, any idea where i could find it

The North American localization of Actraiser had way more differences than most people are aware of, and it's not just "action mode is like Professional mode". The overall game balance is *very* different and much rougher

Performance check failed

The definitive millennial song is clearly legend_of_zelda_System_of_a_down(1).mp3

PEOPLE SAY IT'S NOT COOL TO HOPE THINGS TURN OUT BAD AND I MOSTLY AGREE EXCEPT GTA6 NEEDS TO SUCK PLEASE IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY.

I'm the sort of nerd who hates the official discord client so much that I'm currently running Discord Messenger in Wine.

Everyone like "YOU CAN MAKE A WEIRD HORNY MECHXPLOTATION GAME BASED ON--" as if that's the problem and not

The sudden realization that us mothers day and maid day are going to be on the same day this year feels like a huge opportunity for some of y'all us based weeb artists

it smelled like chatgpt garbage, and lo and behold it's just scaremongering for ai services. get thee gone hallucinatory disinformation machine of fascism, may thermite get poured on your servers

the artistic process

Mortal Kombat is fake. Those fights are all staged

It's a fair question

"lmao you like porn" is a knowledge check. you only lose if you panic and mash on it. "yeah i sure do" beats it every time.

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in: 1. Do not do age verification. 2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.