ME: (trauma-dumping on someone in the hope that they'll find my deep sadness attractive and compelling) haha sorry idk why I'm telling you any of this

ME: (trauma-dumping on someone in the hope that they'll find my deep sadness attractive and compelling) haha sorry idk why I'm telling you any of this

isn't it just so weird how the points of difference this kind of person expects you to accept are never things like "how best can we ensure that every human being is adequately housed and fed?" and always things like "are trans people human?"

(average boomer encountering a machine that ingests user inputs and regurgitates them with added em dashes) this is indistinguishable from real human contact. if I burn enough rainforests maybe it can generate children who answer my phone calls

the turing test did not adequately account for the human tendency to believe that anything which affirms or validates their preconceptions is "intelligent"

no, it isn't. short article!

it's that time of year again!

there is actually not a single job currently done by humans, no matter how "skilled" or "unskilled", that AI can adequately replace, which kinda makes burning down all those trees seem...not worth it

the wildest thing is that this weird confession, which wild horses couldn't drag out of most people, was shared completely unsolicited with a journo doing a glinner puff piece, not tricked out of him by chotiner or something

I don't generally believe in leftist purity testing, but if this is your sincerely held belief, in what way are you actually a leftist

I really don't think any of this suits me

Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now? She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.

Hello! Annoying news! I’ve been informed by work that due to an investor delay I am not going to be paid on time. I need to pay my rent and internet/phone and eat, so if you can give me a hand, I can pay you back in the next few weeks when my pay shows up. Thanks! PP: @StellaSacco CA: $sacc

I haven't had a single surgery, and if I just don't shave for a week, I get called "sir" by complete strangers everywhere I go. but ✨ they can always tell ✨

it should be illegal for people to subject you to the mortifying ordeal of being known without warning you first

Asking for a boost as I’m preparing for a series of medical appointments and tests that will likely move my surgery date up. I see my surgeon next Monday.

once again full of thoughts that would have once ended up on my strictest livejournal content filter and which now either have to go in my private journal or be posted on the public internet for the entire world to see

my polycule's version of this is adding random consonants that don't belong as though we're in a facebook group about dogs from ten years ago

this cured my depression

please neither ask nor tell me if you're going to do this unless you want to pay me for my time

it's actually worse than this because I write people emails (and letters, which are a kind of physical email that you send someone slowly on purpose) and I make my friends read all of those too

I know I seem like a cool and fun person from a distance, but then you befriend me and I make you read all my texts to the person I have a crush on to make sure they strike the right tone between charming insouciance and plausible deniability

used to really enjoy reading about people's boundary fence disputes on r/legaladvice, so when the time came to go back to university, I thought, why not see if I enjoy law school? and it turned out I did 🤷🏽

I've been playing hades 2 between naps all day so idk anything about any celebrity sexual perversions or the journalists who write about them

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used to feel like I needed to have something to say about trans day of remembrance every year, but like - what is there to say except that so many people and powers are trying to drive us out of existence, and that every day we endure in the face of that is a day longer than they expected us to last

made it to thirty-six, folks

I look tired and grumpy in this photo because it was taken early in the morning, and also I hadn't decided on a tie yet, but you know what? still cute

what I should do is iron the suit I need to wear tomorrow, but what I'm going to do is watch several hours of magic: the gathering youtube videos while eating this tres leches cake I ordered on ubereats

abled people be normal for even five seconds any time a disabled person says or does anything in a public space ever challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

sometimes I think I've done okay breaking generational patterns of behaviour through years of therapy, and then one (1) tiny thing will irritate me slightly and it's like ten generations of vengeful and bloodthirsty patriarchs bodily possess me and proceed to scorch the earth in a 50-mile radius

got myself an early birthday present:

I get that it's important news and all, but if I see another quote tweet of the same email screenshots with some glib caption, I am going to end up a local news story

that's because centrism is for losers

I am not reading about World Events for self-care reasons. instead, here's another photo of me looking real cute last night

johnny cash has 24 hours to respond

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oh no! anyway,

it's been literally years since I posted one of these to the public TL in primetime, so: enjoy I guess

it's been literally years since I posted one of these to the public TL in primetime, so: enjoy I guess

update to this is that I found an authority that was just right and then one of my best friends had to read six pages of draft subs in tiny font on my phone screen at karaoke because I was so pleased to have found what I was looking for

is there any worse feeling than knowing you read obiter in a case some indeterminate time in the past that would be perfectly on point in the submissions you're currently making, except you didn't save the case because it wasn't on point in the submissions you were making back when you read it

the thing is: not every tweet is a banger. even great writers struggle to find the right words sometimes. but even the biggest bombs and cringiest flops ever dreamt or penned by humans are feats beyond the ability of the most advanced LLM, because humans can produce original thoughts and LLMs can't.

I guess if you're the kind of buffoon who earnestly believes you can outsource thought and creativity to a predictive text algorithm powered by global warming, it makes sense that you'd try to outsource your conscience next

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like, imagine the big fat quiz of 2025 question about this

imagine explaining to your kids that joyce carol oates posted so hard she drove elon musk to complete his lowtax arc. and yet, we live in a world where that possibility not only exists, but grows by the day

joyce carol oates is the sole living human being who can well and truly claim to be chaotic neutral

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my partner reading a sex scene I wrote more than a year ago and deciding they were going to reenact it with me might be the first ever time that being a writer has gotten me laid