I genuinely wonder if that’d work as an LLM gatekeeper somehow. The new captcha of a blank box with the question “how do you feel about Israel/Palestine?” Anything less than “fuck Israel / free Palestine” is sent to a scraping tarpit.

Glad to see someone else gets it. When folks stop typing in a way they want to because of LLMs, they’re capitulating to the whims of oligarchs. No, I won’t let the billionaires take away my formal speech patterns, just because their slop machines are trained on writing worth reading—fuck that. Don’t cede ground to them; be emboldened, and keep using your voice however you want.

Get absolutely loved and cherished, you wonderful critter!

“Oh doe-n’t get me started…”

I would consider a link redirect the same as linking, assuming its sole purpose is to send you to X/Twitter. That is identical behavior to an X/Twitter link. As mentioned, a username is sufficient if that is the only source available. You could also just continue to link to xcancel despite it not working now, because I wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually comes back up.

Yup, that absolutely works!

You only have to provide the name of the artist and/or source to find them, so you can simply say it’s by username if there genuinely is no other place they exist aside from X/Twitter. I find that pretty disappointing from the artist though, like, they don’t even have another account aside from the Nazi site?

If you don’t link there it’s fine, but I’d consider artists who can do the bare minimum in that regard. Doesn’t need to be a link to the exact image, could be a personal website, a caard, or some other account they post art on.

I really appreciate you reaching out about it!

Earhood is a spectrum, and holy hell, Louise be hearing!

There’s many ways to express yourself, so if writing doesn’t cut it for you, I’m sure there’s something out there that does!

Yeah, that’s very true. Writing should be structured, concise, and flow well, as opposed to being a disjointed mess of empty paragraphs. It’s not that more words is inherently better, but more of a reminder that writing can be a fun and creative activity, and you can impart that joy onto others too. I actually left a pretty big hole in my reply for the sake of humor, which is the overarching context of the meme being a school assignment. You addressed it thoughtfully, but I was waiting for a silly response along the lines of:

Sir, this is a 6th grade essay about George Washington.

Arbitrarily shoving words where they don’t belong, into a premise you aren’t interested in writing about, isn’t ever going to be a fun time. If anything, it might put folks off of writing in the same way that dry school book assignments can for reading. When you spend more time with writing though, something you’re generally interesting in talking about, more words tend to come out—and that’s usually a good thing! Concise is not inherently minimalist, nor is it required to be devoid of emotion. Find your voice, let the words flow, and you’ll likely end up painting a more complete picture of what you want to convey.

Ah, the beauty of verbosity lies in remembering to smell the roses along your travels. What good is it to forgo the meandering path, playing in the sun’s warmth with your prose along the road less traveled? Take the time to water your garden of verbiage, and revel in the beauty as it begins to bear fruit! Merely dipping your toes into the sea of writing may feel cold and fleeting, but you’ll be surprised how much that can change when you decide to take the leap—to swim heatedly amongst the current.

I could’ve also said “writing is fun when you spend more time with it,” but that doesn’t feel the same, does it? We don’t have to constrain ourselves to the gray doldrums of a grocery list when we use our voices in writing. We can choose to spread our wings; we can choose to have fun, to make art.

• Paramost
• Kenny Longest
• KC & the Sun Band
• Johnny Fortune
• Incutrain
• Fort Major
• Coma Theater
• Missle for My Valentine
• Tungsten Maiden

41!

I was gonna reply with results from matrixrooms.info, but as it turns out, that gave nothing too. Either all the rooms are private, or it really is a desert out there for tf furs on Matrix lol.

I suppose it is a woefully underutilized glyph, isn’t it? I consider it very important, and make sure to check any typefaces I download, to ensure it’s designed before using them in creative projects. While it didn’t become mainstream, I love letting people know it exists through writing when an opportunity arises.

Exactly, they’re usually pretty easy to add if you want to. I totally understand most folks don’t talk so formally when in informal settings, but the em dash thing is hardly the smoking gun paranoid people want it to be. A lot of the “tells” by themselves are just punching at competent writers; it’s the same thing that happens to visual artists, or musicians, or anything else creative. You can try and find several tells at once—and sometimes you do—but it tends to boil down to glorified witch hunting, rather than something of substance. People want desperately to be able to just know something is AI generated on vibes alone. It’s not always going to be that easy, and most aren’t the sleuths they believe they are.

It depends on the keyboard, and the software. I’m using HeliBoard on my phone right now, and all I have to do to make an em dash is hold the dash key—that’s it. It’s actually quite trivial to add em dashes in various cases, and I wish folks wouldn’t pretend otherwise.

I also make use of other characters, like my beloved interrobang. I actually have that pinned to my clipboard, so I can paste it when it’s appropriate.

“You care about writing enough to use special characters‽”

“Yes.”

It was actually my bra’s trap, the trap that turns you into a bra. Easy to make that mistake.

You’re welcome, but you still gotta edit the source link in your comment!

The solution is actually to become a bird, as their tongues do not perceive that sort of spice.