And I’ll tell you a fact about myself based off that word
holy shit do this
do thisssss
Yeah, I’ll have a go!
Let’s a-go!
Sure, I’d have fun with that.
Yes please, awful day today, and I like words ♡
Send me words to help me kill time as I spend another day unable to move because of my fucked up ankles plz
I doubt it will happen, but sure.
Tip for people who have trouble deciding on a word: try the “Random Entry” button on Wiktionary for inspiration.
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#ask me something?
Okay so this would depend on where you are in the world, and whether or not they had squatters rights (can’t be evicted and can apply for legal ownership of place once they have been there for X amount of years) but I mean, the dude owns the place, even if it is a run down mess he was still there first and there’s probably some ancient land ownership law which can’t be overwritten by modern laws (you find all sorts of weird things are still technically legal cause no one bothered to update the books since 1645) so basically whoever just bought this castle to turn it into a modern fixer upper, congrats, you also just bought yourself a vampire and he’s not going anywhere.
(Also now I kind of want to write this where a family buys it to turn it into a hotel/wedding venue and the kids find the vampire in the attic and he ends up being the weird uncle who gets roped into hilarious wedding related shenanigans?? Like
“Okay yes fine, you can host weddings here, but registrar only, no religious ones.”
“But Theolodious, why?”
“Really Sharon, really, do I have to spell it out for you. Really.”*
“We really should increase the lighting for photographs, what about skylights?”
“No.”
“But—”
“How about I just set all of you on fire while you’re trying to sleep.”*
“Please, for the love of god, please don’t let people throw confetti or rice, I’m begging you.”
*
“Okay what’s our final head count for the night?”
“107.”
“Are you sure?”
“Did I fucking stutter Steve?”*
“Uncle Theo, why does the groom have “help me” on the bottom of his shoes, why is everyone laughing?.”
“Because small one, humanity has failed collectively as a species and heteronormativity is a constructed lie designed to oppress over half the population for not conforming to arcane and chauvinistic ideals put in place by dead scholars who have long since turned to dust and have no place influencing modern society.”
“…”
“Permanence is an illusion.”*
“Madame, flattering as your offer is for a quickie, you’re not my type.”
“What is your type then?” ;) ;) ;)
“O negative.”*
“Whoo, what a day, I could eat a horse.”
“Same.”
“…”
“…well obviously I’m not going to.”*
“Theo…are you…are you crying?”
“Yes.”
“You big softie, I never thought someone like you would cry at a wedding.”
“…I’ve lived a long life, Sharron. People come and go, the christening you bless will be the funeral you mourn in less than a century. But people keep saying “I love you”, that has to count for something.”
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#vampires #story ideas I will never write #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
doing laundry today and I found this towel
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#Star Trek #Voyager #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I knew this was going to be a Voyager joke but I didn’t predict the form it would take
No joke, companies working on facial recognition software should be destroyed. There’s literally no possible ethical use of that kind of technology.
I disagree, but would say that it’s complicated.
I mean i could foresee some silly app-based games coming out of it but like I’d gladly deprive the world of those games if it means preventing the ever strengthening of the surveillance state.
Fire to their offices, smash their computers.
Can’t put the genie back into the bottle; need to plan for a world where everyone’s activities are tracked basically all of the time, or could be.
Alright then I’m a primitivist now
Luckily in small primitive communities you’re not continually watched and judged every waking moment wait what the heck am I saying
I mean you can be alone all the time as a hunter-gatherer.
But I was being facetious anyway
The problem with facial recognition software is that it will finally settle the question if there truly is a difference between one’s face and ass.
As an autistic, it would be nice to augment with software to get up to baseline, as people have taken advantage of my impairment before and it sucked a lot.
Agreed (with ilzolende, not with OP).
It’s perfectly technologically feasible to give me assistive tech for my disability. We have wearable HUDs. We have software that can beat me in facial-recognition tests. The reason I don’t have assistive tech right now is because of neurotypicals whining that it would be an “invasion of privacy” to let me do to them in software what they’ve been doing to me in wetware for their entire fucking lives.
—
…okay, I see I do still have that berserk button, it’s just that nobody’s pushed it in a while. I guess that’s useful to know.
(Well, I suppose I would still have it, since it’s a subcategory of the always-terrible “person [sacrifices/attempts to sacrifice/advocates sacrificing] my well-being for the Greater Good, not because they’ve weighed the pros and cons and decided the greater good was worth the harm it would cause me, but because it literally never occurred to them to factor it into the decision”.)
Look, I don’t know whether facial-recognition tech is worth it overall. I’m willing to believe that it isn’t. But we-as-a-society can’t have that discussion properly until the pro-privacy folks recognise that seeing-eye computers for prosopagnosics would, all else equal, be a good thing, and that “if we do X, such computers will exist” deserves to be added in as one of the factors when deciding whether to do X.
I’m not a neurotypical.
I see you completely ignored the second, larger half of the post, in which I frame the first half as an at best semi-endorsed knee-jerk response and give what my views are when looking past my anger.
(I left the first half in to give the reader enough of a glimpse into what’s going on in my head for an idea of just how much anger I’m suppressing later on in the hopes of a decent conversation. The rest of this thread is me trying to be civil, and if I fail, please understand it as “failed attempt to be civil” rather than “open hostility”.)
There is no established term for “non-prosopagnosic”. If you are typical in this particular aspect of your neurology, then my language was merely imprecise (as language in writing marked as knee-jerk anger tends to be) in a way not affecting the point. If you are prosopagnosic, then I am curious why assistive tech for yourself did not occur to you as a possible ethical use of facial-recognition software.
I’d like to be clear here:
I am not arguing that developing facial-recognition tech is a good idea. I don’t know whether it’s a good idea or not. What I do know is that it is not true that there is “no possible ethical use” for this technology, and that if we do champion the cause of privacy against those who seek to introduce this technology, we should go into it aware of the price we are paying for a more private world, rather than believing there are no downsides to doing the right thing. We can only determine whether the price is worth paying when we know what the price is.
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#reply via reblog #prosopagnosia #discourse cw
No joke, companies working on facial recognition software should be destroyed. There’s literally no possible ethical use of that kind of technology.
I disagree, but would say that it’s complicated.
I mean i could foresee some silly app-based games coming out of it but like I’d gladly deprive the world of those games if it means preventing the ever strengthening of the surveillance state.
Fire to their offices, smash their computers.
Can’t put the genie back into the bottle; need to plan for a world where everyone’s activities are tracked basically all of the time, or could be.
Alright then I’m a primitivist now
Luckily in small primitive communities you’re not continually watched and judged every waking moment wait what the heck am I saying
I mean you can be alone all the time as a hunter-gatherer.
But I was being facetious anyway
The problem with facial recognition software is that it will finally settle the question if there truly is a difference between one’s face and ass.
As an autistic, it would be nice to augment with software to get up to baseline, as people have taken advantage of my impairment before and it sucked a lot.
Agreed (with ilzolende, not with OP).
It’s perfectly technologically feasible to give me assistive tech for my disability. We have wearable HUDs. We have software that can beat me in facial-recognition tests. The reason I don’t have assistive tech right now is because of neurotypicals whining that it would be an “invasion of privacy” to let me do to them in software what they’ve been doing to me in wetware for their entire fucking lives.
—
…okay, I see I do still have that berserk button, it’s just that nobody’s pushed it in a while. I guess that’s useful to know.
(Well, I suppose I would still have it, since it’s a subcategory of the always-terrible “person [sacrifices/attempts to sacrifice/advocates sacrificing] my well-being for the Greater Good, not because they’ve weighed the pros and cons and decided the greater good was worth the harm it would cause me, but because it literally never occurred to them to factor it into the decision”.)
Look, I don’t know whether facial-recognition tech is worth it overall. I’m willing to believe that it isn’t. But we-as-a-society can’t have that discussion properly until the pro-privacy folks recognise that seeing-eye computers for prosopagnosics would, all else equal, be a good thing, and that “if we do X, such computers will exist” deserves to be added in as one of the factors when deciding whether to do X.
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#prosopagnosia #reply via reblog #raw nerves #discourse cw #disappointed permanent resident of The Future
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So I stumbled across this thing today and what the fuck.
Normal people don’t know about Monopoly auctions?!
Normal-people Monopoly is even more boring than the version I thought we were all complaining about?!
(Yeah, don’t believe this guy’s thesis, Monopoly with auctions is still boring. Although, that might be because my family
1: always buys property we land on if we can afford it, on the grounds that it will be useful as a bargaining chip if nothing else. As such, auctions don’t actually happen that often.
2: aren’t very willing to screw each other over, because we fear starting a revenge death spiral. (We got Munchkin a couple months ago, and it turns out we are not the right kind of people to play it properly. (Except maybe Brother, who insists that he is just enough of an asshole to play Munchkin.) Munchkin-as-played-by-people-who-fear-revenge-spirals is still kind of fun, but there’s a clear sense that it’s not what we’re supposed to be doing.)
Oh, and 3, we suck at bluffing, possibly because we don’t try very hard when playing casual board games.
…okay, so it’s possible Monopoly with auctions could be fun if you weren’t us. But regardless, what the fuck.)
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#oh look an original post #Monopoly
there’s a lot of evidence that the iliad and the odyssey were actually composed by a variety of poets through an oral tradition rather than just by one poet, so what if the homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D
homer, the dm: okay achilles, agamemnon has just taken away your war prize, what do you want to do
achilles’ player: i roll to have a diplomatic conversation with agamemnon
achilles’ player: *rolls a 1*
homer: you throw the staff of speaking at agamemnon’s face and storm off to sulk with your boyfriendHomer, the DM: Your beautiful Patroclus is dead. What do you do?
Achilles’ player: I fight everyone.
Homer, the DM: You can’t fight everyone. How would you even–
Achilles’ player: *rolls a 20* I fight everyone.
Homer, the DM: *sighs* Fine. You cut a path through the Trojan army, enemy dead strewn in your wake.
Achilles’ player: How many?
Homer, the DM: …lots. Enough to clog the friggin’ river with bodies.
Achilles’ player: I fight the river.
Homer, the DM: You. can. not. fight. the. river.
Achilles’ player: *reaches for dice*Homer, the DM: Okay guys, so the war’s over, you had a bunch of losses but you won in the end. Time to go home, let’s roll to see who gets there firs—
Odysseus’s player: I got a critical failure.
Homer, the DM; “Ok seriously guys they’re not going to fall for the giant horse.”
Odysseus’ player; “I just rolled a nat 20 on my deception check.”
Homer, the DM; “What the fuck.”
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#Iliad
also like 10-15 years from now I hope someone makes one of those inspirational sports movies except it’s a 50 year old woman who wants to play competitive online games and everyone tells her she can’t because she’s too old, her reflexes are too slow, etc, and she gets this grizzled trainer except they’re a 19 year old kid who had a promising career until carpal tunnel syndrome ruined their chances of becoming the world champion so they train her and she fuckin wins, the end. movie of the year.
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#story ideas I will never write
fog is just a rlly big land ghost
In four billion years, there have been many continents that died.
You’ve heard of the famous ones–Pangaea, proud monolith; Laurasia, home of dinosaurs–but there were others, so many, many others. The grand march of time swallowed islands whole, scraped them up like residue from the baking pan of the world.
Everything has a soul. Everything remembers.
Gondwana floats gently over London now, remembering when the world was hot and green. She loves the lights. There were no lights, when she was alive. There were no lights when the world was so hot and green.
Rodinia settles onto the dry Atacama, bringing moisture from the sea. She moves much faster now, unhindered by gravity and friction, slipping through the walls of this new house. The walls are always moving, yet she stays, floating in and out, bringing moisture.
Vaalbara, eldest and most fire-born, sneaks in tendrils and wisps over her old haunting grounds. Her bones are buried in the outback, ancient cratons resting unrotted through all the fearsome gnawing of time. She likes the summers here. The heat reminds her, so faintly, of what it was like to be born. In the wildfires, she sees the magma oceans of her youth.
Everything has a soul. Everything remembers.
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#storytime
2000’s Twilight Outfit and Accessories. Possibly the most 2000 thing to ever 2000. There’s also a holofoil Twilight Accessories box, which I forgot to fit in the picture but which is included and only very slightly dinged up. The purse has a seam and a small edge of the shiny cover fabric coming unglued, but other than that everything is in pristine shape. Asking $30 plus shipping.
I really wish I liked this better. It’s a lovely, high-quality, well-made outfit! …of the style literally every girl in my youth group but me was wearing to Christmas mass that winter. Too many associations. :P
#americangirldoll #americangirl #agig #altagig #agemergencysale
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#American Girl #pretty things #it doesn’t really evoke much of anything to me #I just like the colours
Brinens and Things 