Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
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@wilson @catvalente This paragraph is probably one of the most on point things I've heard said about modern politics in quite a while:
"And don’t say the revolution will bring them down and restore balance. Seriously, please shut up about the revolution. Revolution should be nightmare fuel, not visions of post-scarcity sugar-plums. There won’t be a revolution in the west any time soon, and if there was it wouldn’t restore shit except polio and feudalism. We actually have to work and solve our problems here and now, not hope the world burns down and somehow all that blood and horror comes up roses and utopia."
We need to organise and fix the world as it is. It'll be messy and far from glamorous but it's what's needed rather than some idle fantasy of leading the revolution.
@quartzen If I can't get a local brand, I usually go for Talenti
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Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Shelley: check it out, this is my girlfriend Jane Williams
Williams: sup
Stephen King: whoa whoa wait a second mary
King: I thought you were dating percy
Shelley: yeah
King:
King: well now I’m just all confused
I would love it if my knee would hold my weight for the entire day.
I have fallen in love with the Minolta 110 SLR mk 1, but there are no camera shops near me that do repairs; I'd have to send it out to the east coast somewhere and that is unfortunately unfeasible.
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This is a fascinating article--translated from Japanese, with a link to the original--from a Japanese fan who stumbled into the whole "anti" vs. "proshipping" stuff going on in parts of US fandom, with their thoughtful analysis of it for the sake of other Japanese fans who are sometimes blindsided by anti attacks. Helpful for anyone who's unaware of/confused by this particularly vicious brand of purity culture among the youth.
I can't shake the feeling I'm still writing trash, but I'm doing it and who knows, maybe it'll be trash that will catch on somewhere.
I probably won't get in, but y'know, I thought I'd stop writing after my ex. What good could I possibly be as an author, as inferior as they always said I was, without them to tell me how to be a real person.
I have now applied to three different writing places with things I wrote after they left, my own "broken and unreadable" (their words) stories, that I composed without my ex (who told me such a thing would be impossible, if I wanted to be a "real" writer)
I've been thinking about how when I was with my ex, they constantly "encouraged" me to write, and I ended up with next to nothing because their encouragement was designed to keep me controlled and working for them and their writing.
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JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh
Poe: joanne
Rowling: I want to invite you all to hear my ssspecial podcassst appearance
Poe: oh god
Barker: what’s it called
Rowling: it’s called ‘the witch trialsss of jk rowling’
Barker: ah hahaha
Thinking about the "Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny" issue again today. It's a valid critique, I just wish there was a way to articulate why it also makes me a bit sad. I feel like it's conflating lack of chemistry and lack of narrative space to show character with "horniness."
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The foundation behind it has been labeled a hate group.
Please, please spread the word. "He Gets Us" is akin to the "pregnancy centers" that throw women seeking abortions into prison.
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As long as we are re-making absolutely everything, I want:
Brie Larson as Buckaroo Bonzai
Channing Tatum as Penny Priddy
Tiffany Haddish as Lord John Whorfin
Kate McKinnon as John Bigboote
Tessa Thompson as New Jersey
In Natasha Lyonne's remake of The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
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Lizzo got me teary-eyed not one minute into this video for her son "Special," and now I want a Lizzo superhero action figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ujjiNBQnmI
@Wiswell That just happened to me! Two retweets and suddenly "over the daily limit." Couldn't get even one original post. Now, it's the new perennial birdsite question: site failure, paywall, or is it me? (I hope it's failure and not paywall.)
Somehow, my 20-follower, private birdsite account got softlocked? I tried to retweet and it said I'd "reached my daily retweet limit" and I tried to post and it said I'd reached a posting limit. I don't see signs I've been hacked, so I am very confused.
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It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.
Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?
And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
