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when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.

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My girl Anya🐑 from Mouthwashing

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Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

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am taking perverse pleasure in reminding people it's 2025. that's a star trek year. silly little science fiction number. except it's happening, and DANG ain't it underwhelming!

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One of the common mistakes I see for people relying on "AI" (LLMs and image generators) is that they think the AI they're interacting with is capable of thought and reason. It's not. This is why using AI to write essays or answer questions is a really bad idea because it's not doing so in any meaningful or thoughtful way. All it's doing is producing the statistically most likely expected output to the input.

This is why you can ask ChatGPT "is mayonnaise a palindrome?" and it will respond "No it's not." but then you ask "Are you sure? I think it is" and it will respond "Actually it is! Mayonnaise is spelled the same backward as it is forward"

All it's doing is trying to sound like it's providing a correct answer. It doesn't actually know what a palindrome is even if it has a function capable of checking for palindromes (it doesn't). It's not "Artificial Intelligence" by any meaning of the term, it's just called AI because that's a discipline of programming. It doesn't inherently mean it has intelligence.

So if you use an AI and expect it to make something that's been made with careful thought or consideration, you're gonna get fucked over. It's not even a quality issue. It just can't consistently produce things of value because there's no understanding there. It doesn't "know" because it can't "know".

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'farmhouse bouquet' dice set 💐 by knockoutdice on ig

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drawing...The creature

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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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An Anya! Inked and then scanned/colored

I'm watching EuroBrady's playthrough of Mouthwashing and it's been really sticking with me lately!

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There's gonna come a day where you feel better,

You'll rise up free and easy on that day,

And float from branch to branch, lighter than air.

Just when that day is coming, who can say? Who can say?

Up the Wolves by The Mountain Goats

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Goodluck Pikachu

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I also apologize for the delay to any fic updates. Current chapter of Lunar Eclipse is taking longer than expected (and admittedly is taking a bit of a toll on me), the sequel to Constellation is turning into a beast of a work, and every draft and work between those are unfortunately neglected for similar reasons.

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woadh last night was fun but also i kinda crashed hard for some reason

...DND does something to people

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everyone say thank you to anya mouthwashing for getting me to finish something for once

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I love Anya mouthwashing