#Faulty Products

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Outside the Warwick

Living on the Manor while hooked up with Mark Perry/Faulty

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"DRUG ME WITH YOUR FUCK MACHINES, WITH A FOUNTAIN OF FADS, MORE ROCK AND ROLL ADS..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on vocalist Jello Biafra and bassist Klaus Fluoride of American punk rock band DEAD KENNEDYS, performing live during their "Fresh Fruits for Rotting Vegetables" era, from the pages of UK magazine "Zig Zag," published November 1980.

"Drug me with natural vitamin C, Drug me with pharmaceutical speed, Drug me with your sleeping pills, Drug me with your crossword puzzles, Drug me with your magazines, Drug me with your fuck machines, With a fountain of fads, more rock and roll ads, Drug me, drug me, drug me-me-me!"

-- "Drug Me" (1980) by DEAD KENNEDYS

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3122347242292803947.

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[derelictsrot]

I guess it's her turn now X) My SIGNALIS replika oc,,,, Stadttaube STBR

[thesiouxzy]

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[spicyliumang]

Speaking of tablets every now and again I think about how this bad boy CARRIED when I started doing digital art😭

[crowlore]

any and all criticisms aside for the moment i still find myself so charmed by the concept art for dmc devil may cry

[xstarkillerx]

again, sorry for being so slow to get to asks, editing this film is making me genuinely want to die, things keep going wrong and I want it out of my site

[echoofawind]

For the AO3wrapped asks: 3, 6 and 30 please. 💚

Ahhhhhh!!! Thank you so much for asking ☺️☺️

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

This is also my answer to 28 : 😅 'Finally 39'. I don't give two pop tarts how it does on AO3. Don't care about kudos/hits/anything. I wrote that piece for me because I was inspired. I didn't have any outside expectations I had to meet. It wasn't a gift for someone (I sign myself up for too many gifts and they all wreck me and my writing because of the pressure I put on myself to be "good") . That story felt like a home run on fandom for me.

I'm proud that I put myself first in that writing. I did what I wanted. And I love the result. I hope to write more for me in the future.

6. Favorite Title Used

Lol, I forgot this was indeed 2022, wow. 'Clone A Wand' . I thought the euphemism was so obvious and cracked me up. I was surprised when folks didn't immediately figure it out. I need to finish the smutty epilogue for that one.

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

It should be intuitive, and it's not a new revelation: how quickly the ideas and words flow when I get out of my own way. When I can find a way to remove all of my self imposed restrictions and limitations and roadblocks, it feels almost like flying.

Thank you for the ask!! ❤️❤️❤️

[nerice]

i think im gonna buy an ipod for music again.....

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[featherymainffins]

I'm ALWAYS like "I'm a drama queen. Family visits don't make my mental health that much worse. After all, my parents aren't that bad." and then I'm forced to exist around my mother for 2 days and immediately become an active suicide risk

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

Prior to more widespread use and more accurate reporting, everything I saw on AIs like ChatGPT was presenting it as basically a souped-up search engine capable of synthesizing digests from multiple sources instead of making you read through ten web pages yourself. The information might be inaccurate because there were inaccuracies in the source material, but the machine wouldn't introduce new and unsourced inaccuracies on its own, and the main danger seemed to be data poisoning or negligently constructed training sets.

If you remember when AskJeeves first got rolled out, a common way of talking about the AIs was that they would basically be to modern search engines what AskJeeves was to primitive boolean searching. This impression was massively helped along by coverage of experiments like this one, which took medical questions patients asked their doctors and compared answers written by ChatGPT and answers written by actual human doctors and declared ChatGPT the hands-down winner.

There was also a significant amount of coverage on how careful companies had been to put in guardrails to keep the AIs from giving offensive answers or responding to offensive prompts, which can easily lead people to conclude that companies did this by excluding obvious bullshit, hate speech, and highly suspect sources from the training data.

If I had missed or misunderstood a lot of the subsequent coverage of where and why these things keep fucking up, I would also have been surprised to find that they're just making shit up constantly and can't be trusted about anything. Like, if you hop onto Google and type in a search, you would also be shocked if all the results were pages that Google had just made up from whole cloth, especially if you clicked on any of them and Google then made up a fake webpage for you to poke around in.

If you're expecting ChatGPT to only be pulling from acceptable sources and only to be synthesizing verified information, you're going to be pretty damn shocked when it tells you Xenophon went down in history for his campaign to retake Georgia in the American Civil War.

[poorwhayfairingstranger]

Anyone got any recommendations for glasses That won't break 7 times in a year.

Because Ralph's is not it

Seriously though I really need new glasses. These things are barely holding on and I need these to drive to work.

[susie-dreemurr]

D:

[ask-me-later23]

Can you write a little blurb about reader having a sleepy cuddly afternoon with Spencer?

Soft rays of light drifted through the curtains and across your face, a gentle reminder from the sun of its limited time with you. As much as you wanted to continue your adventures within your dreamscape, you were quickly stolen away, back to the real world. Back to the too small couch currently hosting you and your too tall boyfriend, Spencer. 

Afternoons like this were rare with him, he was always on call and even when he was home you both were typically too busy to spend an afternoon doing nothing. You both got the afternoon off and while you had said it would be just a few minutes of rest, those few minutes turned into a few hours, which had developed into the entire day.

Spencer was still asleep, you try not to move too much and wake him. His insomnia refuses to let him sleep for more than a few hours, so you know he needs what rest he can get.

This was also your favorite time to look at him, when he had his guard down and looked the most at peace. The beams that drew you from sleep now dance across his curls, making them shine a golden color that reminds you of honey. Freckles are sprinkled across his skin. You remember how you used to make a game of kissing each of them when you first got together. The memories bring a soft smile to your face as you listen to his snores. 

As if realizing he’s being watched, Spencer finally stirs. His eyes flitter open, revealing the rich, brown color that always reminded you of dark, vintage books. The corner of his lips tilt up into a smile and he pulls you in tighter. 

“Good afternoon sleepy,” you mumble as you nuzzle into his neck.

He plants a soft kiss onto your forehead. “Sleep well?”

“As well as I can having to listen to your loud ass snoring,” you tease, sitting up to check the time on your phone. 

Spencer rolls his eyes and rests his head back against the arm of the couch, stretching his arm across his face to cover the light. “45% of adult males snore on a regular basis, and it only gets worse with age. You should really get used to it.”

“Guess I’ll just have to go find somewhere else to sleep then.” You act like you’re going to stand up, only to have Spencer jump up from his resting position and drag you back down with him, his grasp unusually strong for a man of his stature. 

“Not gonna happen.” His grip holds firm as you attempt to wiggle away, giggling.

“We really should get up and be productive,” you murmur into his chest where he currently has your face stuck.

“Productivity is for tomorrow, today is for sleeping and comfort.”

While your mind tells you that his logic is faulty, you can’t ignore how his sweater smells strongly of books and laundry detergent, or how comforting that smell is. You also cannot ignore the circles he is currently rubbing on your back, just underneath your own sweater. So, instead of protesting, you nestle in closer and shut your eyes once more.

“Sleep it is.”

You both drift off to sleep again, locked in each other’s arms and isolated from the outside world. When you inevitably wake again and hear Spencer’s soft snores, all you can do is smile.