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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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no but for real, imagine being in a city without cars. not the logistics, not the public transportation, not the design of the city itself, don't imagine living in a city without cars, or building a city without cars, just imagine sitting in one. Sitting on your porch, or your balcony, or even just by you open window.

How much of the soundscape around you comes from cars, and how different would it be without them? imagine streets, neighborhoods, where the only sounds were the sounds of life. of occasional bicycles whizzing past, of peoples music across the street, of people having conversations, or cooking in food stalls, or playing in all the open space. all the space for people. imagine the only interruptions are the occasional rumble of a bus, or a trolley, or more rarely an emergency vehicle. what if all the other vehicles were gone.

Imagine what the street outside would look like. be it a busy and bustling one in a dense urban area, or a quiet residential one on the outskirts of the city. What would it look like if people could use the street as the public space it is. If people were playing games out there, or gathering for events, or even just conversations. If people weren't limited to a few feet along either edge. What would it look like if life could take place on the street outside.

What would it smell like without the rubber, without the petroleum, without the burning oil and grease and all those scents of personal transportation. Imagine what it would smell like if they were gone, if the only smells were those of the lives taking place around you, of the homes and the restaurants and the businesses and the stalls that could occupy the space in their stead. If nothing else, imagine the smell of the city without the smog of the road.

Imagine just existing. even for just a few minutes. even just outside your home, in a city without cars. how different would it be?

#q.

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me when i fuckin uhhh

#q.

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i'm such a big fan of laios using being well fed as proof that he's serious. like there's so many techbros & etc who will use not eating breakfast as proof that they're productive & just in general, the idea of being "too busy to eat" is getting more common (which is exactly what toshiro is doing here!) but laios is like. no. i'm so serious about this i'm thinking about what comes next. i'm so serious about this i'm making sure my body can do everything it can when i need it.

the fact that everyone in the party took care of themselves & carefully planned out their route & when they'd take breaks is what made them so successful. they always made sure to understand their limits

#q.

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Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

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no but for real, imagine being in a city without cars. not the logistics, not the public transportation, not the design of the city itself, don't imagine living in a city without cars, or building a city without cars, just imagine sitting in one. Sitting on your porch, or your balcony, or even just by you open window.

How much of the soundscape around you comes from cars, and how different would it be without them? imagine streets, neighborhoods, where the only sounds were the sounds of life. of occasional bicycles whizzing past, of peoples music across the street, of people having conversations, or cooking in food stalls, or playing in all the open space. all the space for people. imagine the only interruptions are the occasional rumble of a bus, or a trolley, or more rarely an emergency vehicle. what if all the other vehicles were gone.

Imagine what the street outside would look like. be it a busy and bustling one in a dense urban area, or a quiet residential one on the outskirts of the city. What would it look like if people could use the street as the public space it is. If people were playing games out there, or gathering for events, or even just conversations. If people weren't limited to a few feet along either edge. What would it look like if life could take place on the street outside.

What would it smell like without the rubber, without the petroleum, without the burning oil and grease and all those scents of personal transportation. Imagine what it would smell like if they were gone, if the only smells were those of the lives taking place around you, of the homes and the restaurants and the businesses and the stalls that could occupy the space in their stead. If nothing else, imagine the smell of the city without the smog of the road.

Imagine just existing. even for just a few minutes. even just outside your home, in a city without cars. how different would it be?

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Saw someone mention the new Boston Dynamics' robot was introduced like a Souls boss. Was not expecting it to come out so creepy.

#(oh that’s neat #(I don’t trust what The System uses these cool ass MACHINES FORRR #(but OUGH that’s dope #ref. #inspo.

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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If anyone can figure out what I wrote here I’d pay money. Weeps. WHAT DOES IT SAYYYYY

#me. #(23 LOS?? h3las??? WHAT? HUH???

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There is a conversation to be had about the fact that Taylor Swift's album is being played in its entirety across all of iHeartRadio's 868 stations, pushing out the opportunities other artists might have had to get radioplay. That's the literal definition of a monopoly. No wonder she'll hit the top of the radio play charts with this maneuver, because at least 65 minutes (if not the back side of the album, which would take it to nearly twice that length) across EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT STATIONS will be dedicated to her, artificially boosting her radio play and decreasing everyone else's. In this essay I will—

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wanted to draw the cat god :3

#(this is apparently a fandom thing #(all I can think of is every time I’ve met someone who’s dying #(they’ve seen a cat I can’t see #(HELLO?? GOD CAT???

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there should be a mandate of heaven that causes each police officer that touches any peaceful protestor to instantly have their lungs filled with bile to drown in their own body, but unfortunately heaven has left the work to us so be sure to hate and revile and subvert all police officers as much as you can for the rest of your life. in case you somehow hadn't already been convinced by the past (however many years youve been alive) years.

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Cloud Earrings // Lustrous Jewel

#comfort. #wishlist. #(Ooouuuuuu #(that’s gorg

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#(stoped at endgame should’ve stopped sooner #(I am interested in comics now tho

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why should i care about taylor swift when the killer remains at large

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nah this gets its own post:

imagine that someone comes up and compliments you on something - maybe it's your hair, your voice, your clothes, whatever. And you thank them and plan to move on. Then they ask for a little bit of your hair and you go, "okay fine, it's not gonna really hurt to give that" so you give them a couple strands. you'll grow more. whatever.

next week they come up to you again with a clone of your body that they can control like a puppet. "I liked you so much I wanted my own version of you so I can see/hear/talk to you whenever I want!" you would react with horror, right?

Art is inherently a personal creation; the things that you feel, the things you have lived through, your emotions and your skills and your past will affect what you make and how you make it. There is a bit of 'you' in everything you make, and the analogy above is what generative AI feels like to me as a creator. And I'm just a writer/artist. My art isn't a direct representation of me. If I was a supermodel or a voice actor or anyone in the public eye, my analogy is even more spot on with how viscerally horrifying it is to watch someone make a "you" that they can get to use to make whatever they want. say whatever they want. be whatever they want.

and then you have to listen to the people who make or use the clones brag about how much time and money they're saving by making all these clones (who they don't have to treat like people and who can't say no) instead of asking you to do the thing you're best at, at enormous environmental cost to create and power the damn things, all so they can make profit with no effort selling a thing wearing your face...

... so, yeah. I get a little mad about generative AI sometimes.