tacticianlyra

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Do other writers ever get this like, hyper-specific dialogue exchange drop into their brains and you know exactly where these character are standing and what they’re doing and how they’re saying these words but that’s all you get. You don’t have much other context and this specific moment that exists only at this time in your headspace??

#all the time

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Momma cat introduces her new baby born to human baby.

(Source)

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y’all ever see a piece of fan content about your favorite character that is so horrifically different from what you personally believe and you just

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

#unfortunately it ended in the ruining of a childhood favorite show of mine #it's my own fault so I deserve it anyways

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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Cherry blossom axolotl 🌸

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#my perfectionism needs to take a hint and gtfo

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#keyboard because mobile keyboards are EVIL #seriously have no idea how my sister manages to type so fast on them

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#for some strange reason smol children think I'm the most interesting person

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Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

#this is the truth #ngl...I'm glad most of my middle school era writing no longer exists...

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Reblog with your score

#13

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"these people around the world desperately need aid!!!!"

I'm broke AF and my mental health is in the sewers at this point.

please tag things. I really don't need to feel even more useless than I already am.

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

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The Dichotomy.

#Rain World

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avmar if i had anything to say about it (if i put my headcanons on his textures)

(the white parts are mahanan body paint!)

#I need to play this again #I enjoy keeping Avmar on my team as dedicated ailment-afflictor

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#ngl I suspect guest comments are going to get taken away permanently #AI's here to stay and so are the disgusting shits who get kicks out of doing this

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Well, looks like AO3 bots have evolved once again.

Just had a flood of comments that were literally just graphic pornographic images.

I'll be locking my account/fics to registered users for now, but putting the message out there so other users are aware when checking their inbox.

#oh so THIS is why they shut off guest comment privileges #...ew