@anjael

I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?

I feel like people get so hung up on the results of a thing that they don't appreciate that the process of making it is, actually, enjoyable.

It's like if you have a friend who likes to bake, asking if they'd like to just buy cupcakes from the store instead of making them. The end result of the cupcake is secondary to the joy you get from having made cupcakes.

Art isn't a slog or a chore or something I want to avoid. Art is fun. It's rewarding. It feels good to do it. You may as well be asking me if I want the AI to watch television for me, it doesn't make any sense, I'm not participating and would gain nothing from it.

Exactly this for animation as well

🥺❤.

SENSHI would want you to get enough sleep and have nice nutritious meals

CHILCHUCK would want you to know your worker rights and what your labor is worth

LAIOS would want you to embrace your passions and try new things

FALIN would want you to take care of your health and treat others with kindness

MARCILLE would want you to practice necromancy and have gay sex

IZUTSUMI would want you to Izutsumi

hilarious drama going on on reddit, the least respectable social media site i use. someone goes to r/legaladvice with a question about a shitty interaction with a cop. pretty normal post.

some users replied with regular advice, but one r/legaladvice moderator came in saying it was OP's fault, defending the cop. when OP requested they "please read the post", they equipped their next reply with their little mod hat and told them that showing attitude would result in a ban.

after receiving hundreds of downvotes (and many replies, all of which were removed and banned), the r/legaladvice mod nuked the thread in a fit of anger.

so you'd think it'd stop there, right? well, that's where you're wrong.

there's another subreddit called r/bestoflegaladvice, where the more interesting r/legaladvice threads are reposted for audiences to take the piss out of. and of course, a mod throwing a tantrum and nuking a thread because they were asked to read would make that cut. so it was reposted! and of course, everyone started rightfully calling the mod a bootlicker.

people then started pointing out that the r/legaladvice mod team has cops on it, at which point, part two of the drama starts: some people are mods of both r/legaladvice AND r/bestoflegaladvice, and they get really mad when you call them cops (derogatory).

so of course, they take the best course of action, which is to angrily reply to comments calling them cops and then use mod powers to delete the comments they don't like, insisting that only ONE r/legaladvice mod is a cop, so it's totally fine!

the r/bestoflegaladvice thread was then deleted and locked by mods, presumably for "republicizing deleted comments".

the same thread was then reposted to r/bestoflegaladvice. again, the thread fills with people calling the r/legaladvice mods cops.

this thread was also deleted and locked by r/bestoflegaladvice mods.

but it doesn't end there! because there's ANOTHER subreddit called r/subredditdrama, where the juiciest drama from all manner of subreddits gets reposted. and you'll never believe what's gone on long enough to count as drama.

here, free from the shackles of reddit's legaladvice world, users were free to dunk on the mods as much as they want.

the r/subredditdrama thread was eventually deleted as well (but not locked) just because they don't accept links to nuked threads since the original can't be read, but thankfully, everything had been archived by that point.

and just because the streisand effect should never go unrealized, i'm reposting it here, to tumblr. who knows, maybe someone will bother to screencap this and put it on r/curatedtumblr, and it will eventually live on in reddit again.

as for OP, they reposted their situation to r/nostupidquestions and later posted this update:

moral of the story: never go to reddit for legal advice, because the legal advice subreddit is run by ONE cop.

Oh man living in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife and owning a large automobile fucking slaps

Oops wait not my house

Not my wife either

Where’s my automobile where the fuck am I

trans girl: so the patriarchy still benefits under-privileged groups relative to their social positions, for example whilst obviously oppressed, working class men obviously still have privilege over working class women, gay men still have privilege over gay women etc.

tumblr: right, that makes sense

trans girl: so naturally, trans men still have privilege over trans women, even if they are still relatively under-privileged in comparison to cis men

tumblr: shut the fuck up transphobe

When they pass. Trans men have privilege over trans women when they pass

The sorts of people to discriminate against trans women do not look at clockable trans men and think “that’s a man”. They think “that’s a fucked up woman who refuses to conform to societal expectations”. Fucked up women who refuse to conform do not get male privilege, even if they’re actually trans men being misgendered

A lot of trans people stay visibly trans for their entire lives, and visibly trans people do not get the same gender based privileges as cis people, even if they have the social title of “man”

did you know that for every type of trans guy there is an equivalent trans girl too? so did you know there are also trans WOMEN who don’t pass too and that, due to transmisogyny, they are actually treated worse than trans men who don’t pass? because what trans women are seen as (disgusting predatory monsters) is seen as worse than what trans men are seen as?

it is nonsense to suggest that trans men literally only benefit from male privilege when they totally pass & are stealth. male names are preferred on resumes, masculinity is treated as less frivolous and more logical than femininity as two random examples (that are commonly discussed in feminism, a school of thought you should look up). like, sorry, but for every time a trans guy has been treated badly for not passing, a trans girl has been treated worse for the same. this is obvious to anybody who spends any amount of time around a significant number of trans girls.

Transfems will be like "I am an ugly unlovable beast" and then you see one picture of them and you'd give your life to just to see their beautiful face again

Late night thoughts

“Call Me Maybe” with every other beat removed

YOU’RE STUBBORN, JEANS STOLEN, NIGHT ROWING

THINK YOU’RE BABY?

HEY AND YOU, AMAZING, BUT YOMBER, SO CLAYBE 

my gf crafted this with lots of care for yall. pls enjoy:

losing my mind over this

THINK YOU’RE BABY?!

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

this gold shouldn't stay in the comments

This happened to me and i wish someone told me staying up for long periods of time without sleep was a shitty idea, but i had no alternative at the time

Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.

Wow

Weirdest experience I ever had with this is with a customer at work.

It’s not an uncommon occurrence for men in their 40s and 50s to refer to their wives as “old bags”, so whenever I do the whole “Would you like a bag” spiel, there’s a 50/50 chance they will point to their wife and say “No thanks I have one right here” or say “Nah I left her at home” Or something else awful and then wink at me and call me darling or sweetheart and just make me want to be smited by god right in that second.

However there was one customer that came in and did this whole song and dance. Not out of the ordinary. What was, however, was how he then followed it up by going “I’m kidding, I’m divorced ha ha.” Then, his face drops and he turns to his friend with a look of absolute horror and goes “Wait, that’s probably why. Do you think that’s why she left me Andy? Because I said things like that?” And then proceeded to look like he was re-evaluating his whole life as his friend led him out of the store.

TL; DR = Boomers are weird and this one was given a glimpse behind the veil of self awareness in a Tesco Extra

diary comics - scammed

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good read for teachers.

I’ve been yelling this for years

Hi yall, author of the piece here. Medium instituted a pay wall so here is a link to access it for free:

Linguistics is cancelled

I can ne fucking believe this pas

If you showed this to the Academie Francais they’d all spontaneously combust

official linguistics post