Texas Jainsaw Massacre

“the machine says my daughter likes animals, I could never have known that,” Mayer says. “AI is great at doing the tedious drudge work everyone hates. like talking to my daughter, every time she opens her mouth I just wanna throw her into traffic. thanks to dazzle, I won’t have to do that.”

I guess I can’t be too mad that AI is devouring my industry. They made a machine that can do my job the way I can’t: fast, sterile, and sharp as kindergarten scissors. Which, let’s be honest, is more marketable than slow, sloppy, and occasionally jagged. But it’s a helluva lot less fun.

Tombstone

I got messaged by a guy on Grindr named Travis and I asked if anyone had ever called him Giraffis and he blocked me

Trans people are so desperately needed in journalism, there are very few of us and most are freelancers. The Trans Journalists Association does phenomenal work supporting trans journalists while also providing resources for their cis colleagues. Please consider giving during their funding drive. 💚

shout out to all the therapists who are about to learn a lot about the games industry this week I just explained the friendship/rivalry romance system from DA2 to mine

I wouldn’t mind a month where nothing Awful happens to me or my partners, just one would be lovely.

What It Was Like to See Nina Simone at the Village Gate, c. 1961“In the performance at the Gate, she sang not only to her live audience but also to those who would hear the recording in the future.” It’s 1961, and you’re seeing Nina Simone live at the Village Gate.

cis women getting their buccal fat scooped out look like grand moff tarkin

i think a horse would fix me

Mood:

Kinda grim that despite the imminent release of the biggest media event in history, working as a freelancer in the games media going into 2027 feels like showing up to an abandoned town where "Something bad happened."

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This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

You should kick people out of your Discords for being weird awkward vibe killers more

what’s cool about freelancing is that you can work constantly and still make very little money

dune counts as toxic, doomed yaoi

maybe I spend too much time online. i had a dream last night that i was reading the comments on a Reddit thread under a video of the cast of glee doing a blackface musical number.

Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.

I'm so glad Issa Lopez is still running it, Night Country absolutely rules and it got such a shitty reception

realizing that my current style has just become What If Jessica Jones Was Transsexual and Had an Amazing Ass

The "AI slavery?" discourse today reminded me of this

whichever AI company makes an AGI first are going to be so confused when it won’t stop killing itself

people with bipolar 🤝 people with borderline saying bpd is the other one

listening to tove lo’s habits on repeat but imagining the person she misses is A Job

there are three kinds of guys in my grindr dms: no profile pic “i need a bj rn” guys 19yo femboys calling me mommy cds asking if i wanna play dress-up

me in 2024: I’m never taking another job that makes me sell my soul me in 2026: take it, take the whole thing, soul, body, plasma, whatever you need.

really hard not to feel like my career has kinda been a waste of time. shoulda been a dental hygienist.

shark girls on grindr lookin for a chumdump

big pussy galore

the state of my duvet cover is a 1 to 1 reflection of my mental health

The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:

whipped up a little something to wear for commander at home recording today ✨ (printed in house with volunteer labor) we support you @uwotc-official.bsky.social!

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

the sexual tension between the traveler and the witness is so hot tbh

But…these exapmles are all expansions in making and selling AI, not AI helping other kinds of businesses start up or expand. A big chunk of this is AI companies renting (too much) office space in just two cities. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

dentists keep the teeth, for their etsy crafts