Tumblr Has An AI Toggle You Should Turn On To Prevent Your Work Being Shared With Training Models/etc!

Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:

• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.

• Baby Gronk was mentioned.

• We discussed the Rizzler.

• “Cunty” was nominated.

• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.

• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”

• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.

• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”

I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

please don’t offer advise to chronically ill people on how to help their pain, illness, disorder, etc. we know what works, what doesn’t work, and what we’re going to try next. as someone who has fought with every family member, coworker, friend, teacher, employer, etc about what is the best treatment plan for me, i do not need your help or advise. i don’t care if you see me as lazy, rude, or dramatic. i live more than 50% of my life in bed from my pain. i have been on countless trial medications with ridiculous side effects. i’ve had er visits that end with me in more pain than when i arrived. i have fought with specialist doctors to be seen as valid in my pain. 18+ years, out of the 21 i’ve been alive, have been dedicated to fighting the nerves in my own brain. i’m tired man. just leave me be.

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life

“humans don’t do anything for free” somewhere out there there is a guy who spent days if not weeks of his life cataloguing every stupid thing you can do on stardew valley so that you can minmax the fuck out of growing potatoes on a pixel grid for quite literally no reason but that it might help someone else