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on Forty Two Pilots · c/microblogmemes · 13 pts · 2d
  • Paramost
  • Kenny Longest
  • KC & the Sun Band
  • Johnny Fortune
  • Incutrain
  • Fort Major
  • Coma Theater
  • Missle for My Valentine
  • Tungsten Maiden
on tf🤡irl · c/tf_irl · 6 pts · 3d

I was gonna reply with results from matrixrooms.info, but as it turns out, that gave nothing too. Either all the rooms are private, or it really is a desert out there for tf furs on Matrix lol.

on authenticity problem · c/comicstrips · 2 pts · 12d

I suppose it is a woefully underutilized glyph, isn't it? I consider it very important, and make sure to check any typefaces I download, to ensure it's designed before using them in creative projects. While it didn't become mainstream, I love letting people know it exists through writing when an opportunity arises.

Exactly, they're usually pretty easy to add if you want to. I totally understand most folks don't talk so formally when in informal settings, but the em dash thing is hardly the smoking gun paranoid people want it to be. A lot of the "tells" by themselves are just punching at competent writers; it's the same thing that happens to visual artists, or musicians, or anything else creative. You can try and find several tells at once—and sometimes you do—but it tends to boil down to glorified witch hunting, rather than something of substance. People want desperately to be able to just know something is AI generated on vibes alone. It's not always going to be that easy, and most aren't the sleuths they believe they are.

on authenticity problem · c/comicstrips · 6 pts · 13d

It depends on the keyboard, and the software. I'm using HeliBoard on my phone right now, and all I have to do to make an em dash is hold the dash key—that's it. It's actually quite trivial to add em dashes in various cases, and I wish folks wouldn't pretend otherwise.

I also make use of other characters, like my beloved interrobang. I actually have that pinned to my clipboard, so I can paste it when it's appropriate.

"You care about writing enough to use special characters‽"

"Yes."

on tf👙irl · c/tf_irl · 2 pts · 14d

It was actually my bra's trap, the trap that turns you into a bra. Easy to make that mistake.

Please don't directly link to X/Twitter, and instead use XCancel, an alternative front end. You can directly replace X with Xcancel in any URL from there and it will work.

on Spicy_irl · c/furry_irl · 16 pts · 16d

The solution is actually to become a bird, as their tongues do not perceive that sort of spice.

I also expect exactly zero legal repercussions, but the relevant parties are aware, abuse reports have been filed, and apparently the site is down now? I don't want to check for obvious reasons, but I think the bare minimum should be him being blacklisted from his hosting provider, and potentially having his info noted to other hosting services, so he's unable to easily spin up another remote server to do more malicious, and illegal antics.

They could've only blacklisted the worst of the worst (whatever you believe that to be) and it still would've been unacceptable, because they did so without the knowledge or consent of anyone using the software. The quality of the blacklist is also bad, but the lack of choice and transparency is what matters to me. I say that as someone who also had their entire instance blocked, probably because posting anthro images is "undesirable" to "normies." I think talking about the pettiness and potential bigotry of the list misses the forest for the trees, because deploying malware on other servers is unacceptable no matter what the reason is.

You don't get to conceal code and execute it as a treat, just because you think your reasoning is good. That's quite literally how we got here in the first place.