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Absolutely fuckin brutal out there 💀

Image ID: screenshot of an email from MLA Job List suggesting I broaden my job search criteria because there “have been no jobs matching your job alert search criteria on MLA Job List in the last 14 days.”
#brb jumping#academia#also for the curious the only filter I have turned on is tenure track#(like yes I will apply to VAPs and lecturer positions but I refuse to prop up the abusive adjunct system)
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US-based writers: don't miss out on getting into the class action suit against Anthropic / LibGen
Apparently the deadline is tomorrow. (See the Bluesky posting over here for useful URLs.)
...Just doublechecked my entries in their database. They scraped essentially everything I've ever written. And confused Diane Wynne Jones with me, ffs. ...FUCKERS.
If you are US-based, get yourself on that list. Here's its URL:
#good list of people who can’t read critically to block here#the suit is against the ai companies who are MASS scraping sites like libgen#guess what!#if you want sites like libgen that let’s be clear are pirating sites to keep existing#then you definitely do not and should not want companies like anthropic around drawing HUGE amounts of attention to how much is stored there#think like a capitalist or a corporation for one fucking second#random individual users downloading a few pirated things now and then is not the same threat as mass downloads and illegal reuse#also op is allowed to be frustrated at intellectual labor theft! that’s a livelihood vs aggregating old out of print books#ambivalence is real and allowed to be felt! you can want ppl to have access while still wanting just compensation like libraries provide#and I say this as someone who believes OP worded this poorly in ways that set up the ensuing deluge of misreading#but at least op provided links that clarify whereas Corvid provided nothing but baseless outrage farming
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A member of the outgroup has made a dumb tweet. The boys back at the ingroup are gonna have a field day with this one
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Post linked in comments! Incredible work, team! We can wrap it up for the day thanks to @warningsine
Does anyone have a link to that very funny post that’s like why is everyone so concerned with canon all the sudden? This isnt the Catholic Church!
Tumblr and twitter search are both failing me alas
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Does anyone have a link to that very funny post that’s like why is everyone so concerned with canon all the sudden? This isnt the Catholic Church!
Tumblr and twitter search are both failing me alas
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#intentionally as a kid with various rodent pets#as an adult we did have a bat swoop in with the dog which was an ADVENTURE to get out#I’m assuming asker is excluding the usual bugs bc duh otherwise it’s a useless question haha
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White fic writers be like don’t worry baby we didn’t whitewash your fave; she’s gonna speak limited Spanish the second her clothes come off (and never again unless she needs to refer to her abuela)
#fandom things#fandom racism#anyway I’m gonna start ripping my pants and yelling CIAO AMICI so everyone knows I’m Italian#gotta even the playing field
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first rule of being a rare pair shipper is find a freak or three who can be convinced to enjoy the rare pair as much as you do. second rule is feed each other's insanity
#Linz coded posts#fandom#feel like sending this to the ppl who see any post about rare pairs and go THATS NOT A RARE PAIR bc it has 2 more fics than theirs does#we’re all here in the trenches! grab your men (gender neutral) and get to writing filth!
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When you're flirting and all else fails, hit em with the "do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?" And maybe you'll start a seven and a half year slow burn situationship
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In a rare pair tag, ao3, the internet
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Fic writer who never tags their fully unnegotiated kink fics as such bc “it’s clear the characters [who loathe each other and/or are meeting for the literal first time] are clearly into it so they don’t need to say it”: yall are being so rude about the caitvi kinktober they’re obviously trying to create a safe space and you all just have rape fantasies!!!
#the hypocrisy jumps off the page!!!#I almost posted this with side by side screenshots of the tweet and their untagged non consensual smut fic excerpt#but I’m not tryna be at the middle of the drama when someone searches out the tweet#just tag your goddam fics and we can filter and chillax
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an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI
this is about the trampoline bunnies
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