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what are your pronouns?

i spilled water on them and put them in a plastic bag with rice cause that's what Google said would help but i don't think it worked. i can't get them to work anymore

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Literally saw a take where someone went "if you don't use AI for writing, how do you get your ideas?"

Spacing out in the shower like god intended. Next question

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herpetological guide

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me when the disability disables me: oh what the fuck? this sucks. what the hell man!

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🤌✨RANT✨🤌 Personal rant

iNaturalist (Parent company to the app Seek) just announced a collab/sell out to Google GenAI with no concerns about user data, data collection, and privacy. They issued a non apology explanation that was kinda just wishy washy and saying it's better this way. Information brought up when finding matches for your observations are going to be AI generated and so will some examples images... 

I use iNat regularly to assist my natural practices. It was like an on the go field guide to what is essentially what I consider a sacred part of my practice. And it's all getting sold to train GenAI...

I feel genuinely betrayed because we all know Google's GenAI(the lil blurb at the top of Google searches) isn't always accurate and sometimes egregiously and dangerously false. And now an app that for so long has been crowd funded, citizen science based and peer reviewed is going to instead rely on AI.... 

Waiting a little bit to delete my account hoping they take it all back but I guess I will be going to some nature centers, parks, and libraries now in hopes of collecting field guides ..

Not to mention the environmental impact Google and GenAI have on a global scale is completely opposite to what iNat has stood for and gained its following for over the years. It absolutely is breaking my heart.... Over 1.5 million dollars....

Maybe I will cool down and think this is all silly. Maybe they will walk it back. I know there are genuinely great conversations happening on the iNat forums .. but the trust feels broken.

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/113184-inaturalist-receives-grant-to-improve-species-suggestions

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can you do I Am All Of Me from Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

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Closest match: Gadus macrocephalus isolate Gmac_GOA_2020 chromosome 12 Common name: Pacific cod

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Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

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As a Magic player, what do you think about kaalia of the vast?

There was a secret lair recently called tragic romance with her and a dragon on each others card art

Which seems to imply something

Kaalia was literally my first ever Commander Deck. I love her dearly, though also she taught me a lot what it means to instantly become the priority target in a multiplayer game.

I just looked up the Secret Lair alt-art and. Oh.

Oh its like THAT

Thank you for letting me know.

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if i lived in the mushroom kingdom luigi and i would be best friends

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if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they're always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I'm telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, "send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!" that's u. u want to be that guy

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I don’t like being referred to as a boy

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Blessed Thursday the 20th

happy Thursday the 20th

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Happy birthday to the most creature ever

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Bug collection

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there's only violence in its mind