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Hungarian princezam

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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:

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why do my the half of my hands where my pinkie and ring finger are like to go randomly numb from time to time

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bitches hate me because of my.... bad personality.... paranoid nature... addictive tendencies......the torture basement.

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dumb argument with a friend, so

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I love being friends with prostitutes and transsexuals and artists and drug dealers and perverts and queers

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you are not immune to reblogging ai and thinking it’s not ai. you are not the master ai sleuth you think you are

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oh missing flesh spot is throbbing. hrm

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what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

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here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

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Whatever I'm curious.

If this gets any notes, don't make it a competition of who's into the most niche stuff, but definitely do tell me about your particular rare pair in the tags?

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Tysm !! I'm glad :D

Go my scarab

For those that are understandably confused: The embed above is a hyperlink repository of various alternatives to various services that we commonly use, I mostly focused on already well-established, open-source or source-available alternatives. I mainly did this for myself and others that might not know of decent, reliable alternatives (especially for YouTube)

If the link isn't working for you, please reach out to me! I'll try to come up with a solution, right now I'm unsure if Tumblr will let me post the full thing as plaintext...since its really long and usually Tumblr won't allow me to do massive posts like this.

Also I'm open to suggestions for alternatives that you wish to be included in this list! I know that this isn't a complete list in the slightest, since its alternatives that I have personally used (or I've gotten confirmation from others that they are functional!)

Same goes for any that are currently down, reach out to me !

Baiii :3

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what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

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So… I may or may not have written an entire Conlang based on a single joke in Minecraft Parkour Civilization 2. That would be ridiculous. Aha. Hahahaha. Ha.

*cough*

A Quick Guide to Writing in Parkour

Flourish List.

You add these in front of blocks to change their meaning. There’s a key at the bottom containing the Parkour alphabet which demonstrates how the space, 180°, 360°, and 720° Flourishes are used to refer to specific English-Letter analogs.

_ = Space

C = 180° Flourish = 5 spaces

O = 360° Flourish = 10 spaces

8 = 720° Flourish = 20 spaces

? = Reverse = Reverses input

^ = Vertical Jump = Raises Intensity

v = Drop = Lowers Intensity

Block List.

These are the building blocks (lmfao) of the language and are what would be counted as an “input” or “letter”. Also included are short legends under each block describing what each flourish does to each block!

(Note! _,C,O, and 8 cannot be applied to any block other than [ ] and H)

[ ] = Block = Grammatical Value

(?[ ] = Capitalized)

(^[ ] = Impassioned)

(v[ ] = Depressed)

H = Fence = Numerical Value

(?H = Negative)

(^H = Exponential)

(vH = Square Root)

u = Pot = Period

(?u = Comma)

(^u = Hyphen/Equality)

(vu = Parentheses)

I = Pane = Question

(?I = Exclamation)

(^I = Command)

(vI = Sarcasm)

% = Brewing Stand = Addition

(?% = Subtraction)

(^% = Multiplication)

(v% = Division)

Alphabet

a = [ ]

b = _[ ]

c = __[ ]

ch = ___[ ]

d = ____[ ]

e = C[ ]

f = _C[ ]

g = __C[ ]

h = ___C[ ]

i = ____C[ ]

j = O[ ]

l = _O[ ]

m = __O[ ]

n = ___O[ ]

o = ____O[ ]

p = OC[ ]

r = _OC[ ]

s = __OC[ ]

sh = ___OC[ ]

t = ____OC[ ]

th = 8[ ]

u = _8[ ]

v = __8[ ]

w = ___8[ ]

y = ____8[ ]

Numbers

0 = H

1 = _H

2 = __H

3 = ___H

4 = ____H

5 = CH

6 = _CH

7 = __CH

8 = ___CH

9 = ____CH

Now that you have all the tools, let’s put it all together~!

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?8[ ]____C[ ]__OC[ ] ____C[ ]__OC[ ] OC[ ][ ]_OC[ ]__[ ]____O[ ]_8[ ]_OC[ ]?I

____CHH% _HH ^u _HHH

?C[ ][ ]____OC[ ] 8[ ]C[ ] _OC[ ]____C[ ]___[ ]^I

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Big thanks to my friend PrismaticKoi for giving me the idea and helping me figure this all out! Working with her made this process super fun!!!

Enjoy Parkour-!!! I’ll be coding an English<—>Parkour translator at some point, so stick around to find that!!

All of you need to go watch Minecraft Parkour Civilization though. It’s seriously fantastic.

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UPDATE: it was infact, the opentype format. I'm going to bite FontStruct now

So I'm testing out various fonts and all of them seem to just completely fall apart once i use them in CSP?

The text is supposed to read "this is a test on the SGA Font" for both of them, but it seems to get destroyed no matter how big or small I set their font sizes

the bottom is "This is my handwriting" (or rather shaky hands using a mouse to write- writing)

I have no clue whats causing this, maybe its the fact that they're both using the OpenType format instead of TrueType? But that shouldn't break like this, to my knowledge.

Guess for my funny hidden message shenanigans I'm gonna either have to handwrite every single word or make my own font..which are both horrid

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So I'm testing out various fonts and all of them seem to just completely fall apart once i use them in CSP?

The text is supposed to read "this is a test on the SGA Font" for both of them, but it seems to get destroyed no matter how big or small I set their font sizes

the bottom is "This is my handwriting" (or rather shaky hands using a mouse to write- writing)

I have no clue whats causing this, maybe its the fact that they're both using the OpenType format instead of TrueType? But that shouldn't break like this, to my knowledge.

Guess for my funny hidden message shenanigans I'm gonna either have to handwrite every single word or make my own font..which are both horrid