solstice

screenshot of a Fallen London item tooltip: "A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural There's always a rational explanation — if your system of logic is expansive enough. The Firm Conviction is a Hat. Watchful +1; Persuasive +8; Reduces Nightmares build up."

crop of the previous image: "The Firm Conviction is a Hat."

"Is this a pigeon?" meme except it's Failbetter Games gesturing to various Fallen London items — Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (a cat), Song Stuck in Your Head (music), and A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders and A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (abstract beliefs) — and saying "Is this a Hat?"

was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind

Like. Fallen London is WAAYYYYY better than doomscrolling

Might I also submit:

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

hagiography

this week on "i know this word because i'm playing fallen london":

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its funny that the most common scent associations for me are wood, smoke, and resin
then i turn around and wear a fougere

［週末自由帳］

ハロウィーンの頃に描きたかった、殺人鬼に仮装した織座と刑事のような甚八。
ぬるめの流血表現があるので、念の為センシティブ設定しておきます。

Oriza dressed up as a murderer and Jinpachi as a detective, which I had planned to draw around Halloween.
There is a little bit of bloodshed, so I've set the sensitive setting just in case.

I always tell this to my research assistants: if you use AI to summarize and write for you, you don't need to be my assistant. You don't need to do research at all.

Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?

edited screenshot from Fallen London. the bold upper text says "You are a Stalker now." and the lower, small italics text said "You are now a Stalker." the text in between these lines that describes what the in-game career called "Stalker" does has been blurred

the reflexive guilt center of my brain when I have to turn at the same lights as the car in front of me twice in a row:

pokemon evolution

Look...everybody likes a good shortcut. But LLMs aren't one. They're a longcut. They appear to save time, but they take away control. This isn't even touching on the many, many ethical and environmental concerns (others have done that). This is about integrity of data.

I have two modes when it comes to recipes:
1. the vaguest instructions ever, bc i was working on the fly and grabbing whatever was on hand
2. shit has been measured to the 2nd decimal, movements and hand positions described

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This is a brilliant post about how small, 'performative' moves—like a pride mech in a Discord banner—aren't empty at all. They're cheap, easy ways to force fascists to reveal themselves and bounce. It's zero-cost community protection, and honestly? Kinda vital.

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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

［週末メモランダム］

エイプリルフールに乗り遅れて投稿されなかった「甚八と織座の性別を反転させたらどうなるか」というお遊び。

性別反転ネタが苦手な方もおられるよな〜とは思いますが、ブルスカはどうもセンシティブ設定ができなさそうなので、そのまま流します。

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This is a play on “What would happen if Jinpachi and Oriza's genders were reversed?” that was not posted in time for April Fool's Day.

"why do you know so much" i try out a lot of stupid things in stupid ways then end up needing to try out another stupid thing to clean up my stupid fuck up

we need more representation for non-monologue thinkers

moving from forums to social media was one of the greatest internet mistakes we made as a whole and i will die on this hill

i will read a book so i can argue with it in its margins DO NOT TEST ME

Mars spell of "kicking my own ass"

THIS THIS THIS. Using gendered language to describe energetic dualities *literally* reinforces the gender binary and, even worse, elevates binary gender to some sort of cosmic or divine truth. Not only is it cis-heterosexist, it’s false. Sex isn’t binary; gender is a construct. Use better words!

This stuff affects people. It affects the way that they think and how they live. These choices in language are not value-neutral.

“When I say masculine and feminine or male and female I’m not talking about gender, or anything to do with gender. I’m talking about energies.”

THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU USING DELIBERATELY GENDERED LANGUAGE FOR THOSE ENERGIES

perhaps earth is plushie

new elemental familiars:
- fire: candle
- water: beverage
- air: vape/cigar
- earth: ??

i want to like sleep token so bad but in 80% of any of their songs i just find my interest drifting away, snapping back to attention for that good 20%, only to get an anticlimactic release

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A young woman in Victorian grab, with chopstick-style hair fastenings, posing to resemble a cameo portrait from the game Fallen London.

A grotesque anthropomorphised bat-man-skull, in a red shirt and cape, smeared in blood, standing in the snow.

A person wearing real-life appropximations of the outfit that would get you the maximum scandal in Fallen London: red stockings, a barrel on a pair of braces, and a hideous necktie.

Reflecting the 'change my mind' meme template, a young man sits at a desk looking down the camera with a smirk, behind a sign saying "I am the Jovial Contrarian, change my mind."

What a creative, inventive, detail-oriented community we have. We're blessed.