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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 1d

All my books smell of clove cigarettes and old car interiors

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 1d

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s obscure cursed thought- Lord Flashheart x Ace Rimmer

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 2d

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 3d

Forgot the decongestant medication causes panic attacks. At least now I can hyperventilate clearly

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Ghost Pirate Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 6d

DS9 was always on the money.

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 5d

We won Bronze in the team category. That’ll do nicely 😁

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 5d

“It’s not the winning it’s the taking part!” Oh yes absolutely, unless it’s ME we’re talking about, in which case…

a movie poster for talladega nights shows a man with a mustache

Alt: Reese Bobby from Talledaga Nights says ‘if you ain’t first you’re last’

media.tenor.com

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 6d

If I ever say something this wild to you, it's because it's my duress phrase, I've been kidnapped and I need your help to rescue me,

which is to say, has anyone checked on Jon Fasman? Does his editor know if he published this from the trunk of a Buick in the pine barrens?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 8d

He so squished!

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 8d

Without downloading anything, where are you mentally right now?

Faux screenshot from a security camera showing a possum in a wizard hat labelled “my whimsical ass” facing down a flaming skeleton elk dripping plasma labelled “the incomprehensible horrors”

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 11d

Pisces: Joy, love, hope, and prosperity are just some of the words that are foreign to you.

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you! Thats been driving me crazy for days, you’re a star

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 11d

Ahh okay, that makes sense. I’m trying to remember the name of someone who was big in the Hans from Frozen fandom before Kylux, I don’t think she posted many fics but she was very active and commissioned a lot of art. Possibly Canadian? Maybe worked in law?

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 14d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 11d

Do I have any followers who were around in the first few years of Kylux who are good at remembering user names?

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 14d

My life is a series of questionable artistic decisions. I made a huge pyramid to display spouse’s Warhammer models for this year’s Armies on Parade

Necrons from Warhammer displayed on a pyramid complete with lights

Close ups featuring several death croissants

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 14d

“Why do you want an Easter Lego kit? It’s October!” Hehehehehehehe

(instructions from dicken_tututu on instagram)

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Gen Vee 👻 @generallygenvee.bsky.social · 14d

After a six (?) year hiatus the fandom’s favourite hand model is back 🎉🧡🖤😸

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 14d

[Werner Herzog voice] Charlie Brown seems surprised when Lucy pulls away the football, and yet he knows that failure is his destiny

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 15d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15d

I'll be here! Talking about adapting Wuthering Heights and the ongoing issues of anti-Romani racism in Gothic studies.

Come join us! (Online)

Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 15d

October is the best month for some monstrously fun entertainment. On Halloween @cncsi.bsky.social will be hosting a chillingly-good online workshop: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives. I hope you can join us. It will be a real screamer! 👻

Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - CNCSI

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives Free and Online One-Day Halloween Workshop Friday 31st October, 10.45 am ̶ 5.00 pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign up here. The Centre ...

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 23d

Checking the news every morning like

morticia adams holding a baby and a book with the caption "Oh, no. He lives."

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 17d

I have been putting together material on 18th century erotica for a class. I'm including the original image but also thought no-one needed to gaze at this guy's dick for ten minutes (he'd be too into that and I don't want to encourage him) so I have made some slight changes.

A monk points to his penis but it is covered with a little pink blob going 'oh no'

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Lætus @bajamothblast.bsky.social · 20d

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