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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 3d

Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:

www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

Quick reminder to all who use crowdfunding that Kickstarter explicitly forbids claiming you're going to donate a portion of funds collected to charity. It's enough to get your whole project taken down.

Just sayin'.

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 3d

I lost a lot of stuff back in '22 when my hard drive crashed but definitely one of the biggest hits to my soul was realizing that I'd lost the entire rig I'd done for SCP-3086. I worked so hard on that 😭 Saul Szyslak forgive me

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 3d

nah I'm just not speeding it up enough for the result to sound too fast. if you pay close attention you can tell that trish talks a bit faster than mms does tho

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 5d

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 3d

the main thing I've picked up from my comment section is that apparently NOBODY has ever had the idea of "record your voice and speed it up slightly to make it sound like a different character" before. how the hell am I the first one to do that. that can't be true

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Blue Sky Rob- Looking For Work! 🏳️‍⚧️ @senorwoberto.bsky.social · 7d

moomin gets stereotyped as cozy pseudo-ghibli fantasy, but much like ghibli itself it's something born from hardship, what with it starting publication at the tail end of WW2 by a queer author who kept her bisexuality a secret to the public, and the earliest books being blatant post-war allegories

Boo-ly, Li'l Ghost Bull 👻🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · Jun 28

you have a right to be angry

Drawing of Little My, a small girl in a red dress, sliding down a hill. She is drawn by Tove Jansson from the Moomin series. The text reads: "WHEN you're angry, then you're angry," thought Little My, peeling her potato with her teeth. "Sometimes you have to be angry. Every little creature has the right to get angry."

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 4d

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 4d

Bob-Omb Battlefield

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

here you go boss

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fasc...

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

"I think Tolkien intended Bombadil to represent [x,y,z], actually"

John R. R. Tolkien, popping out of a nearby trash can: "yeah, basically. thanks for reading"

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

being into SCP is crazy because a regular occurrence is for you to be sitting on a park bench talking about a work of fiction that changed your entire life and opened your eyes to a whole new world and then the author of that work will walk out of a nearby bush and say "glad you liked it man"

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

yeah he's super wacky. I was also talking about this one: balatrowiki.org/w/Chicot

Chicot - Balatro Wiki

Chicot is a member of the five Legendary Jokers that can be generated from using  The Soul (Creates a [[Legendary Jokers|{{hl|purple|Legendary}}]] Joker <br> {{room}} Available from start. ...

balatrowiki.org

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demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 8d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

Chicot is one of those fun jokers where he's literally one hundred percent useless in like 75% of scenarios and then kinda helpful in 23% of scenarios and then in like 2% of scenarios if you have him you turn into a God-King

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 5d

hey boss could you double-check that you sent out my check? I been pushing the gay agenda in a bunch of my videos and I still haven't gotten my $420 yet

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 6d

"Bedloe [...] you're mean, conniving, relentless, sneaky, hard-hearted, underhanded and unscrupulous. In other words, you are a first-class fink."

"Well, thank you, Chief. It's nice to know that I'm appreciated."

- Petticoat Junction

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 6d

best trope is when there's two villains who are both horrible bastards and they compliment each other by being like "oh what a horrible bastard you are"

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 9d

if you didn't know I have a second channel then. well. that's to be expected. because I never put stuff on it lol. anyway here youtu.be/8TwJnKuf9lY

youtube search is broken

YouTube video by Also This

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 9d

I think there's a difference between to "fuck with" something meaning, like, to vibe with that thing, to approve of or agree with it; vs to "fuck with" something meaning to mess something up

"I fuck with your style" = "I like your style" (good)
"I fucked with the TV" = "I messed up the TV" (bad)

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 9d

your outfit looks super cute here!

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So Okay Here's the SPOOKY Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 9d

oh god they're slowly lifting jacob geller out of this plane of reality. someone attach a reality anchor to him quick before he ascends

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 9d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Ashley Heather Quills @voice-quills.com · 9d

This kinda describes me to a T, there's so many times I've gotten into something, wanted to make it work SO bad, but that gnawing fear that if something goes wrong, it's not just the project that failed, I failed as a person

It's hard untangling that, but I'm trying ❤️

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 17d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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