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an Aries, an apocalypse. excitable! not a serious person. a traveler. aging party girl. a lawyer. could you at least be witty if you’re going to argue with me? Being annoying, even if you don’t know you’re annoying, will just get you blocked.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · Dec 22

New rule: if we aren’t Twitter mutuals, haven’t already interacted on here consistently, and/or you aren’t sharing something private and personal that’s relevant to something I said or how we relate to each other, don’t DM me. I don’t want another “hi” in there. Say it on the skyline, bud.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 10h

Two weeks into tretinoin and so far so good! No peeling. No dryness. I followed all the tips from the dermatologists on TikTok lol

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20h

RIP D'angelo. Black Messiah is a top 5 of all time record.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 13h

140 workouts with Ladder since February. 36-week streak. Discipline over motivation every single time.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 18h

People are about to get weirder on these dating apps lmao good luck, everybody.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

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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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

The only Chris of Italian ancestry I celebrate today is Meloni.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 1d

That’s predominantly who I was volunteering alongside for VP Harris around this time last year. Older white women.

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 1d

My friend was telling me at dinner a couple weeks ago how her spouse was choking on food at a wedding reception but because he’s always joking around and being silly no one took him seriously right away 😅 (he’s fine so I can laugh and she laughed). Someone had to do the Heimlich though. Scary!

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 1d

This dude Grasso became a cop and kept doing hoodrat shit with his friends just like a cop. #taskhbo

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

Saaame!!

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angela davis’ baby daddy @treynation.bsky.social · 2d

Hope everyone has a good day and remember

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking of you, JP. Take care of yourself.

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

As a chronically cold person, this is so lovely. Thank you for thinking of us 🥹🥹🥹

TrickOrTreat Smell My Feet👹 @lepetitoiseau.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, it’s officially chilly season. CHECK ON YOUR CHRONICALLY COLD PEOPLE. Going forth they now require heated blankets, extra thick hoodies, mittens, beanies, thick socks. Carefully swaddle your cold people in flannel, a heavy blanket, & gentle forehead kisses. They will re-emerge in late May.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

I’m watching The Terminal List: Dark Wolf on Amazon and Taylor Kitsch aka Tim Riggins is still looking good

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really confusing me that yall are talking about “Vought” and it’s not about the company in The Boys 💀💀💀

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

LMAOOOO this is really what’s happening. None of these people have spark in person but their ChatGPT responses show chemistry. Depressing!

Sassy @sassyatlaw.bsky.social · 2d

it’s really gonna end up which chatbot gets along best with your chatbot i hate it here

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t really date anymore forreal but as someone who will only date men who approach me in person, I also am not big on texting until we get to know each other so you gotta be on that phone chatting if you want to know me 🤣🤣🤣 there will be no Chatfishing. Only the strong survive around here.

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

?????????

Jamil had a similar moment of dissonance sitting opposite a woman he'd Chatfished into a date. "Probably within a week of that first message I was using ChatGPT for every dating app exchange," he says. On Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers and tech communities, he came across channels dedicated to AI where other single men were exchanging tips about how to prompt ChatGPT to generate effective dating messages. "So, for instance, someone said that if you start a chat with a girl by asking her a list of questions - favourite film, dream holiday, that kind of thing - then paste her answers into ChatGPT, it would craft replies that would make you sound like her perfect match." It proved effective. "It got me a lot more dates than I was getting before."

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

I have been fearing the depths of people’s social regression since 2022.

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 2d

You were able to talk to her at the bar but suddenly needed ChatGPT? He was probably weird at the bar and she shared her socials to get him off her back like we often do with the intent to never respond lmao

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

“Get ready with me”? No!!!!! I am not getting ready for anything!!!

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3d

“Get ready with me”? No!!!!! I am not getting ready for anything!!!

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

Wow 😍

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

I looked up my high school. It’s way less white than when I was there. It was above 90% when I graduated and it’s just over 60% now.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d

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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

LMAO

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

People consistently say this about them!! Never heard a bad word ever.