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Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning

#Europe #idiot americans #let me be clear #if you don't have the right currency #you're VERY likely not to get what you want to buy

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#AO3 #bots destroying stuff

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reblog for the most chaos PC we can manage

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Have you ever forgotten a word in German but know it in English?

That's my special move, actually! 😎

#DAS #ich weiß so oft was ein Wort bedeutet #aber die deutsche Übersetzung sagen? #nope

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Be gay do crime but in Barvaria and we're putting these everywhere

#German politics

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#as someone who works in a library #the book bans in the US are insane #let the kids read ffs

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I remember discovering the fire of Notre Dame on tumblr, so I'm very sorry to inform everyone that the Danish Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, completed in 1625, is burning. Its unique spire has fallen, and as the building is, to a larger degree than Notre Dame, made of wood, mortar, and stucco, there may be very real structural damage. As you can see from the image, they were in the process of restoring it, just as it was the case with the church. Very real reconsideration should be done to how we restore very old buildings if we keep setting them on fire during the work.

People off the street have been seen running into the building and bringing out historical art pieces, primarily paintings. If you are close by, DO NOT do this! I know it appears the heroic thing to do, but no human life is worth the risk to save a painting, no matter how significant.

Before all this:

#Copenhagen #this is heartbreaking

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on the topic of humans being the intergalactic “hold my beer” species: imagine an alien stepping onto a human starship and seeing a space roomba™ with a knife duct taped onto it, just wandering around the ship

it doesn’t have any special intelligence. it’s just a normal space roomba. there are other space roombas on the ship and they don’t have knives. it’s just this one. knife space roomba has full clearance to every room in the ship. occasionally crew members will be talking and then suddenly swear and clutch their ankle. knife space roomba putters off, leaving them to their mild stab wounds.

“what is the point?” asks the alien as another crew member casually steps over the knife-wielding robot. “is it to test your speed and agility?”

“no it doesn’t really go that fast,” replies the captain.

“does it teach you to stay ever-vigilant?”

“I mean I guess so but that’s more of a side effect.”

“does it weed out the weak? does it protect you from invaders? do repeated stabbings let your species heal more quickly in the future?”

“it doesn’t stab very hard, it gets us more than it gets our enemies, and no, but that sounds cool — someone write that down.”

“but then what is its purpose?”

“I don’t know,” the captain says, leaning down to give the space roomba an affectionate pat. “it just seemed cool”

#Stabby #Stabby the Space Roomba #so happy to see this again

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

#tumblr folk stories

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Honestly, even though I'm glad Germany finally passed the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz, I can't really enjoy it.

Elections are next year. The current government is unpopular and it looks like the CDU will win again. Not only did they vote against it, they've become increasingly more queerphobic lately. Their stance used to be "We tolerate you but won't give you any rights", now it's "We want to take your rights away and make people hate you". Some states where they're the ruling party already outlawed gender inclusive language and that's only the beginning.

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I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

#I learned it late #like I've been in my mid 20s #but I discovered it's fun

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Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

#this was fun #as Tolkien nerd I got 28

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We just had the cutest little visitor in the garden!

A little hedgehog!

#cute #animals #hedgehog

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okay so someone on tumbler just informed me you can click on these two little cats

It gives you this notification on your activity which is adorable meow meow bitch

As a plus it gives these cute little notifications!

#April Fool's Day 2024 #I didn't know this! #Damn #that would have been so cute!

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