Thoughts of a Person with no Mind

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
heyitslapis
bootdork

I wish it was easier to talk about mobile phone addiction without sounding like a boomer

bootdork

Phone addiction (specifically social media addiction) is real and it's not a joke and it is everywhere. Phone addiction literally reduces the grey matter of your brain. It's no secret young adults are more anxious and depressed than ever; more lonely than ever; more aimless than ever. Do you remember being a hugely creative kid, and feel like that spark is gone now? Can't sleep at night? Yeah, your GABA receptors are probably fucked from getting hits every 60 seconds from checking your phone. What's your daily screen time like? 6 hours? 12? These are common numbers. It's insane! It's insane and it's deliberate. Companies make more money from you when you're brain is fried from scrolling 10 hours a day through meaningless content.

But it can be reversed. Start small. If you hit this post then take 5 minutes to put your phone down in another room and do something. Do a crossword. Go for a walk. Be present! CBT is a hugely successful therapy for phone addiction and can even reverse the damage done to your brain.

I get it. I have dozens of beloved friends online, and I'm more informed now than I would ever have been without access to the Internet, but wouldn't it be nice to wonder sometimes? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go outside and not itch for your phone screen? To have that creativity and confidence back? Start small. Start now.

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dundeelemonade
cipheramnesia

The reason I probably shouldn't be allowed to make movies is I have no impulse control and I would immediately make something called Revenge Of The Dead Tranny Hooker. It would be about a trans woman trying to break into acting, but no one wants to hire her for anything except playing a sex worker who gets murdered. Then one day she does an open casting call which runs her through a series of increasingly bizarre line readings, which it turns out are meant to summon an eldritch demon to grant the movie producer god-like powers.

The culmination is supposed to be sex on the casting couch, but she ditches at the last minute, destroying the ritual and splintering the extradimensional entity across California. She unknowingly receives powerful extradimensional blood, while the rest of the fragments seek out the powerful and violent people of the world. Meanwhile the movie producer uses his new powers to transform his PAs into henchcreatures, and sends them after the protag to finish her off. She discovers her new powers in the ensuing fight, which also seem to be gradually altering her body every time she uses them.

The rest of the movie is a steadily escalating game of cat and mouse between trans woman and movie producer. While the former transformers the fragments into powerful psychic weapons like chainsaws and spiked bats, the later uses fragments to make himself bigger and physically stronger. At first the fights are short and brutal, the protag outmatched and outgunned, but she gets more confident to the point of an anarchic battle of against the LAPD led by a demonic police captain, including a scene where she stands on the roof of a speeding police car and rips the driver through the windshield.

Her eventual form is some kind hyper sexual draconic mantid squid rippling with biomechanoid components. In the fight with the producer he thinks he's winning by tearing apart the last of her human flesh, but this just complete her transformation, letting her easily overwhelm him. It's implied from that point forward she plans to conquer the world.

cipheramnesia

Sorry that one got away from me.

someone make this a reality
wizardarchetypes
wizardarchetypes

if you want to avoid AI, stop engaging with uncredited art!

so I've been running my blog @creditednature for years and this isn't a self promotion, stay with me here

the reason I initially started it is because as an artist I was simply sick and tired of seeing beautiful photos, paintings, makeup looks, etc. divorced of their context and the artists robbed of recognition and potential opportunities when their works went viral without credit.

now crediting works is crucial in the battle against generative AI. I have seen so many people reblog that possum eating Halloween candy video this week because the AI giveaways were subtle. Now that there's a post going around that it's AI, people are remarking in fear that soon even the most subtle AI tells will be perfected until AI is virtually indistinguishable from reality. I agree that very soon it will be nigh impossible to always recognize AI.

Wildlife is an especially popular AI subject, because videos of animals doing unusual, funny, cute, or even scary things are universally popular—receiving major engagement across platforms and diverse audiences.

It's why nature & wildlife photography is so often reposted uncredited already—even before AI. It's why I started a blog dedicated to credited nature works in the first place.

If you start refusing to engage with photography, videos, and art in general that's been reposted without credit to the original creators, you'll be far more successful avoiding gen AI than you will be relying on examining videos by the second for out of place blades of grass.

You should already refuse to engage with uncredited works, but this is one more reason to stop now and set a strict boundary.

No matter how beautiful the painting, no matter how funny the video, no matter how incredible the shot—if there's no credit, don't reblog! Don't share or like or comment. Reserve your engagement. Use reverse image search to find the credit and add it.

For all the harm to artists I see people decrying in the context of gen AI, so many people are still willing to share photography (especially genres like nature and fashion and makeup) with no credit whatsoever. That harms artists too. Take a stand.

dundeelemonade
lindwur-fr

Whenever someone on FR complains about the art of something on the site- be it a Breed, Item, or Clothes, I want them to know that Neopets released this in the Year of Our Lord 2025 as a 25th Anniversary Colour for the Eyrie and just appreciate the fact that the FR art team spoils us beyond comprehension, artwise. Yes this is the actual art. Yes the bowtie looks like that, layered improperly over its beak with gradient shading and 1px lineart. The 25th Anniversary PB costs 450,000 NP and isn't available in any on-site store and has to be purchased or traded for thru other users

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adobe-outdesign

remember when TNT released this item in 2013 as a joke? now they're doing this unironically

Unconverted Apple: Oh, um... It has a nice gradient?ALT
writingamongther0ses
jockoppressor

Your most miserable dogshit high school class was

Art

Foreign Language

Gym

History/Social Studies

Language Arts

Math

Music

Science

Humanities elective that doesn’t fit elsewhere

STEM elective that doesn’t fit elsewhere

Other

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jockoppressor

I forgot this is the Piss On The Poor Website. These are categories. I’m asking you into which category your most dogshit class fell. If you think you need to pick “other” because your worse class was called “Honors Algebra III” instead of “Math,” then I need you to click the Language Arts button cus you clearly struggled at inferencing.

gym easily if you forgot your gym clothes *for any reason* you had to do walking crunches around the gym *for the entire class period* I told my physical therapist about this recently when doing regular crunches to help strengthen my leg and she said that is literally torture and yes it was not to mention running a mile with no prior preparation in 100 degree weather I literally collapsed and nearly puked because they wouldn’t let me bring a water bottle with me those gym teachers must have been sadists who hate kids or something
punishandenslavesuckers
frankherbertsdune

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband