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Choco Spice @chocotaurnsfw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A new page of the summer comic [which ties into the Halloween comic, but I am a mere mortal] is done! Once things get spicy, and they will, the rest will be posted at bit.ly/bootyel What do YOU folks think? How bad is it to try to use a werewolf control collar on a SHARK?

A comic page. Disgusting influencers face wholesome sharks.

Disgusting influencer attempts to lie to sharks. They must be destroyed.

Shark approaches filthy influencer. Be careful, Mr. Shark!!! That's a DISGUSTING INFLUENCER

The shark man warns the FILTHY INFLUENCER to get the heck out of his beach, but the influencer in question reaches into his carry bag for a werewolf mind control collar (as you do) because he thinks this will work. I cannot stress my loathing enough.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I might go on a posting spree of art soon so it doesn’t get forgotten. I have inklings of a low possibly breaking through after a sudden spur of restlessness and insomnia. Tonight was my last lamotrigine. I can’t get it refilled. My fiancé is leaving in two days. I’ll be alone. I’ll be alone.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Brain: “It is 2002 on a brisk July morning. You are anxious” Me: I’m in Walmart looking at clearance Halloween, no we are not.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So if they push this can they be held responsible for suicide?

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey my #Ancestry anybodies… what do I do if my tree has suddenly decided my mom is my dad and married my mom so my mom is also my mom. So my tree has my mom with my mom… wasn’t like that before I stopped by to look up something today. #familygeneology #ancestryresearch #help #taphology

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I truly loved you. You knew me before the accident and knew every part of me as I put my life back together. You were loved. You’ll never be forgotten. #jumpingspider #regaljumpingspider #petdeath #grief

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Deleted an artwork post because an AI mouth-needs-to-meet-concrete gremlin used it for theft. I don’t want to keep watching the life around me crumble. I’m tired. I’m tired and I want to sleep and dream and may it never end because this is a nightmare

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fuck no fuck off AI THEFT of purchased work is a waste of life - I was already considering clocking out of this earthly world tonight and this is a justification.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My experience tonight after looking at my little backpack of medications and thinking about it. Maybe my #bipolar peeps can relate or maybe I’m just really bad at my health 😅 #medications #disability #mentalillness #humor

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I guess you can say she’s not safe for work *ba dum tiss*

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The accessibility feature on phones to make your alert rapidly flashing blinding lights is understandable for the people who can’t hear a default alert sound. When you don’t need it, not to sound whiny but some of us don’t want to have a seizure at work.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

AND I didn’t go into my bedroom for more than a few seconds after work, didn’t stretch out on the couch, and stayed awake! I am now laying down in bed at 9:17pm. #idiopathichypersomnia

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

4th academic journal peer review submitted!

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I picked up a creepcast episode where I left off before bed 1/4 into the episode only to realize they never even started yet.

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Koffie Kobold - Gnollsome Adventures! @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Quick doodle I did for my insta because I post a lot of Pokémon tcg content and I think sometimes people forget how fucking anti AI I actually am.

Messy doodle or a smeargle painting the text Your AI flyer sucks

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It was a proposal at a psychology conference about two years ago. Couldn’t tell you the university though but I think it was a southern US university. I thought it had merit at least but security of health information was the biggest criticism and halted the progress last I ever heard of it.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Only time I felt positively with a “surveillance” AI project was the one for seizure detection alerts using a watch app’s vitals and temp plus visual signs and then a proposal to make it as a mini cam on a service dog. I can see where it would go *absolutely* wrong but I appreciate the sentiment.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Update: for a consult there’s an awful lot of gauze, pads, and antiseptic prepped on that little table…

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I ate [insert pronoun here], sorry

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Time to go to another neuro consult to see if we can inject botulism in my neck to make the no no orb be less mean to me. #syringomyelia #syrinx #migraines

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

YOU CAN ARGUE in addition… I’m positively reinforced because now I feel better and got to ramble about psychology (something I LOVE)! Ultimately: I’m a weirdo that probably ate too much icecream before bed, threw up, and thought GASP… I want to discuss conditioning stimuli. #psychology #masters

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

SO! What’s the takeaway here? I was painfully sick then went to the bathroom to start throwing up and now that pain has ended so I’ve been negatively reinforced to associate vomiting with the cessation of illness. [consideration: adding the action of making myself throw up still ended sickness].

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Positive punishment ruffles feathers the most. Spanking is a positive punishment. You have added a physical consequence of pain when a behavior occurs. Someone doesn’t want that (added!) pain then don’t do that thing. [let’s recap: if that pain was initially there but ENDS? Negative reinforcement].

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Now when you heard negative reinforcement you probably thought of something bad happening. That wouldn’t be reinforcing (continuing) but instead punishing (don’t do that anymore). Negative punishment is removing something so you’ll stop (losing your license for driving on red).

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Positive would be getting a compliment or a chocolate. It would also be a rewarded consequence socially. Push a button when it’s blue and gain a treat. Negative on the other hand is put batteries into your smoke alarm and the beeping stops. It’s a form of intelligence we overlook.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So you should think “is the stimulus being removed when the behavior we want occurs or is a condition (reward consequence) being gained when the behavior occurs?” Negative reinforcement: vomit and now that sickness is gone! Positive: I achieved something now in ADDITION.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Now you might wonder about the use of negative reinforcement vs positive reinforcement. Your assumption is to think negative being a bad thing and positive meaning a good thing, but that is false. Positive (adding, plus +) and negative (removing, minus -) is in response to the stimulus.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Operant is more so seeing a red light and stopping your car means not getting hit by another car (yay!) and going on green means getting to go where you want to (yay!!). In turn, you associate red with stop and green with good.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Classic: unrelated stimulus (bell, hospital room, a car, seeing someone bleeding) triggers an involuntary (reflex/sudden onset) of a behavior or bodily response (drooling, flinching, vomiting, yanking your hand away). Operant: stimulus (a scenario) teaches a person to react specifically by choice.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Operant also relies on “consequences.” No, by the way, consequences are NOT always bad. Consequences are literally a “sequence” that occurs alongside (con-) an action. Consequences are typically called rewards in these cases. I digress.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Operant conditioning would more so tend to be related to eating disorders as eating/feeling negative > induce manually > feeling relief (a beneficial experience) therefore reinforcing. I would argue otherwise in my case when I begin to feel bad I tend to literally think “I should go throw this up.”

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Classical vs operant differs based on involuntary behaviors versus voluntary actions. Classical nausea/vomiting conditioning would be “learning” to throw up (instinctively before thinking) when exposed to a certain food or environment. That’s how most people experience it.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

You might say isn’t that classical conditioning not operant? Perhaps. In my case, however, I don’t seem to natural vomit unless I permit myself to. Maybe it’s because my uvula is half gone from necrosis after intubation. Either way, I voluntarily have to begin the gagging/motion to induce it.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I guess operant conditioning works on me. Awful condition/sick (the stimulus) > action (vomit) > sickness immediately ends (remove sickness/stimulus). Negative reinforcement. Hurrah, benefit. Conditioned to repeat natural instinct of vomiting as a beneficial relief to painful nausea.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Impromptu psychology lecture: Throwing up is awful. I understand why people hate the idea of vomiting; however, I don’t understand keeping yourself from throwing up. I woke up and wobbled to the toilet. Immediate relief. Less than thirty minutes later I have sudden relaxation wash over me. Listen…

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Your anniversary means getting your hips blown out by your partner, scratching the walls, and getting handed a room temp wild cherry Pepsi can when he gets up. #nsfw #relationships

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My first attack of the event! #artfight artfight.net/attack/14861...

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Successfully created a tiny hat. Did not make the octopus I was trying to make. First time doing a circle. I cannot comprehend patterns not tutorials. I’m learning it by logic and trial and error.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I want to go through and clean all my vinyls. There’s a lot of songs I haven’t even found online before. Kinda cool to feel like I have something rare like that.

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Alexanthus [Lex] @dreadfulstar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Exercise is necessary for me to prevent my terminal condition from worsening. Should I just go ahead and die?

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