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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

in my defense, the tour guide was calling them “bullies” when she could have been calling them “infanticidal rapists” ceterum censeo normalize dolphin personhood So they can be tried for their crimes

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

No, no, nothing that socially and financially benefits me is weird. In fact I think it should be normative.

trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

the mandate of heaven is stored in the balls

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Do you think executives at paper towel companies have meetings where they talk to each other about being market leaders in absorbance-based excellence

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Demand accountability from future influencers! In age-appropriate crayon!

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The One Ring would be safe with me. Like, I’d still totally get corrupted, but I’d procrastinate actually using it for anything.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

That is *such* a good board game. My favorite run was the game where they had pretty much figured out I was a cylon, so instead of revealing myself I started running for president every turn. They wasted so many resources trying to stop me that they started failing crisis events.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

tbh Hunter deButts would be a fantastic name for the protagonist of an erotic thriller novel

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Depending on their circles, they might know people who hate the religion. Some branches of Christianity also heavily invest in an “us-vs-the-world” narrative and imply that it’s easier not to make your faith public, and thus an act of courage to be public about it.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Everyone in the replies talking about social anxiety as if this isn’t how the Buddha died

trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Heartbreaking: Local author uses “slay yourself and rise again” as arc words, cannot use them as marketing copy on the off chance people try to take it literally

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"If you pay me $8 a month, you can make donations in excess of 280 characters!"

I'd invite you to read up on the transformer architecture of LLMs and compare it to cognitive appropriation models of human learning. The idea that you can lump both processes into a single category called "training" is not an evidence-based position.

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That does not substantively address my comment.

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This argument rests on the assertion that human training and LLM training are the same kind of thing. I would argue that's an equivocation fallacy. You would need to demonstrate that the LLM is engaged in the same kind of cognitive appropriation that underlies human learning for this to hold.

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I'm not saying you can't articulate fresh ideas in your writing or tell stories that haven't been told. I'm saying you're going to have to rely on the tools that other writers have built—the ones you've internalized that taught you what storytelling *is*.

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This is why writers shouldn't try to be original. Being original requires building a new tradition from scratch, and I'm sorry, but you're not based enough to diff the collective effort of generations of intelligent, creative people by yourself.

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thinking about tradition as a lens. Beyond institutionalized traditions (e.g. civics, religion) there are quieter traditions like genre that contain a history of people approaching situations with a particular set of tools they inherited from the people before them. And you can read texts this way.

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this is and has always been the funniest discord functionality to me. yeah dude i would love to stream scrivener to my group chat

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

wait how much of the genre does that describe? I thought it was just stuff like The Book Thief and whatever the fuck Pynchon was on

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/11/2024

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty rhetorician: the cup's fullness is constituted by the audience's reaction to it, which is often a matter of pathos as much as logos

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 23/11/2024

THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF WEIRD OCCULTIST BULLSHIT WAS ALSO THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF CRYPTOGRAPHY AND STEGANOGRAPHY written by a guy who deeked into an abbey during a snowstorm when he was 21 and became the abbot within a year and bullshat so much historians were confused for centuries

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Joined a couple author starter packs and now my feed is entirely composed of people promoting their books. Thinking if I repost all of those posts then I can make the problem twice as bad for everyone else in the pack. Most important part of networking is the psychological warfare.

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Sporktown @sporktown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The moving plans I've been working on for months have suddenly fallen through and I need more funds. Opening commissions!!!

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alex 🍂 @paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net · 16/11/2024

If you see this post do it! Pronouns: she/her Height: what are you a cop Shoe Size: what are you a cop Zodiac: what are you a cop Smoke: what are you a cop Tattoos: what are you a cop Piercings: what are you a cop Fave drink: what are you a cop

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

PUT AWAY YOUR MORNING STAR, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Haven’t deleted my twitter yet, so I’ve been able to witness: after the election, the amount of bots following me every day has skyrocketed.

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 09/11/2024

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i know a lot of people are like "live for spite!!!" and i 100% support that if that's what keeps you going but if it doesn't work for you you can live for a variety of reasons, including "read book that isn't out yet", "love", "step on a crunchy leaf", "look at the river", "pat a creature" etc

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This thread is very worth the read.

Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

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You weren't stupid for believing people would make better choices

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Rationalist on twitter asks a bunch of other rationalists if they have arguments for why truth is a terminal rather than instrumental value. Shortly afterward follows up with a post asking for no more emotional sermons. Those who have eyes, let them see.

trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Maw’s a treasure. Love her characterization work.

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The best part of editing is running into all the lines that make you laugh which you forgot writing.

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@blahajparty.bsky.social doing another edit round, it's the giant siege turtle section.

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I once misheard "Love is a forgotten assassin in the back of our minds" and was incensed when I discovered the real lyric used "accessory" instead

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Join the Council of the Eternal Hiatus Discord Server!

NaNoWriMo is what got me to start taking writing seriously. The book I'm publishing in Februrary started as a NaNoWriMo project. I hope the next generation of authors can find some other accountability structure—perhaps the lovely Council of the Eternal Hiatus discord server: discord.gg/Ju7wpsb9

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alex 🍂 @paracausalex.siren-vibes.ts.net · 22/08/2024

me: welcome to my tower, adventurer!!! do you think you have what it takes to clear all 100 floors and reach— keith from verizon: (visibly tired) hey can you please just let me up i really need to replace that antenna

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

It is becoming increasingly difficult to remain cynical about politics.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Make a band milder Mild Discomfort of Salvation

Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 15/08/2024

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Right so I'm going to drop some Quaker thought on y'all regarding what to do about meaningful possessions that are now in conflict with your values. There's an (almost certainly apocryphal) story about William Penn struggling with what to do with his sword when he became a Quaker.

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trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Back when I worked on the crisis line, there was this guy who’d call us and just tell us about his day. Some of us weren’t sure why he did it. Then one day after I finished a call with him, I had a realization and turned to my coworkers: “Guys! We’re his Facebook page!”

trollmore @trollmore.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

This is one step away from my preferred world where gender is another layer of mannerism that you pick up and drop on the fly. I don’t know if that’s actually feasible but it doesn’t seem conceptually impossible.