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@kharmtherose.bsky.social

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Queer | they/them | Pagan | 30+ | I write smut and fantasy AUs and smutty fantasy AUs

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · Jan 26

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a black and white cat is looking at a computer monitor

Alt: a black and white cat is looking at a computer monitor filled with text, as though reading it

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 11h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h

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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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

LLMs don't understand the difference between fact and fiction because they don't have minds capable of forming abstract concepts. Hope this helps.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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joseph m. gabriel is feeling pain not observed in the data @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 1d

Super interesting case to think with. Greenhalgh is not just some random person. She is a widely cited expert on evidence based medicine who does not, apparently, have a rudimentary understanding of what LLMs actually do.

How is this possible?

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

You can tell an LLM not to invent data as much as you want but it will very much continue to invent data.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! I hope they come back up shortly 💙

Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 1d

Literally every genre is improved when you stop reading cishet white men.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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KRBK Events @krbkevents.bsky.social · 2d

Don't have a valentine IRL? No worries. Sign up for our Valentine's exchange before time runs out and we'll make sure you get something sweet to since your teeth into come February. Only 13 days left to fill out the form. ~ 🍭

#candycrushexchange #KRBKEvents #krbk #kiribaku

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 2d

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fi @fioblah.bsky.social · Jul 13

[ #bnha #kiribaku ]

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Detonate: A BakuKiri Bang @bakukiribang.bsky.social · 2d

We're looking to set the world ablaze. Wanna add fuel to our fire? 🔥

Writer sign-ups open in 2 weeks!

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serenetiv @serenetiv.bsky.social · 2d

the official english translation for ch. 431 is out, i think. and they dubbed dynamight "the bombshell hero" (where he uses the same kanji that's in red riot's name)

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貫くっ娘 · Tsuranukko @tsuranukko.bsky.social · 2d

Last year's MHA Halloween drawings 🎃
Will probably do more ~

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps priest!Kiri for god!Bakugou 👀

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 3d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 3d

I am incredibly into this outfit

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 3d

Mr Peru I think possibly needs an even bigger thing on his back, but I'm not really focussing on that because his stare is so fucking intense that I am feeling slightly flustered and need to go and sit in the dark to calm down for a bit.

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 3d

#TLT

"Your tolerance for man-eating magma fish would have been sorely tested by anyone who was not God. His divinity earned God, you thought, about sixty more seconds."

I appreciate that even when faced with her literal divinity, Harrow's tolerance for bullshit is minimal.

Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 4d

#TLT

I don't write in books, I don't highlight, I don't even fold page corners to mark my place

But I'm on my 3rd read of HtN and this just needs it.

A pic of page 23 of Harrow the Ninth.

"This isn't how it happens" it's highlighted in blue.

"This isn't how it happens," said the Body.
Which gave Harrow a curious strength.
"I need your to hide my infirmity," said Harrowhark. "You see, I am insane."

Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 4d

The Monstrous May tag 😂 I feel like event tags shouldn't count

Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 4d

a man says i know what i like in front of a prime video logo

Alt: a white man says i know what i like in front of a prime video logo

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Kharm | Problematic Era @kharmtherose.bsky.social · 4d

Extremely amused that these are my top 3 writer tags on Ao3

Aged-Up Character(s) 113
Alternate Universe - Fantasy 66
Monsterfucking/Teratophilia 49

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CleverPudding⁷ @cleverpudding.bsky.social · 5d

The revolution is Absurdist.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5d

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/y6RQqAa

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 8d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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