tobias xk / blѧxkcat
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linguist, feminist, pop sentimentalist. sad singer, witch fiction writer, game designer, seldom fighter / oldschool tx melee player, protect our scene 💚💜🖤
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for ppl who do still believe in their search skills but are frustrated with duckduckgo's dearth of results for certain queries & google's enshittification, you can still force google at least into a fairly usable form:
there were a couple weeks where i tried Perplexity to see if AI search engines were any good.
They aren't.
If you disagree let me make something clear: I am better at searching than you.
They aren't.
If you disagree let me make something clear: I am better at searching than you.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
for ppl who do still believe in their search skills but are frustrated with duckduckgo's dearth of results for certain queries & google's enshittification, you can still force google at least into a fairly usable form:
the cafe at work ran out of milk (? i'm assuming) so mid-afternoon we had a confused favor delivery driver walk in the front door to the library with this exact wagon full of like 30 HEB gallon milk jugs, many of them individually bagged
it was far from the weirdest thing that happened today
it was far from the weirdest thing that happened today
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
the cafe at work ran out of milk (? i'm assuming) so mid-afternoon we had a confused favor delivery driver walk in the front door to the library with this exact wagon full of like 30 HEB gallon milk jugs, many of them individually bagged
it was far from the weirdest thing that happened today
it was far from the weirdest thing that happened today
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the y-wing is the work horse of the rebel fleet
I thought everybody hated Y-wings.
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
the y-wing is the work horse of the rebel fleet
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I'm a few weeks late to posting, but I still can't believe Possessor(s) is out & actual people have played the game.
I'm proud of what we made & honored that I had the opportunity to art direct something that I think is so cool & special with such a talented team.
Here's some art I made for it.
I'm proud of what we made & honored that I had the opportunity to art direct something that I think is so cool & special with such a talented team.
Here's some art I made for it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I'm a few weeks late to posting, but I still can't believe Possessor(s) is out & actual people have played the game.
I'm proud of what we made & honored that I had the opportunity to art direct something that I think is so cool & special with such a talented team.
Here's some art I made for it.
I'm proud of what we made & honored that I had the opportunity to art direct something that I think is so cool & special with such a talented team.
Here's some art I made for it.
there's simply no way that so many americans so truly & militantly believe that thawing a turkey over 5-6 days in a refrigerator is the literal only safe method & critical in order to protect your health, when the rest of our public health culture is ?????
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
there's simply no way that so many americans so truly & militantly believe that thawing a turkey over 5-6 days in a refrigerator is the literal only safe method & critical in order to protect your health, when the rest of our public health culture is ?????
man ppl are always so needlessly hostile to dan fornace even tho he's like a fucking angel for the level of access & direct polite personal engagement he gives his playerbase
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
man ppl are always so needlessly hostile to dan fornace even tho he's like a fucking angel for the level of access & direct polite personal engagement he gives his playerbase
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Adults in the comments suggesting other search engines as a solution ... what about young people growing up without information literacy instruction? Or that DO get it and get "use Google, not ChatGPT" for search, paired with ".gov websites are trustworthy."
BC that's..most folks digital literacy.
BC that's..most folks digital literacy.
November 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Adults in the comments suggesting other search engines as a solution ... what about young people growing up without information literacy instruction? Or that DO get it and get "use Google, not ChatGPT" for search, paired with ".gov websites are trustworthy."
BC that's..most folks digital literacy.
BC that's..most folks digital literacy.
what if i made the doublemeat medley
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
what if i made the doublemeat medley
idk what it is exactly but every few months when stuff goes around about (genuinely awful) new privacy violations & smart features being activated & automatically opted-in on google services, they're always already off for me. i don't doubt what's happening to ppl at all, but i do kinda wonder if—
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
idk what it is exactly but every few months when stuff goes around about (genuinely awful) new privacy violations & smart features being activated & automatically opted-in on google services, they're always already off for me. i don't doubt what's happening to ppl at all, but i do kinda wonder if—
you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to polymarket
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
you do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to polymarket
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November 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
migraine at the public library
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
migraine at the public library
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Sometimes I think about how Napster & Grokster were immediately destroyed despite filesharing having clear non-infringing, time-shifting, & other positive uses, and yet AI tools like this, built on way worse infringement & used to lie & abuse in really gross ways, are huge parts of our economy now
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sometimes I think about how Napster & Grokster were immediately destroyed despite filesharing having clear non-infringing, time-shifting, & other positive uses, and yet AI tools like this, built on way worse infringement & used to lie & abuse in really gross ways, are huge parts of our economy now
i found this little purple rubber band & told my co worker it looked like the kind of rubber band that goes around a bunch of asparagus & she googled some text that was printed on one side & it's literally from asparagus
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i found this little purple rubber band & told my co worker it looked like the kind of rubber band that goes around a bunch of asparagus & she googled some text that was printed on one side & it's literally from asparagus
has anyone said that we should be able to use regex to painlessly mute both of their names yet?
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
has anyone said that we should be able to use regex to painlessly mute both of their names yet?
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Another night where it feels like it's too late to still be Sunday, but it's not yet Monday, so we're in some other liminal space
How is it not even 8pm?????????
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Another night where it feels like it's too late to still be Sunday, but it's not yet Monday, so we're in some other liminal space
surely the data shows that there's like 4 varieties of monster that are ✨already✨ almost exclusively consumed by women. the (shockingly long-retained) marketing copy on the back of the zero ultra white foil cans is already a bizarre interlude on how super picky "monster girls" inspired its creation
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
surely the data shows that there's like 4 varieties of monster that are ✨already✨ almost exclusively consumed by women. the (shockingly long-retained) marketing copy on the back of the zero ultra white foil cans is already a bizarre interlude on how super picky "monster girls" inspired its creation
i feel like we rly need "consider the following" back but afaict ppl are accustomed to the algorithmic era of "this is true to you"
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
i feel like we rly need "consider the following" back but afaict ppl are accustomed to the algorithmic era of "this is true to you"
i'm running out of kimchi, buldak, nori, laoganma & sesame oil all at once tonight, which is super optimal if i go to the korean grocery store tmr—but literally a fucking curse if i don't
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
i'm running out of kimchi, buldak, nori, laoganma & sesame oil all at once tonight, which is super optimal if i go to the korean grocery store tmr—but literally a fucking curse if i don't
wait it's crazy that my other previous post was also about tunnels what is happening here
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
wait it's crazy that my other previous post was also about tunnels what is happening here
LMAOOOOO look i don't even have any recollection of this account existing it's definitely been more than 8 months
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
LMAOOOOO look i don't even have any recollection of this account existing it's definitely been more than 8 months
the witness (2016)
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
the witness (2016)