Holy shit I think I finally fixed my blog! This is SO much better.

For the sake of understanding, this is basically what it was supposed to look like from the beginning. I wanted it to look more like this but the graphical elements and code saving kept getting bugged...

Omg, "Junk Mail" might have the best Spoonerism ever. It changes to FUCKING MONK JAIL.

I have really terrible high school dreams as an adult a lot. Though, the last time I dreamed like this was kind of good because I suddenly became aware of what was going on moderately, and turned into a fucking savage. I looked at some random teenager in the room and was like "Hey, guess what! You're in one of my dreams right now, your reality is fake." I wasn't even fully aware that this kid was fictional or had no consciousness at the time, I was basically trying to tell a real person that he was living in a made up place, and that him and the entire setting could get fucked.

Do NOT time travel back to 13th century New Zealand.

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

I just found this on my hard drive. Does anybody remember what the fuck this is and what website posted it? Because I don't remember and I want to.

Take me, the anticipation is unbearable.

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For people who are only seeing this now, you should know that this post was made before ChatGPT. I distinctly remember reading and reblogging it in 2022, and how much weaker AI was at the time. These search results were seriously made using much worse text generation AI than what we have now. That's one of the reasons it was so bad. And yes I know we haven't "improved" the system since then.

Searching for information online in the dire 20's already was and continues to be total ass.

you search "brown spotted moth southern us identify" and the results are all:

"Brown Moth? Here's what you need to know..."

"Ten things about Brown Spotted 😍"

"What everyone's saying about moth southern identify"

and they all lead to the same 11 paragraphs of:

"Don't panic! You like many others have long desired to know more about the enchanting brown spotted moth southern us. Well, here's a few important things to remember when it comes to dealing with these interesting and pesky creatures:

1. It is a moth

2. brown

Its like the 80’s all over again, a remorseless madwoman runs the UK, a maniacal bastard runs the US, the world’s on the brink of nuclear war and all I want to do is listen to synthpop