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@blawnk.com

🌎 LINGUIST who studies #linguistics 💍 Husband to @slugwave.com 🐱 Cat father to @pennybabycat.bsky.social 🎮 Low-poly #VTuber 🇮🇹 Italian-American! ➤ twitch: twitch.tv/blawnk ➤ yt: youtube.com/@_blawnk ➤ email: contact@blawnk.com they/he

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blawnk@blawnk.com · 3d ago

robert pattinson playing chris hansen means there's a non-zero chance of encountering chris hansen fan merch in artist alleys this year

Overlord Mikey, Personal@overlordmikey.bsky.social · 6d ago

I made this with @blawnk.com and friends in mind a few days ago. It was originally for his Birthday (yesterday), but I forgot about his birthday during the creation process and so posted it to early and now I'm posting it here to late. I'm not good with dates. 😂 Um, "happy birthday" Blawnk.

A classic turn based battle scene. The words: Top-Corner-Left: Fight Skills Gear Run Stas (supposed to be Stats, but I forgot the t) Lower Box: Blawnk with Blawnks face next to it (A brown haired person with a five-o'clock shadow.) Slug with Slugs's face (a cute slug girl who is pink) Penny a cat who is perfect in every way and has black and white fur with green eyes) They all have 100 HP and 100 MP. They are battling three Wugs, which are blue birdlike creatures. They are in a cave.
slugwave@slugwave.com · 7d ago

the beta servers for WoW Forever are merged globally and today in general chat i saw EU players explaining their country’s better labor and welfare laws to US players who all want to move now. maybe this is why the servers are separated by region to avoid class warfare

blawnk@blawnk.com · 7d ago

🎂 TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY 🎂 and i'm 🔴 LIVE NOW!!!! 🔴 with THE BLAWNK'S BIRTHDAY SUPER MARIO 64 REVERSE WUGATHON Drop the subathon timer down to 0 before I can collect all 120 stars, and I'll have to show y'all a preview of my upcoming 3.0 design... 😱 >> twitch.tv/blawnk << [ #vtuber #vsky ]

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Nostalgia Ninja@nostalgianinja.com · last wk.

Reminder that leaving Discord will be a temporary measure until you fight Age Verification at the legislative level. You're only buying time if you move to another service and the law forces their hand. Discord IS complying in advance, just be aware of that. They are part of the problem.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · last wk.

Tomorrow, Discord will place everyone into an age group using account signals. They claim 90% of users won't have to confirm their age. They are also introducing new verification methods if you do need to verify that you are an adult, including Credit Cards and App Stores.

More than 90% of you won’t be asked to confirm your age. Since our last post about teen safety, we've had to launch age assurance solutions in more places, including Texas and Brazil. Laws requiring age assurance are expanding around the world. Rather than waiting to be told how to do it, we’re launching our own privacy-preserving approach: one that reflects your feedback. You can check your age group status at User Settings > Account Status. We've estimated your age group automatically from account signals like how long your account has existed or the kinds of servers you're a part of. We don’t look at your messages, calls, or other content. We're launching this over the course of this week, so it may take a few days to reach your account. If you're in the adult age group (18+), nothing changes. If you're in the teen age group (13-17), you can keep messaging friends, joining voice calls, and participating in non-age-restricted servers, but with additional safety protections that block age-restricted content, spaces, and settings. Otherwise, Discord works the same. More on this below. We've added several new ways to confirm your age, including some that don't require an ID or selfie (including credit cards). If you're an adult but weren't automatically placed in the adult age group, you can confirm your age group at any time by going to User Settings > Account Status. More on the new options below. ‍
Ash@fishyash.bsky.social · last wk.

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”
Japanese Talk@japanesetalk.bsky.social · last wk.

It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...

blawnk@blawnk.com · last wk.

My BIRTHDAY SM64 REVERSE ANTI-WUGATHON!! Sep 23 @ 9am PT. Going for all 120 stars with 16 hours on the clock...but each sub drops the timer AND earns you a speed-doodled Mario Paint wug! Join the Wugpile!! If the timer hits zero? I have to reveal a preview of my upcoming 3.0 model. 😱

Promotional graphic for "BLAWNK'S BIRTHDAY REVERSE ANTI-WUGATHON" happening on September 23 at 9:00am PT.