Plain Simple Tim

@mcjones.bsky.social

Sentient bag of those edible packaging peanuts.

If we could ask a quick favour of any Yarn Spinner user, it would be for those who have purchased YS+ to leave a review. Less than 1% of purchases have left a review. Y'all game devs know how much reviews make a difference, and tools are no different. Help us stand out among AI-coded slop 🙏

A screenshot of the Yarn Spinner Plus page on the Unity asset store has had a large red circle and arrow drawn on it to draw attention to the fact that the five-star rating is from just 9 customer reviews.A screenshot of the Yarn Spinner Plus page on Itch dot IO has had a large red circle and arrow drawn on it to draw attention to the fact that the five-star rating is from just 10 customer reviews.

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Personally I will just continue to prove that I don't use AI by simply not creating dogshit thoughtless text conveying zero information in the guise of syntactically valid English—do you really think anyone is gonna look at that em dash here and think "oh yeah man, a computer CAN be that bitchy"

The sea coloring in Nolan's The Odyssey have been criticized for being on the blue end of the spectrum rather than "wine-dark." This skips around the alternative hypothesis, that a third type of wine, a Blue to go with the Reds and White, was lost in the bronze age collapse and never rediscovered.