Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Writers: It's asking to read your Google Docs and be able to 'summarize' things from them and such things. I just turned all mine off.

tiny volition to motivate you into not doing something stupid.

thank you, tiny volition

[FIFTEEN MINUTES PREVIOUSLY:]

granny: Shan't. Won't.

nanny: esme weatherwax are you a coward????

granny: i KNOW what you're doing and i WON'T fall for it

nanny: it's only, if you were really GOOD at flonking you wouldn't have nothing to fear

granny: it's a vile practice and even the winner ends up covered in beer

nanny: are you sayin' our todd's ale's no good?

granny: NO i'm NOT but i ALSO wouldn't want to end up covered in perfume neither!

nanny: that's true, that's true… no flonker's ever wound up dry at the end before. guess you're right not to risk it…

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this is a hogswatch gift for @pourablecat !! audrey asked for granny + nanny + "drinking game," so they're dwile flonking. the bucket is full of stale beer; the gazunda is full of fresh beer (one hopes) for penalty drinking...

happy hogswatch! :)

MY

HOGSWATCH EXCHANGE PRESENT

We had the Hogswatch fanworks exchange over discord voicechat, and when it was lore's turn I wiki'd "dwile flonking" and read the whole page out loud on stream and I had to pause for breath because I was laughing so hard

Thank you Lore thank you thank you thank you if I was the Hogfather I'd bring you many many yummy pork products and a gazunda full of ale ;)

You guys, join our Discworld discord channel for more chaos like this!

Shhhh they’re sleeping

@pourablecat

Gotta do it

I don’t care what news I get I just want this stupid potato dog on my dash

^

Same lol

hey where’s that post about how it’s important to be aware before recommending/calling suicide hotlines that They Will Call The Cops On You. i have it saved somewhere but i can’t find it & i want to reblog it today For No Particular Reason

note that Trans Lifeline doesn’t call the police on actively suicidal people so if you’re trans that can be a good resource! and if you’re Catholic, priests aren’t allowed to break the seal of the confessional for any reason, and things said in confession are exempt from all mandated reporting in most U.S. states (and in the ones where they aren’t exempt, they’re mandated reporters of child abuse but not of suicidality AFAICT—still, worth checking your state laws in more detail first, I don’t know the details for every state). you can also go to confession as a non-Catholic but idk how they’d handle that, I never went before converting

if you’re not trans or Catholic you might be out of luck—most mainstream suicide hotlines (including the Trevor project) allow calling the cops on you if you’re actively suicidal (although the line for when they do this varies from organization to organization and volunteer to volunteer— it’s overall fairly unlikely ime but it’s a risk). followers feel free to add Suicidality Resources That Won’t Call The Cops No Matter What if you have any

also i’m aware this is very America-centric (<- American who mostly knows American resources and laws, writing this bc of the flood of posts aimed at Americans in crisis due to the American election) but if anyone has details on how non-American suicide hotlines work or the level of risk of cop involvement or forced institutionalization for various crisis options in other countries feel free to add that as well

and I haven’t looked into it much but one of my uk followers says samaritans might be good for the UK!