Ends Of Invention 🇪🇺

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GSV, UK. Bots: @dungeon_junk, @future_junk, @space_stories
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ChatGPT has the same loophole that Ask Metafilter used to have - you can ask banned questions if you say it's for a book you're writing
@rodneylives Oh it's been owned by AOL for ages. It's pretty old it turns out! Trying to think when we would have been using them - probably mid-90s.
https://www.compuserve.com/home/about.jsp
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@rodneylives Ha, the Compuserve email link goes to AOL email.
@rodneylives Compuserve was our first dial-up ISP! I remember not fully understanding email and giving someone our user ID (a string of numbers) thinking it was our full email address. The Compuserve chatrooms were my first experience of making friends and socialising on the internet. Good times.
the h in ghost is actually a little ghost waving to you
@Edmonds_Scanner I think I used to be a hope swarm but post-kids very much the tired owl
What forest spirit best matches your mood?
grumpy moss goblin
26.5%
sentient swamp of hope
12.4%
legendary party owl
4.4%
exhausted owl god
56.6%
Poll ended at .
@rodneylives As a non-writer it always seemed like the obvious way to list things I guess? But it's just one of those details that people love to argue about, and people do love to argue about details.
@crawshaw @phire
Float like a float: right;
Sting like a .marquee
You come across a silk pair of trousers that used to belong to a golem. When you wear it you turn into a seagull.