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   Ayaka Nonaka (ayanonagon@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 11:00:11 JST Ayaka Nonaka

   I had always been a heavy user of em-dashes, and even incorrectly so, with spaces around them, just like LLMs — I guess I just preferred that visually.

   Now I find myself intentionally using a single hyphen - or often an unmerged double hyphen -- to signal my humanity.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 11:00:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • sandofsky

     @sandofsky @ayanonagon
     I use em dashes — just a dash
     but unconvention’lly —
     To signify — to those who read —
     my own humanity.

     I did not think but soon — found out —
     my plan was quick — undone —
     They took me — not for GPT —
     but for — Miss Dickinson —

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     sandofsky@mastodon.social's status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 11:00:05 JST sandofsky

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     @ayanonagon I was also rocking the em-dash before the robots took this from us, but my typos let me pass the Voight-Kampff test.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 22:52:46 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • sandofsky
     • Brian Marick

     @marick @sandofsky @ayanonagon

     I’m glad my nonsense humor found its audience.

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     Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 22:52:47 JST Brian Marick

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     • sandofsky
     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @sandofsky @ayanonagon Words cannot express my admiration for your poem, sir.