Delphine

@66___boc Oui

@DelPirz 綺麗！これは桜かな？？🌸

世界の皆さん！ あなたの好きなお花、もしくは住んでいるところに咲いているお花の写真を載せてくれませんか？🌸 みんなのお花を集めてこのポストをブーケにしたいです！ 見てもらえたら嬉しいな.....🌱

@ValeryGilka Ah, ça aussi c’est universel ?

В вашей стране водители bmw тоже не включают поворотники?

@elonmusk Will they remember humans built AI ? 🤔

“They are smart … for humans” – future AI

@PerseusLeGrand Je serai toujours du côté du beau en architecture. Cela change des constructions sans âmes qui enlaidissent nos villes.

L’administration Trump vient de dévoiler les plans d’un imposant Arc de triomphe à Washington. Qu’en pensez-vous ?

@MichaelARothman So you are actually putting sentences in bold when you post? That’s not copy-paste? Weird…

𝐍𝐎, 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀𝐈. 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. I see it constantly now. Someone reads a post or an article and spots an em dash — that long horizontal line — and immediately declares it was written by AI. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡, 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐆𝐏𝐓. You know who else uses em dashes? People who actually learned how English punctuation works. I don't normally step on this particular soapbox — and I commit authorial malpractice by never trying to sell you my books — but I've authored over 30 of them. Many have been international bestsellers. Well over 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬 in print, translated into 7+ languages, sold around the world. I am, amongst many other things, an actual author. So let me give you a quick education your grammar teachers apparently skipped. The em dash — this thing right here — is one of the most versatile punctuation marks in the English language. It's called an "em dash" because in traditional typesetting, it was the width of the capital letter M in whatever typeface you were using. It serves three primary functions. First, it sets off a parenthetical statement within a sentence — like this one — when you want more emphasis than commas provide but less formality than parentheses. Second, it signals an abrupt break in thought or a dramatic pivot. Third, it introduces an explanation or amplification of what came before it. Writers have been using it for centuries. Emily Dickinson used em dashes so obsessively her manuscripts look like they were attacked by a horizontal line. Mark Twain used them constantly in dialogue. So did F. Scott Fitzgerald. None of them had access to ChatGPT. Now for a bit of trivia most people never learn. There's also an 𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 — slightly shorter, the width of the letter N. The en dash has a narrower purpose: it connects ranges. Pages 12–44. The years 1941–1945. The New York–London flight. It's the dash between two things that are connected but distinct. Most people have never heard of it, and most fonts render it just barely shorter than an em dash, which is why almost nobody notices the difference. Both have been part of formal typography since the invention of movable type in the 15th century. Gutenberg's typesetters used varying dash lengths to organize text. By the 18th century, printers had standardized the em and en dash as distinct glyphs with distinct grammatical functions. This isn't some modern AI invention — it's older than the United States. And if you use Microsoft Word, they're trivially easy to type. An en dash is Ctrl + Minus on the numeric keypad. An em dash is Ctrl + Alt + Minus on the numeric keypad. Word also auto-converts two hyphens (--) into an em dash if you have autocorrect enabled. That's why you see me use them in my books and in my posts — because I know they exist and I know the keyboard shortcut. The reason AI chatbots use em dashes frequently is because they were trained on well-written text — books, journalism, academic papers — written by people who knew the rules. The AI learned proper punctuation from proper writers. That doesn't make proper punctuation a sign of AI. It makes it a sign of 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲. For the record, the only things I use AI for are conjuring up a quick graphic — like the image on this post — or as a shortcut for preliminary research. Think of it as a Google accelerator. The writing? That's all me. It has been for 30+ books and countless social media posts such as this one. If you've reached the end of this post, you now know more about dashes than most people who graduated with an English degree. And the next time you see an em dash and your first instinct is to scream "AI" — maybe consider that what you're actually looking at is someone who paid attention in class. Or someone whose grammar teachers didn't fail them quite as badly as yours failed you. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝟓𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝. 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐬.

@Typhoon_OWC @GreenTextRepost Explaining a reality is not the same thing as agreeing to it. I can’t change the world, only my own behaviour. And I agree it has to go both ways. If a man wants to be left alone to brood, no need to harass him with questions.

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost Everyone needs to be tolerant and accommodating of reasonable things, not just one group to another both all groups for the benefit of all of humanity

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@ClittBeastwood @DuskQuill_Team @GreenTextRepost I’m not the person being referenced in this post 😅 I’m just implying this is a communication problem. They both did not understand each other.

@DelPirz @DuskQuill_Team @GreenTextRepost Delphine, what if pills are my love language?

The explanation I tried to convey was that pain was never the problem. She wanted compassion, just like when you got a bruise and your mother gave you a healing kiss. It’s the attention that matters. It’s not performative, it’s a way to express things in order to feel better. She should also have answered much more nicely (and that was her friend, not her)

@DelPirz @DuskQuill_Team @GreenTextRepost So to be clear, you will complain about cramps and just sit there complaining about it when there are pills readily available, and hypothetically being offered, and will reject the solution in favor of performative empathy?

@Saint_illness @GreenTextRepost I’m just trying to explain, because the green text said : I don’t get it. I don’t think it was the right reaction, personally.

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost Asking for empathy and us to understand how women work when not even trying to recognize this is possibly how men show that empathy

@learning_yohei Est-ce qu’ils pensent aussi que la capital de l’Australie est Sydney ? Ici en Europe, beaucoup le penserait je pense.

これは真実です。日本では、アメリカの首都はニューヨークだと言う人がいます🥹

@Will_Tanner_1 Les seules images d’architecture brutaliste que j’ai appréciées sont celles d’eco-brutalisme où on a l’impression que la nature reprenait le dessus. Cest dire que le brutalisme en soit n’est agréable que quand il disparaît et redevient naturel.

The point of Brutalist architecture, such as the gulag-themed Obama Center for Quality Learing, is to demoralize They know that beauty is inspiring and uplifting, and so wish to replace it with these ugly, lurking behemoths that destroy one's spirit and blight the cityscape

She was wrong obviously. Should have said thank you and move on. She was with another girl so she might have been complaining to her and not him. He didn’t need to insist either after she refused. It’s just bad communication, that happens a lot because we are very different and don’t always understand the other gender’s side.

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost The pain killers was the man empathy. Offering to fix something, do something for someone, etc. She isn't looking for just empathy, she's looking for woman empathy out of a man. So she'll get a guy who knows her more than she knows him, for better or worse.

@SpillTheMemes Non c’est un Pokémon !

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@DrMoonspread It already looks much better now that it’s organised

@DelPirz I see extreme potential. I'm a stoner and high as fuck right now sadly so I can't give you the dream sorry but I know you can definitely make that shit look elegant

J’ai besoin d’aide pour aménager ma terrasse, que me conseillez-vous ? Je voudrais un coin apéro, un coin sport et un coin repas. Je ne sais pas trop comment organiser les éléments.

@mightytrump_ @HonkMonk4 @GreenTextRepost Don’t believe everything you see on the internet. The real world is really not that bad. 😉

@DelPirz @HonkMonk4 @GreenTextRepost Not saying it's "deserved" or even a good outcome, but if men can't see that women appreciate their efforts, they won't even try (see the gym videos of guys leaving gals stuck under bench presses thanks to recent social media harassment in gyms)

@Carecans1 @GreenTextRepost It’s beautifully said. Should not give us the right to be annoying, but we just cannot help it sometimes 🤷‍♀️

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost I know, that's why I said it's a good observation Even in this the female nature as conceived by God is beautiful, as it oppresses the men without the nerve to impose their will, and the measure of a man are his struggles.

@Carecans1 @GreenTextRepost Im just explaining the issue. Not trying to take a side. We certainly have to do better. She should have said thank you (that’s what most women would have done - don’t believe everything on the internet).

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost That's a good observation, but as a man, this is how you get longhoused It is women that should adapt to the men, and in such, actually fix the goddamn problem

@3rdEyeSqueegeee @GreenTextRepost You’d have much better results using a cookie than threatening violence in this situation 😉

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost

@jakethemullet @Berrrbi @GreenTextRepost And… you happen to complain more and be more grumpy during the evening… am I right ? 😉

@DelPirz @Berrrbi @GreenTextRepost Men’s hormonal cycle happens daily while a woman’s happens over the course of a month. Try again

@DuskQuill_Team @GreenTextRepost I agree it goes both ways. We have to acknowledge we are different and complimentary, and try to meet in the middle. That’s how good relationships work. There is also a universal solution that works for both genders : food 😊😋

@DelPirz @GreenTextRepost women could also acknowledge that men offering a solution is part of men's empathy because they just wanna help solve the problem so you don't have to keep suffering it