Prompted by David Bushell testing how his website fared when run through automated translators, I did the same.
It isn’t perfect, but Vale.Rocks now adapts nicely for people reading in languages that read right-to-left. It feels a tad bizarre seeing the UI flipped, given how intricately familiar I am with it.
You can give it a whirl with a right-to-left language like Arabic in Kagi Translate.
https://translate.kagi.com/ar/vale.rocks/posts/lorem-ipsum
(Also, I’d quite appreciate a logical version of CSS’ translate.)
Biological Donation
Betrayed by my mind.
Discussing the donation of material produced by one's body, such as blood and plasma, and my failed attempts at donating due to elevated heart rate.
https://vale.rocks/posts/biological-donation
Inflammable means combustible. It doesn’t mean non-flammable.
Infamous means famous for something bad, not famous.
Invisible means not visible. It does not mean visible, nor visible for something bad.
I swear, English is a linguistic mutt raised by wolves.
I get rather hateful emails quite often. Usually due to my writing.
One of these emails referred to me as an ‘AI-loving, hypergraphia-addled, graphomaniacal, logorrheic schizophrenic’.
Hateful intent aside, that is genuinely the best insult I’ve ever received. I can picture someone sprawled over a thesaurus cackling to themselves while pursuing the perfect selection of words – refining their diction with obsessive glee and hitting send with a maniacal laugh.
Winter Rhapsody
The drips drop on a dreary day.
Impassioned discussion of winter and rainy days. The joys of 'bad' weather and bliss of stormy periods. Waxing lyrical on being snugged up with nature takes course around oneself.
https://vale.rocks/posts/winter-rhapsody
Today I launched a new blog for my Revolt bot AutoMod! Given the many thousands of users that rely on the bot, I decided that a central location for news, updates, technical details, and general information was necessary.
I’m really pleased with how it turned out visually, though I’m sure I’ll be tweaking and refining it for the rest of eternity. The rainbow mesh gradient behind the header came out particularly nicely, in my opinion.
https://automod.vale.rocks/blog/introducing-the-automod-blog

Many people agree that ‘artificial intelligence’ is a poor term that is vague and has existing connotations. People use it to refer to a whole range of different technologies.
However, I struggle to come up with any better terminology. If not ‘artificial intelligence’, what term would be ideal for describing the capabilities of multi-modal tools like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT?
Allegedly I Have The Mark of the Beast
YouTube commenters told me so.
An analysis of the biblical concept of the mark of the beast, how it relates to biohacking implants, and a debunking of the notion that I have been marked by the beast as discussed in the Book of Revelation.
https://vale.rocks/posts/beast-implant