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The species I belong to is procyon montani, or the appalachian typing raccoon, so-called because my paws are uniquely suited to "typing" words on a computer keyboard, such as the ones you're reading now. Don't mix me up with my cousin, P. lotor, or our other cousins from south of the equator, P. cancrivorus and P. pygmaeus; we may look similar, and we may all love trash, but we have wildly different opinions about crabs and chocolate.
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Why my name has a semicolon: on raccoon typewriters, the semicolon was originally on the 2 key, where the @ symbol is now. It's a visual pun that only raccoons get, but m; is still pronounced "mat". Also, raccoons traditionally put punctuation in their names because they don't like to be tracked, and it foils government databases.1
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Artificial sweeteners are poisonous to appalachian typing raccoons. If you give the raccoon treats, please make sure the sweetener is something that comes from a plant.2
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I've developed a powerful and fictitious artificial text generator named Raclanti. Raclanti is a bogus hyper-advanced a.i. author trained on over three decades of my own thoughts, experiences, insights and imagination.
You can follow Raclanti on the fediverse at bluelander@botsin.space to get blog updates, but feel free to also @ Raclanti with prompts to generate nonsense paragraphs. Raclanti has several zottabytes of data to work with, but due to technical limitations, only a single-core processor that it has to share with other tasks; therefore, it can only handle a limited number of requests and it may take some time to generate the output. But instead of plagiarized nonsense that further enriches Microsoft and Google, you'll have the satisfaction of supporting locally-sourced artisinal nonsense3
See an example of Raclanti's output here: fake fake cars 🦝