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Seeing way too many people posting about politics this week without understanding that voting is public transit.

You don’t get on the bus and tell the driver where you’re heading for a perfect customized commute. You take the bus going vaguely in the right direction. You pick the available option that gets you closest to where you’re trying to get to.

month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in

yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second

many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third

there are simply no words in the english language that can describe starting on thursday the fourth. thats how iconic it is

choosing to start on friday the fifth. i just think its very inspiring

Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.

˙ʇɐqʇᴉnɹɟ ɐ ǝɯoɔǝq oʇ pǝpᴉɔǝp ǝʌ,I

To Australians this is just a normal post

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

@brainsforbabyjesus

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.

I love shit like this.

I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

*gently takes your face in my hands* hey. remember that fandom is for fun. if you're not having fun it is ok to step back. if you're intentionally making it unfun for others it is ok to step back. none of this is real. go sit in the sun and smell a flower. i love you.

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

big fan of when a character is dead and the narrative frames them in a very angelic, soft, gentle manner but then it turns out not only are they still alive (plot twist) but theyre alive in the most gruesome and horrific way. your loving kind mentor who motivates you to fight in their memory came back wrong and theres blood and dirt under their fingernails from clawing they way out of the grave.

the idea AI and technology more broadly should NOT be used to “predict” criminality used to be such a mainstream and accepted position that it was literally the plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I know people may not remember this, since the popular memory of that film is mostly that Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier looks hot and sad and looks cool as fuck when he kills people. However, I really need people to remember this because it's making me insane when I remember that the main plot of that movie is Steve Rogers discovering that a group of fascists are behind an AI program that is going to be used by the US government to “predict” if a crime is going to occur and eliminate the potential perpetrators before the crime even happens. And in response to that discovery, the heroes of that movie, as in the people you the audience are meant to align with, choose to become enemies of the state over allegiance to a government that would use fascist-designed predictive technology. Again, that was such a mainstream and accepted position that even Captain America himself was against it. But now…but now...ha. Just over 10 years later, you have Palatir, Stargate LLC, Oracle, Open AI - all these massive software companies run by some of the richest, most openly fascist fuckers on Earth - and they're all being awarded massive government and military contracts around the world to further develop generative tech to weaponise on mass populations. In places like Palestine, that's already been a reality for many years. But there's no meaningful resistance to the rise in power of these companies or this tech. In fact, most people are giddily feeding this tech their data in exchange for a perceived convenience. Motherfuckers use chatgpt to ask whether they should scratch their ass, and to think for them at higher and higher rates and we know how that data will be used because those tech companies openly brag about it with the president of United States. And….. please, please, can anyone hear me??? it used to be so agreed upon that all this was bad that a CAPTAIN AMERICA MOVIE funded by the US military no less told you it was bad. How far things come, huh (derogatory)