I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.
You’re right. We should all band together under a trustworthy and influential leader who can keep us safe from outside threats
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I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.
You’re right. We should all band together under a trustworthy and influential leader who can keep us safe from outside threats

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what happened to "cool as fuck grandma" as a character trope. i miss "cool as fuck grandma"
I like DanDaDan but everyone recommending it as a media that has the "cool as fuck grandma" trope on the notes of this post needs to be shot. The fucking grandma doesn't even look old.
And that's also the thing! It theoretically has two (2) cool as fuck grandmas, but turbo granny gets trapped in a maneki neko statue to become the show's little marketable comic relief creature, and seiko looks like this
I'm kinda glad that game studios are starting to realize that stylization is preferable to realism wrt to graphics but I hope they eventually make the connection that mechanics and functionality are more impactful than technically complex rendering. Honestly they should have figured that out when minecraft released 17 years ago and became the best selling game of all time.
I guess AAA studios have to find an advantage somewhere and using their financial might on an army of artists and rendering programmers still gets people to say "oooh aaah it looks so real". Meanwhile there are indie games that are just a series of static images that look infinitely more interesting than Pore Simulator 2024
My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying
Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"
4 year old me: why must we do this
Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"
4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect
she is so unbelievably real

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I don't want to be overly dramatic and overly negative about the AI translations I've been working with. They are bad, yes, but I don't want to overstate their badness because that would obscure the specific points I'm making. Some AI translations, the best AI translations, are not that bad. Some of them are still bad to the point of being unusable, but others are better. They're not good, but they're mostly serviceable, and it's extremely impressive that a machine can come up with something serviceable, something comparable to the work of a very mediocre human translator.
A client who hires a subpar translator who accepts being underpaid, in order to avoid paying professional rates for a professional, is getting subpar work. A client who uses AI to get work cheap and fast is getting worse than subpar work. But AI is getting better, it might soon be at the point where laymen can't tell the difference, and then, using AI instead of paying a human will mostly be a labour rights issue, and that's a far thornier question. (Note that I'm not talking about using AI translators to read something for yourself, or to communicate in your daily life: I'm talking about AI translation for publication, using AI for something you expect other people to pay money for.)
My actual point about AI translation is that even when it's fairly good, when it makes few errors and conveys the message intelligibly, it lacks something. I'm not talking about heart and soul here, nothing to do with some intangible human quality: I'm talking about specificity. AI works with great averages, and so it automatically irons out nuance. If you write something unusual, AI will assume it's an error, instead of an intentionally unusual statement. This is regression to the mean, and based on the texts I'm working with, it's an Anglophone, American mean. If you say something that's true of 1980s Hungary, it might slightly alter the sentence to "make sense" for 1980s US. Some alterations are factual, these are more serious errors but also easier to edit out. But other things are harder to catch, slight shifts in tone and valence, an erasure of the original, specific, non-American perspective, and the end result is a text that doesn't have anything wrong with it, but is markedly simpler and dumber than it should be. And flattening complex, knotty, peripheral perspectives into something closer to a monoculture is, in the long term, intellectually devastating.
A while ago, I was proofreading AI translations of subtitles. The video was an interview with a couple of game devs talking about their game. “The game” was frequently mentioned. And then, all of a sudden, the translation talked about football. I did a double take. Where had that come from?
The original sentence went somewhere along the lines of “from the veterans who have been with us for a long time to young people only just getting into the game” and the AI translation assumed that there was only one game young people could be getting into. It had to be football. So that’s what it put in.
That moment really clarified for me this regression to a cultural mean described above. Only one thing made cultural sense, right? Too bad the actual video was about something entirely different.
Yes that's such a great example of what I was talking about! And this one is obvious enough and weird enough that you could catch it in proofreading, but if the mistake is subtler (or if there's no proofreading, and let's face it there usually isn't), someday soon we'll end up in a world where everyone likes football and drinks beer and does, says, thinks, believes only the most statistically average things to do, say, think and believe.
A lot of criticism of delivery apps focuses on the fact that they offer convenience and variety, which I find much less compelling than criticizing the fact that the apps often send their contractors on fetch quests from Hell.
There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city I’d still be doing this work; I’d just be doing it by bike.
But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, “hustle culture,” and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when I’m out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.
I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like “rise and grind” and more like “this is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, résumé gaps, or discrimination.”
That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.
As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when I’m deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks “reliable” means “able to perform the same way every day no matter what.” That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.
And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. “Food” is not the same as “the food I can actually eat right now.”
A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.
But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.
I guess the opinions of delivery workers only count when they are politically convenient.
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
I have a proposal for a new tumblr holiday
On June 2, 1922, Clair Cameron Patterson was born.
He is best known for dating the earth (very cool) but his other work has probably saved more lives, both human and otherwise, than almost any other single person in history: thanks to Patterson, we have modern clean room procedures and lead-free gas.
Following Patterson's criticism of the lead industry, he was refused contracts with many research organizations, including the supposedly-neutral United States Public Health Service.[8] In 1971, he was excluded from a National Research Council (NRC) panel on atmospheric lead contamination, even though he was then the foremost expert on the subject.[15]
This man spent decades campaigning against lead in gas, food, paint, and water distribution, against MASSIVE opposition. Even setting aside the lives that would've otherwise ended directly due to lead poisoning, the effect of lead on human cognitive functioning had an incalculable death toll. High lead levels make people more violent and less intelligent, and no one was safe from the atmospheric lead. Thanks to Patterson, crime dropped and IQ's raised across the globe.
I know IQ is famously flawed etc etc, but the point stands that Patterson's success in keeping researcher's labs and brains uncontaminated probably accelerated the advance of all science and medicine by DECADES.
TLDR: this guy saved the world, and I think we should celebrate No Lead Day on June 2.
HAPPY NO LEAD DAY EVERYBODY!!! LETS CELEBRATE BY KISSING YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION CASHIER FULL ON THE MOUTH
aro culture is constantly questioning if your truly aro
not in a “am I really aromantic because I do xyz” but in a
“Would I even consider myself aromantic if society did not put such a weird focus on romance and the need the have a partner. Would I have been more open to romance if the people in my life presented as optional rather than something I was supposed to feel. I would be alright falling in love if people didn’t treat romantic relationship like they were more important than non romantic relationships.” yk what I mean?
it’s like am I aromantic because I genuinely am not able to feel romantic attraction or is it just because romance has been ruined for me so I probably never will feel romantic attraction. It’s one of those options and I can’t tell which. nature vs nurture thing I guess kinda idk
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Can I get a booty pic with your panties on and one without them on? Can I also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position. Also, can i get just a normal pic of your pussy from the front and one where it's spread a bit open. Can i get a picture of you fingering yourself? Can i
me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me
what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Oh my god?????
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
Losing my mind over this
Never forget these two queens putting on the most showstopping tiktok of all time
r/scrungycats is fucking amazing
This one is my favourite. It’s subtle. It’s contemplative. This cat has so much to consider

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2023 League of Musicals Division A - Round 6, Match 25
Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier
Cats
I think you will find that cats being high is the exact premise of the show
All jokes aside why is it so high????
From running these polls over the past few months I have learned that the Cats fandom is fairly large, and is in fact one of the only musical fandoms powerful enough to brawl with the Starkid fandom and feasibly come out on top.
I can assure you that the Cats voting bloc is not composed of ironic voters, but true bonafide fans. For that matter, I actually can't think of a single musical in my polls that gets very far solely on ironic votes.
Shrek?
But yeah, I think you’ve learned hard way how tight the Cats fandom is
While the Shrek musical is quite polarizing, there are a fair number of people who genuinely like Shrek and think of it as a good musical.
Only on tumblr would people question why one of the most popular shows ever, that set records on Broadway and the West End, is beating out a parody show that had a brief run at a small, Off-Loop Chicago theatre
Saw a big spike in my notifications some days ago, turns out that was because this poll is still making the rounds nearly three years after the fact.
Looking back, it was a very fun time to be running the blog when this poll was ongoing.
All gays will go to hellsite
What if in hellsite but not gay
NO!
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