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happy we’re just normal men wednesday

Did y'all know that Elon Musk's Twitter recently added LGBTQ terms (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Transgender, Queer) to it's "offensive words" list - meaning that links to tweets with words containing them aren't previewed in twitter DMs and are generally de-boosted (shown to less people) by the website? Did you also know there exists a character called the zero-width non joiner that you can copy and paste in-between letters of any keyword so that the keyword visually looks the same but isn't automatically seen by the algorithm as containing a keyword?

Did you also know that having to have a zero-width non joiner to post about being gay is terrifyingly dystopian

In case you’re wondering how smart rats can be, and if Ratatouille is real, then allow me to share this story: I once had two rats, River and Chell, both rescued from a laboratory as babies. Chell was whip-smart and liked to ride around on my shoulders as I walked around the apartment. She would recognize places she wanted to go, such as her cage or the sofa, and I would raise my arm up to let her run across to her objective. She quickly cottoned on to this and, in an entirely self-taught behavior, would run to one of my shoulders or another and tug on my sleeve, to signal me to raise my arm in the direction she wanted. In this manner she was able to steer me around the apartment and would frequently use me as a taxi instead of walking herself. She then taught her sister how to do it too.

If you think about it, technically an airplane can only fly when there is human blood inside of it

These are the bold, disturbing takes I came to Tumblr for

Cure to all known illnesses

soup… 2!!

Ah. Potion making!

look man here's the thing. i hear people talking about ai "art" and saying "well it's bad that the datasets they're trained on are using stolen assets but the technology isn't inherently bad" and look. no. no, listen, the stolen assets are a symptom of a larger problem. these programs are made by and for people who see art as a commodity. that's why they feel entitled to art they do not own. framing this as "ai art would be fine if they used data they owned" is missing the forest for the trees. this contempt and hostility for working artists and their livelihood is a symptom and not a bug. you can't do an ethical version of technology whose end-goal is to eliminate the already shrinking pool of entry level art jobs. this is hateful vile technology that is going to have devestating consequences on the art community and the fact that I'm seeing people who dislike ai "art" being framed as snobby elitists who want to ruin other people's fun makes me want to chew glass. this is not hipsters being mean to poor widdle proletariat tumblr users who want free pictures of their ocs and can't afford a commission this is working artists who are already scramnling to stay afloat in an industry that devalues them at every turn watching techbros build a Push A Button And Free Art Comes Out machine and realizing that no matter how shitty that art is the people with money will choose free art over good art whenever they can. but you guys want to make this into Let People Enjoy Things. okay.

not ignoring canon nor strictly adhering to it, but a secret third thing (taking the small bits and crumbs canon barely spent time developing and running absolutely hogwild)