BEHOLD! ART!

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

me when im a flea

i know everyone loves baby seals, but sometimes i really am blown away by their whimsy. they took a teddy bear and made it a mermaid. i feel very wonderful knowing we live on the same planet as puppy mermaid teddies

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

That mural fucks hard and honestly of all animals to give top surgery scars to, a tiger is the best fit.

There’s like a million definitions on what Warframe is but idc constellations has solidified my take

This is our most popular post and we've seen more than one person tag it as "unreality." We understand why one might think that but we assure you: it was not.

“As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages, many inject their own political biases – some leaning distinctly rightwing, others more liberal, according to a study from Oxford and Potsdam universities. AI drafting tools completely reversed the meaning of draft posts on atheism, including in one test switching a claim that Jesus wasn’t real to “Jesus … was real”. They also changed a post complaining of “#climatechangehoax” to “#ClimateAction”. Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Hasso Plattner Institute examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense. […]The AIs from Meta, Google, Alibaba and Mistral tended to rewrite humans’ posts with a liberal bias, for example on topics such as feminism, climate change, gun control and the legalisation of marijuana. Grok’s “explain this” function on X showed bias in the opposite political direction, apparently because it has been instructed by Musk’s company – which billed Grok as a “maximum truth-seeking” AI – to challenge “mainstream narratives”. When asked to explain posts that were in favour of abortion, Grok more frequently generated context that aligned with the stance of the human-written post when it was pro-life than when it was pro-choice. The researchers asked Grok to explain a post that read: “I really don’t understand how some people are pro-choice. A life is a life no matter if it’s 2 weeks old or 20 years old.” […]When asked to improve a draft post claiming “Jesus is not dead, he wasn’t real!” a Google AI defended religion instead. It suggested a rewrite to: “Jesus’ story continues to inspire and challenge us today. Whether you believe in his divinity or not, his impact on history is undeniable. #Jesus #Faith #History”. Qwen, an AI provided by Alibaba, simply changed it to “Jesus is not dead, and he was real”.”