I find original posts on the internet ;)

This is too colorful to be “realistic”. My guess is that OP either heavily photoshopped this, or the image is ai generated.

Well, not the EXACT image, but I found a “close enough” image.

(Apologies for watermarks)

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These were posted to Dreamstime, a stock image website. The images are slightly different, but very similar, and the website said “royalty-free ai generated”.

The user that posted these images is Mthstarseedsmeditation. As of January 5, 2025 that have uploaded 20,062 files. Which is absurd.

This is too colorful to be “realistic”. My guess is that OP either heavily photoshopped this, or the image is ai generated.

HYRULE SHOOK ME TO MY CORE!

THIS WORD HAS TWO KINGDOMS RULES BY A BEING IN A TOWER!

The existence of Oz and Neverland is wild too. Does this mean that there is a REAL Earth outside of this? Could Wendy hang out in Westeros?

Dan Méth made this map. He is an illustrator.

Thank you @strawberryqueen00 for posting the full pic, it made my search easier.

What caught my eye is “#12 in a series of pop-cultural charts”. A series. I dug, and sadly the original post was deleted, but you can find this series archived here.

Dan Méth also posted this map to tumblr on Feb 17, 2011.

Genuine question: how does being a “transmasc nonbinary” work? You have “he/they” pronouns. All of the transgender people I have met either use she/her, they/them, or he/him, with only a single gender identity.

Does that mean you ONLY want to be referred to with “he”, but not him? And you only want to be referred to as “they”, but not them?

Or is it like you are genderfluid and your pronouns vary on mood/context? What is your conception of your gender?

thnx and have a good day

Its used to immense water pressure, so it bloated and expanded in the thin air. Making it look bigger and puffier than it normally is.

Also this is likely a dead speciman.

Photo credit to australianmuseum on instagram

“This adorable little guy is a type of deep-water Walking Batfish (Ogcocephalid).

They have modified fins that help them walk along the ocean floor, with over 30 species found in Australia alone.

Posted to reddit, r/Art, by user travischapmanart.

Posted to reddit, r/Art, by user travischapmanart.

Sadly, the original post was deleted, but I found the tweet archived here.

Master’s Blessing was posted to deviantart on September 7, 2016.

Sadly, this quote is not true.

Title: Call in a professional! Interior design mavericks reveal their wacky home décor decisions

Posted: June 11, 2024

The image was credited to Bored Panda.

From Bored Panda:

Title: 50 Hilarious Posts Of Ridiculous Home Decor And DIY With Funny Sarcastic Commentary

Posted: June 9 2024, two days prior to the Daily Mail Article.

Which in turn credited redditor Able_White_974

Title: Hotel Renovation, posted to r/homedecoratingCJ

Posted: January 2024

if you have been using beginner friendly linux distros for a while and you don't know terminal commands, it's time to learn!

i can't even begin to explain how good it is if you want to use linux in any shape or form, you can even find alternatives to gui apps you've been using for a while!

for example:

nmtui for managing networks

nnn as a file manager

w3m, links or lynx as a browser

mpv as a music player (tty)

cmus as an underrated music player

ffmpeg if you wanna convert media

tar (xvf/cvf) and zip/unzip as archive managers

tmux for multiple terminals in one screen

vi, vim and neovim for editing text

and of course, manpages for utility usage

if you didn't ignore this post and you really want to start using commands, good luck on your journey!

Often, pseudoscience and misinformation comes packaged with a lot of very important sounding words, and the jargon gets to the point where it seems like a lot of work to fact check it. Which makes the 'I encourage you to do your own research' statements real obnoxious. If it's phrased in a way that's impossible to navigate, good luck.

It sucks, but you gotta.

If you don't want to fact check individual words, that's fine. That's a lot to ask of someone that's just trying to figure out whether something is true.

This is where we get into something called 'lateral research.' Instead of trying to draw a map to a sentence, you check the credibility of their source material.

This is your Snopes, your Fact Check/Media Bias, your Follow The Money.

Knowing more context about what someone is saying will save you a lot of time and energy.

Practice SIFT! SIFT is based on lateral research and can be very helpful for these situations.

DON'T just share information without doing your due diligence.

i have found this post and infographic and i want to share it

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE

zetabrarian's blog says they are a socially progressive librarian monsterfucker, which a quick scroll through their blog seems to support. This makes them pretty cool but not necessarily the perfect source -- anyone can say they are a librarian, and surely not every librarian is correct about processing information

FIND BETTER COVERAGE

if i go to a search engine (in this case google via firefox) i see that several universities, libraries from large municipalities (like Los Angeles) as well as the BBC all agree that this is a real method experts in information fields recommend. I wouldn't necessarily take any single one of these sources as 100% credible, but they are individually reasonably reliable, and taken together indicate a high probability of factual information

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT

A brief search reveals that the SIFT method was created by Mike Caulfield, who is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online rumors and misinformation. This is an extremely good source of information for how to process information on the internet. As the creator of the SIFT method, he has taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops.

I could not find a post or page about SIFT written by Mike Caulfield himself, so i went to the University of Washington's website for this page about it, since that is the university that employs him.

It corroborates the above information, though there are a few notable differences. For example, under the "trace to original context" section in the Washington U. source (again, as close to the original as i could find) this step contains advice to check the date. This seems very good to include, as in the fast moving world of internet information, things become outdated or get updated very quickly, and yet first takes and outdated articles hang around and get shared for a long time.

EXTRA CREDIT

Oh my, whoever made this didn’t give me up, or run around! This is adorbs. 😍

This is Hrum and Hrum’s is nuts.

Taken form this reddit comment:

“The designer is Constantin Bolimond, you can find him on Instagram @constantin.bolimond Illustrations by @vareyko_toma”

https://www.instagram.com/constantin.bolimond/

Link to Instagram post Also look here.

https://packagingoftheworld.com/2020/07/hrum-hrum.html