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𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦?
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art by J. C. Leyendecker (1910s to 1930s)
And my favourite: the absolutely provocative whip jockey
Leyendecker always makes me think of @kittenbiscuitz.
Okay I'm biting, I'm chomping down on the hook - could you tell me a little bit about the queen's thief and why I should read it?
hm. ok. so the queen’s thief is about a trickster who wants to go down in history but as soon as it starts happening he’s like NO NOT LIKE THAT. and also about the people he befriends against their will :)
it’s an ancient greece/byzantine era-inspired world that starts off very focused on one person and then as his significance grows it zooms out to show you more and more of what it becomes increasingly clear are history-making events of this land, gradually gaining perspective and quickly gaining layers and layers of political intrigue, all of which is connected on thematic levels to the mythology of this world
...but it all starts with a grimy teenager sitting in prison because he got busted for bragging about how good he is at stealing
you should read it if you love mythology, courtly intrigue, and ruthless politics being no match for the saving power of trusting those you love. if you don’t love slow, classic fantasy quest road trips maybe don’t start with the first book tho
featuring characters such as:
a thief who wants to be famous. what kind of thief wants to be famous for being a thief. gen that’s so dumb
a pure beam of sunshine who will commit acts of international violence
a guard who is having a very bad day
an accountant who is having an even worse day
a queen whom i love and adore with all my heart
a queen who has murdered many people whom i also love and adore with all my heart
many tired old men
and more!
ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

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I love the dynamic in the Discworld fandom on this site, I think it's mainly because there are a lot of dormant fans, if you will, who've read and loved the books for years but haven't engaged much recently, who sort of reappear whenever a fun post is doing the rounds. It's fantastic. We get the cozy small fandom vibe without the screaming matches, but also get the popular posts from time to time, y'know?
YEP. In fact for some people it’s Emotions Day right now.
To everyone tagging and commenting with some variation of “Oh, I almost forgot that it’s tomorrow!”
“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”
That’s so very meta of you.
IT'S EMOTIONS DAY TOMORROW
#oh I need to read enough discworld to understand what emotions day is
For anyone who's confused today, I won't spoil/explain what the 25th of May is in the Discworld fandom, because I think a big part of what's special about it is the way the plot unfolds in the book.
What I will explain though is that it'll make sense when you reach a book called Night Watch, which is the 29th book in the overall series and the 6th book in the City Watch subseries. If you haven't got that far yet, just take your time and enjoy the series! If you want to start with the City Watch stories then the first book you should check out is Guards! Guards!
And have fun!
It's that time of year where this post appears again like Reg Shoe digging his way out of his own grave
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The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that
how rogue one probably goes in the rebel padmé/ galaxy's messiest divorce au
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This is by Alain Bosquet, who has a whole bunch of similar illustrations at his Behance gallery! I was a little suspicious because Alain Bosquet is also the name of a famous poet, but he appears to be a real person employed by a design firm in Belgium.
[ID: A digital illustration showing the famous print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, the main feature of which are two foam-topped sea waves; the image has been reimagined as a printed circuitboard.]
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for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.
Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.
Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.
And so on.
The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.
But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.
If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.
But they wouldn't understand any of it.
That's ChatGPT.
And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.
But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.
I fucking hate it.
whats up youtube
Got a new character build and I personally think it's hilarious that my 9ft tall minotaur in plate armour has one of the highest stealths in the party thanks to a decent Dex and a bunch of ancestry bonuses.
Tbh it makes a minotaur rogue look super appealing, especially with the ability to frighten enemies later on.
I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.
The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.
Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.
No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

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Making peacock stock freezer bouillon with the leftovers, and it's turning out very beautiful and rich. Should be able to ladle it into the icecube trays soon!! Making stock is fun and delicious but man it takes a long time.
#OP Im gonna be real#I mainly follow other Jews on here... and#I saw this and was instantly like#woah woah woah#what minhag do you come from that has a mesorah to eat peacocks?!?!?!#and then I realized youre not a jumblr blogger youre literally the peacock person#enjoy I hope its delicious (via @uraeuseraph)
I have to admit to having laughed at being "the peacock person" but now I'm genuinely wondering... a brief search says that peafowl kinda fall into the "not specifically forbidden BUT-" group of animals BECAUSE even though it was considered kosher, "most" people don't have a mesorah of eating peafowl, and that throws off the categorization for birds. Peacock was obviously eaten in history, there's plenty of record in many places of peacocks being eaten in general and my (again, brief) search suggested the Talmud references eating them in a way that suggests they WERE okay to eat (at the time). But are there any Jewish folks anywhere that do, now, that kept up with doing so? As a peafowl person this is a fascinating new thing to learn about peafowl and about people
I don't know if anyone Jewish actually eats them and considers them kosher!
The reason kashrut for birds works like that is that there's no qualifications for what makes a kosher bird, only a long list of forbidden birds. These are mostly things like owls, kites, vultures, etc, but, the problem is that many of the words don't appear anywhere else and/or no one remembers which birds they refer to. Even in antiquity they didn't know which names in the list belonged to which exact birds.
So, Jewish will only eat a bird if THEIR community (or more liberally, any Jewish community somewhere) has always eaten that bird from time immemorial.
Turkeys caused QUITE a fuss.
Fun fact: peacocks are absolutely kosher, and the fact that they are kosher is directly related to the turkey thing.
Ever notice how most words for turkey seem to imply that they are a bird from India or the East, when they most certainly are not? Obviously there's the English word "Turkey" (it's not a coincidence that both the bird and the country are called that!) but there's also:
French: "dinde" -> "from India"
Turkish: "hindi" -> "from India"
Russian: "индейка" -> "from India"
Polish: "Indyk" -> from India"
Georgian: "ინდაური" -> "from India”
Greek: "διάνος" -> "from India"
Hebrew: "תרנגול הודו" -> "Indian rooster"
Norwegian: "kalkun" -> "from Calcutta"
Swedish: "kalkon" -> "from Calcutta"
Danish: "kalkun" -> "from Calcutta"
Icelandic: "kalkúnn" -> "from Calcutta"
Estonian: "kalkun" -> "from Calcutta"
Lithuanian: "kalakutas" -> "from Calcutta"
Dutch: "Kalkoen" -> "from Calcutta"
Then we have a pattern breaker which is actually a hint as to why these birds are so associated with India: In Arabic it's either "ديك حبش" -> "Ethiopian rooster" or "ديك رومي" -> "Roman rooster".
And then perhaps most damningly, the Spanish word for Turkey is literally "pavo" (peacock), and the word got so devalued post-Columbian exchange that they needed a whole new word for real peacocks, "pavo real" (royal peacock).
...So here's the thing.
Peacocks were a big ticket banquet item that people had heard about kings and emperors feasting on. They were the height of decadence. You couldn't afford them, but you'd heard that people who could had them imported from far off lands like India and Ethiopia.
Turkeys are a New World bird, and they're as big as peacocks and look closer than literally anything else on the market. Some of them are even sort of colorful like one, kind of! And they grow like a weed, so they're shockingly affordable to raise. So, if you're an enterprising poultry merchant, what do you tell people that this enormous bird you have is? Well, it's a peacock, of course! Just like the Romans ate at their grand banquets, just like they're eating in far-off India. You too can now dine like a king for the low, low price of [ridiculously over-priced turkey].
It was poultry fraud, basically. Probably mixed with some genuine confusion, because even the travelers who went to the New World at the time certainly were confused about what turkeys were and what they were related to... but since the going theory at the time was that they were some relative of the guinea hen (they aren't), and the guinea hen is from African, not India, I really doubt that it was all just honest confusion.
So, how does this connect to turkey being kosher?
Well, you see, for a bird to be kosher, it needs to:
Not be on the biblical list of treif birds
Not share qualities with those birds such as being birds of prey
There has to be a living tradition of Jews eating it
Now, turkey passes criteria 1 and 2 with flying colors, but 3 seems literally impossible without some Mormon historical revisionism...
...Except that peacocks and guinea hens were both already kosher birds. And by the time everyone figured out that these weird, cheap peacocks that had hit the markets were not actually any species of peacock at all, there was a living tradition of several generations of Jews eating them, because at the time they'd thought that they were eating a weird New World peacock, not a completely unrelated bird.
So we have fraud to thank for kosher turkey, basically, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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