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This rings more true every year. Don't we all deserve at least one week out of the year to just turn all the way off?
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Eugene gets me
This rings more true every year. Don't we all deserve at least one week out of the year to just turn all the way off?
Happy liminal spacemas, couches.

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If so many buildings are so immediately dangerous that this policy causes NYC to take over more housing than it can handle or sell off, I somehow don't think this policy will make enemies among the people who just voted in Mamdani.
Sure AI might poison the lands around us, contribute to mass psychosis, raise our energy costs, steal all of our art and intellectual property without repercussion, exploit workforces in poor countries, give execs reasons to fire you, and ultimately widen the wealth gap, but at least we'll have a little guy on our phones telling us things a google search already could've!
wish i had a bit going where whenever i said "the prophecy" like three of my friends would repeat "the prophecy" in different tones while squinting into the distance and rubbing their chins like sages deep in thought. i would also do this for them, im a team player
okay, so, be me, 27 years old at the time, an adult by any definition in the world
be me at the los angeles zoo, one of my very favorite places in the world, because i love animals. i am immedietly 8 years old when presented with a little creature. i can’t help it.
okay, wait, go back. we must establish two things for this to hit right
first:
the year before, i’d gone to the san diego zoo with my aunt and grandma and! they let you feed giraffes there!!
how wonderful a world and how wonderful a life, where for $10 I can hand feed a giant creature three crispy biscuits. i go “i am feeding the giraffes right now” and go in line to buy the biscuits and return moments later triumphant, 3 biscuits in my grasp
“oh good!” my grandmother says, “one for each of us!”
“yes,” i say, despondent, “one for each of us.”
i wanted to feed all three to the giraffes myself but since i am an actual adult and not a child i do not say this and share the biscuits
second:
my friend group echoes. a lot
someone tells a story and ends it with “and that’s what happened!” and the rest of us will repeat “and that’s what happened!”
often in unison. and it’s constant, all the time, even to little stuff. often said in the tone of “they don’t even have dental”
ok, so we’re back at the los angeles zoo. they have opened the giraffe feeding
i am not going to be thwarted again
my two friends (K and M) get in line to feed them and i go to buy the biscuits. i return with nine biscuits because i am going to give the giraffes three biscuits myself and i do not want to hear a word of protest. i am being fair. i am being equitable. i am sharing. no one can judge me
“wow!” says K. “that’s a lot of biscuits!”
“the cult provides,” i say generously, handing over their share, because what is a friend group if not a small cult
and then, automatically, in unison, like they have so many times before and thinking nothing of what exactly they’re saying, M and K reply, “the cult provides”
two different people in line turn to stare at us while we all blink at each other and then M nervously shouts, “we are definitely not in a cult!” which sounds like something someone who is in a cult might say
and ever since it’s been a running bit where one person says “the cult ____” and everyone echoes it as seriously as possible, no matter where we are or who we’re around
which is to say, OP, that you could be living the dream if your friends weren’t cowards
So I help run a LARP, and one of my NPCs is a literal blue fuzzy muppet. There are a whole group of these creatures, and they are absolutely a cult. They are *constantly* repeating things said by the players or by other muppets. I will never be over the scene of five Crayola-hued fuzzballs passing around the word "composting" with varying degrees of puzzlement, contemplation, and excitement.
My point is, if your current friend group doesn't naturally echo your words in a way bystanders find worrying, store bought is fine.
When was the last time you voluntarily read a NONfiction book?
I'm currently reading a nonfiction book by my own choice)
Within the last week
Within the last month
1–3 months ago
4–6 months ago
7 months–1 year ago
1–3 years ago
3–5 years ago
5+ years ago
I've never VOLUNTARILY read a nonfiction book
I don't know/other
Physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks all count. Textbooks and other assigned/required reading do not. (Unless you're reading a textbook purely for fun.)
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Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
well…darn
like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮
“This could financially ruin the AI industry if people can defend their copyrights!”
observation: people think fMRI is a meaningful measure of "thought"
observation: people believe ChatGPT is "thinking"
conclusion: we must put the ChatGPT servers inside an fMRI machine. this will work perfectly and have no adverse consequences. trust.
MRI macine perfec t size for put AI in to "th/ink"! inside very Good and Not Danger AI "think" strongly put AI in MRI Machine. Put AI In MRI Machine. no problems ever in MRI machhine because good Shape and Support for server rack weak of solid state drive. Amri Mahine yes a place for an AI put AI in mri machine can trust machien for giveing good measure of AI "think". friend MRI machine
being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?
This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.
Ok now I’m curious
I was a kid…
Pre-70s and played outside
Pre-70s and didn’t play outside
In the 70s and played outside
In the 70s and didn’t play outside
In the 80s and played outside
In the 80s and didn’t play outside
In the 90s and played outside
In the 90s and didn’t play outside
In the 00s and played outside
In the 00s and didn’t play outside
In the 10s and played outside
In the 10s and didn’t play outside
So a lot of this is age dependent, but by the age of 9 or 10 I was allowed to walk to the park by myself and I was somewhat younger than that when I was allowed to play with a group of same-age kids from the neighborhood as long as we stayed in a group, kept to each other’s yards, and there was an adult from each household home who could be run to in an emergency. Younger siblings (5-7) could come with us as long as they stayed with the older kids, but would not have been allowed outside on their own at that age. Anyone 3-4 and younger needed to have an adult present to play outside.
This is actually what lawns and suburbs were supposedly for - giving kids relatively safe closed neighborhoods with lots of grass to run on so they could play outside in groups.
"Played outside" completely fails to capture the level of freedom kids used to have.
I was allowed to go basically anywhere I could get to on my feet or bike in the 80s and early 90s. I started walking to the bus by myself at age 6. I was allowed to bike to the library or the store by myself when I turned 10 (as per various posted signs saying children under ten must be accompanied by an adult).
I think if I hadn't had that kind of freedom as a kid I would be much more of an anxious mess now.
Happy No Kings Day to the Americans!
Hope it becomes a national holiday to remind yourself not only why you don’t have monarchs but also why the monarchies in Europe work hard to represent and please their countries because they know they’re on borrowed time and we’ll fucking shank them if they start acting up again.

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I was asked to officiate the wedding of my very dear friends and while that was like the highest honor imaginable a close second was being asked to host an informative nature walk for all of the out of town guests the morning before the ceremony to give them a taste of the local ecology.
Not to brag but I picked the best spot and we got to hear an absolute orchestra of alligator bellowing in addition to witnessing this big guy
Highlight of the morning was probably our Sandhill crane courtship dance impersonation contest, which was fiercely competitive and even drew a small crowd of unrelated spectators. Our winner absolutely became a Sandhill crane for 30 seconds and his vigorous leaping and flapping won him a brand new pair of binoculars as a trophy.
I also made these custom stickers to hand out as prizes for trivia questions and spotting challenges during the walk, and everyone wore them around the reception with great pride.
I love sharing the ecology of my home with others and this was such a fun way to do it! I had a very joyful weekend and I may have even converted a few new birders 😏
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google translate defaulting to chinese at first
okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious
(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)
our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google
I love reading about these kind of translation decisions.
I've only ever seen 弊 used to refer to one's company: 弊社, as the article says.
I've been told 弊 is used to refer to one's own something, and it has a very humble nuance.
So 弊機 translates to something like "I, your humble machine" or "I, who am but a mere machine".
Japanese is great that it can say so much with simple pronouns.
Romance language translator: well we don’t have a gender neutral pronoun so I guess we’ll flip a coin for male or female
Japanese language translator, an intellectual: none of Japanese’s 30-something plus personal pronoun options have the perfect vibes so I’ll create a new one to bring that special somethin’
What I found to be particularly clever about the coining of this very unique first person pronoun 弊機 (heiki) is that it’s a homophone of 兵器(heiki), meaning ‘weapon’
mad scientist crow?
A single crow gets some arms and it's all over for humankind
As much debate as there is about tone tags, 90% of the issues would be solved by just typing the word. Like instead of typing /gen or /hj you can just write (genuine) or (handjob) and you'll be doing pretty much the exact same thing.
Of course I personally think it's less awkward to use some rudimentary language skills to form actual sentences and phrases. They don't even have to be complicated. Like "Genuine question, why are you doing that?" Or "I'm being serious. Stop that." Or "I'm going to jerk you off now."
I whole wholeheartedly agree with you on this matter OP. I do feel like it's often forgotten in this discourse that tonetags originated on Twitter where they had to get around a constrictive character count for tweets. I think how we got here makes a lot more sense when you consider the process otherwise of trying to fit an entire handjob in 280 characters.

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mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.