what if we all explode
This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.
I want so badly to watch this, but not having dry eyes would be an absolute understatement
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what if we all explode
This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.
I want so badly to watch this, but not having dry eyes would be an absolute understatement

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Witchcraft Basics and Giggles:
Everything to know before you start! The various practices The Tools healing, protecting, and grounding. shielding and banishing herbs,oils and crystals.| Herbs | Oils | Crystals color magik the sabbats the Elements astrology + astrology calendar spells, hexes and curses energy manipulation the various entitis Divination tool Symbology Shadow Work Witchy hack Offerings Grimoire/book of shadows how to work with deities. (works with entities too) sigils. How to create a spell
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creating an altar to yourself: an exercise in manifestation and passive control
recently my best friend told me about a change he made to his personal practice that completely revolutionized the way he felt fortune flowed for him. i've seen people talk about creating an egregore of themselves or their alter ego, but this approach is uniquely secular and occurred completely detached from this online space.
and what was it he did? well, he created an altar to himself.
and i know what that sounds like, but hear me out. this isn't so much an altar of worship or reverence--at least not in the way we think about those things--it's a passive spell that runs in the background, an act of self-care for his past self, boosting his self-confidence for his current self, and manifesting the person he wants to become.
Witchy asks
Do you believe in ghosts and spirits? Any experience with them?
What do you believe happens to us after we die?
How would you describe your personal beliefs/path/practice?
Do you think life is guided by fate, free will or a mix of both?
Do you think dreams have meaning? If so, have you had any meaningful ones you can remember?
Do you carry any good luck charms/talismans on you? How did you get them if so?
Do you believe people can feel the energy others have? If so, do you think you're good at doing so?
Are there specific celebrations you observe (eg. Sabbats.)?
What deities do you worship (if any)? Can you talk about how you connected with them?
What tools do you think are the most important in your practice?
Do you have any stones you favor? If so, which ones?
Ignoring birth month associations, is there an element that you most heavily identify with? Why?
Do you prefer doing spells that are cast and then forgotten? Or do you prefer longer lasting ones, like jar spells, that you keep around?
Is there anywhere spiritually significant to you that you'd want to visit someday?
Do you believe in things such as karma, or the threefold rule?
@searedwithwitchyscars id love to know your answers. Either here or dms π
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.

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can't wait to say "during pride month?" at every minor inconvenience all of next month
Flatmate gets weirdly snappy and opinionated after an incredibly small amount of alcohol. Noted.
This is mesmerizing to watch.
actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this
If your friend starts making home made sour dough, it's too late, you will have to kill them
@searedwithwitchyscars guess I gotta π€·
Poor girl broke her favorite sitting basket.
Iβm sorry but this is the funniest thing I have ever seen ever in my fucking life her PEETS are STICKING OUT

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Staying with my family for a week, in a conservative town. Please send thoughts and prayers
wake up people. big bad wolf breath canβt melt straw beams. the first little pig was an inside job
Vent Time With Cal
I'm down visiting family for my mum's birthday. For context my dad is a hoarder, can't get rid of anything unless it's been completely used, out of date doesn't matter, kind of guy. My mum tends to buy more than is necessary, loves a good deal.
I asked mum what room would be the most helpful/enjoyable if it was cleaned (because she has a petanque tournament and a nice clean room would be cool) she said the master bathroom. There are so many unnecessary products, and sunscreen that is considerably expired. I brought this up to my dad and he said if I go too hard on getting rid of stuff it would cause us to fall out, and that she was only half of the household, and that I don't live there. And then couldn't even look at me for the remainder of the conversation, not eye contact, full head turn. Like mother fucker I am doing what she asked, she's just had both hips done and it now got back and nerve problems. You're fucking bald why do you care about the excess shampoo and conditioner! So I am now entirely unmotivated to do anything today. Even tempted to walk down to the petanque place and watch her/hang with her there. Unhelped that my brother is here, who also fits under the tight-ass no wasting category. And he can visit more often cause he lives an hour drive where I live an hour flight. He says they need to communicate with mediation, but he leaves this evening whereas I'm here for a week.
The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye
Hey this movie is really important in queer history! It was the first feature length film directed by a black lesbian! You can watch it here for free!
I really recommend you do because while it is a rom-com (and a drama), it also looks at how the stories of black queers are over looked in history.

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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.
stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.
bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.
mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:
The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."
The Useless Web
Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)
Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."
Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."
I used to love take me to a useless website
Do you know if we can get mugwort in NZ? I've tried so many stores but can't find any!
In what form? I've never tried looking, but I do love me a good aggressive internet search π