2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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I see you having smart conversations about Dustfinger on my dash, about why people love him so.
And having just been to a medieval fair and a street performance festival... my reason is still very simple:
Fire Fascinating! Fire-eaters Cool!
the new euro banknote designs with the birds are sooo pretty... I hope the birdies win
I would like to get paid in birds...
These are my favourite:
You can find all the designs here:
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintai
There's also a survey you can take if you want our money to have birdies on it.
(if you prefer the designs with people 1) Why 2) You're wrong)
Bilateral Gynandromorph
Organisms that have a mix of male and female characteristics on each side of their body. They occur in certain insects, birds, and crustaceans due to a genetic anomaly during early development. In perfect bilateral gynandromorphism, the creature's body is divided in a line down the center. One side is male and the other side is female. However, such conditions are exceedingly rare.
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂
I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.
(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)
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Come on, I'm Gen X, I've written a check THIS YEAR. No one has done all 20 give me a break I think my eldest child has done most of them let alone me.
but have you ever even heard of the fynbos biome ?!!?!?!?!
a biome so unique in south africa that it's earned an entirely new biome classification for itself. so many plants are endemic to this area, and ofc it's under threat of extinction.
It's a wonderful place! I had the privilege of visiting the fynbos last year and it was as amazing as these photos show and more!
Stirrup spout vessel in the form of a quail, Nazca, 100-500 AD
from The Princeton University Art Museum
i hate when gluten free flours are shelved with wheat flour. i get nervous when i have to walk down a baking aisle. we need to start mandatory training about cross contamination for everyone who has any part in the food supply chain. frankly i think we should be treating gluten that could become airborne as a biohazard when it's in a shared space (such as a grocery store).
i think gluten-containing flours should be quarantined from the rest of the store and in extremely sealed packages instead of barely sealed paper and i'm not kidding.
As someone who's worked in a grocery store, i genuinely don't think grocery stores are in any way safe if you have celiacs. Those bags are not even a little bit airtight. Just picking one up is enough to release a little puff of wheat flour into the air, and during stocking it fills the whole aisle with a haze of flour. I used to wear a mask just because it was hard to breathe.
can flour manufacturers PLEASE use packaging that is not that. oh my god
"i hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child & fell asleep on the couch during a family party. i hope you can hear the laughter from the next room"
erin hanson
anyone else feel like butter scraped over too much bread and in serious need of a holiday, a very long holiday, from which they don't mean to return. or is it just me
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.
Mediterranean Garden - Ruth Stage , 2024.
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Egg tempera and handmade gesso on panel , 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. 45 x 60 cm.
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Random Moth Thursday
Whenever I see one of the really gorgeous ones, I try to get a photo as an artist's reference.
This Polyphemus decided to rest for the day right in the middle of a hiking trail. I was able to scoop him gently sideways to safer territory.
My daughter found this Cecropia just after it died.
I found the Luna wings above in the grass when I went out for early morning cow-milking chores. Either a bat or a screech owl much have caught and eaten the moth so neatly that the wings just fell to the ground in perfect condition. The second one had j-u-s-t come out of its cocoon, and was very chunky and confused.
I don't know its name, but it's certainly cute!
Not a good artist reference photo, but still beloved. Hummingbird moths (a type of sphinx moth) look for all the world like crayfish with wings.
I did not specifically mention this, and I should have: if anyone wants to use my photos from around the farm for art reference, I am ok with that. If you do use one of them, I'd love for you to tag me when you post it, but you don't have to.
[id: brown moth with eye spots on its wings]
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