Cosimo Galluzzi
YOU ARE THE REASON
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
d e v o n
DEAR READER
Monterey Bay Aquarium
One Nice Bug Per Day
No title available
blake kathryn
#extradirty
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Janaina Medeiros
No title available
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
★
Kaledo Art
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
taylor price
Product Placement
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Cyprus
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Brunei
seen from Latvia
seen from Indonesia
@alanofalltrades
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now
And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!
Beautiful, you don’t HAVE to forgive them. You just can’t ridicule them after leaving for being “tainted” or “evil” or whatever the acceptable word is now. Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.
“But they should’ve known sooner” and we should’ve known sooner that Destiel was never gonna meaningfully happen outside of queerbaiting, what’s your point?
“I never want them near me” that’s fine, but you do realize to insult them, YOU have to get near THEM, right? Wouldn’t it be more conducive to what you want to just leave each other alone?
“What if one of them tries to approach me?” Then you block them online, or you keep the conversation clinical and polite irl. You do NOT take time out of your day to berate them for their old views. Your mother raised you better than that.
The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...
idc what you guys think I'm proud of him
Several AI services (chatbots ) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!
AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import
Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users
AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.
Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose
Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.
None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.
"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.
Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.
Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:
Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)
I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
reblog if you are an ad hating commie
Predictions for Dungeons & Dragons under Hasbro's management in the coming years:
Uma Musume style horsegirls introduced to the Forgotten Realms; setting's lore revised so that they've always been there.
Advancement rules now stipulate per-session XP bonus based on lifetime D&D Beyond purchase history.
Compendium of exclusive feat trees for specific gender and sexual identities. Bisexuality receives no feats of its own, being mechanically implemented as "half gay"; the resulting synergies are disgusting.
Editorial error in revised Dungeon Master's Guide accidentally refers to Dungeon Masters as Hasbro's employees.
"Noble savage" coding of barbarian class walked back, refocused on European folkloric touchstones such as the Ulster Cycle; all barbarian characters become Irish stereotypes.
AI-based DM service trained exclusively on work of Ed Greenwood launched; withdrawn a week later citing "guiderail issues".
Expanded discussion of navigating player expectations frames "not showing up at all" as a valid playstyle.
Dragon-blooded sorcerer subclass revised to state that one of the character's ancestors was "very good friends" with a dragon.
People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person
Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs
Ummm she's literally sensitive :/
Chat, is it sacrilege to be writing a Braxiatel/Clarence fanfic.
if it is, god is the one in the wrong 🫡
I don't think there's such a thing as sacrilege in fanfics
It’s just computer God who sucks not even Kroton the Cyberman God. So I think it’s fine.
It's iffy only because introducing a potential source of happiness in Brax's life seems antithetical to the core of the character
educating yourself on dogwhistles of all kinds will have you feeling insane in settings where nobody questions anything they're parroting
-slop is from 4chan and antisemitic for example but everyone uses it (sometimes I even catch myself unwittingly saying it because I hear it so much)
Zog, cabal, aipac money when they situation has 0% to do with aipac, epstein class when the situation has 0% to do with epstein, globalists, etc, there's too many😞💔
i hope tumblr users never stop talking about punk music i think we deserve this
I remain proudly part of the never even opened ChatGPT club but as a son of clowns and snake oil salesmen I feel compelled to give credit where credit is due: this Mechanical Turk they’ve constructed manages to simultaneously be a False Oracle, a Siren, and a Confidence Schemer, which is quite the triple threat for something that doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. Very impressive Charlatanship. Slow clap.
"as a son of clowns and snake oil salesmen"
please expound on this
me, I was raised by musicians
My grandmother ran a Clown College down in San Diego back in the early 60s/70s, up until John Wayne Gacy ruined the public image of the Clown in America and public interest fell off. My Father and all of his Bothers and Sister were officially registered Clowns. I recall My Father riding a unicycle while eating an ice cream cone once. I once watched My Uncle make a bicycle with spinning wheels out of those balloons you make balloon animals with. My Aunt kept exotic birds all her life. My other Uncle was a Sad Clown.
As far as the Snake Oil goes, once the Clown business dried up, My Father got a job hanging out the windows of helicopters taking videos of erupting volcanoes for science documentaries, during which time he met My Mother on a beach in the tropics. At the time she was proselytizing for a Christian Cult, but that didn’t really pay, so she also sold Nutraceuticals and Jack Lalanne Power Juicers to make ends meet.
As a pair of extremely fit and good looking people who both believed firmly in American Eugenics, they knew immediately that they would produce Prime Specimens if they were ever to breed; however, My Mother could not abide My Father’s long delinquency on his duties to Washington, and so their elopement was deferred until My Father could sort out his taxes (he only ever paid them for as long as he was married to her).
The rest is history I suppose
ALL OF THAT SAID
Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia
IT BEARS MENTION THAT THE MECHANICAL TURK COULD NOT IN FACT PLAY CHESS, BUT WAS MERELY AN ELABORATE PUPPET SHOW, OPERATED BY ILLUSIONISTS
CHATGPT CANNOT DO ANY OF THE THINGS ITS OPERATORS PURPORT IT TO BE ABLE TO DO; NOT WITHOUT CONTINUOUS HUMAN OPERATION AND SUPERVISION, MAKING IT NAUGHT BUT AN INEFFICIENCY GENERATOR AND A UNREPENTANT ACT OF HOKUM
ChatGPT ain’t gonna fuck you bro
You know what
YEE-HAW 🤠
by the way, that gif of an artillery piece seemingly firing a small nuclear bomb? that's a real thing, and the Soviet Union made a lot of them (the USA made some, too, as well as literal nuclear hand grenades. the Cold War was a weird time)
unfortunately, Russia still holds a very large stockpile of these so-called tactical nukes, and Putin has repeatedly threatened to use them on Ukraine and European countries
it is very instructive to play both silent hill and resident evil videogames because they are very similar except for how silent hill is good and resident evil is stupid. it helps you figure out what is stupid in a video game and what is good
for example, in silent hill games, you are confronted with many weird baroque puzzles you have to solve to proceed, because that is the dark and creepy and confrontational nature of the world you are in. in resident evil games, you are confronted with weird baroque puzzles you have to solve because apparently, separate from and unrelated to the ongoing zombie apocalypse, the raccoon city designers designed the subway station map so that if you insert a red jewel into the correct diamond shaped recess, a drawer opens that contains a live hand grenade
i'm like a fujoshi but for dead people
if you could see the thread i'm hanging on by you would not say these things to me
99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!
FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME
BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND
PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING
Let me settle the 'is it fetishism and is it bad?' debate once and for all:
Being attracted to any kind of body is normal. Fat bodies. Trans bodies. Disabled bodies. All normal. Being extra attracted to a specific kind of body is normal too. Totally normal to have a type.
Not unlearning the societal stigma attached to those kinds of bodies, the people who inhabit those bodies, and the people who fuck them, to the point where you do any of the following:
Only want to date/fuck the person in secret.
Reduce the person to the feature that you desire and ignore the rest of who they are as a person.
Expect the person to be a walking porn fantasy instead of a real person with their own sexual preferences and boundaries.
Would no longer love the person if the stigmatized aspect of their body changed.
Consider yourself superior to the person, think the person should be 'grateful' that you love their body, etc.
See the person as a temporary adventure while planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized.
Is bad and harmful and you shouldn't be dating anyone until you've worked on your shit, because this makes you a very terrible partner. This doesn't mean you are a bad person with bad-fetishist-desires who can only desire people badly, it means you need to unlearn societal stigma so you can be a better partner to the people you desire.
Thank you for coming to me ted talk.
Highlights from the Project Hail Mary director's commentary:
*SPOILERS!!!*
Grace waking up from the coma was the first shot they filmed for the movie! They wanted Ryan to feel eased into the character, and what better way to do that than have him play a character who can't remember who he is?
The little "GOOD LUCK!" note in sharpie that's written on Grace's sleeping bag was canonically written by the other astronauts on the I.S.S. before the Hail Mary crew got put into the ship. In real life, Phil and Chris wrote one word each. They said it was like "a blessing on the movie."
Ryan's most nerve-wracking day on set was when he had to shoot with the classroom full of children. Most of the kids were made up of the children of the film's crew members.
The scene where Grace looks through Yao and Ilukhina's photos is footage of him looking at and reacting to actual pictures of the actors with their loved ones.
When Grace calls Stratt to tell her that he and Carl figured out how to breed astrophage, Ryan is genuinely calling Sandra on her day off set, and her audio is her genuine reaction to the unexpected line: "Carl and I made a baby!"
"We like showcasing Ryland Grace's social anxiety while having a lot of people staring at him. LOL!"
Their intention for the space funeral scene was to have Grace convey that he was trying to ease his own sadness by making the dead people with him feel better about being dead :(
The markings on Rocky's body convey his mission patch, his rank in the crew, his wedding band, and his family crest.
Grace and Stratt's conversation on the boat is Grace asking her if they're allowed to be close friends, and the response from Stratt is no, they can't. This gets driven home in the karaoke scene. She understands the value of connection, a part of her wants it, but "Her love for people has to be suspended for her to do her job."
Rocky has different forward-facing faces for different thought processes! They named his "satellite dish" face, his "scrunched up thinking face", and his "monobrow face".
Direct quote: "I love how on the spectrum Rocky is." ROCKY AUTISTIC CODED CONFIRMED!
After Rocky recovers from his injuries: "As Rocky returns to the movie, the lights turn on. The warmth returns. It's like the day breaking."
Confirmed that when Grace and Rocky reunite, Rocky says to Grace, "You came back for me, question?"
They throw this out there for two seconds and do NOT expand on it, but according to Andy Weir, Stratt is imprisoned for life but somehow ESCAPES???
The Eridians built Grace an artificial tree in his enclosure because Rocky knew he liked trees
There's so much more they shared about film processes and the people who were behind making certain effects possible. I highly recommend checking out the commentary if you're able!
been reading the book
