Reblog Dump

I just press the button. She/Her, 30s, obsessed with Monster Hunter and One Piece. Reblog blog. Absolute whore for Imu. My Monster Hunter blog is @aureliahunts. I rarely upload my art to @aureliaarts - mostly just super old content here. https://open.spotify.com/track/2DEtevLNfY859UWgk9TVqG?si=df3e2623c561400c

[what-even-is-thiss]

Sometimes I wonder if we’ve spent too much time as a society wondering if computers can be people

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah wondering where humanity begins and computers end is an interesting thought but people think that ChatGPT knows them. That thing is not a person by like any measurement we know of. It doesn’t have opinions. It regurgitates statistically likely word salad and scrapes answers wholesale from Reddit.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Questions about the potential personhood of machines feel kinda stupid now? Like these large language models clearly aren’t people. And to a certain extent, why would you want to make a computer that’s a person with feelings and personal opinions? You’ve made something and trapped it inside of a computer at the whims of programmers. Why? Why do that to something? Even if it was possible. It doesn’t fully seem like it is yet.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The guys who don’t think that computers can be people are usually the unenlightened ones in these stories but frankly I think that my cats are closer to being people than a chatbot is.

[traycakes]

Whether or not computers CAN be people is beside the point, LLM chatbots are not and never will be. Billionaires are programming software to manipulate customers.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

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.

[visibun]

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

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[chinesewednesday]

[luidilovins]

my couchsona

[seananmcguire]

I would buy this and cover it in weird plush and sleep on it every night.

[quasi-normalcy]

I didn't know they did upholstery with 1990s bowling alley carpets.

[argumate]

I keep thinking this! very frustrating

[argumate]

fuck!

[animalssittingoncapybaras]

Lizard sits on a capybara

[animalssittingoncapybaras]

Otter sits on a capybara

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

trans women have the site's moderation weaponized against us for years -> staff happy to be complicit -> the media picks up one (1) event that's too blindingly obvious to ignore -> they apologize for not making an excuse earlier, pretend that trying to stay quiet is about the Integrity of The Platform

they clearly think we're idiots, it's just so painfully obvious.

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

sincerely cracking the fuck up watching tumblr HQ accidentally(???) unbanning pjackk, seeing how we immediately started talking about transmisogynistic moderation bias, and banning pjackk again.

@staff you know we see all this stuff right

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

#''moderation bias'' #you mean the fact that they're a bunch of outwardly genocidal hazbin hotel dipshits #that literally take out hits and bet on which homeless trans woman they can ban the most times in a day

you're right, thank you.

[satyriconmp3]

[mrfylke2001]

[mctreeleth]

I was trying to explain to my sister-in-law that I simply cannot turn on my car headlights if anyone is looking at me and she thought I was crazy.

[razzleberryjam]

Literally nothing more embarrassing than tying your shoes in public like oh look at me I'm a 5 year old because I couldn't tie my shoes tight enough to last a walk through the kroger

[official-lucifers-child]

are y’all okay

[thatqueerchoirkid]

no

[demilypyro]

[pukicho]

Still rocking an NFT icon in this day and age is like seeing a confederate flag on the back of someone’s truck. You lost 100 years ago, fucker, it’s over.

[spiribia]

it doesn't matter to cats what kind of bad week you're going through, they'll come into your room and start doing repeated bulldozer attacks on you

[64mpg]

google used to know what i was talking about

[drowsy-corpsegirl]

No one ever gave a shit when my blog dissapeared bc I was never "nuked." But I was stalked and catfished and chased off this platform so much that I felt the need to deactivate TWICE. But bc it was my choice who cares.

And now im too uncomfortable to use my old username bc twerfs would harass me for it.

I am a trans musician and this is one of the only platforms I was ever taken seriously on. And I had lost my only platform.

A lot of us are nuked, its an extreme problem. But there's so many others who are harassed and stalked until they just cant take it anymore.

God you all need to be nicer to trans women. Fuck me.

[penandinkprincess]

listen i'm not advocating for exotic animals as pets, but i really just feel like cheetahs are probably different

i feel like we need to give them another shot as housebeasts

[penandinkprincess]

this is a critter who wants greenies and then to take a nap on the couch next to me, and i KNOW it

[penandinkprincess]

cheetah in House perfec t size for put inside! inside very Soft and Comfort cheetah sleep soundly put cheetah in House. Put Cheetah In House. no problems ever in cheetah in ho use because good Happy and Satisfy for human where sleep. House yes a place for a cheetah put cheetah in house can trust cheetah for giveing good love to humans in house. friend cheetah

[justasmidgx]

I mean, as someone who as worked in a zoo, this is fairly true.

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

Legit if any wild animal could be adapted to a pet it would be cheetahs lmao. Only problem is they can be skittish and very anxious and that's why they're often raised around dogs in zoos to gain confidence.

[penandinkprincess]

congrats, i award you funniest take on this post

[xiaohongshu-for-you]

[lexidius]

@isthebirdvideocute i would be worried about both the sugar and lactose here, is this safe for the chicken?

[homeofhousechickens]

A little bit of vanilla ice cream is safe for a chicken. While most birds shouldn't get diary, chickens can consume it pretty safely, excess milk and dairy byproducts are actually a staple in their diet in a lot of countries and may I point out that milk fed broilers exist as well.

Here were my leghorns Greenie and Blue enjoying ice cream in 2020.

From my own experience a little bit of dairy doesnt hurt, i rarely see it effect the droppings either in birds who have been introduced to diary products early on.

Here is an interesting read

The hens given lactose had a better eggshell percentage and eggshell thickness compared to the control. The lactose might even offer protection against salmonella and e.coli by promoting the growth of lactobacilli bacteria in the gut.

(PDF) INFLUENCE OF SUPPLEMENTAL, DIATARY LACTOSE ON LAYING HENS PERFORMANCE AND SOME INTESTINAL MICROFLORA

PDF | The current study aimed to investigate the effect of feeding different graded levels of dietary lactose on performance of laying hens,

[sisterskaoi]

TIL chickens may also enjoy ice cream in moderation

[certifiedchickenposts]

certified chicken post

[depsidase]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

[brawlcloud]

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

[monkey-cat-vivi]

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people