who i am, inside

Laura/Lo/Barley (they/them) this blog is as messy as my life

[ochablooms]

hi i need to say. im obsessed with your etho design

thank yous,,, i havent drawn him in so long but heres efo ☺️

[blunighht]

it was IMPERATIVE that i drew them in little diner outfits. Welcome to The Good Egg!

[chujellys]

there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful

[chujellys]

yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…

[barleymowetc]

Sam, Ben, and Adam, alongside season guest Tom Scott and event moderator Ali Plumb, sit on stage during the Japanorama event Q&A.

Japanorama, London UK, 1 August 2026

[barleymowetc]

Sam, Ben, and Adam sit on stage ahead of the recording of The Layover Podcast

Japanorama, London UK, 1 August 2026

[barleymowetc]

Sam, Ben, and Adam sit on stage before the director's commentary of Tag Eur It

Japanorama, London UK, 1 August 2026

[barleymowetc]

Sam, Ben, and Adam sit on stage with their eyes closed, competing to count the closest to one minute. A member of staff stands to the side holding a phone up, displaying a stopwatch counting up in time.

Japanorama, London UK, 1 August 2026

[jetlagupdates]

Sam, Ben, and Adam reposted Nebula's Instagram story!

[creaturrre-fear]

I’m going to reference a widely-used term in public education to explain why I think AI may be softening our brains

“Whoever is doing the thinking is doing the learning.”

By asking artificial intelligence to do tasks that otherwise take minimal brain function, you are literally sacrificing the neural pathways your brain has built in order to do that task.

Imagine a world in which AI suddenly disappears. All of the skills you left to AI would essentially need to be relearned. That would be far more inconvenient than just taking care of the task yourself.

“Whoever is doing the thinking is doing the learning.”

[wenchofthescullery]

THIS.

It's not that using AI or machine learning to do specific tasks is inherently a bad thing, just because it's AI technology. It's that you can't offload your own learning and skills development to AI. You can offload rote tasks that aren't developing your skills, but you can't offload yourself. You end up just giving that away, and it costs far more to buy it back.

[consistent-sincerity]

There's a great term called "Cognitive Debt," which basically represents the intellectual atrophy you get from not exercising your brain. Originally the phrase was used in Alzheimer's research to describe mental decline but it's crossed over into AI studies.

(PDF) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

PDF | This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups:

Your mind is a muscle.

[panidanya]

greenhouse

[notholaenas]

laundry day

[2colde]

how it genuinely feels

[depsidase]

[gayvampyr]

“i liked it before it was cool” well i liked it AFTER it was cool when everyone abandoned it

[gayvampyr]

i get really into shows that aired like 5+ years ago like “have y’all heard of this”

[physiqueandfantasy]

Congratulations card

made by me!

soon to be available as a greeting card

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[shubbabang]