The First Flower

They/Them. Born in the 1900’s.Canadian. AO3: Jack_the_Reader.

[zsnes]

ahh fuckk im so overwhelmed i need to look at the flowchart my psychiatrist sent me to help me deal with executive function

NOOO FUCKKK THIS DOESNT HELPPPPP

[kujakumai]

do u ever think about how since no one knew YB was responsible for Pegasus's death, at the beginning of Battle City from everyone's perspective it had been well over a year since Yami Bakura did anything objectionable and comparatively like five minutes since Atem tried to help Kaiba commit suicide by duel disk. kind of hard to argue under those circumstances that Bakura shouldn't bring his cursed amulet to the function but Yugi totally can. double standards.

[gaslit-dipshits]

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

[sepdet]

here’s the viral video of his speech.

[brightlotusmoon]

Hollingsworth said that he used to rely on AI at his job overseeing video content production at a mattress company, making his point of view particularly noteworthy. He explained that he used to feed AI image generating app Midjourney “prompts to create the perfect commercial, training the very machine that would eventually replace me as three months later they would lay me off.” Now he’s become a foe of the tech, he said.

“They want us to trust a trillion dollar industry that tells us with a straight face that they can suck five million gallons of water out of our ground a day,” Hollingsworth argued, to “use it as a liquid heat sink, and return it to our rivers without a single consequence.”

Yet the water “does not stay in the loop,” he explained, but “evaporates into the sky by millions of gallons,” while AI companies downplay the amount of “forever chemical runoff” which is used to “bleed the lines to remove toxic sludge.”

“They say the water is filled once and recycled forever,” Hollingsworth said. “In a laboratory, that might be true. But we aren’t living in a laboratory. We’re living in Ohio.”

The content creator also pointed out how few jobs these data centers could offer, despite being a massive strain on resources.

[depsidase]

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[notemily]

via ered.bsky.social, the only kinds of unethical fiction:

people in the replies are going "what about books glorifying unethical things" and "what if it's propaganda" and you, my friends, are who this comic was made for

[blignick]

Weighing foster kittens..they understood the assignment..🐈🐾😍

[alex51324]

the kitties long for the weighing tub

[amygdalae]

kind of hate my stupid caustic pussy for dissolving my underwear over time but it's kind of cool, like, scientifically

[destinationtoast]

dying at this sequence from @pinkydragon01 :

[halfbloodfanboy]

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[werewolf-transgenderism]

🤨🤨🤨

[dykegerard]

[theunsubtleknife]

[trickstertime]

Huh? What's this?? Something is on this 5c coin???

ENHANCE

[bloodyhandprint]

did you know avoidance only makes all of your problems worse. no one has ever discovered this before

[transcyberism]

I've suspected this for a long time but I usually try not to think about it

[punkrorschach]

rapid fire things i learned about my boyfriend this morning.

he has never seen disney's the little mermaid

he thought the song Poor Unfortunate Souls was from phantom of the opera

he has never seen phantom of the opera

he thought disney made phantom of the opera

he thought phantom of the opera was animated

"i couldve sworn i saw an animated hunchback"

...wait do you mean the hunchback of notre dame

he thought phantom of the opera was the hunchback of notre dame

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#can somwone pleasw provide context to whatever the fuck op is referring to

[s-a-blotsky]

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

[dearest-lady-disdain]

recommending interview with the vampire to the heated rivalry fans this, recommending black sails to the heated rivalry fans that - what about recommenending the terror to the heated rivalry fans as it actually has not only homosexuality but also winter sports

[dogfennel]

first contact

[bagelbarr0n]

Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning

[lascitasdelashoras]

Glowing Giant Fish Made of Discarded Plastic Bottles, Playa de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

[bogleech]

The glowing

[morionette413]

@eddieintheocean