Caelynn

[invaderxan]

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

[theindependentconservative]

Reblog to save a life.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Sharing because it’s actually a verified and sourced thing and not one of those dumbass fake tip posts.

[dgalerab]

current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

[dgalerab]

someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.

[sainamoonshine]

Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.

[dear-ao3]

so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.

[vet-and-wild]

you know the obsession with keeping cats indoors is a purely American view of the world? Most Europeans let their cats outdoors without any problems. Many Europeans even think it's cruel to keep them indoors all the time

No, it’s not. European cats aren’t magically smarter and less environmentally impactful than American cats, it’s just more socially acceptable to let them roam. Do you not have cars in Europe? Foxes? Raptors? Stray dogs? Rat poison? Parasites? Diseases? What about the Croydon Cat Killer in England, where the dismemberment of over 400 cats was being investigated, and it turned out that foxes were mutilating the bodies of cats that were killed by cars? Suddenly it’s all ok because it was only horrific death via automobile, instead of decapitation like they suspected? Totally acceptable to outdoor cat owners, who cares if your cat gets hit by a car and dies on the side of the road? There is real concern for the hybridization of wildcats in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but sure, it’s just a US problem. How about how outdoor cats are effectively reducing the protective area of a national park in Poland? How about the increased incidence of lungworms and GI parasites in European free roaming cats? How about this small study from Denmark where 90% of free roaming cats tested positive for GI parasites on necropsy (and the risk was higher in rural areas). Not Europe, but for the sake of completeness, free roaming cats kill ~377 MILLION birds per year in Australia, and 61 million of those kills are thought to be from owned cats. You can also talk to @drferox about how problematic outdoor cats are in Australia. Free roaming cats are bad for the environment, and are put in unnecessary danger. Why don’t you provide enrichment for your cat instead of letting them run around unsupervised where they will kill native wildlife and get sick or injured or die (or all of the above). Other resources from @catsindoors about the impact of domestic cats around the world. Snagged a lot of these links from their blog.

[prettyprettypretty-good-deactiv]

Humans would also be safer and the environment protected if we all just stayed indoors. No passing of parasites, bacteria, or viruses. No harm to other species. No cross breeding either (if that bothers you). Do you want to stay indoors?

[vet-and-wild]

I generally try to ignore responses like this, but I want to address this because I see this ridiculous argument a lot.

The reason that this comparison is inaccurate is because humans have the ability to use reason and make logical choices, but cats don’t. Humans see a car coming and wait until the street is clear to cross. Cats don’t. Humans know not to eat strange food on the ground. Cats don’t. Humans can look up which plants are toxic and avoid them. Cats can’t. Humans don’t eat raw rabbits and rodents that may carry disease. Cats do. Humans who hunt follow laws that prevent them from killing endangered species (besides shitty poachers). Cats don’t.

A far more accurate comparison would be a cat and a toddler. They lack the ability to recognize danger and don’t have the ability to reason that an adult does. I’m sure a toddler would have a great time roaming around the neighborhood, but no one is going to argue in favor of that. People can understand that doing that is irresponsible and dangerous. But no sane person is going to lock their toddler inside and provide them with nothing to do; no one is saying we should do that for cats either. Play with them. Provide cat trees. Rotate their toys. Give them puzzle feeders. And if you want them to go outside you can leash train them. Or build a catio. The options aren’t let them roam vs. never provide them with entertainment. If it is unbearable to entertain and care for a cat that is kept indoors, you probably shouldn’t own a cat.

Would you let your dog roam? Or your bird? How about your rabbit? I’m sure all of these animals would have a great time running (or flying) around the neighborhood, but we generally recognize that this is a bad idea. It’s no different for cats. We are caretakers for our animals, so it is up to us to use our big brains to make logical choices about what they should or shouldn’t do. We have the ability to understand the risks associated with free roaming. Cats don’t. We can weigh risks and benefits before making a decision. Cats can’t.

tldr: Humans have the ability to make logical decisions to keep themselves safe but cats do not.

[scienceshenanigans]

Outdoor cats are also more or less an invasive species. They are such good hunters, they are capable of permanently changing an ecosystem by killing native prey animals. 

Protect your kitty and local biodiversity–keep them inside!

[r33naytealeaves]

I just wanted to tack on that, there is no “more or less”, cats are an invasive species. Domesticated animals are invasive species and allowing them to interact with the local environment without monitoring will harm the local biodiversity. Cats especially. Domestic cats have a very high success rate for hunting. Historically, they have lead to multiple extinctions of animals because people brought cats along as pest control and pets.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The good thing about the Sculpture That Everyone Hates is that it's inspiring a lot of (technically illegal) public participation from the community, which is always fun to see.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's also already suffering wear and tear to the paint, which I think we all saw coming.

[sagenemesis]

I'm going to come see The Blue Thing sometime this winter :p visiting Australia and have demanded a road trip to see It

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The fact that this thing actually is pulling in at least one tourist would make half of the locals so angry

[sleepiestarchivist]

I’m a dumb American, would someone like to elucidate on The Blue Thing and why It’s so hated? Be as mean and biased as you’d like I’m so curious I never get to hear Australians be pissed off

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Our town has lot of systems that desperately need funding an attention; a stormwater system that is not even close to up to the task of handling local rainfall, a lot of people who are either homeless, hungry or both, regular failures of basic services like rubbish bin collection, a truly pathetic excuse for 'public transport', and most critically of all, a healthcare system collapsing around us because medical professionals can't find homes to live in or support for things like childcare, are each expected to do the work of 3 people, and burn out in less than 5 years and leave forever. Homeowner's rates and soforth keep going up in price to supposedly cover services and the services keep struggling due to lack of funding. Now, this is all very normal and standard Large-ish Rural Town stuff, nothing surprising. But it does mean that every time the council throws thousands to millions of dollars at something like building a massive entertainment centre that nobody will use, or trying to open a third shopping centre (our second shopping centre eviscerated our first shopping centre by splitting the customer base and now we have two barely-holding-on shopping centres instead of one thriving one; the plan for the third one, fortunately, fell through), then the whole local population gets up in arms about the waste of money. Now, I'm not going to get into the weeds of which of the councils various initiatives I do and don't support (I'm a lot more supportive of many of them than the average local in the Facebook chat groups, but others I agree are fucking stupid); the point is that this is the general attitude of the population to buying new shit with no obvious utility.

So the council shells out for some new public art. This isn't unusual; we are, despite the general attitudes of the town, somehow a pretty artsy place. We've got a lot of abstract sculptures in metal and limestone (the town is built on limestone) scattered about, usually with some significance to the area they're in. The old train station (now a playground) has a bunch of abstract train themed art. The theatre has a massive mural of the face of the guy it's named after. The community centre has a lot of protective railing (it's right next to a sinkhole) and it's all wrought iron depictions of historical industries of the town and soforth. Et cetera.

The problem with this thing was threefold:

They announced it super proudly right at the point where everyone was particularly upset about rates hikes.

It cost $136,000 for a town that didn't have $136,000 lying around.

Almost everyone who lives here thinks it looks fucking stupid.

Personally I don't hate the appearance on its own, but even I have to admit that it's very jarring in its location; it doesn't match the other art in the area at all. It's supposed to be an imagined specimen of ancient megafauna, not based on any actual real thing that lived int he area but just like the concept that there was once megafauna here, which I find to be tacky and stupid as an explanation and I think that's the general consensus. At least it's in a better location than the initial proposal pictures showed it, which was right in front of the historic brickwork of the town hall in the middle of the footpath and in everyone's fucking way.

In short, there's nothing massively wrong with Cast In Blue. People just think it looks stupid and pretentious in relation to our other art, and more critically, it's become a lightning rod for the town's resentment of the council's perceived financial mismanagement of the town in a time when we desperately need them to be on the ball.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Here is a picture that clearly shows the blob in front of the safety railing I was talking about, so you can see what I mean by it being jarring:

If you go around the corner to the left (just out of frame), you walk into an area absolutely full of art pieces that gel with the style of this fencing. This fucking thing stands out like a sore thumb.

Behind that fencing, for anyone curious, is a sinkhole:

[durnesque-esque]

Posting this because apparently some of you really need to internalize that you do not have to be a perfect person to deserve justice.

[ominous-signs]

A french one a friend sent me, we send each other pictures of doors for.... reasons.

The direct translation is "door out of use" and "just like us all", but the french word for "out of use" also means "doomed". So it would be something like "door doomed, just like us all".

Official ominous sign

[aropride]

some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker

[someofusarequeer]

I gotta google something real quick

[someofusarequeer]

who named this bird

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[nahare-shin]

Funniest part is they DO have red bellies. Like it isn’t inaccurate it’s just.

They’re a WOODPECKER so their belly isn’t typically visible. While pretty unique, it’s certainly not what you notice first about this bird.

[machine-unlearning]

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

[machine-unlearning]

He said “Son (M7) when you grow up (F33) would you be — wait what”

[epiphany-jones]

Leaving a comment on a stranger's fic: your use of language is sublime, your character voice so clear! I'm so happy to be reading this, thank you so much for writing 🙏🏻💙

Leaving a comment on a mutual's fic: I am going to make sure you never know a day's peace again you motherfucker. I'm outside of your house right now. You better START RUNNING (I can't wait for next chapter I'm going to die in real life)

[radiqueer]

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

[aromanticduck]

Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

[ali-theshipper]

I know this joke has been done before but whatevs.

[ridafi14]

"trans men transition to put themselves in a place of privilege above women and to benefit from misogyny rather than suffer from it" is literally TERF rhetoric. That is a key part of what TERFs believe. If you believe this too, you're at best just another transphobe.

[doublecounter]

[skiplo-wave]

From bottom of my heart

Putting folks hard work through a machine you don’t deserve call yourself fan of art.

[sionnualanicheallachain]

I think there's actually an additional level of betrayal here.

When I was a teenager and learning about critiquing, one of the things I was explicitly taught was that you don't share other people's manuscripts without permission, full stop. If you're critiquing someone's story, you don't show that draft to your partner, or your friend, or anyone, no matter how good or how bad or how funny or how weird or how whatever you think it is. You have been extended a degree of trust, but that does not come with the right to extend that trust to someone else on the author's behalf.

So even before you get to don't feed other people's work into AI, there's the very basic and technology-agnostic social contract of if you are critiquing someone else's draft, the permission to read it only extends to you and the feedback you provide should only be coming from you. Feeding it into AI is adding insult to injury, but even if you took the AI out of it and substituted another human reader it would still be Super Not Okay.

[the-haiku-bot]

I think there’s actually

an additional level

of betrayal here.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[apicturewithasmile]

“I’m much happier at 53 than I was at 23.” (x)

[t-aash]

i love you guillermo del totoro

[night-dark-woods]

[ID: Four gifs of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says, “I think the sublime confusion is from 19 to 29. You think you are late for everything, you’re a has-been, nothing is happening, there’s no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you’re 30.” /end ID]

[freedom-and-books]

He once gave a class in Guadalajara and said “Ustedes los jóvenes están en la edad exacta de la desesperación. Yo nunca me sentí más acabado y viejo que a los veintitantos. Decía ‘ya me pasó la vida y no hice nada’. Pero estoy aquí para decirles que no: tienen un chingo de tiempo”

Which translates to “You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I’d say ‘life has passed me by and i did nothing’. But i’m here to tell you that’s not true: you have a lot of fucking time”

[is-this-fascism]

i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

[is-this-fascism]

grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.

there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.

[lierdumoa]

Also stay away from people who say shit like "sexual attraction and romance addles the mind and makes you crazy and irrational and this is why being aro/ace makes you intellectually superior." I've seen that a couple times times on this hellsite. Stay away from anyone who tries to convince you that your racial identity/cultural identity/gender identity/sexual orientation/neurodivergence/any other intrinsic quality makes you a member of some master race that is inherently superior to the other humans.

You are not immune to exceptionalist propaganda.

[softness-and-shattering]

No one is lesser, no one is superior. No matter of neurotype or identity or freaking skull shape and jaw angle, nothing never zilch zip nada. Any kind kf subhuman - superhuman rhetoric you run away from and dont look back.

Pride in ones identity is one thing, thinking that makes you better than anyone else is another. Theres a very distinct differrence there.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw