[hitmewithcute]

Just saw this on r/unexpected and had to share

[molosseraptor]

[quasi-normalcy]

One implication of the fact that social media companies go out of their way to stoke hate and conflict is that everyone should probably get in the habit of thinking twice before diving into online controversies, because there’s a very good chance that they’re being deliberately taken out of context, exaggerated, or otherwise framed in an intellectually dishonest fashion

[pangur-and-grim]

Grim comes running when you crinkle a bag of treats

[shimmyshams]

What’s that though?

[pangur-and-grim]

don’t worry about the hand

[prokopetz]

Something just occurred to me.

You know how back in the pre-Internet days, it was nearly impossible to watch a TV series in its entirety because the local affiliate stations would deliberately air the episodes all out of order, then do some sort of statistical sorcery to figure out which particular episodes gave the advertisers the best return for their dollar and just run those ten or twelve specific episodes in an endless semi-randomised rotation, and that was why every time you channel-surfed across a particular show it always seemed to be the same damn episode?

Twitter’s algorithm is literally the social media equivalent of that.

[mrmeriwether]

In middle/high school I put all the music I had on an off-brand mp3 player and would just set it to Shuffle All. I quickly realized the player’s shuffle fuction wasn’t purely random–it was weighted towards my favorite songs (aka the songs with the most plays).

Only I had never chosen those songs. They were just the random few to pop up the first time I shuffled everything, and they started playing more and more frequently as this horribly short-sighted algorithm fed itself bad data, until I was so annoyed at those few songs that I stopped listening entirely.

Anyway a few years later Facebook did the exact same thing with my friends list, siphoning me off from seeing most of my feed because OBVIOUSLY I interacted with them the most, therefore they must be my besties. But really they were just the only people showing up for me to interact with in the first place, until I was down to just a few people I never really talked to from high school, a college prof, and my racist uncle I kept calling out.

And shortly after that, YouTube followed suit, replacing “Subscriptions” with “Recommended” as the default category, and trying to find “things I liked” when it was really just whatever three channels I’d watched last, whatever unrelated viral vid it wanted to push that week, and weird perennials like Whose Line clips or lockpick reviews or YTPs that seem to hibernate for months at a time then return like locusts.

All this to say: the big mysterious algorithms that now run all the major platforms on the internet are never acting in your best interests. They’re just that junky mp3 player’s Shuffle All with a fresh coat of paint, and, to be clear, this is by design. They are VERY good at what they do, which is funneling users into nice predictable pockets of content that advertisers can exploit.

[quietpetitegirl-deactivated2025]

I hope I find someone that loves me the same way Stephen Colbert loves his wife ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

[korben600]

The one and ONLY redeeming factor of 2020’is that Stephen has been stuck at home for the entire quarantine, so he’s been forced to do his bits at his house. Which looked real hard for him, since he doesn’t have an audience laughing at his jokes.

And the thing is, when he came back to his studio, he’s not allowed to have crowds there either because of New York’s restrictions.

But without fail, every other joke, you can hear this one, single woman laughing in the background.

That’s his wife.

Covid restrictions don’t apply to his spouse, and everyone else in the studio has a job, and has to work, so she’s become the only person in the room left laughing at his jokes.

She doesn’t laugh every time. You can tell she’s not doing it on cue, because there are some bits she clearly likes better than others. Some bits where she is laughing her ass off, and some where she just chuckles.

But my god, every time she laughs, Colbert’s face lights up like the sun.

Like, even if every other person on earth was dead and gone, if he was on his deathbed and breathing his last breath, he’d still make a jokes, just to make her laugh again.

So yeah. Get you someone who loves you like Stephen Colbert loves his wife.

[nefja]

Just a dog in a leaf pile doing dog things.

[angelaanimates]

Loving the Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy

[wistfullycountry]

Derek Henderson | @dhen2020

[sweetoothgirl]

The Grave Digger

[leofrith]

some of y'all really need to re-examine what the word racist means because it's not always just "loud and proud white supremacist intentionally causing harm". sometimes it's "otherwise 'nice' person acting on internalized racial biases that they refuse to examine".

like my god the second "racist" gets dropped in a conversation some of you completely shut down under the weight of all your white fragility and refuse to listen to or act upon any criticism of your harmful actions, however intentional or unconscious they may be, and it's honestly pathetic. grow the hell up. learn to be uncomfortable in discussions about racism or you're never going to become better.

[jester-de-punyalada]

reblog to give the person ur reblogging from an ikea shark

[jester-de-punyalada]

all of us in the notes rn

[jester-de-punyalada]

huh...

well all of us now:

[id in alt text]

[queenwhiskey]

What food group is honey what the fuck is this stuff

[violetvappy-deactivated20220306]

Apparently its categorized as raw meat by the FDA, which is cursed information if I’ve ever seen it.

[queenwhiskey]

WHAT

[veganmemesyearly]

Y’all: Honey isn’t vegan because it comes from bees.

Me an intellectual: Honey isn’t vegan because it’s a raw meat.

[rosiethorns88]

Hello. Welcome to my new obsession.

If you’ve been following my stories for the past few weeks, you’ll know that I’ve been raving over the Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy I’m coming out of a slight hangover from book three (Gleam). I only say slight, because the book gave me so much art fodder, it will keep me satiated enough until Glow comes out next year.

Each book trumps the previous as my favorite. Please, I urge you to avoid reading below if you plan to read the series, it’s so worth the first time experience. (Be sure to check content warnings!)

*** SPOILERS BELOW FOR GLEAM ***

You know when you’re cooking a nice steak and work so hard to tenderize, season and sizzle it to perfection - but have to wait those agonizing minutes for the meat to set, the juices to flow, all before you can take that first decadent bite?

That 👏 is 👏 this 👏 scene.👏

I’ve said this in one of my lives, but best thing I love about TPP series is how the world building has rules, and with those rules comes restrictions. It’s my favorite thing to read how the characters (or plot) have to puzzle out how to get around those restrictions. This scene was so creative in how it used Auren’s time limit for her powers to elevate the tension of this scene;  the steak was JUICY.

[candidcreatures]

Looving this series lately 🥰

[pictures-of-dogs]

I know you all love round dogs, but can we get some appreciation for these lanky boys too?

[vaspider]

Hey look I spent like 2 hours making a TikTok! It would be awesome if you'd click through & leave some engagement there too. :)

(All statements about tradition are from a US Reform/Conservative point of view. Judaism is incredibly diverse and there are many valid ways to observe and celebrate! Judaism is however a closed ethnoreligion so please don't just "borrow" stuff. If you wanna convert, talk to a rabbi!)

[punxsutawneyphyllis]

Also, in ancient times, Sukkot was the holiday where people from surrounding nations were invited to share in the festivities. So non-Jews, if you are interested in Sukkot, ask your Jewish friends if you can come over! This is the holiday to do it!

[vaspider]

Yeah! I was going to cover this in a second video (this one already had a lot of text) but I will definitely do that now that you've brought it up too. 💗

[earthporn]