Chimiste Minuscule

Chapter 40: In Which Our Chemist’s Brain Goes Wonktastic

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 3 days 12 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ghostdaartist]

Smh.. woooooooooooooow.. crazy that these type of people exist in 2026

[chemipedia]

I found the full video on YouTube and the first thing she said when approached by the officer was “I’m calling the police!” and you can practically hear the ??? in the officer’s voice when he responds, “I am the police.”

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[chemipedia]

It’s been a few years but I’m still mad at all of them.

[wynnyfryd]

20-somethings on this website doing none of the things we’re evolved to do for our health and then wondering why they’re so depressed. (smacking you through the screen) GO EAT A LEAF!!!!!!!! GO CRACK A NUT OPEN WITH A ROCK YOU SAD TORMENTED LITTLE APE

[wynnyfryd]

i know this is easier said than done and i do not mean this judgementally but you have to start treating yourself like the animal you are in any small consistent way you can. like imagine you went to a zoo and you saw a gorilla sitting in front of blue screens for hours with no natural light no physical activity no interaction with peers no nutritious whole foods no fresh air no water and a pack of cigarettes. you would run screaming to the local news about the blatant animal abuse. you would be demanding boycotts you’d be sledgehammering locks off cages. do you get what i am saying please go squish your toes in mud

[wynnyfryd]

[sashaforthewin]

This this this! You're your own zookeeper so stop violating ethics boards

[wynnyfryd]

really hope this is my tumblr legacy #MyLegacy

[landsccape]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[astro-egg-celent]

I want a dachshund or other small dog because it seems like a good middle ground

[veshume]

Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but please do think it over. Dachshunds (and many other small breeds) actually require quite a lot of activity and exercise (mental and physical)*. If those needs aren't met, that can cause so many difficult behavioral problems. They're working dogs, after all: if they aren't given a job, they'll find one themselves (and it'll be likely something very annoying or unpleasant to you)

*yes, it does depend on the individual dog, but the general tendency points to those breeds being high energy

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#tons of small breeds were made specifically to hunt small fast animals so like. don't get a small dog thinking it'll be easier#dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers. do you want a dog with the need to hunt badgers or do you want a little dude to hang out with#if it's the latter just get a cat

[seananmcguire]

Also, a lot of people who do like cats want a Maine Coon because they've seen pictures of mine or others', and they're majestic! Huge!! Fluffy!!! Such a good kitty!!!!

Maine Coons are dog-smart, and basically tiny thumbless toddlers who will never grow up. They have long memories, they hold grudges, and they want things the way they want them. What you want is probably not a Maine Coon. I love them, but jumping from "cat" to "Maine Coon" is like jumping from "dog" to "border collie". Don't do that unless you know what you're getting into.

[liminalbeauty]

We have an anxious, jealous sheepdog mutt. A small breed perpetual motion machine obsessed with her ball. And a very relaxed and cuddly soft criminal who is obsessed with chasing paper balls (which the perpetual motion machine tries to steal and eat), and will rip up paper and bring it to you. From anywhere in the house. On any surface. And eats plastic.

None of them are ‘easy’ to take care of. If you don’t want to deal with personalities it’s probably better to get fish.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

A great many fish owners abuse and neglect them because they think of them as moving house plants. I think it's best to just assume that any pet needs five times as much care and cost as you think it will and choose accordingly.

[chemipedia]

At the end of the day, whether it’s a fish or a cat or a snake or a dog or a gecko, there’s still going to be this tiny creature dependent on you for its every need in perpetuity. It will need you to make sure it’s eating and drinking enough, it will need you to make sure it’s not having to live in its own waste. It will be reliant on you for enrichment, exercise, and in some cases you will have to teach it How To Be A Living Thing. There is a chance that the creature and you will not get along. The animal also might develop chronic illness or disability that necessitates more money and time and effort and self-education than you anticipated.

My tiny criminal/diva/food thief is a delight and a pleasure, she has saved my life quite literally, and I treasure the shit out of all the time I’ve spent reading with her curled up at my hip and purring softly or napping. I think more people need more cats in their lives.

I do find it heartbreaking, though, to find someone’s pet passed away from something I know a vet could have fixed or prevented with regular visits.

Maybe some people could try a pet rock before they graduate to cat.

[headspace-hotel]

I actually think the real advantage tumblr has over other websites is the ability of "reblogging" to create posts with contributions from multiple users. This allows people to build on others' posts, whether that's derailing them with a terrible joke, drawing the scenario proposed as a comic, answering the question posed originally in lively essay format, or rewriting the previous interaction as a scene in Shakespearean iambic pentameter.

[headspace-hotel]

This is also why Tumblr is hard to make profitable. Individual users have relatively little power to create good content. It's interactions between users that actually creates the good content, and therefore, no one involved in the good stuff on Tumblr can really claim to "own" it or be the "creator."

Posts have to navigate through Tumblr to pick up the people that can add to them in a constructive way, and then when users interact, the whole interaction can spread across the website as a new evolution of the content. There's no way to simplify this process.

Theres a whole ecosystem running here. It's not as simple as Creators and Consumers, and you can't simplify it to that. That's not how ART works, let alone posts. There's symbiosis. The users that do the nitrogen fixation aren't the ones photosynthesizing. The detritivores can't also be the predators. The "rappers doing normal shit blog" has a different niche than the person that asks why Lil Wayne has socks on in the jacuzzi, who has a different niche than the person who says "those are his hooves, you bitch!"

It's like bioavailability, you see. The user that responds "Those are his hooves, you bitch" is like a predator on a high trophic level, unable to directly feed on producers, needing primary consumers to convert the post into a form that makes a punch line possible.

[cannibalcaprine2]

[orange-marzipan]

[ID: A screenshot of the original post with almost every line fully blacked out. The only letters still visible spell out "cocks." End ID]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

Enter THE HOTEL OF THE MINDSCAPE.

HOTEL I think the sole advantage of this place, This hellish, warping, twisted tumbler, Lies buried in collaborative art. When sings again the song, another may The words repeat, and add upon their tale. To make a jest, or illustrate the piece, To answer, mock, or Shakespearificate.

This, too, is why 'tis hard to draw out gold: Thou cannot draw a pail from show'ring rain, Thou cannot catch the desert in a net, And, similar, thou cannot find the source Of so-called "content" when 'tis all around.

When written first, a song begins its life, But not the whole of art it has within -- To breathe the air of life and light and wit It must be shared, improved, attached upon, And then, at last, the multi-headed beast Can reach its full potential in its song.

This place is like a forest, ground to leaf, With bears and fish and bees and trees and worms. 'Tis not the simple "made, and then consumed", For, truly, art 'tis never simply that. There's symbiosis in these darkened woods, There's ebb and flow, the predator and prey: When songs are written of the Little Wayne, And of his hot tub stocking hooves most fine, The gentles here who say "they're hooves, you bitch" Are just as vital as the author's song. Each word in verse is sung by someone new, And in this way, the poem comes to fruit.

For though the wolf who stalks across the heath Takes diff'rent station than the grass beneath, Still, both are needed in this wood we carve, For with no grass for sheep, the wolves would starve.

Enter FALSE PUCHIKO, the CLOWN.

CLOWN 'Tis well and truly said, Madame Hotel, But please consider this riposte: a cock.

[headspace-hotel]

This is a old post and I have never seen this addition. Brilliant.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

The art of mindless embroidery.

by @ toolbburs (no pronouns in bio).

[cat-source]

[rabbitindisguise]

love the use of adverbs in this

[reachartwork]

mutual aid request

hello gay people in my computer. as much as i have tried to hold the strings together it looks like i am about to get sucker punched once again by the world's slowest fist made of dollar bills.

the situation; i am the sole breadwinner at the moment for a household of three. one household member is too disabled to hold down a job and just had his disability application denied. we are going to try to do what we can but, you know. that stuff takes time that we don't have.

the other person has a job that pays significantly less than mine but regular bills just consume everything like a hungry animal.

all three of us are disabled, trans, require expensive medicine to live (me in particular), need food to live, need to pay for rent, electricity, etc.. one of our cats is ill and we literally just cannot take her to a vet because the x-ray she needs is 650 dollars we don't have. the other two haven't had a checkup in a while either, because, again, money we don't have.

it is just all very much, and then the $2000 dollar surprise expense comes and punches us in the collective balls. i do not know if i will have the ability to fundraise all of it off tumblr but it would be nice to have some assistance, i know we are all just sort of passing the same 20 dollars around.

but. yeah. anything helps.

tl;dr i need to wrangle up $2000 in 7 days.

Pay Bearsharktopus Studios using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/bstdev and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

thanks

[reachartwork]

thank you all so much for your help. let me give you a progress update.

$230 / $2000

it's genuinely very appreciated! every dollar i get this way is another dollar i dont need to take out on a loan or what-have-you

[reachartwork]

Just to update;

$390 / $2000

thank you all so much. 8 days to go.

[reachartwork]

morning update;

$495 / $2000

[reachartwork]

6 days left before the reaper comes due! i know this is super annoying. i will delete this thread when the situation ends regardless of its outcome. either way;

$600 / $2000

i feel bad taking money for nothing so if you donated and send me a picture of the donation receipt i'll make you some art or something. not really a commission just some appreciation maybe based on your blog or pfp. thank you.

[reachartwork]

$800 / $2000

thank you all so much especially the person that donated 200 dollars... you did not have to do that. but i appreciates it.

[reachartwork]

good morning everyone. i apologize again for the donationposting. but i do appreciate all the help. i've acquired a trickle of additional income from another source that should help some of the burn. either way thank you all so much.

$920 / $2000

[reachartwork]

Thank you all again for your support. Only a couple more days of me being annoying about this before the money bullet hits.

$1020 / $2000

We are halfway there basically…!

[reachartwork]

Two days left and then I will Stop Asking And Delete All My Posts because the bill will have hit.

$1340 / $2000

[teaboot]

Something you do not anticipate as an adult raised by a family of an older generation is that one day you will be in a store looking to buy a chemise or perhaps a simple camisole and the person you are talking to will have no fucking idea what you’re talking about

[chemipedia]

I feel like trying to describe the utility and beauty of proper foundation garments to people who haven’t yet come to appreciate them is uhhhh tedious.

It starts with bras (if you have breasts you need a properly fitted bra not only for The Look but also for the physical well-being of your body) but it doesn’t end there. Undershirts, slips, crinoline, stockings, underpants/panties, shapewear - when done right they improve both the look and the comfort of your clothingggggggggg

Foundation foundation foundation foundation foundation

[dreemmachine]

just my humble attempt at raging against the machine

[dreemmachine]

i made a follow up! if this blows up, pls remember it is illegal to be mean to me. and i am a small artist you can give money to btw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the physical media depicted: lucky leaves by krill, worry by jeff rosenstock, self titled by babytooth. i love to tiny doodle album covers :)

[sproutdistro]

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

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[kafkasapartment]

“ The act of dressing up ignorance in the clothes of sophistication. It is valuing the appearance of knowledge over the acquisition of true understanding.” -Anonymous.

[english-history-trip]

Dress thought to have been worn by Mary of Austria on her marriage to Louis II of Hungary in 1515, which would make it the oldest extant royal wedding dress in Europe.

[natalieironside]

Please just join a union. I am upon my knees in the dust, knocking my forehead upon the ground at your feet, begging you to just join a union and go to a meeting like once every other month. Not even every month, like every other month would be fine. If all y'all did that we'd get this mess squared away in no time. You can just go to i w w dot org slash membership and there you go, you're in a union, one and done.

[natalieironside]

blease