Nominally here.

European, Jewish, fannish, female. Please go away if you're underage.

[waspsinyouryard]

admittedly i know little of the subject but one would think, at 45 years of age, he would be a ryan goose by now

[closeupofpaintings]

[closeupofpaintings]

Carl Bloch -  In a Roman Osteria, 1866 (detail), oil on canvas

[paper-mario-wiki]

[lilnasxvevo]

I LOVE the whole painting here it is:

[boingmann]

[triple--a--threat]

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[wheeloffortune-design]

In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'

[marlynnofmany]

That is a great point. Especially if you time travel to a period of Big Historical Events, when everybody's looking a little wild about the eyes.

"Hey, what month is it?"

"January already, can you believe it? I swear I was just at Pompeii, but no one's going there again."

[aphony-cree]

In the same vein:

Stumbling into a diner and asking "What town is this" isn't weird, the workers will think you're on a road trip

If you ask them "Where's the nearest Nano Deck?" they'll assume it's a shop they've never heard of and say "Sorry, I don't know where any of those are"

Going into a store and telling a cashier "I need pods for my comm device" will just get you a "Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?"

I think the problem is that people who create sci-fi movies have never had to work customer service jobs

[thebiscuiteternal]

"February? Still? I swear I was supposed to get here in August."

"Big mood, dude. It's been like a year of February."

[lifblogs]

Uh… Um… Ships aren’t illegal.

[athingofvikings]

Ships are ONLY ILLEGAL IF...

The Vessel switches off their location-transmission devices, thereby making themselves a HAZARD TO MARITIME NAVIGATION, in order to ENGAGE IN ILLEGAL ACTS.

The Vessel is FRAUDULENTLY DISPLAYING a national flag that is NOT OF THEIR REGISTERED PORT OF ORIGIN.

The Vessel is otherwise engaged in ACTS THAT VIOLATE SOLEMN MARITIME LAW, and may face fines and prosecution in admiralty court for their offense in their port of origin or nation in which the offense was registered.

Other than that, no ships are illegal.

[prismatic-bell]

Actually I regret to inform you some ships ARE illegal. Sailing a ship you know to not be seaworthy may constitute insurance fraud, which is very illegal.

[todays-problematic-ship]

Today instead of a problematic ship, we present you the guidelines on how to avoid the most common mistakes that result in a ship becoming problematic.

[reading-writing-revolution]

[missandryifyourenasty]

I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

[notogdenjesse]

This is one my favourite things the internet has ever made.

[missandryifyourenasty]

!!!!!!

[bioluminescently-unfolding]

This remains one of the great art objects of modern times and nobody will convince me otherwise.

[historyisntboring]

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos

The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.

She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry

[xekstrin]

Prev mentioned “did you see the chicken tattoo though” and i wanna make sure everyone else sees it too

[nasturbate]

“nice blog”

thank you im really good at clicking reblog

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you are really good at clicking reblog

[rimonoroni2]

btw the idea that Judaism has "six/eight genders" or whatever is actually referring to the fact that talmudic law has sections naming and addressing the roles of intersex people in the community. this is ofc still extremely interesting from a queer theory/historical gender perspective not only because it suggests a robust historical awareness of intersex bodies in Jewish communities, but because it is a recorded instance of people consciously constructing and deconstructing gender roles in an attempt to navigate the relationship between sex and gender as different entities. but the aformentioned "six/eight genders" framing is extremely reductive, not to mention that it erases intersex people from a topic that is quite clearly about them.

[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

Voting ended onJun 11

[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 :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[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

Voting ended onJun 11

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

🫶

[runawaymarbles]

I do think it's kind of funny when plot summaries are like "character A encounters the last person they expected...their ex." Idk about you guys I'd be less surprised if my new coworker/roommate/random dance partner was my ex than I would if it was, like, Megawati Sukarnoputri the first woman president of Indonesia.

[runawaymarbles]

Any of my exes could plausibly attend the same conference as me. But I'd be really surprised to encounter former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

[shakibone]

Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep?

Your ex

Megawati Sukarnoputri, the first woman president of Indonesia

Voting ended onApr 28

[sqbr]

This poll is ambiguous if you (a) Don't have an ex or (b) Are Egyptian diplomat Hassan Gamal Ahmad Hassan, whose marriage to Megawati Sukarnoputri was anulled in 1972.

[theotherwesley]

I love baby foxes. Nothing has ever had less of an idea.

buffering

[theotherwesley]

feather obtained, purpose unclear

leaf obtained, purpose unclear

ground:

unclear

sibling obtained, purpose: biting

[magnetothemagnificent]

Casual antisemitism from people who don't even really realize they're being antisemitic because antisemitism is so baked into their culture and speech patterns hurts in a very specific kind of way.......

Just a few snippets from one work day in the very Catholic workplace I work at:

In the weeks leading up to Easter, someone had left a bunch of tiny rubber/plastic Jesus figurines around the office. After Easter, at work, I was sitting at the desk and inspected one of the figurines, because I was wondering if it was made out of eraser-type rubber or if it was more of a plastic (it looked like it could go either way). Coworker goes "oooh you're gonna burn up!" when I touched it. I laughed it off, and she asked why I wasn't afraid to touch it. I said it was just a figurine, and that I was wondering if it was an eraser or not. I said an eraser would be apropos, with the whole 'erasing sins' thing and all. She suggested I test it out to see if it would erase. When I did that, another coworker jokingly said that I would go to hell for it. Then later, in a seperate conversation, my boss remarked that he was surprised that many Jews weren't factional about where they went to synagogue, and that many Jews were members of and attended more than one. He remarked that he "thought it would be more like gangs".

And like. I wouldn't consider any of these people to be maliciously antisemitic. In general, I enjoy working there and I think they're all decent people. When they do say something antisemitic, I'm less angry or hurt by them, and more by the society itself. That situation is far more disheartening, because it's a lot easier to change the minds of individual people than it is to change an entire society. Sigh.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

not to get philosophical on main but the trolley problem REALLY IS such a good litmus test for morality even if you try to introduce options either than pulling the lever or not pulling it in a way that honestly does kind of mirror real-life political situations

"I would simply dismantle the tracks/create a third track!" cool. and you're planning on doing this in the next ten seconds? because while you're trying to take the tracks apart – which, yes, would be a good permanent solution to the issue of tying people to the trolley tracks – the trolley is still going to hit those people. like. that's a great long-term fix and you can and should absolutely do that, but that doesn't help the five people tied to the tracks right now.

"I would find the guy tying people to the tracks and stop him!" fantastic. again, great long-term solution to permanently solve the problem. but since you can't go back in time and catch the guy before he put those people on the tracks, you still need to decide what to do with these five people right the fuck now. like, stopping him later on isn't fixing the current issue of people being actively tied to the tracks right this second.

"why am I the only one making a decision in this scenario? I'm not the only person with agency in this situation!" I mean, you kind of are, that's why you with the lever are the only one able to save the people (the trolley is specifically a runaway trolley, meaning it's out of control), but regardless: why are you assuming that the passengers/trolley driver/etc. aren't doing anything? what if, despite their best efforts, the trolley is still out of control? hell, even if they’re all deliberately fucking with the trolley, what does that have to do with your choice?

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[gayluigi]

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]