[charseraph]

No one knows if finishing a drawing is possible

[odakota-rose]

no one knows if finishing a fanfiction is possible

[draconym]

It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.

[bruzum]

[curoopeez]

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

[targetedknowledge]

[madeofklay]

I just had to draw them

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[depsidase]

[black-arcana]

Floor Jansen 📸© Jens De Vos

[life-on-our-planet]

eepy mourning dove cupping its wings under its belly for cushion ©Ella

[black-arcana]

Floor Jansen 📸© Anne-Marie Forker

[tlirsgender]

The thing about harry potter is that it's Not a matter of ~ problematic media ~ it's a "the creator is directly funneling shit tons of money into the Kill All Trannies Foundation". This is our anita bryant. Can you grow a fucking spine and morals and stuff? If we were in the 70s some of you would be talking about how orange juice is your safe food or something. She's the actual devil I think that's more important here

[tlirsgender]

Like your wizard books fucking suck anyway we've pretty thoroughly torn them apart at this point but all of that is still besides the point that she is The Devil. Even if they were good you still shouldn't be giving this woman your money & you should be embarrassed to associate yourself with her work. Come on. Can the millennial nostalgia industrial complex crash and burn yet I'm sick of y'all

[tlirsgender]

"Ooh I'm pirating it I'm buying merch secondhand" ok but you should have some sense of shame about it. Like usually this is where someone makes a point about exposure and continued relevance cause you're still promoting it but, like, even if you found a way to engage with the wizard books without contributing to Millennial Anita Bryant's wealth even a little 100% guaranteed, how can you stomach it at this point? Doesn't it make you feel sick?? What is wrong with you. Also "well I'm headcanoning them as queer so I'm sticking it to jkr" is just stupid. Your Thoughts don't cancel out Real Material Consequences

[rockergiirl]

samsung have announced they're releasing a smart toaster featuring an onboard AI chatbot

[rockergiirl]

samsung released blog post regarding their new smart toaster and complaints from customers

We hear you are all disappointed with the AI capabilities of our new smart toaster, and rest assured we hear your complaints. However, we are confident people will grow to love their new smart toaster AI companion, and will regard them as a bright cheerful addition to their day. If you find its constant requests for you to always eat toast, we suggest adopting a more toaster-friendly diet.

[rockergiirl]

yes removing the speaker will void the warranty

[default-cube]

i thought this was a joke since a toaster is just about the most ridiculous thing to add a chatbot to, but no, it's real

[lesvegas]

A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

[sparklingbog]

How is anybody having a baby right now... Groceries for one is $90

[sparklingbog]

No offense to babies

[postarcadian]

the thing I love most about how tumblr users use tags is that it’s like what if a social media website had a footnotes system

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[brightlotusmoon]