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I draw sometimes and I just kinda reblog stuff and occasionally I try to be creative and funny (keyword:try)

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A beetle juggling 3 other, smaller beetles

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[lord-kitschener]

[thedreadpiratecam]

Why he light skinned?

[yourladyindank]

Because Martin Luther was white and German.

[fancynewaddress]

did…

did someone confuse Luther with Jesus omg

[lookwhathappenedtomack]

I suspect they confused him with Martin Luther King

[lets-talk-about-sects]

Oh no

[the-golden-ghost]

I mean, I get mixing them up based on names alone, but I’m concerned about the people who think Martin Luther King Jr. routinely wrote with a quill or dressed like a Renaissance man.

[twofacetoo]

At that point it’s your own damn fault for making that kind of mistake

[janiedean]

but why is martin luther the fastest sold playmobil figurine

[protoindoeuropean]

Protestants be shoppin

[lucerei]

[elamarth-calmagol]

Trainwreck of a post

[queer-as-city-folk]

5 events every leftist in the US should know about:

[queer-as-city-folk]

Obviously other events are incredibly important, but like these are 3 of the most significant uses of force by the US Government against its own citizens, as well as what lead to May Day and the modern Gay Liberation movement

[queer-as-city-folk]

I would put Kent State as an honorable mention as well

[flowersforthemachines]

thinking about the character a lot today. call it pondering my blorb

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: tg at t caact a t ta. ca t g

Closest match: Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis genome assembly, chromosome: 7 Common name: Green Sea Urchin

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[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

[flippyspoon]

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

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[anosci]

there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

[dragkingandreweldritch]

how do you do, fellow adults

[hbmmaster]

"watch a bunch of videos made for an older demographic to trick youtube into thinking you're not a teenager" is a good idea that would probably work, but please kids don't spread around a playlist for this! youtube's age guessing ai isn't based on a set of hard coded "these are adult subjects and these are teen subjects" rules.

if a specific set of videos gets passed around and a bunch of teens watch them, youtube's age guessing ai will say "okay, this video has recently gained a bunch of views from people we were pretty sure are teens, so it's probably safe to conclude that this sort of thing is what teens are into these days". this method would only work to actually trick the age guessing ai if either it's only used by like less than a thousand teens or if you diversify, and make sure everyone trying to trick the algorithm is watching different videos for adults.

[saipng]

don’t you just hate it when 🚙

um. sorry wait a minute [grabs mic]

can the owner of the blue honda civic move their car please. it’s blocking my post.

[runby2]

move your fucking car

[kiki-or-bouba]

This post is: Bouba

[queer-as-city-folk]

this took too long

I wanted to build an industrial canal

[queer-as-city-folk]

everything circled was dug out for this canal I built to decorate my world

[pukicho]

Tumblr is the fucking whitest app ever

They defend AJR on this app so . Yes.

[somerandomdude11]

Oh no what did AJR do?

[pukicho]

Make music

[hbmmaster]

okay I know this isn't the point (or at least it shouldn't be the point and this is wishful thinking) but hey you all know youtube using ai to guess how old users are isn't like. new. right. they've been doing that for over a decade now. the new thing is that this impacts what content certain users can see and not just what ads they get shown

[hbmmaster]

youtube has been using machine learning to guess what demographics its users belong to for some time now

[queer-as-city-folk]

I hate you "improved minecraft progression" mods. WHY DO I NEED TO EARN A FURNACE??? Why do you feel the need to make me use so much flint and clay??? Why why why

[queer-as-city-folk]

Imagine minecraft but everything took 5 times longer because you need to cast every tool and visit areas of the game in order now

Why would I want that??

[queer-as-city-folk]

I get that, I really do, but if you want people to play longer, encourage players to explore lesser played aspects of the game like the Pale Garden and Trial Chambers, make the mid-game longer, don't make something that works as is, needlessly tedious for no reason other than it goes by too quickly

[queer-as-city-folk]

Minecraft is a game about building a little cottage on the prairie and starting a farm

[neonfretra]

hell is full. heaven is full. god created a new holding space for souls called hurgle and the only thibg to do here is this infinitely expading jigsaw puzzle of a finely detailed pigeon. we are just slowwwwwly creating little tufts of feathers for eternity . yesterday , greg found a corner piece

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[crabussy]

if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kākāpō, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kākāpō numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.

[kedreeva]

Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

On the nuclear point, we also thought it would take 1000 years for Chernobyl to recover, if it even could. It was expected to be a wasteland. Bare mud and rusting shells of buildings as far as the eye could see; after the reactor blew, in the days that followed the forests turned red as they died from the radiation, and they had to be felled, chipped, and buried down deep. Every plant, every animal, gone.

I took these photos in 2016, on the 30th anniversary:

Animals that have now returned:

Pine martens

Deer

Wild boar

Wolves (previously extinct in the region)

Bears (endangered in the region)

European bison (previously extinct in the region)

Giant eight foot catfish in the cooling channels (fed my mate's lunch)

And you would not BELIEVE the insect life. The exclusion zone - even the worst affected bit around Pripyat and the reactor - is so, so alive. The only taxon struggling to return still is birds, and even then, I did hear a crow at one point in Pripyat.

Even if we die. Life, in some form, will always find a way.

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