TrumpetGecko

I geck, I go

[sourdough-seal]

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

[orbitalmirror]

"how did you get into writing" girl i've been tormented by the visions since i was eight years old

[cutecipher]

thank you for putting a random white boy on my post i guess

[cutecipher]

he will be going in the acid though goodbye white boy

[aberrantemotion]

OP NO. ADDING A WHITE BOY TO A VAT OF ACID CREATES A "THE JOKER.:

[cutecipher]

fuck.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[musings-from-mars]

I do think the growing trend of users putting an underwater filter over screenshots of posts to indicate that OP does not agree with or is refuting what the screenshotted post is saying is actually a really useful method of conveying intent and meaning. Like if the screenshot is going to be the leading element before any text, if it doesn't have that filter over it the viewer may expect to take it at face value until the caption makes the actual refutation, but if it has that filter over it, the viewer immediately goes "oh yeah OP is calling out this post for being shit and I'm about to find out why"

though it is kinda of funny that this meaning is conveyed with an underwater filter of all things. Your post is so ass I'm drowning it.

[homunculus-argument]

"But won't children be confused by all the LGBT-"

Yesterday I saw a mother with a baby carriage, being followed by a girl of about 4-6 years old on a bicycle. The kid started ringing her bike bell like RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, and the mother turned to look behind them to see whether they were being followed by a cyclist who desperately needs to pass them for the sake of everyone's safety.

And the little girl - who just rang the goddamn bell herself 5 seconds ago - also turned to look.

Kids are confused by everything at all times. They don't know jack shit. About anything.

[jumpingjacktrash]

i remember being like 8 or 9 and being told that my dad’s ex-wife was no longer diane and we were to address her as daniel now. my reaction: “ok.”

me and my brother later had a small discussion about whether that could happen randomly (conclusion: no, he probably had to file papers or something) and whether daniel should now be referred to as dad’s ex-husband (conclusion: yes but only to see the face he’ll make) but at no point did we find it like... alarming? the world is big and weird. we were used to it.

finding out a sorta-relative could just change genders off camera, as it were, was a whole lot less head-splodey than finding out there were no squirrels in australia!

[scattered-to-the-winds]

There’s no what

[ashfae]

"Won't they be confused by all the--" So what if they are? Life is often confusing. That's part of how we learn. Part of the job of an adult is to help confused kids learn and understand things. There's no obligation to protect the kids from the confusing things. Quite the reverse.

In my experience anyone using this BS excuse isn't worried about a child's potential confusion, but their own, which they don't want to admit to having.

[indieninja92]

theres no squirrels in australia???

[marleythegoldfish]

Aussie here, I DIDN'T KNOW SQUIRRELS WERE ACTUALLY REAL FOR THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF MY LIFE NO JOKE I THOUGHT THEY WERE A MYTHICAL ANIMAL LIKE UNICORNS

[alostpan]

WHAT??

[mariposakitten]

Also kids are far less likely to be confused by something the younger they learn about it. Kiddo had queer people in his life and casual references to queerness before he could even talk. It was never confusing for him. It was normal.

[galadriel1010]

Squirrels were an invasive species to Australia but they never managed to gain a foothold and were eradicated within a few years of their arrival.

[maimonideznuts]

I remember the Palm Squirrels in Perth... But I think they've been eradicated too.

Also my older sister thought Narwhals were mythical for an embarrassingly long time.

[the-aviary-system]

Speaking from experience, the only reason kids get “confused” is because their transphobic parents refuse to adapt.

It’s only “confusing” to my young nephew because I call myself one thing and his parents call me something else behind my back even though I’ve told them not to.

If they had accepted me and called me by my real name and pronouns he wouldn’t be confused at all! They confused him by refusing to change.

[chartreuxcatz]

Holy fuck you changed your pfp :O

This is the first time ive seen that! Tho it is quite a fitting change :]

Hehe yeaaahhh. Don't get used to it, though! The old pfp will be back some time tomorrow.

I'm simply HYPED for this plushie release.

[only-alter-idem]

gideon is SUCH AN UNRELIABLE NARRATOR. she ACTUALLY thinks that harrow doesn’t want to siphon her because she’s USELESS??? girl she doesn’t want to siphon you because she knows it hurts you and you nearly DIED last time???????

[spookberry]

Thats her husband actually

[unbeknownsttoast]

Who’s niche is this certainly not mine

Anyway Smosh is so nice for long car rides and it randomly came to me that I think Wild and Twilight make a wonderful Angela and Amanda

[miraclemaya]

dress up is one of the most important pillars of gameplay that is often ignored by game developers to disasterous results

[dizzyghoast]

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

[justabigoldnerd]

You know who is who lmao

[kotortwo]

got fired from being the entertainer at a bachelor party for twisting the groom-to-be's dick into a poodle shape

[json-derulo]

sitting my white ass down and listening

[sexchangedotcom]

my beautiful baby who i'm naming untitled document

[sexchangedotcom]

i can't seem to find my baby

[medievalthymes]

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

[applestruda]

quick season 11 pearl drawing!

[kakyoinryoko]

i think if you showed minecraft or fortnite to a little medieval peasant boy he would probably start writing parodies of church hymns. it’s human nature

[kakyoinryoko]

this has rendered me speechless