Doodlemole

A weird mammal that's fond of the taste of doodlebugs. :) Comission Info HERE

[prokopetz]

There's a thing in Classics studies where you'll read surviving descriptions of Ancient Greek automata which attribute all manner of near-lifelike behaviour to them – then you look at the reconstructed plans for the automaton in question, and it's a device with roughly the sophistication of a wind-up mouse.

The broad consensus seems to be that the authors of such descriptions are exaggerating for clout. For my part, I look at all the people in the year 2026 who've managed to genuinely convince themselves that LLMs are not only sapient, but smarter than they are, and I think: hmm.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[doodle-mole]

Absolute creature

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, getting up off the floor!

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[cat-mermaid]

real talk, i saw this other vid 7 years ago where a trainer like this lady gave some of the most important physical health advice I ever heard that changed my life:

#1. You should be able to lay down on the floor (face down or back) and be able to get up without your hands. If you can't? Spend a little bit every day just doing that, laying on the floor and getting up again no hands style, then laying down again (you'd be surprised how fast it wears you out after a few times)

#2. You should be able to get up out of a chair without using your hands or grabbing on to anything. Can't? Fucking start training mother fucker! Just a few uppies every day could save your damn life when you get older!

#3. You should be able to turn your neck to the side without twisting your upper body in the same direction, you should be able to turn your head freely without moving your shoulders, chest or torso! Start looking up loosy goosy neck exercises! It makes such a HUGE difference!

#4. You should be able to motherfucking stand on one foot and keep your balance for longer then 15 seconds. Haha sounds easy right? Thats what I thought when I tried after watching that vid, i was horrified to find how hard it was! I started doing "one leggy style" standing any chance I got, when I'm in line somewhere, when I'm watching a video... just do a few rounds of 10 seconds on each leg for like 5 min every day!

You get older and you think you still have all the same limberness as you did when you were 8, but whens the last fucking time you ran around and played like an 8 year old? You loose that flexibility so subtlety and then one day when you need it? BAM ITS GONE

Start getting into these habits now, i don't care if you're 18/25/30/45/50 OR WHATEVER JUST START YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

[doodle-mole]

Reblogging this so I'll come across it later in my own dashboard and remember to try these out; I'm fairly confident I can do all of those, but it's always better to find out you're wrong as early as possible :v

[valdevia]

Deadly infections with what has become known as "hatemold" (Jacare rowlii) are on the rise this year. This parasitic black mold is thought to be attracted to individuals who fill their life with hatred towards their fellow humans, weakening their immune system. It has been known to affect people in the TERF community, among other bigots.

[valdevia]

Happy Pride Month everyone! Please spare a thought for the hatemold as it keeps doing its heroic work this year <3

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

[mewracle]

fat porcelain dollgirl with lovingly filled in cracks for stretch marks

[mewracle]

everyone wanted this concept in kintsugi so 👍 meet delfie

[byjove]

It baffles me how so many grown adults seem to believe AI is 100% reliable and never wrong. ‘Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?’/‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’ was a huge meme when I first began using the internet because technology shits the bed in a myriad of ways for no particular reason at all. If your GPS can try to send you down a street that you can’t turn on to and your phone randomly freezes and your laptop periodically gives you the blue screen of death, why the fuck would you trust artificial intelligence to make all the important decisions in your life?

Semi-related note but I hate that society is shifting further and further away from having analogue backups to anything, especially the medical field. There was that software outage last year and my physiatrist casually admitted to me she did not know what patients she was seeing that day and at what time because it was all saved electronically and dependent on the Internet and mentally I was like. Oh. That’s really bad.

[doodle-mole]

That is doubly baffling considering that every single AI tool has a disclaimer somewhere in it to the tune of "this tool is not 100% correct, do not trust it blindly, we cannot be held accountable if you do so"

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[doodle-mole]

Good advice, plus I would like to make one addition:

You can also mitigate the scrolling, more specifically by avoiding the platforms that implement infinite scrolling and being in a place with limited content (e.g. I'm here instead of on Instagram because the latter keeps adding shit to my timeline instead of just showing who I follow in chronological order of posting)

[animentality]

[doodle-mole]

Not so gentle reminder for anyone who feels themselves being enthralled by the siren song of the generative AI that you have to believe that you are actually capable of doing things, the machine is not actually especially better than you in doing most things

[prokopetz]

Some quick research suggests that only Scots English still uses "gat" as the simple past tense of "to get", with the form surviving in other English dialects only in the archaic "begat" (i.e., the simple past tense of the likewise archaic "to beget"), and I feel like we need to fix that.

[lcatala]

Local Man after opening Pandora's Box of Non-Standard English Verb Forms: "He choosed his path, clomb this hill to die on, torned off the chains of prescriptive grammar and drunked from this newfound power; but later he had understanden that he had letten himself grow mad with power, he had shutten the voice of reason advising him against this foolery, he had putten himself on this path of chaos and destruction, setten himself on this one way street, standen on top of a mountain of hubris, forgetten wisdom, and for his trouble had getten only the means of his own downfall" [all of those are attested by the way, this isn't just me making stuff up at random]

[prokopetz]

The thing you need to understand is that my baseline motivation is causing problems on purpose.

[doodle-mole]

Warm take from someone who's native language isn't even closely related to English but had to learn it anyway (because globalization was all the rage in the 90s but localization was not), but English is a language that defies the notion of "standard" and "exception". English will gladly see another language doing some grammar backflip and say "I want what she's having". English doesn't have "load words" as much as it has a dragon's hoard of stolen vocabulary from all over the world, but especially France, Germany and the Netherlands, for whatever particular reason.

None of that are complaints as much as just saying that we'll survive having some funny verb forms thrown in with the mix.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[doodle-mole]

"You can control time but you can't control it"

[doodle-mole]

I've got myself in an OC sketching mood lately, so here are some scribbles I've been doing at work while stuff builds

[doodle-mole]

Truly harrowing that the reality of web advertising is being stuck in a rollercoaster between advertising that can only really serve you ads for products you already own (e.g. Youtube sending me ads for games I already have downloaded on the same phone I'm using to watch it) and advertising that apparently does not have data enough about me and is guessing wildly with the most cursed shit imaginable (e.g. Tumblr somehow serving me ads about nudism)

[yamino]

🤬

[doodle-mole]

I'm sure they can do better than that. They're sailors...

[bringcal]

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

[edgar-allan-possum]

[doodle-mole]

The fact that the Tumblr Premium ads are all colored in a palette of pink, light blue and white is truly just rubbing salt in the wound, isn't it

[prokopetz]

Oh, hey, the reblog graph viewer doesn't suck anymore.

[prokopetz]

#from living being to mathematical formulae (via @jonski)

You can still get the old style, more or less – just expand the reblog graph to full-screen mode using the little dingus at the upper right and switch it from "Tree" mode to "Force" mode.

(I say "more or less" because it's not quite identical to the old graph; they appear to have switched to an algorithm that's less aggressive about making sure the lines don't cross. The upside is that it runs much faster on lower-end PCs, especially when there are many thousands of nodes – no more waiting several minutes for it to sort itself out.)

[doodle-mole]

TFW you need to solve some NP problems to provide the UX you want on your meme blogging site