Astra Atque Umbrae

Name’s Umbra, and I’m queer and here to waste time. Pronouns are whatever you want, mix ‘em up for a real gender party. Mobile header by @just-themys! Avatar by @we-wont-be-destroyed!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

[werewolf-transgenderism]

^ like this. waaaaaugh 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[gotinstarblog-deactivated201512]

[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

[britney2007spears]

help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[hermes-whore-deactivated2019021]

let’s do it, roger

[spitefulreality-deactivated2015]

Roger helppppp

[curvycorinneranga]

I need you Roger!

[thaebae]

ROGER PLEASE

[sunnyside45]

Please Roger, help me

[freckles-a-constellation]

pls i need all the help i can get today

[wildestdreamcatcher]

Help me Roger!

[marvelismus]

Help a girl out Rodger

[latinalokean-deactivated2021072]

Help pls Roger!

[imnotrevealingmyname]

Please Roger

[latent-thoughts]

Please 🥺😭

[just-themys]

Hi again everyone! 

I'm sorry to come back for yet another call for help, but we've tried everything and our current situation is worse than ever.

Long story short: my family and I are finding ourselves with less than 40% of our usual income. I'm trying to crowdfund whatever I can to help with groceries for the next two weeks (we managed to pay rent and bills with what we did get)

Anything help, even just sharing ! 🙏

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If you want more informations on the situation :

My two youngest brothers are disabled, and my mother is their caretaker. She cannot work due to that, and the gov recognizes it (and that it costs them less than if she had put them in an institution), so she receives disability aid equating to a salary she can't make otherwise. So with my father's salary, that made two (low) incomes. I myself had to part with my previous online job that decided not to pay me (and still owe me 600€ since MARCH), and my online therapy appointments are currently extremely low due to mostly working with students who take (understandable) breaks during summer.

I am currently job hunting to make a more liveable income and move out of my parent's house for many reasons (some because it has become unliveable for me, psychologically, but also to lessen the load on the household), but so far it has been fruitless.

The problem: my brothers are reaching an age where the type of aid they can receive changes, and we had to renew everything. We did so in time (last december), but the administration has been awfully slow + we moved houses in the meantime. Now we're trying our best to have the situation taken care of, but since it's summer, most administrations are closed, or the person taking care of it is not here, etc. It's been a nightmare of calls, emails, letters, and we're still without news from some services. Some things should finally move towards the 18th of august, but the decision must be first favorable to us (since we need to give proof of disability all the time, even if it was proven again and again already), and then the time for the decision to be sent to the proper administration, processed, then in payment, it could be as far as at the end of September, to be back to normal.

On top of it, my father has had a good chunk of his salary taken off (500€), on top of some money off due to holidays (he's a teacher). Similarly, we won't have any answer as to why this money was taken off his salary until the national education administration is back from vacation.

So yeah, the situation is frustratingly stuck, but we know it's mostly temporary. But in the meantime, we need to survive. So I'm calling for help.

I have been avoiding taking comms to prevent an overload, but if push comes to shove, I'll open a few slots.

At this point, anything helps. Thanks for reading.

[just-themys]

The situation is especially dire right now, anything helps, even one kofi can make a difference.

[just-themys-fanarts]

Help

Following my last post, we managed to do a few groceries, but I've just been informed of some remaining bills I didn't know about, some coming up as early as tomorrow.

I'm taking one or 2 slots to try and cover for these last bills and a bit more groceries to hold until the end of august. Idk what else to do. Don't hesitate to contact me and ask about my do's and don't, but I'm very open to a lot of ships, characters, OCs, ect.

Pls share around 🙏💖

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

the fact that on my way out of seeing the hadestown proshot with my sibling i was walking to the theater exit and without even thinking about it i turned around to see where they were... yeah. yeah.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

like. you can be frustrated at orpheus. you can be heartbroken for orpheus and eurydice. you should be. but when you're walking together and your loved one isn't right next to you that instinct to turn around and check on them is as natural as breathing

[carolxdanvers]

In June, I had the first real hurdle in my relationship. I won't go into the details, but I was on a narcolepsy medication that makes people more prone to addictive behaviors. It did so with me.

During this time, my closest friend was extremely busy with work, I couldn't afford therapy because I was struggling to even make rent, and I didn't have someone I could talk to.

I have OCD. One of my compulsions is "checking" and it often takes the form of googling. Googling a word I know just to check that the definition hasn't changed. Googling whether xyz is normal. Googling how to choose some relatively unimportant things.

I googled all kinds of things. I googled to find out if there's a word for intentionally letting someone hear you cry in hopes that they'll comfort you. (Not because I was doing that, but because I had an overwhelming urge to.) I googled odds of relationship survival after addiction. I googled how to tell if your partner has stopped loving you.

And Google ai overview answered every single question. And on mobile, when I was curled up in the dark at 4am, there's a convenient text box to ask the AI a follow-up question. And the AI says things like "that's a hard situation to be in" and "that must be painful to hear"

And I'm not a fucking idiot. I know perfectly well that AI is trained to be sycophantic and that talking to a fucking LLM about my relationship fears was a massive mistake.

I was also terrified, alone, heartbroken, and desperate.

I spent literally hours of time googling questions on AI mode. Holding conversations with the AI. I have stickers on my laptop and water bottle that say "AI Hater Club" and "generative AI? Nein danke" and I wish Sam altman would fall off the face off the earth.

And none of that mattered. I was desperate. I recognized that, and once things began to calm down (my doctor took me off of the narcolepsy med and put me on a medication for addiction called Naltrexone, I was able to start therapy again, my partner and I worked together and took steps to repair what was damaged) I stopped turning to it for an open shoulder.

But I realized a few days ago that I hadn't stopped using the ai entirely. I would Google "best [item] on a budget" and instead of reading a cnet link that reviewed multiple brands, instead of checking consumer reports, I expanded the AI overview and asked follow-up questions.

I'm currently finishing up an astrophysics internship for the summer. Usually when I don't know how to code something, I look at the documentation or find a post on Reddit or stack overflow to explain. Instead, I was asking Google overview for instructions on how to use sys.argv. At no point was I vibe coding, but I was basically asking Google ai to walk me through it like a tutor.

And then, last week, I realized that I no longer Google things the same way. I used to search like "pokemon sun and moon original release date" but lately I've been searching "what year did pokemon sun and moon come out?" Even my checking OCD has changed. I used to Google "n30i mask cleaning +seal +oily" and now I Google "I use a resmed n30i CPAP mask and it keeps losing its seal when I'm trying to sleep. My face gets kind of greasy when I have it on. I already clean it with CPAP wipes every day and run it under water to rinse, do I need a different kind of mask?"

A few days ago, the news about Hank Green using LLMs to find research papers dropped, and I saw his response on Reddit. I saw the way he talked about the dopamine hit he got from it. And something clicked.

I had to install a different OS launcher on my phone so I could change the search bar widget to Firefox search instead of Google, because that's the only way to ensure I don't get the ai overview when I Google something. It's actually really frustrating because I instinctively search in long rambling questions, which does not work well. But I'm having a hard time going back to how I was.

People who suffer from AI addiction are not idiots, we aren't moral failures, we aren't traitors. We are victims of a predatory system and we need support, not smug superiority aimed in our direction.

[carolxdanvers]

Reblogging myself to add that when I first started this post, I was so afraid of the backlash that I was writing the post about my "friend" who came to this realization. Because y'all are fucking disgusting with how you treat people who aren't pure and untainted by the sin of using LLMs.

[clementiens]

[joomju]

Reblog so she lives forever.

[terminusverge]

20 years. If this gets posted and we all survive for another 20…things might be alright.

[swingsetindecember]

i feel like people think companies will be altruistic and do the right thing regardless of government intervention. like no, companies are driven by capitalism. to make the most out of the day and money they have and maximize profits, especially fortune 500 companies

like without government intervention, strawberry jam would have wood in it. like it's a thing. food companies realized that they could use less of the expensive strawberries as ingredients and just use wood. there are laws you cannot legally call it strawberry jam if you do this. you have to call it a strawberry product or spread. food companies are always trying to get that shit through. they have lobby groups pushing that all the time

it is more expensive to put metal detectors in a food processing plant. companies want to cut costs. it is a legal requirement in a lot of countries to have them. so it forces companies to install them.

also to do routine inspections. that is a government requirement. so are building codes. a lot of codes are the bare minimum. like some companies will exceed the code and have more protections but a lot don't. like if it is not in the code, they don't do it. so that's why having governing bodies that regulate building safety, worker safety, food safety and product safety are crucial. because without them, your employer will not see the need to have exit doors with quick release handles, or do routine fire sprinkler inspections or have road salt for the sidewalks. some of it is basic fucking stuff.

companies when left alone do not regulate themselves. it's been historically untrue. companies want to give you a product that is cheap for them to make and that they can sell at the highest price so they can get the most profit. for everyone who loves capitalism, that's what it is. the free market will not self-regulate. if you don't have anti-monopoly laws and anti-wage theft laws and workers' protections, the open market will not fix that organically.

when government officials talk about removing protections it is not good. like they were put in place for a reason. like drinking water and food regulations were written in blood. same with human rights and freedoms. like people died for the building code to be written. people died for occupational healthy and safety codes to be written. there is a reason food safety codes are there. companies will look at 100 people dying and say it was the cost of doing business. it is the government's job to say that is an unacceptable and for companies to do better

[aethersea]

#It's not even malice #The human brain is wired to take the most efficient road #You need laws so that the most efficient road is not a road straight into hell

(via @spiegelgestalt)

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[leidensygdom]

There's simply no argument or logical explanation that could sour the appeal of Big Fucking Scythe As A Weapon for me. Like no I don't care it wouldn't make for an optimal weapon, because have you considered : Big Fucking Scythes are Cool and Badass

[sinnonym]

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[the-punforgiven]

[shencomix]

We go forward.

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[leebrontide]

Oh look it’s that short comic that’s haunted me for a decade.

[zazzedcoffee]

Poll BLAST!

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[raynilikescats]

WHAT

[sugarsaltreading]

earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

[sugarsaltreading]

Twitter user WomeGa55 drew some art of “Romance Auntie x Combat Auntie”

[bigbigbigtruck]

IT GOT BETTER

[mysteryteacup]

The RomCom Aunties!

[bitchfitch]

Ok, Have you in real life ever seen a bathroom that had its light switch Outside of the bathroom. Not like one of those fancy giant bathrooms where the toilet is in its own little room, but a normal sized bathroom where you could be in there doing your thing and someone Outside could just turn the light off on you?

This is so normal to me

Yeah but it's weird

Maybe? normal though.

Maybe? weird though.

No but I'm pro this being a thing

no and what the fuck why would that be a thing

Other

Button.

Voting ended onAug 14

In Real life. not in a videogame or movie because I've Only seen it in videogames and a friend has spotted it in a movie.

[ravioliet]

freak4freak is always so awesome but another character dynamic that i think is really great is freak vs freak. you're the only person who understands me and i'm the only person who understands you. unfortunately this also does not stop either of us from hating each other and in fact it might even make everything significantly worse for everyone involved