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[hyperfixationatitsbest]

Feeling flaccid :/

[cloudabserk]

my long lost husband returned from space obsessed with and devoted to some kind of extremely fragile alien blob. which is fine, i guess. building it a biodome was kind of fun at least.

[paintedimagery]

Just a silly thought I had

[buttastic]

feeling like I am perhaps downwind from an argument my brother in law is having with his fiancée about wedding planning

[connor-dioda]

adrian just keeps getting bigger and bigger with every passing fanart so might as well take it to its logical extreme. rocky and his skyscraper-sized gender-neutral mate-wife <3

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

imagine Rocky getting jealous of other Eridians because apparently their carapaces have really pretty colors and patterns so to Grace he’s always like “remember when I saved your life. remember when I gave you enough astrophage to go home. remember all the times i watched you sleep. remember. do you remember Grace.”

[specialagentartemis]

After the beetle probes come back (honestly, probably even before), plenty of things get (re)named after Ryland Grace - Grover Cleveland Middle School becomes Ryland Grace Middle School, obviously, and astronomy/astrobiology buildings on college campuses and STEM scholarships in his name. Astrophage almost certainly gets the scientific name Astrophagus gracei.

Eva Stratt, meanwhile, gets the Eva Stratt Memorial Library (tagline: "she's not dead we just like remembering her") which is not, in fact, a library, it's the predominant hub for internet media piracy. The creators think they're hilarious.

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.

[pokkin]

I've been sending random shit back to caveman times to see how it affects the timeline.

POSSIBLE PUNCHLINES - Recently I went back and gave them a copy of undertale to try and inspire a more caring lilt to humanities ethos but the neanderthal I gave it to just speedran the no mercy route and no hit sans first try.

-So far the only difference is that Greenland switches names to Fleenland when i send something, and then back when I send the next thing. - I did that 'give a hot chip to a victorian child' thing with one of them but I think it just powered them up. They started running full speed towards a mammoth and plowed through it like it was made of foam

[carabid]

In bed and Story just stopped moving, then turned to face out into the darkness and said, completely apropos of nothing “now we are free from the gladiator” and i got scared

[wizardarchetypes]

[1five1two]

[meburgers]

rocky discovers the consequences of human boredom

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 11 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[lesbianboyfriend]

it’s rotten work. to me if it’s me.

[greelin]

did perfectionism ever truly protect you from harm or neglect as a child though. ultimately. Lol

[greelin]

[REALLY NORMAL AND WELL-ADJUSTED VOICE] well you never know maybe it COULD have saved me. if i ever actually achieved perfection. it could have happened then. if i was actually ever enough. Which i was not