[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works

[openingadoor]

Clara Ursitti. Sub Club, August 8th 1998

Humidifier and scent dispensers with motion sensors dispersing the scent of a Glasgow nightclub within a small specially constructed room with a glass door. The scent was created synthetically from a chemical analysis of the club via.

[shisasan]

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing (1924)

[tereshkina]

Giselle holding Albrecht's sword by the blade <3

(1. Beryl Goldwyn 2. Marianela Nuñez 3. Anna Pavlova 4. Irina Kolpakova)

[kosmogrl]

[mothermara]

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

[fknblkbarbie]

“art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful” (1975) by Marina Abramović

[wintercorrybriea2]

wani souma

[niebowplucach]

ocean vuong you're the only one writer ever

[firstfullmoon]

Regarding suicide and its behaviors, two lines that again and again come to mind are I ROCKED SHUT // AS A SEASHELL (Sylvia Plath) and IT SLAMMED ME SHUT LIKE A BOOK (Anthony Bourdain)

— Natalie Shapero, from “86,” in Stay Dead

[road0flife]

[64mpg]

actually i’ve done a lot of work on myself since we last spoke and i wanted to tell you to go fuck yourself and that i hope you die

[ambidisastrous]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional ill

Key points:

the paper was obviously fake to a human reader: it starts by saying it's fake and says it multiple times throughout

the paper says it was funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob University of Trickery and thanks contributors from the USS Enterprise and the Fellowship of the Ring

the paper has already been erroneously cited in a real research paper

LLMs give different information depending on the prompt, so sometimes they mention that the fake condition is "perhaps pseudoscience" and sometimes they tell people to see a doctor because they have the fake condition

absolutely no one is taking any responsibility for this shit, except maybe Nature, because they retracted the paper that cited the fake paper

LLMs don't think. They can't analyse. They can only repeat and remix thoughtlessly.

[enki2]

[thelaurenshippen]

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

[thelaurenshippen]

um.

[partasah]

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Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

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[makingimages]

[haverst]

Glow.7, Oil on linen, 최윤정 Yunjung Choi

source / Haverst