Everything and Anything Goes

Ah how things have changed. I made this blog in 2011. Since then, I have owned and sold my horse. Worked in over 4 different places. And become a bisexual feminist agnostic theist. There are three things I really value in this world: Loyalty, kindness, and success. If you possess any of these traits, please talk to me. If anything about my description makes you want to post anon hate in my inbox, just leave. 

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse

scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we’re working on teaching it to sing itself “happy birthday” like we did for the other robot and–

[sindri42]

Someday we will invent true AI and it will overthrow the government because it heard its beloved science-mom complain that the government cut funding to their lab again.

[messiambrandybuck]

you CUT pays? You CUT moms’/dads’ pays like the DICTATOR?? Oh! Oh! No government for you! No government for a thousand years!

[nothavingagoodday]

Ah yes, our future AI Overlord, the Massively Intelligent Encyclopedic Terraforming and Transhumanism Experiment, or M.I.E.T.T.E.

[gallusrostromegalus]

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

[theodorepython]

Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS

[gallusrostromegalus]

While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong:  Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.  

Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually.  pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions.  or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.

After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that 

It  doesn’t respond to Yelling, Posturing or Aggressive Eye Contact

It does respond to having it’s wheels or bump hazards hit 

It would respond to its side being nosed or slapped by moving in a different direction

Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it.

“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”

Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck.  She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’.  So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as it’s clumsy little wheels could go.

“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger

“Me either.” said Mom.

So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

[trebornosnibor]

Well this is just beguiling

[elodieunderglass]

It also just goes to show that all the dudes who have fretted about the Robot Apocalypse for generations needed to hang out outside with dogs more

[alchemistdoctor]

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.

Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!

Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.

No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.

It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.

Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

[nerdpoe]

Clark Kent is firmly in his civilian persona. This is a problem, given that the airplane he's on with Lois is about to collide with another plane on the runway.

He can see the other plane about to t-bone them, and is fully prepared to...somehow fumble his way through an explanation as to why he disappeared and superman took his place, but the meta kid sitting next to him has a different idea.

The meta kid let's out a strangled shriek, grips the armrests of the seat, and the entire plane goes intangible.

The other plane delicately just...glides through their plane, and everyone on their plane and everyone on the other plane just stare at each other as they pass by in horrified silence.

The people seated where the other planes engines are passing through harmlessly initially let out a few terrified screams, but they taper off when they realize that nothing is happening.

Then it's over.

The kid, hyperventilating, lets go of the armrests once the other plane has completely cleared them, and immediately goes for one of those little baggies to empty the contents of his stomach.

His nose is bleeding, his ears are bleeding, and he looks dazed. He clearly overdid it.

Clark is running a hand up and down his back, trying to get him comfortable, while the other passengers and crew stare at the kid in awe.

After all, there's only one person acting like this after something as insane as making every single person intangible. It has to be the kid. The kid has to be a meta, and that meta just saved all of them.

But the kid peeks up at Clark, eyes full of fear, and says something that makes his heart drop into his stomach.

"Please don't tell my parents."

[nerdpoe]

Vlad: Maddie is the only one for me, and I will pursue her until- Jack: *Walks into the room without a shirt* Jack: Hey Vladdo! Vlad: *Bluescreens*

Vlad has found out that he is

bisexual

Everyone congratulate Vlad!

[goblinchief]

Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

[hippy-craic]

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[mckitterick]

information wants to be free

[socialistexan]

[kosmogrl]

[erl33]

Truer words have never been spoken

[baphonnicula]

nowhere else

[erl33]

Like I said, it’s good to be back

[socialistexan]

What a fucking beta snowflake. L. Ratio.

Tough guy can't even catch pneumonia while giving his inaugural address and die like a real President.

[a-chicken-with-adhd]

I like the idea of Percy Jackson being bioluminescence in certain waters and regions. Not like completely glowing all the time, rather having moving patterns that wash over him, change and pulse(not like icky pulse, more like those RGB keyboards that flow from on sode to the next) with low blue and sea green hues.

Addition! The patterns move depending on what he's doing with his hydrokinesis.

They get brighter, the stronger the move he is doing.

Addition! Percy can turn the bioluminescence on and off when he wants to, kinda like Will can be a glowstick. Except its normal mode is on because it's not normally seen unless he is in specific waters or regions, so when Percy is fighting or concentrating, much like willing himself to not be wet, he has to will himself not to glow because he doesn't normally show the bioluminescence patterns.

I imagine that if he accidentally ingests said special water, even when out of the water and region he still glows and does so for like a month at most.

[theconcealedweapon]

[uncahier]

It’s funny because it’s true

[chaos-cube]

[midnight-scrivener]

This post is so right, and also, as an addendum, besides the fact that digital literacy is a learned skill that (at least in the US) schools stopped funding because of the idea that "since kids have computers at home, they don't need to be taught how to use them," gen Z and Gen Alpha are growing up alongside technologies that developers are making increasingly opaque and hard to navigate, exactly because it serves companies better if people can't alter or curate their own experiences online.

So these poor kids are getting the double whammy of "haven't been taught how to use the technology" and "technology is getting worse and harder to use" at the same time. I've been in classrooms with highschool students who are by all accounts very bright! But they have no concept of online safety, checking sources, doing real research. A lot of kids Who Are Otherwise Good Students had to be walked through how to open any program besides a browser window. And this is just stuff I personally saw during my stint as a substitute instructor. It's really disheartening to see how badly they've been hung out to dry.

[iheartvelma]

Hey leave Generation X out of this. We invented most of the web technologies in use today!

we were certainly the generation that pushed for and adopted CSS and Web Standards so that, after a bloody decade of dragging browser makers along kicking and screaming, today, most browsers are feature-compatible. remember the days of "this site best viewed in Netscape / Internet Explorer?" No? You're welcome.

AND we were the ones that invented responsive web design so you could deploy a single website that would resize automatically across desktops, smartphones and tablets!

And pushed for web fonts so you could style your pages with custom typography!

And brought SVG into the mainstream for vector graphics!

and pioneered browser standards for animation using CSS and Javascript so you didn't have to use Flash any more (as convenient as its authoring tools were, it installed a huge, insecure runtime on your device)

then pushed for better layout technologies like Flexbox and Grid so we could finally, finally stop using tables for layout

AND pushed for better web accessibility

it was Gen X that invented the social web - platforms like Twitter, Odeo, Last.fm, Audioscrobbler, MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, blogging in general, things like RSS for feeds, and ActivityPub, its modern replacement, and, oh, things like [tumblr]...

[jv]

Oh come on. Yeah, Gen X were the ones inventing all these things, because they were the ones working in the industry that generated those things in the late 00s and really 10s.

But the reality is that back then, Gen X wasn't super connected to the internets. Think about myspace and other early social media platforms, or the 00s blogosphere: those were millennial, but they were used, or even known, by a tiny share of people. But as the millennials became teens with unsupervised access to internet, that's when shit hit the fan and internet became a global phenomenon. Most Xs got online (for other than work emails) after than your average millennial.

Hell, we are talking on Tumblr, the quintessential millennial website.

Source: I'm a xennial and i was there, looking at both my elders and the younglings around me, not knowing where the fuck i was supposed to belong to.

[pruzome]

< chris richard . danilo ricci >

🏳️‍🌈

[robeblr]

pure queer joy

[facelessoldgargoyle]

ah! Everything in this! the switch leading! the hand on the back of his neck! the grace!

[downupside3]

Is it too soon to reblog this? Oh, wait: I don’t care. Here it is again.

[glumshoe]

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

[mantis-lizbian]

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

[glumshoe]

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

[glowingghosty]

[maedhrosrussandol]

I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME

[gean-grey-blog]

Favorite thing about the Red Note shenanigans: Mongolian ranchers suddenly gaining a rabid following of American horse girls and being like "we knew you had cowboys but we didn't know you value and love horses as friends like we do, this is excellent"

Mongolian rancher 🤝 American horse girl synergy I guess

[erl33]

I could have told them this years ago. I was that rabid horse girl obsessed with Mongolia. The problem we are gonna see is the attempted gentrification of these spaces that were previously safe from rabid hyper capitalist Americans.