Waiting For Winter

Immigrant. Queer. Poet. Trans. Gamer. (he/him)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My phone sometimes does this "1 year ago" thing where it plays a reel of old photos to jazzy music, but I don't take all that many photos, so in practice my phone just sometimes offers me jazzy music over a series of context-free nearly identical photos of the neighbour's cat.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Occasionally I am reminded that I went somewhere a year ago when the music plays over context-free nearly identical photos of a different cat.

[hunkybeans]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Help I'm choking on my toast

[weaselle]

I'm a dog walker and when dogs vomit or have bad poops i often take a picture in case they go to a vet and the pic can help diagnose them.

I am still not over the definitely hilarious yet distinctly dystopian experience of picking up my phone only to have it play a peppy little jazz theme as it showed me a "remember these good times" montage featuring pic after pic of literal diarrhea

[imjustanotherhater]

"Cocaine is the motor of the modern world"

[yellow-cat]

witness her

[yellow-cat]

i see y’all appreciating her so have some more

[yellow-cat]

more! more!

[yellow-cat]

ok but i’m gonna run out of funny pictures soon

[pearlwingdraws]

Kind of enraptured by her

[hinoneko]

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

[penrosesun]

It’s painfully obvious that people who act like diy hrt is easy for trans men because of the existence of illegal sports doping – in addition to being just like… wildly cavalier about the legal consequences of possessing a controlled substance while non-white – also know shockingly little about illegal sports doping. Like, do you know what the most stereotyped tells are for when a body builder or other athlete has been abusing steroids? 1) roid rage, 2) a very particular kind of disproportionate bulking… and 3) feminized features.

Yes, you read that right. Fun fact: when you have too much testosterone in your system, your body converts it to estrogen! Why can trans men take testosterone without getting feminizing effects? Well, that’s because trans ftm hrt is specifically formulated to be slow-release, ie. the absolute opposite of what you want for illegal sports doping, and therefore the opposite of every steroid you can buy for that purpose. Sports doping is optimized to get into your system, do its thing while you are actively working out, and then be gone without a trace before your next blood test. If you tried to use the drugs that people dope with to maintain continuously high T levels, you would need to dose and re-dose constantly, and in doing so you would destroy your liver, and would also probably end up functionally taking estrogen as your body furiously converted as much of it as possible.

It’s possible to diy ftm hrt, but only by buying black market testosterone of the sort that trans people actually use for hrt. And there are risks to that – even beyond the legal risks associated with sports doping – which for the record, are also nothing to sneer at. Telling people that ftm hrt is no big deal because you can just take gymbro steroids is going to get trans guys fucking killed.

[unintentionalpenis]

[twinkee]

Delivered in discreet packaging my ass.

[wizardshark]

hey whats with that sign

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

hey do you guys want to see a post that kills you instantly

[kulluto-remade-deactivated20201]

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

listen...we must understand these historical documents in the context of their time

[shittyidea]

A super long audio book with just silence and an “oh, out loud?” at the end

[ecstasemen]

im developing cataracts in my right eye and ill be getting surgery for it on sunday so art might be paused for a bit next week ...

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

to help OP out for each day it is healing I will invent a new minion hybrid.

day 1: if a minion and shrek had sex that produced viable offspring

[ecstasemen]

that's okay. you dont need to do that actually

[thestuffedalligator]

“Incurious” is an incredible thing to call someone. It conveys so much with so little. To be so uninterested with learning or developing an understanding that it’s damning. To fail to feel what a toddler does by instinct.

I sometimes go back to the Dan Olson video about Doug Walker and there’s a bit where he says “Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to ‘what if Batman met Mario?’” and I know that if this was said about most artists I have met they would wither up on the spot like a dying spider

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i am at a complete loss as to how to adequately express to you how much this cat throws up yeah

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag from hotTubSharts reading: and then maybe she'll wake you again at 6 to the sound of her puking on the floor. maybe /End ID]

[ovur]

Who do you think is in the wrong?

Richard

Preet

Both

Neither

Results

Voting ended onJan 17

[kazamajun]

There's a lot more context to this like Siken wasn't even @-ed by anyone he found the original tweet by namesearching himself, decided to respond to it, then when his response got replies he started throwing around accusations of parasocial stalking over some harmless hyperbole. Sir the only one being parasocial about you is yourself.

Then he accused the women above of having 'meltdowns' and asked Google AI for validation lmfao

And he got quite frankly owned here (if nothing else it's a self-own because pretending to not know words have connotations in society, as a famous poet, is hilarious)

[grootficguy]

goku — or, as the french call him, geauxcoup,

[slavicafire]

why don't you present yourself more femininely?

fat medieval hedgehog

[jibunbosh]

ugh come ON (emphatically getting up out of my chair to turn around with a grimace and put my head in my hands) dude you KNOW i've been such a good girl. don't fuck with me man i don't have time for this. just fuckin give me the kitty treat dude

[jibunbosh]

you know, I expected it wasn't long before someone started blorbotagging this post with the name of a guy. I just didn't expect it to be Joseph Stalin

[jibunbosh]

everyone stop tagging this post with the names of your white boys I swear to god. none of you are beating Joseph Stalin