Trying my Best tbh

|99.9% of blogging done on mobile|ISFP|Aries|Slytherin|She/They |The next Con I'm going to: ???| This is not a nsfw or spoiler free blog! I will try my best to tag all of these, but some might slip by. Please tell me if you want me to tag anything! Anyways, enjoy~!

[theuglymachine]

Yeah it was me, I made the Cool S sword.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Sword is a cool s-word

[anexperimentallife]

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

[minmos]

front facing egrets making me lose control of everything

[loki-zen]

nearly all libraries have a ghost, but medical libraries frequently have a ghost and a skeleton

[loki-zen]

i’ve been reminded that most people don’t know about the ghost

[loki-zen]

‘ghost reading’ means collecting usage stats for books which are used within the library, without being checked out (which would automatically generate usage data).

This is often done by checking out the book to a dummy user account belonging to The Library Ghost before it’s reshelved. (After being returned ofc. Ghosts read very fast.)

Due to ghost reading, most libraries ask that you do not return books to the shelves yourself, even if you’re confident of where they go - there will instead be somewhere they’ll ask you to leave them (or just leave them out on a surface somewhere) so they can be collected and ghost read.

[epoxyconfetti]

[sarroora]

@modmad What in the world is even going on here I need context XD

[modmad]

don't know what to tell you this is just how things are here

[cupidjoy]

[failpup]

I love these two so much.

Credit: @jellymlk on twitter

[whitepeopletwitter]

[gingersofficial]

[candiikismet]

Life path unlocked. He’s a scientist now.

[prolifeproliberty]

If your dad is telling you in great detail about something he’s passionate about, you’re going to be hooked even if you don’t understand a word.

[by-grace-of-god]

He tells us more…

So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.

Anyway, I made this poster for him, based on the CPEP ones we used to have at uni . 

Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.

It’s funny though — on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone ❤️

Addendum: he has really grasped onto the “everything is made of atoms” part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.

“And my bed?” Yes, and your bed. “And that wall?” Yep. “And the armchair?” Yes, the armchair too. … … “And… the book case?” Y—

“And my home?” Yep, the whole apartment block. “And your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.” Haha, it is. … … “But is it made of atoms?” Yep. “And… [best friend]’s home?” Yes, it is. And [other friend]’s home, and [third friend]’s home.

“Is [yet another friend]’s home?”

Update from the other night:

“Is my… is… [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?” —Yes! Yes it is.

I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.

Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks “is [baby sister] made up of atoms?”

yep!

*runs over to her on the floor* *puts face up real close to hers* “HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[arcticfoxbear]

@radioactivepeasant @themagdalenwriting @iusedtohaveanaccount

“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”

[soap-lady]

This is so pure and good.

[miketon]

do you think the porn bots ever accidentally message each other and end up in an endless loop of sending each other virus links

[desinteresse]

Saw someone argue that opposing AI art is ableist because this is the only way for some disabled people to make art afjagjsfh. Disabled people have been making art since the dawn of time and because making art is so varied there will always be tons of ways to create despite disability that doesn’t involve ripping artists off by using AI art

[desinteresse]

Disabled people are honestly so brave for not killing annoying ppl every day I swear to god the disrespect

[aimmyarrowshigh]

#frida kahlo didnt paint exclusively from her bed for months while in extreme chronic pain from several injuries #for 'ai is the only way for disabled people to make art' to be an argument #TELL THAT TO MATISSE #Christy Browne #GOYA #beethoven was DEAF and still wrote music #a whole host of artists in the 80s continued creating while actively dying of AIDS #how dare people make this argument istg (via @morethanonepage)

[brendering]

A lot of professional artists *are disabled* because art as a career affords the kind of flexibility a lot of people need: some days you feel great, some days you feel terrible, some days you have to play by ear, some days you have appointments, and a lot of creative professions allow you to work around that.

AI is actively endangering disabled livelihoods. Don't for a single second let the money-grubbing, art-hating tech bros convince you that they give a damn about what's best for people with disabilities, especially not while they actively infantilize disabled artists. Here is disabled artist Tomihiro Hoshino. He was a gymnastics teacher and mountain climber until an accident in his 20s left him paralyzed from the neck down. In the months that followed, Hoshino struggled to find meaning in a life once based entirely around physical activity.

His friend brought him flowers and Hoshino was so moved by their perfect beauty that he taught himself to draw and eventually paint using his mouth so that he could express the joy he felt at seeing them. He became a nationally famous artist and is studied in Japanese schools. He opened his own gallery in 2005 and he sells his work on Amazon.

Disabled artists do not need AI. Hoshino even attributes his career to his accident, since he might never have taught himself to paint otherwise. *That* is what makes an artist. The absolute drive to create. The need to express something within yourself, whether it's a character you like or the meaning of the universe or the simple beauty of a flower.

Pushing a glorified search button is not "art", and disabled people are not some Uno reverse to deflect from the consequences of tech bros' shady actions. AI bros prey on *real* artists, including plenty of disabled artists.

[lesbian-yandere]

YALL THEY’RE ADVANCING

[sangled]

[skrells-deactivated20250209]

Dude, I got the same person (with different username of course) and had a whole freaking conversation with them before I blocked them and only after I had seen this with the exact same messages I got, did I realize,

It was a bot.

[bananonbinary]

randall munroe predicting the future in 2009

[dreamgirlvibes]

[knightowlet]

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

[frnkieroismydaddy]

Oh my GOD

[pusheen]

[amygdalae]

As a bisexual person I'm keenly aware of how such stereotypes are inevitably harmful to us, but unfortunately when I see bisexuals in fiction who are Evil and stylish and fuck like champions I can't help but go "oh work" for a sec. It's a difficult conundrum

[coldbasementruins-deactivated20]

Nothing, and I mean, NOTHING, beats the way Rei casually says that Kazuki is his partner without any sort of hesitation.