[futureshieldmaiden]

I forgot how to actually embed the video in the post earlier, but anyway, here’s a prettier version of that post! 

[lilyofficial]

[rubylang-official]

Reblog to do this to prev

[peachfromcmbyn]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Bugs Bunny beats Thanos by setting up an airport and making him take off the Infinity Gauntlet to go through the metal detector.

Miss Piggy beats Thanos by karate chopping him in the face and sending him flying.

[trollkatt]

Big Jack

Pet Foolery, #93

[aphractal2]

i didn’t recreate it fully but you get the idea

based off the original “do you love the color of the sky” post

[kosmogrl]

oooh I get it it’s always gonna be because of the environment I grew up in

[aceofpans]

it’s because of the curse

[amber-tortoiseshell]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[maxofs2d]

Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it

The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash afte

The Firefox "AI kill switch" is here.

Go to Settings > AI controls. There, you can toggle the "master kill switch" on to fully block all the features, which means two things:

you won't see them,

you can't even be asked about them.

The default state is, like before, "available". This means the features are NOT on by default (they never were), but Firefox will let you know about them where they exist (e.g. when you create your first tab group) so that you can choose to opt in.

Please note that Firefox for Android or iOS have never included AI features, so you won't see these settings on your smartphones or tablets.

Please also note that, unlike popular belief here on Tumblr, besides "chatbot in sidebar" (which is simply embedding the same page you'd have normally browsed to), none of these features have ever interacted with anything outside your PC, because they download a small model to your computer, to do everything locally. These small models have never been and are not downloaded until you explicitly agree to turn on one of the features.

[vmachina]

I can only resist the urge to draw him for so long. The last episode made me go hjsakldfhl.

[274th]

Some tips on anime-style Miis without facepaint

I think visually the instructions are easy to follow: You use one of the dot eyes, then use the top eyelid as the eyelash, the bottom eyelid as a double eyelid, the top eyelash as an extension to the top lash, and the bottom lashes as a lower eyelid. You use the eyeshadow as the "white" of the eye. You can optionally use a mole as a nose.

I tried it on a character I was struggling to make, and holy shit! Holy shit!!!

Your mileage may vary, for example I've closed the game so I can't see how it looks on darker skinned Miis, but it works really well IMO. Hope it helps!

[k1ng-r0wan]

This is exactly what I need!!!

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes

[have-you-been-here]

Sidewalk trampolines, Copenhagen, Denmark

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

[hellochamsae]

re: krusielle

there are two wolves within me:

one wolf thinks that krusielle is possibly endgame, because susie's arc is likely culminating in her learning what love means (as per the japanese translation of the girl panel as 'the girl will learn the true meaning of love'). this may mean she learns that her love is vast and for everyone and that she deserves love from others.

noelle's arc is a continuation of her learning to be her own person, outside of the box of 'the girl next door', and advocating for herself with the love of others as the deltarune plot unravels before her.

kris' arc is likely going to culminate in them learning to be honest with their wants and that they deserve to be happy. this could work in both rekindling their whatever-ship with noelle and mending their relationship with susie.

and while mixed in messaging, there has been canon acknowledgment of throuples. i can easily see where toby amends the love triangle (despite how messy it is) in a thematic way by having them all romantically bond together. everyone wins, everyone's happy

however...

the other wolf thinks that there is a much more interesting thematic angle this could take and that is the message of learning to let go and learning to value all types of love, not just romantic love.

unrequited crushes are things that happen all the time irl and i feel it's an especially important message for the teen/young adult demographic of this game to understand that letting go and moving on from the heartbreak is a part of life, that you can form an important bond and be significant to someone without it being romantic.

deltarune is a coming-of-age story and that is especially true for kris, who is unable to let go of the past, either by conspiracy or by their own doing. imo the romance subplot was primarily to give a reason as to why kris will not waver in the plan anymore and to further drive home the point that they are othered. there is no place for them beside susie and noelle in the way they want, and this is how it's always been for them.

we see an example of this happening when they were young. suselle is riding the ferris wheel, clearly romantically-coded, and we know that azzy and dess were romantic, so this scene is meant to parallel how they felt left out then and still feel left out now.

seriously, toby could've given kris the kind of platonic crush/squish that's 'oh i want to be with them', but instead he specifically went out of his way to show that kris' special spaces with susie are being opened up and it is not framed as something positive, because it's paired with kris feeling lonely and unimportant (the ending hammers this in so hard).

by the end of the festival date, susie is having a blast with just noelle.

she refuses to flirt with enemies:

and excludes kris from the lake by redefining 'we' to mean 'her and noelle', not 'her and kris', which was *their* special thing:

all of this serves to reinforce that kris losing their spaces is a painful reminder to them that they do not fit in and that someone 'better' will always take their spot in others' hearts.

the real kicker is that based off everything we know so far, it seems like kris has a romantic crush on susie where she's exclusively special to them and they want her to think of them as 'exclusively special' and possibly????? do things that are considered romantically exclusive like smooching if the plant joke, straw bite, constant flirting etc was anything to go by lol.

but unfortunately, this sentiment is incongruous with susie being with noelle. it is so incredibly clear to me that neither susie nor noelle see kris in a romantic light compared to how they see each other:

like suselle is literally the poster child for romance and neither of them feel this way towards kris

thus kris gets their heart broken at the end of chapter 5.

and i frankly don't know if a polycule is going to solve kris' sense of self-worth when they've already displayed jealousy. they want to feel special and exclusive, but end up having to share. if kris was like... in their late 20s, this could work out, but we have 2 chapters left and they're a maladjusted 16 year old with a death wish. in fact, all three in this triangle have shown jealousy towards the other pair which is ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.

personally, i think kralsusie is much more likely to be a throuple because they have an actual group dynamic (and this has been alluded to twice in the game DIRECTLY) compared to krusielle buuuuuuuuuuut....

though who knows, maybe toby will go with krusielle to combat the monogamous expectations of the festival

or he could fight the amatonormativity of it all by having kris and susie's bond be redefined as something special to them, with no labels or social norms. much like the bell game, these two always play outside the rules of the game.

it could be that the lesson is to let go of romantic conceptions and define love your own way. not platonic, not romantic, not familial, but something unique to just them. susie may not have a word for her bond with kris, but what she knows is that they're important to her as much as noelle, her romantic partner is.

and isn't that also an important message for deltarune's audience too? that you can treasure other types of love just as much as romantic ones? that you don't have to solely focus on your romantic partner?

while it sucks that kris won't get their romantic crush returned or possibly do romantic things with susie (or well who knows idk), i think what's most important for them is to know that they're valued and important. kris is a sweet kid with so much love inside their heart and i believe in them to overcome the heartbreak of their unrequited crush and realize that they can be loved in a way where they're special all the same.

love is more than just romance, after all.

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[vitiligo-is-not-a-trend]

Some of the repetitive questions here made me think "Do y'all need a visual guide?" So I did it.

If I did any mistakes in interpreting your many answers, please say! I will edit anything I need to for it to be actually respectful & accurate.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU THATS PERFECT

Do you mind if I add it to the FAQ (with credit of course <3)

[theterribletenno]