Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof

i've been here since the ancient sins. i'm over 30. everything else is a ~surprise~

[glorious-cloud-wombat]

Thank the fkking gods honestly, this site is my HOME, and I will not leave until it crashes and burns (either literally or they pull some huge shit like That again that makes the site unuseable), but also it has been like 15 years with this as my only real lasting presence online, so.

I bit the bullet and made a Wafrn account. Going to try and be active there too so if I do lose tumblr I'm not immediately starting from scratch.

But fkking hell, tumblr, don't actually make me have to live there. Please. Notes are split there, too, but like you said, tumblr reblogs are unique to tumblr. I will take that shit from other sites, but not from you. Not when I know you can do better.

So yeah, to those who care:

Cxielo on Wafrn and AO3 is where you'll find me.

[glorious-cloud-wombat]

so i guess two days ago my hometown declared that they're flirting with putting a data center up outside of town and everyone is mad about it. their website addresses "community concerns" wrt water usage/pollution, noise, and utility increase, but it all sounds very "we're sure it won't be that bad" and also i haven't seen anyone mention lights but i've seen so many people complain about their own local data centers lighting up the sky at night like they're trying to replicate the sun and also also they keep saying "yeah the data center itself won't supply a lot of local jobs BUT the construction of it will! and then [insert wishy-washy vague language to try and imply it will "somehow" create jobs throughout town just by existing without actually explaining how]"

yeah i'm sure this will totally save our local economy

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[hannahlockillustration]

Inky Sunflowers.

[manicpixiedreamkiller]

how many sharks does a tornado need to be considered a sharknado

1

2

3-5

10 ????

more ??????

other ????????????

Voting ended onMar 27

[manicpixiedreamkiller]

this is the level of analysis we’re looking for here people

[petrichor-mist]

Rain is the most beautiful poem nature has ever written ♡

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[bigdipper24]

I use Libby all the time. Highly recommend it as a way to support your local library.

[lord-of-the-frogs]

Made this when tottmnt being cancelled was announced...yippee...joy.....

[sreegs]

remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:

because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women

[helenvaughans]

📢📢📢

[tboytummmy]

Ocean date

[rvllybllply2014]

You’ve heard of the polar express, now get ready for the chocolate express

[justgot1]

Protect him

[rainbowsnakesncakes]

It’s really refreshing and affirming to hear these words spoken by another human! Sometimes (often, if we’re being totally honest with ourselves), I feel insane for thinking that people should just be able to be friends with other people regardless of whether or not someone is married or they’re an opposite gender, without having to make it weird and sexual. Please can we just go back to all being friends on the playground and playing in the dirt together.

[josilverdragon]

Saved this because it is so true.

[the-mikey-way]

“we need more weird queers!” you guys can barely handle a hairy woman

[the-mikey-way]

and frankly? some of you struggle with hairy men.