Personnal stuff

Miscallenous posts on my dash that I've liked (my banner is a picture taken in a nurse school during the 20's) born in 99 🇵🇸 Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics

[edgebug]

"wholesome" and "pure" are not antonyms of "sexual" btw

[edgebug]

some of the most unwholesome twisted shit you can imagine happens in fully platonic situations

[edgebug]

it's almost like we shouldn't assign morality to sexual activity or lack thereof

[powerarmor]

this guy created mcafee antivirus and then went completely off the rails. like absolute chaos. he got super rich, moved to Belize, was suspected of murdering his neighbor, fled Belize, had his location accidentally leaked by a Vice journalist who was with him lmfao, was apprehended in Guatemala, faked not one but two heart attacks while in custody to buy time for his lawyer, was deported back to the US, and then ran for president as a libertarian

[gorps]

hes so unintentionally funny

[gorps]

HOW could I forget this classic

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[dizzyghoast]

honestly fandom has ruined me because now any time i'm in the desert and i see two vast and trunkless legs of stone or a half-sunk shattered visage i'm like "omg just like in Ozymandias" and its like come on girl not every half-sunk shattered visage is Ozymandias

[thememedaddy]

[important-cat-pics]

[lesvegas]

you can only reblog this if you're not racist

[towerologia-sideblog]

huge coming from the site who is so against black art that 'tumblr users are afraid of rap' has been a meme for the best part of a decade. You know that yall are 4channers with pronouns right?

[lesvegas]

addendum: you can only reblog this if you're not racist part 2

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[autumngracy]

Saw this twitter post and instantly started looking for pictures of Stratt to use it with

[scheidungsgrund]

from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

[galecstatic]

it just gets better

and better

[goingonanadventuremaybe]

[funnyfroge]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Checking out the state of duolingo as I do sometimes. The optional end of chapter tests have words in them that weren’t covered in the lessons for some reason.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I reset my Spanish tree to test this because Spanish is one of the priority languages for the company that usually gets the most recent updates and I have a pretty good grasp on basic Spanish.

In the first test it asks you how to say goodbye but it didn’t cover that anywhere in the first three lessons. In fact it covered the much more informal chao.

And yeah a lot of people know that goodbye in Spanish is adiós but they’d been teaching you to say chao and you can’t assume that everyone using this app comes from somewhere with a lot of Spanish influence.

[elamarth-calmagol]

I started Haitian Creole recently, and it's a mess. President is "prezidan" in all questions except one, where it randomly ends in a T. I can't find evidence that it's ever written with a t, but prezidan isn't accepted. Some words aren't translated into English, like Creole always being written as Kreyol regardless of the language (though if you type "creole" it's accepted, so that's better than the president one). Also, "kola" is frequently translated as "kola champagne", both a spelling (kola instead of cola) and phrase (champagne for a non-alcoholic drink) that I've never heard in my life. There are two words (ki le and kiles) that seem to be swapped sometimes in the audio. I found a sentence with a word randomly added on the end that didn't match the translation. And, worst of all, there are no more lessons you can look at on why anything happens in the language. They used to have that (at least in French). Now, they just have lists of sentences for each lesson. This may be because in the more popular languages (e.g. French) you have to have an upgraded account to see an explanation of the answer, and they don't want to give it out for free. I have yet to see this option in the Creole course, though. I was always told that Duolingo is no good for learning a new language on, only practicing ones you know some of, but it's definitely gotten worse.

[sugarsaltreading]

earlier this week Twitter user ppuccin0 tweeted about a fashion article that advised against tops with large floral patterns, saying the wearer was in danger of looking like a "ロマンティックおばさん," or a "romantic auntie." the tweet went viral with many agreeing that a "romantic auntie" sounded like a very nice thing to aspire to be, and some even posted illustrations or photos tagged with the trend

illustration by Toyota Yuu (author of Cherry Magic)

illustration by 141shkw/Sora Midori (author of Beautiful Curse)

photos by Takinami Yukari (author of Motokare Mania and Watashi-tachi wa Mutsuu Ren'ai ga Shitai or "We Want A Painless Romance")

illustration by m:m (mangaka of Matataki no End Roll)

illustration by ooinuai (mangaka of Onikui Kitan)

illustration by ma2 (mangaka of The Reason We Fall In Love)

BONUS:

[sugarsaltreading]

Twitter user WomeGa55 drew some art of “Romance Auntie x Combat Auntie”

[bigbigbigtruck]

IT GOT BETTER

[mysteryteacup]

The RomCom Aunties!

[tall]

[liarsblade]

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

[liarsblade]

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?

[bashcrandicoot]

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

[birdandmoon]

Heat waves.