Just a Goblin

Bill or Bea // Level 29 // He/they/it // professional nerd and EMT // this blog is all random shit go follow the sideblogs instead

[gotta-get-that-pma]

Intro & Side Blog List

Hi, I'm Bill! I follow a shit-ton of people, and almost none of them are Jacksepticeye related anymore. So if you got a follow from me and want to follow back, here's a list of my blogs and what they do:

@gottagetthatpma (this one): YouTube stuff, video games, funny stuff, gay shit. Occasionally 18+ but mostly rated R for language.

@heyitsbill: History and politics. Political posts, serious stuff, and anything involving history or Ireland goes here. PG-13.

@antlered-tech-witch: pagan stuff, and some goblincore, regional gothic, or cottagecore. PG-13.

@done-with-ur-ineffable-bullshit: Good Omens, David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Also cats. 18+ for actor thirst but it's tagged. We support aro-ace Ineffable Husbands!

@lets-go-steal-an-ot3: A good old-fashioned fandom blog. Current content is mostly Leverage, but this blog is always evolving. Occasionally I'll spam a fandom besides Leverage but I usually try to make a side blog if that happens. Rated R.

Finally (so far), @amadan-kenobi: Star Wars/Ewan McGregor blog. 18+.

Anyway sorry I'm a disaster. Welcome and have fun!

[spellinwaiting]

not many people know this but when talking about your multiple pronoun-using friend you build up a combo meter for every subsequent unique pronoun you use

[a-random-fruity-sky]

As someone who uses multiple pronouns I can confirm this is true

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[alliekills]

in my socialist opinion prospective employers should have to pay candidates for interviews and more for each round and they should also have to pay a state fee if they interview over ten candidates for a role without choosing any of them. aka a fee to reopen the hiring pool for the job. they should also have a hiring grade slapped on their front window just the same as you’d get from a health department about food safety except it tells you how much their profit is annually and how much they pay their employees + how many staff members are needed for operation vs how many they have. or like i don’t know. die maybe. just die

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[papermonkeyism]

Should have waited for daylight to take this photo but anyway!

Dinosaurs! Been a while, so I felt like testing if I still knew how to draw them. (This was supposed to be Just A Quick Sketch, and yet here we are.)

Two Feathers and Sunbird came to greet you all with White Path, and Bug was also there, but apparently his wattle started itching right before the picture got taken.

[elbiotipo]

It's very interesting how big of a revolution will LLMs cause (and are already causing) in genetics and bioengineering since DNA and proteins are, for all intent and purposes, really really long words

[elbiotipo]

You can, very literally, fit the entire human genome in a .txt file. It's not the most efficient way to study it but you can

[elbiotipo]

It's so funny that people have such strong opinions on AI but every geneticist I meet is like "oh god finally. This thing does all the work for me. We will find the catgirl gene soon"

[elbiotipo]

And no this isn't just the specialized models like alphafold. You can ask Claude or Deepseek to make pipelines and bioinformatics stuff for you and they work.

[elbiotipo]

A good chunk of AI and LLM research actually comes directly from bioinformatics research. To find the catgirl gene.

[odmnd]

No technology is by default, evil.

The transformer architecture, and LLM’s have very valid and very benefical advantages for humanity. At the same time, however, the raging psychopats who control these companies have indeed completely abandoned their humanity, and removed themselves from the human condition completely.

To let these people decide the fate of the world and its future is utter and sheer madness and self destruction for mankind.

[elbiotipo]

I don't think they're raging pyschopaths or that they are deciding the fate of the world, let alone the destruction of humankind. I just think they want a lot of money and this stupid unequal (read, capitalist oligarch) economy is letting them get away with stupid things. LLMs are a great technology for research and yes, even entertainment. I just don't need them in every single thing I use and I don't need them to replace jobs that need a human touch.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

They were using this tech to generate potential cancer-fighting proteins when I was in uni about a decade ago. I assume they can do it better now with modern models but I've been out of the field for a while. They'd use what we now call "generative AI" to come up with potential proteins, they'd be screened for the most viable (and actually makeable/refinable) candidates, and they'd be tested on cell culture assays to investigate their effect on cell growth.

[peketostuffs]

When I was in my geology undergrad course about 13 years ago, one of my colleague's undergrad thesis involved the use of neural networks for studying drill cores, and I very briefly was the intern of a professor where one project I started involved developing predictive code to automatically interpret gamma profiles (what was sandstone, what was limestone, etc). Another professor of mine did her post-phd about seven or so years ago with using neural networks for generating possible seismic profiles in a simulated block diagram created from a small number of drill cores, and they were generally accurate to the regional geology.

It's only when this stuff could get somewhat passable at making entertainment that it really exploded into the mainstream, but the technology has been in the works and evolving for a very long time.

[ilikewritingandspeedcore]

EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

[rhyperographer]

I went to find the article. It's fascinating.

[digital-magus]

In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does

[aralintheobsessive]

What's REALLY weird about this is that there's no clear advantage to doing it. If they'd evolved to mimick a certain other plant specifically, that'd be one thing, but just whatever is near them is seemingly pointless. It's not just that they're doing something we didn't know they could do, it's that they're doing it for absolutely no benefit that we can hypothesize.

[holdoncallfailed]

hey don't cry. canon lesbian aunt fritzi, ok?

[crazy56u]

Close, actually.

[rongzhi]

Problem solving

English added by me :)

[youhavethewrong]

Perhaps this is an obnoxious take on my part, but video games should, above all things, prioritize the ability of being paused. At any point. Regardless of whether it's during a cutscene, a special animation, or a time-based puzzle. You never know when you're gonna get a phone call, or someone will need you in another room, or you get a sudden urge to go to the bathroom, or you hear your cat licking plastic, or whatever. Other entertainment mediums like books, movies, and music can be paused whenever you want. Why do some games not give you the same luxury??

[penelopepennington]

It's the Royal Academy of Art Young Artist's Summer Show. One of my favourite exhibitions of the year. Like. Not only are the older kids insanely talented, the younger ones' artist statements will just punch you right in the face.

Jeffrey is my cat and he feels like my heart

Click [here] for the full online exhibition

[bleedthebeat]

english major macklemore: i read your granddad’s prose

[ndnbutch]

therapist macklemore: i hear your granddad’s woes

[bleedthebeat]

coffee enthusiast macklemore: i drink your granddad’s joes

[ndnbutch]

body mod shop owner macklemore: i pierce your granddad’s nose

[bleedthebeat]

pizza chef macklemore: i knead your granddad’s doughs

[ndnbutch]

television network executive macklemore: i make your granddad’s shows

[bleedthebeat]

wildlife rehabilitator macklemore: i feed your granddad’s crows

[ndnbutch]

blanket maker macklemore: i knit your granddad’s throws

[bleedthebeat]

sir mackle the more, knight of the great kingdom of seattle: i slay your granddad’s foes

[ndnbutch]

rapper macklemore: i spit your granddad’s flows

[bleedthebeat]

we were sitting across from each other in the living room reblogging back and forth like it was a life-or-death yu-gi-oh duel

[homunculus-argument]

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish and did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words "humidity" or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole owner and keeper of the very concept of time.

[squid-thoughts]

I’ve mostly learned Chinese in school, so I know a lot of academic vocabulary while having the language skills of a toddler in some basic areas. Once, I forgot the word for sad, which is a really dumb thing to forget. A bunch of the ways to say sad in Chinese are literally just “not happy”, but I also momentarily forgot how to say happy. So instead I said “there is an economic downturn inside my brain”.

[feyburner]

Man at my job just told me to “hold your little horsies just a little longer ☺️” about the task I’ve been waiting for him to complete or at the very least update me on for six weeks. Brendan, I will fuck your adult son. You’re gonna start seeing me at family Christmas. Horsies in tow.

[were--ralph]

Things that would fix me:

A cow the size of my hand

A fat boyfriend

A dnd group

Ketamine probably

A fourth Austin Powers film

Several thousand dollars

A big cat I can have as a pet

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone will say "as a queer person in the heart of empire, my life is in danger every day" and you'll find out they're a developer for Amazon and live in San Francisco or Seattle or some shit, and then you'll meet a trans girl from Alva, OK who's like "Yeah, things are pretty good. AutoZone moved me to full-time."

[myfootyrthroat]

Someone in a queer group in my current blue city said that they didn't like expressions of solidarity because it "diluted their oppression".

[teaboot]

[msvorderofoperations]

#That's what I mean when I say the foundation of feminism and queer community should not fixate on victimhood #Once you feel that our suffering is our shared experience an not our love then our suffering becomes vital to the culture #I don't want a culture where suffering is vital #I want a culture where love is celebrated #The suffering is an imposition not a prerequisite #And yeah I sure fucking hope our oppression is diluted bitch you WANT us freebasing the uncut shit???