The Sun Won't Rise

All in vain, they will fade away. There's only you, to answer you.

[victusinveritas]

[hasufin]

"Pretend the hat man is pointing a gun at you"

"That's me wearing the hat and I know it."

[snapdragonnz]

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

[hasufin]

Can't get past how he's called "tyrant", though.

[nemfrog]

Corn book for young folk. 1920.

Internet Archive

[hasufin]

So, it's exactly what it says on the cover: it is a book about how to grow corn.

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[hasufin]

Okay but for context my father has a profitable side business built on "most people don't check the oil in their lawnmower".

So, you know, a lot of folks do apply that philosophy to everything.

[zszsze]

we're honestly completely fucked if zombies ever discover the power of working together synchronously using an agile team collaboration framework

[hasufin]

Not seeing the problem. We just have to wait for their weekly sprint standup and then headshot the lot of them.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[joanthreatt]

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

[hasufin]

Okay. Let's be clear about "good at swimming".

You are an arboreal ape which has kludged its way into bipedal locomotion on flat land.

Sure, you may be a hella good swimmer for an ape.

But apes are, inherently, extremely shitty swimmers. There is nothing in your evolutionary history that equips you to not suck at swimming. When you say you're a good swimmer, you are rating yourself against other terrible swimmers. It's basically saying you're really good at jumping, so you don't need a parachute if your plane is going down. You're not that good. No one is that good. You cannot be that good.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

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[danshive]

”It was the strangest request I’d ever heard. Damnedest thing, though, is they did find kryptonite in the kitchen. Quite a lot of it, in fact.”

[hasufin]

Listen, just because we CALL him Captain Lead Pipes doesn't mean he doesn't know about other contamination. He's super concerned about proper disposal of HazMat.

[undying-princess]

laughing at a joke about the "refusal of the call" but shaking my head the entire time so the audience knows i don't approve of the monomyth as an effective structure for literary analysis

[hasufin]

Not only will I refuse the call, I choose to persistently apply a different narrative structure to resolve the problems. I will not be going on the Hero's Journey, but we WILL be seeking the least disruptive way to restore balance.

[kitinharru]

the worst thing is when you have crumbs in your bra

[kitinharru]

also when there are crumbs in your keyboard and the keys wont work right

[kitinharru]

the two most important things in every girl’s life

the boobs and the laptop

[official-boob-posts]

I dropped an entire taco down my shirt last night at a bar and spent the rest of the night fishing bits of it out

also my bra got stained by the salsa and I only own three of those things

[hasufin]

Bras are WAY too damned expensive.

[april]

women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open

[gayluigi]

[anomalocaris-in-da-clurb]

Women are like diamonds since they are composed primarily of carbon.

[hasufin]

If you grind them finely enough they burn well?

[craftexchange]

It's Show and Tell Saturday! I'm off for a day of adventures, but I'd love to see what you have to show. What's new in your world this week?

[naamahdarling]

I made a boat out of popsicle sticks and burger picks to go in a diorama/shadowbox. I measured nothing and had only a craft knife to cut with so it's very crooked, but it does actually float!

The most fun part was learning to tie a bowline knot!

[samiholloway]

I have just gotten the first weensie floor tiles...

To turn the Barbie house my niece got me into a fully renovated Victorian for my calico critters. Someday. I'm starting in the kitchen!

[hasufin]

I'm confessedly stuck on "Can craft an adorable and functional miniature boat using only a knife and junk, but did not know how to tie a bowline."

Like, I believe this, I do. But it's such a wild inversion of what I consider basic versus advanced skills, it's breaking me a little.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i was hanging out with my brother internet sensation hank green tonight, and he was like, "If you spent more time on bluesky you'd be so popular," and i found out he has like 800,000 followers there.

and then i was like, "But I'm on tumblr, which is like the Marines for the Internet. Do you know how fucking dangerous it is there? I am putting my goddamned life in my goddamned hands every time I log in. Bluesky could never."

[samiholloway]

I mean. You're not wrong.

[hasufin]

I agree with the idea that Tumblr is like the abyssal depths of the ocean: we live in an environment unimaginable to others, but also we cannot survive outside of it.

[birdandmoon]

Female birds with confusing names.

Sign up for my mailing list.

[hasufin]

I'm not sure if there's any rule stating that a female northern cardinal CAN'T be elected pope.

[progressivepower]

Yup http://news.usaunify.org/TSNwpQ

[draconym]

i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer

[aj-living-life]

Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.

[aj-living-life]

Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.

[hasufin]

I mean, just generally, if my only knowledge of an event was from something that I could tell was created by AI, I'd assume it wasn't a real event and, optimistically, it was some marketing bullshit - if I didn't think it was completely fake and nothing was happening at that time and place.

Like, it's AI. There is no credibility to it.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[hasufin]

This makes me think of the old saying, “When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.”

The issue is, people today are generally pretty tech-savvy, or at least tech-savviness isn't some rare trait. So there are plenty of people who are rationally looking at things like panopticon technologies, and AI, and raising serious concerns.

And it's hard to argue with them anymore, because these concerns aren't all gibberish to the average person like they were before.

So instead the approach is to just drown them out. To not engage with the arguments, because the arguments are right. Instead just say vaguely that people don't understand, that these changes are inevitable and natural (never you mind the trillions of dollars being spent to push them up the side of a mountain, never you mind that lawsuits and zoning changes being made to force things along, never you mind the lobbying and propaganda). But never, never talk about the arguments, because the techbros today can't win the arguments.

[hasufin]

Lore

You ever wonder if Mary Poppins and Buckaroo Banzai hooked up?

Because I think they did. I think they were together for a while, and had a kid, but ultimately they just couldn't make it work. While they were each amazing in their own right, they were just too different and ended up competing when they should have cooperated.

They had a messy divorce in the early 80s, and vowed to never speak of the other again.

Their daughter, Carmen, always felt invisible compared to her overachieving parents. Alienated from both of them, she changed her last name and took up a life of crime... stealing famous landmarks in a ploy to get the attention she felt that her parents and the world denied to her.