Sub Astris

[supermariomamafucker]

just told him about the miasma (bad air) and now hes trying to escape 😂

[iatheia]

@alex51324

[delphinidin4]

[theprofessional-amateur]

[lynxfang]

I love funky wildlife services. I aspire to be as funky and know as much about wildlife

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

[biohammer]

Tags via @brawltogethernow

[everythingfox]

What a copy cat

[xanthumn]

[cowboy]

Can anything be done to help this wretched twenty four

[ugimoroz]

[vaspider]

So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.

[vaspider]

So... I heard from a friend of 20+ years who works for the State Department who confirmed to me in so many words that they can assure me, without specifics, that "all of the suppositions you have made here are true."

So... yep. Passport folx at the State Department really did work incredibly long hours this week just... shoveling every passport out the door (and prioritizing the ones that might be A Problem come Monday) and yes, they did On Purpose make sure that all of them weren't just DONE but MAILED and out the door and in the hands of the USPS so that they can't be told to pull those passports back and deny/destroy them.

This also means they got the OK for the mountains of overtime from the Biden administration to get that done.

This is what I mean when I say that the Good Work is often not glamorous and that we have to prioritize things which actively and immediately better the lives of our siblings. The State Department worker who was still in the office last night at midnight Pacific time stuffing my passport into an Express Mail envelope and making sure that it was in the hands of USPS has done more liberatory work for the trans movement than 100 people endlessly auditing the language others use to describe their lives ever will.

These next years are gonna be real hard. Find something tangible to do for yourself and others, however small, and do it as hard as you can.

[enki2]

[shiftycryptid]

[imamagicmuffin]

[mouth-less]

[voltaspistol]

[kandoros]

They didn't introduce a bill to just repeal the $35 cap on insulin.

They introduced a bill to repeal the entire Inflation Reduction Act.

Which, among other things, means they want to get rid of:

the $35 insulin cap.

And a yearly cap of $2,000 for medications in Medicare Part D.

And allowing Medicare to negotiate for drug prices.

And requiring pharma companies to issue refunds to Medicare if the costs of their drugs rises faster than inflation

And an elimination of copays in Medicare Part D for vaccines like tetanus and rabies

And an expansion of eligibility for low-income subsidies for Medicare

Saying they want to eliminate just the insulin cap is understating their desire to fuck people over.

[alex51324]

Everyone who voted for one of these people, or who skipped voting because the Democrat wasn't morally pure enough, should be randomly assigned one of the people who will die in the next four years from complications of diabetes as a result of having to skip doses or ration their insulin supply.

They should get a notice in the mail* when the person dies, with photographs and a description of the person's life and their mourners.

They should get additional notices on the person's birthday, wedding anniversary, and any relevant holidays (i.e., Mother's day if the person was a mother, or has a living mother mourning them).

(*Registered mail with return receipt. If they refuse it, a process server comes and reads it out loud to them.)

The congresspeople who voted for this are also randomly assigned a person, but in addition to the regular notices they also get the name tattooed on their eyelids, plus they get copies of all such notices sent to each of their constituents. They must open & read each one personally, or else the process server comes.)

[thestuffedalligator]

What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

[thestuffedalligator]

"Listen for Christ's sake we're a modern paper. Parker - Parker get in here - this is Madeline Parker, came out three months ago. Best photographer we've got. We're proud to have her on board. We at the Daily Bugle are proud to support the LGBTQ+ community bUT THIS SPIDER-GIRL IS A MENACE"

[thestuffedalligator]

Overwhelming consensus on this post is that you should come out in your superhero identity first, and then a couple weeks down the line come out in your secret identity and when people ask just go “Oh seeing Spider-Girl come out really gave me the confidence to come out myself” which is the best possible answer

[turnpikeghosts]

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths

[turnpikeghosts]

if you use chatgpt to write your english assignments that is bad. you should not do that

[turnpikeghosts]

this has been accelerated by watching my roommate who teaches freshmen composition slowly become ben_affleck_smoking.jpg as he has to fail multiple students every semester for using chatgpt

[turnpikeghosts]

like. this is bad and this person should feel bad lol this completely misses the point of writing assignments. the point is the production, not the end product

[turnpikeghosts]

critical thinking is a genuinely important life skill, whether or not you pursue higher education. fascism relies on anti-intellectualism!

[turnpikeghosts]

AND IT’S TERRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. what are we doing here

[headspace-hotel]

Your ability to think for yourself is one of the most valuable powers you have, and one of the only things no one can take away from you.

Do not give it away willingly.

[mockiatoh]

Just “give them the grade they deserve” is so insane to me. The grade you deserve for plagiarism is, in fact, a zero.

[greatwyrmgold]

Even if you don't think generative AI is an inherently plagiaristic process, if ChatGPT isn't the one enrolled in high school, using ChatGPT's essays is still plagiarism.

If you want a more in-depth look at why ChatGPT fails both at writing decent essays and at teaching what essays are supposed to teach, read this post.

Collections: On ChatGPT

So I stirred up a bit of conversation on Twitter last week when I noted that I had already been handed ChatGPT produced assignments. For tho

[tiggymalvern]

I just started White Collar.

Episode one: FBI dude staring at a file. His wife leans over his shoulder and says, "Neal Caffrey. I spent three years competing with him."

Episode two: Neal Caffrey is sitting on FBI dude's sofa next to his wife and cuddling his dog. FBI dude is asking Neil's advice on how to romance his wife.

Me: Oh, yeah, this is going to be fun.

[ayeforscotland]

When I became freelance, one of my first marketing contracts was fixing my boss' blog posts and articles that he had 'written' with ChatGPT.

It was the single most soul-sucking task I have ever done in my life. I could have ghostwritten it for them faster than it took me to edit it.

ChatGPT would often hallucinate features of the product, and often required more fact-checking than the article was worth.

It is absolutely no surprise that 77% of employees report that AI has increased workloads and lowered productivity, while 96% of executives believe it has boosted it.

The reality is that it's only boosted the amount of work employees have to do which leads to increased burnout, stress and job dissatisfaction.

Source.

[quasi-normalcy]

In the words of Cory Doctorow, AI can't do your job, but AI salesmen can convince your boss that AI can do your job.

[todayintokyo]

In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

[coughloop]

MOVE IDIOT

[crabs-in-a-trench-coat]

He just chillin

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

“This water sure does like hitting me”

[mabesies]

[andhumanslovedstories]

There’s such a delicious enjoyment for me in scenes that are fights between two people that are so brutal because of how intimate their relationship is. They WILL bring up ancient history, they WILL stab you in all your weakest parts, and yeah most sexy of all, they WILL say things to each other they can never unsay. It’s fighting as an act of intimacy (derogatory). Evil sex scene. Nothing better

[polpotpie]

What if water didn't have surface tension and whenever you spilled some, the whole floor of your entire apartment was covered in a 2 micrometer deep puddle

[teaboot]

you've taught me to count blessings I didn't know were mine