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I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious -Michael Scott

[ironicsuperstition]

LOOK AT MY DOGS

look at them

[ironicsuperstition]

The tags are so i can easily access stuff on my page, dont worry about it

[butterflyscribbles]

Totally normal processing of emotions🥲

[kalichnikov]

[mentally-homeless]

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

Obligatory

[thedemonsurfer]

shots shots shots

(Based on a photo by Jeremy Igo )

[fibfoolingart]

a visitor on the biodome!!

[pokkin]

Had a dream that markiplier was struck by lightning and imbued with electrical abilities. People were encouraging him to use his powers for good but he just went back to playing videogames. All the videos were about three minutes long because as soon as he got jumpscared there'd be a brilliant blue flash and he'd fry his computer.

[pokkin]

Artist recreation

[undeadparished]

hi

[aster-likes-space]

@willis-is-aroace-boylife hiiii

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

You’ve seen those photos of dogs snapped through catching a treat, with just the silliest faces? I see those and raise you: a tiger catching meatballs.

This is Kali, a Sumatran tigress at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.

[theswordofdamntheseknees]

Looks to me the tiger stepped on a Lego(s) and the “meatballs” were Photoshopped-in. C’mon, we’ve all made those faces.

What say you, @hatesaltrat , @mysterypinups ?!

[animalphotorefs]

Hey so you might want to check the blog info - this project is completely my own photography, and I am explicitly and rather rabidly anti-AI in sentiment.

I’m not upset or anything, I can kinda see what you mean! If you’re expecting anything cool on the internet these days to probably be fake, yeah, the colors on the meat do look incongruous.

Let’s take a second here and use this as an educational experience for everyone. Fake animal photos are totally an internet scourge these days. If you don’t trust the OP of a post like this saying it’s not AI, how else could you check and try to find out?

Three things to help you verify not slop:

1. There’s a bunch of other photos in series with this one on my website, which allows you to see context for when and how the photos were taken. There’s also other photos of this animal and this habitat in other lighting and weather conditions. That’s generally more work than people will go to if they just want to create a viral photo, and you can look for internal consistency.

2. AI isn’t good enough yet to replicate specific stripe patterns on individual tigers, they get all wonky. The animal and her location are named in this instance and it’s easy to google to see if everything lines up.

3. You can also check to see if the thing in photos actually happens. The meatball throwing demo is a very, very common occurrence at this facility! It’s a regular activity during talks when tigers are in that habitat (it is a multi-species rotational space). They posted a video on their Facebook fourteen hours ago of their curator getting a direct shot into a different tiger’s mouth.

In general, it’s good to be skeptical these days! But it’s also useful to know how to check some of the things that will help you find out what’s real and what isn’t.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Hah, okay, I just realized that I just assumed this post was one from the Repository account and reblogged the educational stuff from there instead of WADTT. Don’t blog in the first few minutes after you wake up, folks!

So, to caveat what I had said, the first option would be a good way to check if the photo had been posted on the right blog - the one with a photo website attached. Coming from the WADTT blog you’d want to use the other two options. 🙃

[inatherps]

Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus)

Observed by saskia_thomas, CC BY-NC

[fyrenwater]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[smieska-draws]

[WELCOME!] TO thE FAMiLY [BZNZ]!!!!!!!!!!

welcome home, Spamton 2.0

[katificer]

[elliespectacular]

least-useful critique has gotta be "not your best work"

[staticbluue]

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is eugenics. This is phrenology. THIS IS NAZI SHIT, YOU ARE A LEFTIST BUYING INTO NAZI SHIT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO NAZI SHIT.

[skies-diary]

I've seen a lot of people in the comments saying people needing to pass a test to have kids is a good idea, but I don't think they understand what that means. The US government used to take Indigenous children from their parents for reasons as asinine as grandparents living in the home (called "overcrowded environment") or using only their native language at home instead of English (because it "failed to prepare" children for a world where English is the dominant langauge).

Children placed in residental schools were abused, murdered, and sold into arranged marriages with white men. More recently, children "adopted" out into white households are often also subjected to the same, as well as forcibly converted to Christianity.

The most effective way to protect children in the country is to give them rights to ensure their safety, autonomy and dignity. Eugenics and laws to control reproduction will not do that. Crafting legislation with the help of child wellness experts is a better choice.

[skies-diary]

I should add - the US government STILL disproportionately targets Indigenous families for child welfare checks. ICWA is supposed to protect against this but is unevenly enforced, and there's even talk of overturning it. Protect ICWA and Indigenous children.

[3000s]

[bob-artist]

Bittern at the grocery store

[sparkly-heretic]

A very elegant crime.

(edit: my partner just pointed out that maybe the bittern is going to pay, and that's a good point)

[bob-artist]

Don't worry, his disguise was flawless and he got away with his snack :)

[dragongirlbunny]

the ruler is hosting festivities in the capital while the nation collapses, and heretics have caused a schism in the catholic church. i love living in the middle ages.

[dragongirlbunny]

we even have a The Plague