Are you sassing me, Commander?

you could be my only star, you could be the moonlight.

[pastlink]

[copperbadge]

Sometimes it’s one you write. 

[ID: A tweet from ylinglaozu reading “Bee very careful of kink shaming because you are one ao3 fic away from discovering something about yourself.”]

[000l]

always remember, someone’s effort is a reflection of their interest in you

[kaitwin3]

This is the most Hawkeye photo I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s insufferable. I love it. 🏹💜

[wolf-of-odin-1963]

[longjump5o6]

Saw on the local news the other day how Salvation Army was struggling for donations during the pandemic and all I said was “Good.”

[mr-downer]

with adobe flash going the way of the dinosaur it really solidifies that the old net is dead, and our children will grow up in a world in which the web is a highly commercialized hell hole instead of a lawless zone free of civilization.

So this is how the cowboys felt huh

[nerdgul]

A moment of silence for all the poorly animated flash videos and games on newgrounds that shaped our childhoods

[lioness--hart]

Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names.

Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing they’re doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.

If that doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).

There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. It’s described in the link, but if you’re still not sure about it, please ask me and I’ll guide you through how to turn all this off.

This is my wake-up call. I’ll be locking down my devices and scaling back what I put through the big Google machine, which means you may see less of me across social media. I’m going to keep researching this, but it may mean in order to keep the rights to my creative work, I’ll have to keep it out of Google’s hands. And that may take some doing.

[thebyrchentwigges]

Duckduckgo is a nontracking search engine….may be worth a try.

[tygermama]

So according to the article there is an opt out for this. Instructions are I the last paragraph. I’m on mobile so I’ll edit this more later. EDITED TO INCLUDE OPT OUT INSTRUCTIONS

To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page, and uncheck the box next to “Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services.“ You can also delete past activity from your account.

[jellyroll22]

FUCKING BOOST!!!!!

[finnglas]

Just did this. The opt out and deletion process was easy and painless. Considering what we’ve seen of data breaches and the fact that Google straight up deleted their “Don’t be evil” clause? It seemed worth it to me.

[stormqueen280]

Opting out is pretty easy (thanks @tygermama). 

[theinturnetexplorer]

[pixll-sparks-deactivated2021111]

Listen everyone just cause your in a scientific field doesn’t make you smart enough to not make mistakes in the field

[underscorespider]

if you often like or reblog my posts i 100% remember your username and mentally go “oh yes friend” every single time i see you in my notes or on my dash 

[iratetreasure-deactivated202310]

[powerfulwizard]

ugly men are like, girls just want sexy confident chads who treat them like shit, when instead they should be with a stinky virgin with no social confidence like me who will also treat you like shit

[fuckyeahgreatplays]

Me, constantly

[furiousgoldfish]

If your family thinks anything bothering you must be stupid, they’re doing nothing for your well being.

If your family thinks you’re not to be taken seriously, no matter how much you try, they’re doing nothing for you.

If your family considers your achievements not worth mentioning, less important than everyone else’s stuff, and to be minimized and dismissed, they are failing you.

If you feel like no matter hurt, desperate, and scared you are, it’s all going to be considered your fault, and you’ll be humiliated for feeling like you do, you are not safe there.

If some of your biggest fears is what your family would do to you in certain situations, and how would they react if they knew more vulnerable and intimate details about you, you don’t really have a family.

If you can try and try and bend over backwards trying to prove to your family that you’re not that bad, not that useless, not that stupid, not that irresponsible, not that lazy, and they still dismiss and ridicule you for it, they’re not your family.

If you feel alone when surrounded by your family, and like no-one is standing in your corner, it’s the same as not having any family at all.

If you feel trapped and cornered, isolated and small, like your voice isn’t important enough to hear, like you have to fight, over and over again, just to prove them wrong, you’re living in abusive family. This is not how it’s supposed to be like. Family is one place where you shouldn’t have to fight for yourself like that. Where other people should fight for you. Root for you. They should be your voices making you strong against the world. Not telling you that you, somehow, are worse than them, or anyone else.

[wilwheaton]

Every single one of these sentences describes the way the man who was my father treated me.

[the-fruit-bucket]

if i’m bigender and bisexual does that mean i’m both mlm and wlw? because if so then i am a power higher than god. and if not then yes i am.

[bugfluids-deactivated20250511]

americans get this through your fucking heads

[parkchanwoohoo]

I don't fucking care if it's manipulative, if your gf larps as an elf while talking to your relative who's undergoing chemo, you're allowed to humiliate her in front of her friends by larping as Naruto

[chongoblog]

Thank god, I’ve been caught in this moral quandary for weeks now

[soaringsearingphoenix]

The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

[soaringsearingphoenix]

Like... i have to make sure my meals are nutritionally balanced... i have to make sure that the space i occupy is big enough, and interesting enough, and provide enrichment to make up for the lack of novelty... i have to make sure i get exercise... i'm not qualified for this

[incarnate-clay]

Why would you abandon this in the tags? 

[vrabia]

[rainbowravioli]

Sorry to say, but they do the exact same thing for humans too.

[rainbowravioli]

It’s amazing how people in the notes and comments are absolutely FURIOUS at me for the included Frozen comparison. Special shout out to everyone trying to prove that real people look like this.

[penismadnessgirl]

Not to mention that when people edit these characters to have better facial proportions, the originals look like bizarre fish people.

[simonalkenmayer]

How humans draw themselves is always fascinating to me

[rose-in-the-cosmos]

op why are you speaking like you aren’t human i’m scared

[simonalkenmayer]

Eh…perhaps read my blog description.

[61below]

[rottingfacade]

[helloitsbees]

this post has EVERYTHING

[moth-doe]

I think I know the reason for why people prefer “unrealistic” animation.

For some reason, humans really don’t like things that look like humans but aren’t quite human. Hence why a lot of people are uncomfortable with movies with animation like Monster House and The Polar Express. It looks too realistic to us and sets us off.

Scientists call this the “Uncanny Valley” effect and its thought to be an evolutionary tactic for survival.

The funny part is. No other animals that we know of experience the uncanny valley effect. Only humans. Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival?

[sexy-necromancing-bird]

Oh hell yeah this is what I’m here for

[niuniente]

Which leaves the question: what was out there that mimicked humans so well and was so dangerous to us that we evolved to have this as a tactic for survival? 

@hitodama89

[athelind]

Okay, I’ve seen this thread a dozen times before, but not with this addendum.

[vrabia]

i made the original post in the throes of unmedicated depression because that’s where my sense of humor was at the time. i don’t check my activity page. seeing it barge onto my dash months later with +250k notes and this exchange attached to it like a bunch of rattling tin cans attached to the tail of a rabid dog running loose is fucking WILD

[cluster-fandom]

So sometime after whenever humans developed the uncanny valley effect, did we just hunt this mysterious predator to extinction? Or did it die out on it’s own? Or did it evolve as well into something… else? Could it still be living on Earth today?

[eternal-fractal]

Idk why dont we ask the “people eating cryptid” who claims to be from a species that’s easy to hide and apparently passes as human who’s like, 3 reblogs above this?

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

[fuckingconversations]

Hey fun fact;

Back when Homo sapiens weren’t the end-all of hominids, we also had some other two legged “humanish” cousins like the Neanderthals, Denisovians, and more!

There were nine different species of “humans”

By 10,000 years ago, they were all gone. The disappearance of these other species resembles a mass extinction. But there’s no obvious environmental catastrophe – volcanic eruptions, climate change, asteroid impact – driving it.

Instead, the extinctions’ timing suggests they were caused by the spread of a new species, evolving 260,000-350,000 years ago in Southern Africa: Homo sapiens.

Neanderthal skeletons show patterns of trauma consistent with warfare.

Like language or tool use, a capacity for and tendency to engage in genocide is arguably an intrinsic, instinctive part of human nature.

Optimists have painted early hunter-gatherers as peaceful, noble savages, and have argued that our culture, not our nature, creates violence. But field studies, historical accounts, and archaeology all show that war in primitive cultures was intense, pervasive and lethal.

Basically: the reason we as Homo Sapians find other human-ish figures unsettling and have an instinctual fear/aggression response called “The Uncanny Valley” is because we literally TOOK OVER THE WORLD by hunting down and killing every other hominid on the planet.

Dunno if the “9 species of hominid genocide” was a result of uncanny valley or the cause of it, but it’s a pretty sure bet to guess they’re linked.

Read more about it here :)

[isaacsapphire]

This is a wonderful post.