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venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

weirdplutoprince

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

enki2

thebdelliumlady

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

chapscher

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

#I like to call this the re-teen effect #Because I have to rip out toxic dependence by the fucking roots once I find them in the teens I work with.#bitchass ai models dragging people back to middle school. Did you like middle school??#generally the reviews are bad.#its fine to recognize you were a kid doing things kids that age do #BUT DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE ALL OF YOUR PEERS #PICK UP AND DROP PEOPLE LIKE A CARELESS TODDLER IN A MUDPIT??? DO YOU???????#(If you’re like pff yeah i dont care #got news for you. You’re the middle schooler. You’re the baby teen of possibly an older age who needs to exit the purely shit part of being #about 12-14 years old. Because you didn’t go back in time.#you just lost all the skills that made you remotely palatable as a human being.)#Fucking hate people making ai models designed to promote isolation and assholery.#Equally confused by people continuing to eat the shit sandwhich by willingly participating. No one can force you to use these things.

wastrelwoods

been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information

brawltogethernow

They missed. 😔

#Oh they sure did 😂😂😂

ebookporn

#Milestones don’t happen in 15 minutes #Ever see one of those human “growth and development milestones” charts??#shit takes years. YEARS.#theres 525600 minutes in a 365 day year #Thats 35040 chunks of 15 minutes.#Which doesnt really matter and is besides the point.#Babies take YEARS to reach milestones of skill that we take for granted later #and even then #it aint a race. Theres a range for even the average baby to be in the average time range of when the most typically developing are likely #to reach that milestone.#plus they’re arbitrary anyways.#comparisons have their place for being useful in some situations #but remember. You set your own milestones.#don’t get too caught up in looking too far ahead all the time.#Enjoy those 15 minutes. Even if they’re all you get.#they add up. Before you know it #you’ll be there.

free-my-mindd

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telekitnetic-art

THUNDERSTRUCK (COMMISSION)⚡🐺

Commission for rezzyjulzz on bsky

danielwaldorf

customers today included:

- middle aged man who ordered matcha and then just Stood There and watched me make it. when i handed it to him he said i did a good job whisking it and handed me $1.25. ten minutes later when he and his wife left he shouted across the store that i have "good whisk technique" and "don't lose that!"

- woman who ordered a drink with the word "salty" in the name and then said "but with salted caramel." and when i said yeah that one comes with salted caramel she said "really? not just normal caramel?" and it took every ounce of my self control not to say yeah girl that's why it's called. Salty.

- extremely generic looking straight couple. woman wearing a trans pride pin that says "you're worried about the wrong 1%". i say "i like your pin!" she says "haha me too!" we finish the transaction and the man drops a bill in the tip jar. like five minutes later my coworker says emily what the fuck why is there a Twenty in the tip jar. i realize we haven't had any customers since that guy. i say holy fuck. i love you trans pride couple i hope you have the best day ever

fedora-official

I'm going to temporarily slow down on forcefemming linux users to instead forcelinux trans people. My girlfriend still uses windows. When I come over to her place I'm going to show up with an installation media and use my feminine charm to make her install linux

fedora-official

when tf did this get a thousand notes

fedora-official

I wanted to add a caption but then I looked at her cute tummy and awawawawawaawawa

fedora-official

this somehow breached containment and as you'd expect from the Reddit crowd the comments are filled with learned incompetence and reactionary takes

linux isn't harder you were just taught to use windows (windows is actually way more complicated once you know both. source I do)

linux has graphical applications for settings and installing stuff and whatever, you don't need to input commands if you don't want to

inputting commands isn't "coding" you just copy and paste 4 words that mean "run as administrator and install [program]"

and if you really do use a program that doesn't have a linux version or wine looks too complicated, that's okay!! just instead of going "NEVER!!" and playing into the Microsoft propaganda, considering saying:

I wish more developers would make their programs compatible with linux

Linux looks really cool, I'm just stuck because of [program] at the moment

fuck you Nvidia for making this harder than it needs to be

Woah that girl is really pretty

I wish that were me 😵‍💫

hnngsdfsfsnd

#I enjoyed my linux laptop. It was just the most barebones laptop Ever.#it did not have the ability to run anything.#not entirely true I did force it to connect with a flatbed scanner I saved from the trash #and got some good scans for a project at the time.#thank you linux laptop. Rest in peace wherever you are.

narrativelydoomed

untitled by s0liloquy / Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Novelization written by Matthew Stover / Master And Apprentice written by Claudia Gray for Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

valevntine

this is the way - the one and only way, actually. i know mando would shoot down any and every homophobe and transphobe in his target 🙂‍↕️

share your flag <3 prints & stickers now available on my shop!! happy pride!! 🌈 🫶🏻

nymph1e

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?