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@kserendipityme
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?
decay exists as an extant form of life
That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???
@staff @tumblr
Genuine question - Where do you get your update concepts? Where do you keep getting these ideas about "what tumblr users want" with regard to the use and functionality of this website?
Because for true and for serious, whoever is giving you these ideas, they have no idea what they're talking about.
If you're using a focus group, get a new one. If you're using a consultant, fire them. If you're looking at other social media sites and using that as a template, STOP.
The entire charm of tumblr is that it is NOT like other websites. We like it the way it is. We've built a home and a culture and a community that's lasted for over 20 years now, which is more than most other text-based social media sites from the 2010s can say.
If you want ideas on how to improve the site, ASK ACTUAL TUMBLR USERS. They'll tell you things like :
improve the search function
improve the tag system
improve user support and problem reporting
improve account filters to weed out pornbots and spam accounts
do something about the repetitive dashboard ads so that blocking them actually works
use human-intelligence review to prevent hate-reporting against marginalized users and needless deletion of their accounts
do better with removing hate groups and hate content from the site
Or, if you want something else to do, fix the mobile app. Half the time, it doesn't work at all.
It's weird here. It's unconventional. It's nerdy and niche and hard to pin down. And that's kind of the point.
We love our big blue hellsite.
Don't fuck it up.
Sincerely,
Everyone
If you're wondering why there's so much resistance to the idea of a 4-day work week, or why automation hasn't actually led to people working less like it was supposed to...
hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.
This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD
I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
Seeing how positive the reaction to Father Jud in Wake Up Dead Man has been confirms my belief that most people—even dyed in the wool atheists—desperately, desperately want Christians to live up to the ideals they profess.
That’s why I don’t take it personally or get offended when a person rails against Christianity. Their anger often comes from a place of profound, justified disappointment. And if a person can be disappointed, they’re still looking for good in this world. And if they’re looking for good, we’re looking for the same thing.
A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, whe
some research published earlier this year.
reblog to send three ghosts after elon musk
Oh, no. Three ghosts per reblog! As of posting this reply, we’re at (checks notes) 75 ghosts and counting
well. um. lot more than 75, now
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ive said it before and i'll say it again but carrying a weapon does not make you safer, it gives the person assaulting you a free weapon. i know we live in a time where fear is profitable and the cute pink stun guns make feminism sexy but they do not work like you think they do.
there is an extremely slim chance you will be able to deploy the pepper spray/taser/gun in a way that does not harm you at all. pepper spray blows back, guns miss, tasers slip. there is a much much larger chance things go poorly and you end up getting hurt worse than originally intended because now your assailant is pissed and more heavily armed.
im not talking out my ass here, i'm a case manager at a homeless shelter for addicts. we have a lot of violent behavior. none of our staff carry any sort of weapons. we are trained to de-escalate or remove ourselves from the situation. i have worked there over two years without being harmed despite intervening in many fights and having weapons pulled on me.
there is safety in numbers. there is safety in well lit streets and staying on your phone and knowing when to scream and run. there is no safety in "personal defense items".
weapons do not make you safe
guns do not make you safe
more people carrying weapons makes more violence
it's an illusion. it's a mental game. a weapon is a safety blanket that will sooner kill you than stop someone else from doing so.
we are also not in PVP grand theft auto. as scary as things seem, humans are not out there re-enacting the purge 24/7. there are lots of people who benefit from you being afraid of everyone you pass on the street. a lot of those people will try to sell you things to keep you safe. don't fall for it.
Additional source:
Despite arguments from the gun lobby and its allies, guns used for self-defense are not common, beneficial for society, or efficient in dete
This was news from thee newscast here (Tagesschau) so the article is only in German but here my favourite parts:
- for a long time the only reason they knew the worm existed were the traces it left on the corals it ate, no one ever saw it
- until one day they found a one point five metre long part of the worm that was still wiggling
- only the part was missing the head, and the corals continued to be eaten, so apparently the worm just got rid of its bum and continued on like normal
- DNA tests of the bum could not determine its species, only that it is in some way related to the bobbit worm (also called eunice aphroditois), so this might be an entirely new species
- the worm is called 'Phantom'
- they installed cameras for four days, but didn't manage to capture the worm, after removing the cameras the worm continued eating the corals - right where the cameras had been
- the guy who positioned the camera said to that 'Lots of material, sadly extremly little worm, as in neither a long nor the short worm. We haven't seen anything.'
- now they have installed a camera again and a popular german news channel is streaming the whole night so that everyone can search for Phantom:
🪱 Livestream: Nachts im Aquarium – auf der Suche nach einem Phantom: Seit rund zehn Jahren treibt ein rätselhafter Borstenwurm im Meerwasser
gotta say i love the different categories of comments:
- germans making worm puns and jokes, including die drei ??? and das sommerlochtier
- people going 'ah yes, the wretched bobbitworm, of course it's him, we all know what wicked beasts they are'
- people tagging friends who apparently are known for their worm special interest ♥️🪱
- wtf; very much wtf
@corpsegods our worm wrangling skills are needed.
Swim, my angel of chaos!
Ayoo just to preempt the inevitable dumb takes we’re about to start seeing;
I am PRO-WOOL
I am PRO-LEATHER
I am PRO-BEES
Fuck the idea of replacing durable, sustainable animal products with cheap, flimsy plastic that doesn’t bio-degrade. Agave nectar and other artificial sweeteners are expensive, labor-intensive, and destroy the environment to be farmed.
Do not buy into pernicious marketing campaigns pushed by dickhead organizations trying to stay relevant, like PETA.
“but the industry-”
listen there is a huge difference between an industry with problems that can be made sustainable and more humane, and an industry that cannot, given current technology, continue to the present degree without destroying our planet
Story is wild
Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.
But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.
The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.
In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair
the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!
Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes
Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.
They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.
I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.
Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman's easter holidays
I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.
One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like 'it's a livestock animal, it's her fault for getting attached' and.
My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl's emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.
The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn't even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.
The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl's mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child's mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.
Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen's property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question' should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.
News to know: The next court update on this is sometime in October 2024. I'm watching this case because it covers a lot of different facets of how contracts work, minors rights, property rights in the face of law enforcement seizures and searches, and how does one county fair have so much brutality to wield against a then-nine-year-old. I would not be surprised if this gets bogged down again with more counter-suits. It's absolutely ghoulish that they're doing all this over less than 1000$ of goat and one little girls grief. I hope that the judge who sees this case knows just how dangerous it is to dismiss, since this is a matter of third-party property rights infringement using law enforcement agents as bludgeons. The Sheriffs *cannot* be allowed to maintain extrajudicial authority.
UPDATE:
GIRL WINS $300,000
Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision to use deputies to seize a girl's pet goat to be slaughtered. It's
A HAPPY ENDING
The experience of wanting to live is actually extremely painful and possibly excruciating and possibly so bad that the body muffles it and renders it an inaccessible feeling. I know because i just touched it and it electrocuted me
Living in the city of Chicago with relatives in the suburbs has given me a finely-honed radar for when people are complaining or worrying about a real place that very much exists vs. panicking about The City. The City is not a real place so much as a roiling blob of various fears, soundbites from cable news, and a half-remembered story about something that once happened to a friend of a friend. It's not that their fears are unfounded---Chicago objectively has more crime than their suburban enclave, it has more drugs, it has poverty and need in ways that are harder to ignore or brush off---but they get the proportions all wrong.
More importantly, they fail to recognize that Chicago has more of everything else too. More art and places to see art. More music, of more varieties. More kinds of nature, both native and cultivated and both at the same time. More things happening, more people arguing with each other about various topics, more people making music and going to see it, more street fairs and people going to street fairs, more people hanging out in parks, more people biking along the lakeshore---just more people. If you want all the good things that come with a critical mass of humanity, you have to acknowledge that the bad things will come with it; it's the same humanity after all.
And honestly I don't think those so afraid of The City have any genuinely good ideas about how to separate the wheat from the chaff. God, do people try. Some of them even succeed! (Redlining and HOAs had to come from somewhere after all.) But I sincerely believe that the absolute second you appoint yourself the arbiter of Who Gets To Be Here, you've lost. Sure, the bad might be minimized---but the good will be shallower. After all, you were so terrified of The City that you foreclosed any chance of its messy, roiling goodness (the kind of goodness you only get with a critical mass of humanity living in a place that has been built for them) touching you.
As much as I can appreciate the comfort that control brings, it doesn't take much to realize that they're just scared of a place they made up in their head.
I want to expand here.
The whole point of an economy is to facilitate the human experience. Economies are a forum to exchange goods and services for society to operate etc.
If the economy has to run at the expense of human experience, that system has failed in its only purpose and must be replaced.
