Rabbit Cube

Abandoned as an infant and raised by wolves, I was discovered and brought to civilization last Friday, since when I... huh? Oh...

[catchymemes]

[raisondetriment]

[crazygnomenclature]

"Phobe pts. 1-8"

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[ironmyrmidon]

Oh damn, she wants Eugene sooo bad

[self-loving-vampire]

Something both curious and kind of unpleasant about the way cults are discussed online is that if you ever claim you don't find their sales pitches persuasive or don't have the sorts of emotional needs that draw people to them you get lots of people telling you that doesn't matter because cult leaders basically have mind control powers and will convince you to hand over all your money and power, no matter how contrary to your convictions and preferences and model of reality their claims are.

I can understand remaining proportionately cautious about dangerous things even if you're pretty certain you're in the clear. It is a good habit. I think this is taking things too far and into "you have no agency but cult leaders have infinite agency" territory though.

[feotakahari]

The way some people talk about how cult leaders will brainwash you is a lot like the way some people talk about how sissy porn will brainwash you.

[self-loving-vampire]

Bonus: There was a well-known "cult expert" who jumped into the transphobia bandwagon and started talking about how sissy hypno porn was legit mind control that he struggled to resist.

[mslettywhiterock]

I'm jumping off the bonus on a tangent. The sissy hypno thing is one of the weirdest things I've encountered. There's a recovery subreddit about it and I forget what it's called, but it's basically a support group for people became addicted to these hypno audios. There's people talking about how they've had to turn to religion to get away from the evil. How it's ruining their lives because they can't stop inviting dudes over to fuck them.

Specifically around one specific set of audios called Bambi Sleep. They're a like... Long series of audios that are meant to instill a second personality named "Bambi" in you who's basically a horny bimbo. And they talk about it like it's some horrific addictive drug that's impossible to quit and will destroy your life. They will genuinely warn people against listening to them with the same seriousness people who quit heroine will warn people not to try it.

I've gone to listen to these just to see what they're like as someone who actually listens to horny hypno audios. And they're not good. They're all TTS and kinda boring. They're meant to install "triggers" in the listener, phrases that are meant to bring you back into a specific trance state, which they build off of in subsequent audios. Not uncommon for hypnosis audios, but they're not magic. Many hypno creators will add basically the equivalent of a safe word stating that you can immediately break trance if you're uncomfortable, something important comes up, or whatever reason. Or that the triggers basically only work when you want them to. Again, it's not magic, so it functions more as a way to make some people more comfortable and less anxious. These audios don't have that, so if you genuinely buy into the idea that these can make you do things against your will and fully control you, then I'm not surprised they make these people uncomfortable. It's just that's not actually how hypnosis works. I can say for certain they're not going to do anything to you other than maybe introduce you to a kink you didn't know you're into.

I think it's fair to say that a lot of these people are either just into this kind of kink and/or just trans but are burying those feelings deep inside themselves deep under intense internalized transphobia and general sex negativity. So they treat the good emotions they feel when they engage in it as evil temptations.

It's genuinely depressing but also fascinating.

[afloweroutofstone]

Google quietly added generative AI capabilities to Google Earth, allowing anyone to generate false images on top of real satellite imagery. It seems pretty rudimentary, but the potential for disinformation is sky-high.

Anyway, did y'all hear that they nuked the White House?

[afloweroutofstone]

Within the first few hours of its discovery, people on Twitter used this tool to generate an Epstein Island attraction at Disneyland, a mega-prison within Google’s headquarters, and a sequel to 9/11.

Google has already announced that they will be “rolling back” this feature because of screenshots like these:

The fact that they want to bring it back with “guardrails” is ridiculous. Screenshots like these are not the work of some malign actors, they’re instant proof that your idea is terrible on its face

[headspace-hotel]

What did they think was going to happen

[cipheramnesia]

Working with different business cultures all over the globe, my biggest surprise is that while the USA is bad, it's not actually the very absolute worst I've ever worked with.

[cipheramnesia]

I can imagine all the guesses, but if you haven't talked with a crap ton of people from dozens of countries, it's not obvious.

[cipheramnesia]

The key is business culture is like its own weird separate culture with rules and structures, but most places have a fairly comprehensible set of expectations. So most of the time, it's just remembering perceived differences in expectations. Some places it's polite to be what feels really overly friendly to me. Some places it's polite to be what feels obsequious and formal to me. It's like, whatever. A secondary form of language kinda. It's not even social cues, it's just mechanics of language really. Places with that stuff, those are all fine and wonderful to deal with because there's a framework to communicate and all that.

Part of why the USA shits the bed trying to talk with is because every business person here has like zero framework, it's all lies and bullshit, and everyone wants to be the smartest bestest boy. It's not business culture as much as daycare for toddlers who have millions of dollars and hate human rights. Not the worst though, not by far.

[cipheramnesia]

What's key to understand is this is all separate from things like the real people in different places. Business brain people don't have any relevance to real human behavior, it's this whole other structure of make believe which controls everyone's well being. It's important to know because I know how to email a business guy in South Korea using language that will feel appropriate enough after translation, but that's completely irrelevant to the real people living there. It's easy to talk to business guys in China or India or whatever. Germany, Nigeria, Mexico.

UK business guys are pretty bad too. Still not the worst but you have to put a lot of extra work in because business culture in the UK still thinks the Brittish empire exists. The majority of business dudes in the UK see no difference between selling something that has their company name on it, and making it themselves. It's like how all the stuff that says "made in the USA" is 99% made somewhere else, and then one staple is put into it and it's made in the USA, but if you talk to business guys here, they never confuse where things are made, just like... more basic realities like linear time and physics. UK guys go the opposite way, and always say they own everything. But that's all relatively navigable. It's like, okay, you all live in an imaginary world, but I can still get everyone to understand time and logistics and stuff enough to get everyone understanding the same information. I can translate imagination land to reality and back, they get it.

[cipheramnesia]

Apparently tumble ate my explanation, but the worst business guys are Australians.

[cipheramnesia]

I cannot stress how much effort I put into explaining things in ways that work for people who aren't native English speakers, because I understand how weird translation can get, and I am not good at other languages. I have so many special little quirks and tricks to make what I say become something moderately clear and apropriate in translation. I can rotate through a dozen approaches to a topic to make it click for someone unfamiliar with what I'm explaining. I know it works because it's been time tested.

Australian executives simply take any information they receive, and do not. Did you say something is going to take a month - after signing a contract and collect a fee? The Australian business executive simply accepts that you have said you have begun work and it will be finished in 48 hours. If I told an Australian executive that the earth revolves around the sun, I would expect him to let me know that I had told him a hamster named Ben carries a really bright lamp around space to make the seasons. I have to painstakingly document every single detail of any interaction with Australian business persons, because they simply imagine things that have happened and information they have been told, and ignore whatever has transpired in actuality.

I have actually warned all my friends off buying anything from Australia - not because I think there's anything specifically wrong with the general quality of Australian goods, but because after every conversation with Australian executives going exactly the same (I say one thing, they declare I have said something completely different), I am hard pressed to believe anyone at a corporate level in Australian businesses actually understands laws, regulations, logistics, safety, or just... words. Every interaction I have with an Australian business guy inevitably stuns me into a loss for words through some completely unanticipated recap of an interaction we had or email I sent which is fully disconnected from the text or actual event. I cannot understand how the people of Australia, not particularly better or worse than people anywhere else, become the worst humans I have had the misfortune to encounter the second they enter the world of business. I wouldn't trust a single Australian executive to pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

as humiliating as it is to repost myself from a light-mode-user's reddit screenshot, i cannot allow this year's zenquish to go uncelebrated.

celebrate my favorite holiday with me, my friends.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

if the emperors of rome can add extra months that actually fuck the calendar up i'm allowed to add a new month that lasts 0.0000 picoseconds

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

the last holiday that hasn't been commercialized

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i made this up when i was a little kid and nothing would make me happier than to see people celebrating it for years to come

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

zenquish approaches. prepare to rejoice! briefly!

[gaybichon]

baby that's fiyero tigelaar

[gaybichon]

close enough welcome back fiyero

[gaybichon]

i just watched the actual trailer and olivia colman is getting her back blown out by this man #goodforher

[girlnephew]

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

holy shit

[coffeefocusrat]

You are allowing your hatred for the toronto maple leafs to cloud your judgment of which professional hockey players would have successful gay porn careers.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

The popularity of ~~problematic~~ kinky erotica is similar to the prevalence of monarchies in speculative fiction.

Sure, it's fair to find it annoying but the people who read those novels generally don't want a monarchy in real life, enjoyment of it doesn't indicate that they're subconsciously anti-democratic and the popularity of that type of fiction isn't an indicator of some growing social ill.

But then occasionally you'll be reading an author with slowly dawning horror as you realise he genuinely believes in the divine right of kings

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

In retrospect it was probably predictable that this post would end up on the monarchist side of tumblr

[baddywronglegs]

We're gonna have a hard time convincing future generations the phrase "Trumped-up charges" is etymologically unrelated.

[agentofdeterioration]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

[thecactifindahome]

[mostro-rotto]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

"This is my weird son. He can't climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong."

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#cats be like#is anybody adopt that#and don't wait for an answer

[stalker-among-the-stars]

Everything that isn't food is a cat from the perspective of a cat. Cats can look upon the true form of eldritch monstrosities and keep their sanity. They'd just see another cat. A fucking weird-looking cat, but a cat nonetheless.

[dduane]

An always-reblog. 😄

[superhelldeactivated]

I've realized recently that every time I'm asked for socials my response is sorta "oh i don't have twitter" "I'm not on Instagram much" "i uninstalled TikTok a few months ago" and this has led people into believing I'm just someone who doesn't do social media but in reality you can find me in here lets get it on cunts monday through shawty like a melody sunday, 9am to 12am, posting blorbo.

[televisionenjoyer]

I was going to be like "well that certainly was not true cause you deactivated" and then I looked at the blog and. that's literally my old blog.

[sharkwave-zee]

listening to some tmbg right now. saw someone point this out and now i can't stop thinking this: why doesn't Whistling in the Dark have any actual whistling in it

[elliespectacular]

if its in dark, how you're supposed hear to it?

[sharkwave-zee]

with my hearballs, i think

[project-catgirlpiller]