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sup-its-cat

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT UPON SEEING IT IN THE MOVIE

notes-and-violets

I had to xD

fellahimedia

The way people are so surprised and defensive to hear that Islamophobia is institutionalized in america..the same nation/colony that literally has a whole policing body, TSA, that is known to specifically profile muslims. The same nation that created watchlists and no fly lists of mostly muslims..the same nation that wiretapped, entrapped, imprisoned thousands of muslims post 9/11. The same nation that encouraged banks around the world to adopt algorithms that will randomly blacklist bank users with arabic names, the same nation that has warred and bombed countries with majority muslim demographics? This is surprising to some people. Okay

wizardarchetypes

my most common stress dream theme is that someone who is never mean to me irl treats me really badly or unfairly. like my siblings or my mom or academic advisor etc. do something outrageously hurtful to me and when i bring it up they’re outright cruel.

last night i dreamed that maggie started hanging out with some guy named Jake and Jake was really mean to me. they met in a college course called “mixed drinks” (unclear whether they learned to make mixed drinks or learned the history of mixed drinks)

and then they decided to go on a date so I went to Maggie and I was like hey I’m super uncomfortable with you going on a date with someone who’s mean to me and Maggie was super dismissive.

I walked away crying and then I caught a reflection of myself in a store window and my hair was the wrong color. I was staring at myself and I suddenly was like “there is No way Maggie would EVER treat me like this. I’m in one of my dumbass stress dreams right now, aren’t I?”

I stomped back up the street to Maggie and I was like “this is a dream! How irritating!!”

And Maggie was like “maybe you should take seroquel less, if you’re struggling to separate sleep from reality.”

And I went “SEE!! Maggie would NEVER call me crazy! This is a stupid dream!”

And Maggie was like “okay? What do you want me to do about that?”

And I was so mad I stomped off again to my bedroom and sat there annoyed til I woke up.

Then when I did wake up I was messaging Maggie about it and laughing like, “if I knew it was a dream, why did I even try to convince you of it? I knew it was fake, what was my goal arguing with you?”

Then I looked at the text I’d sent last night while I was falling asleep on seroquel:

Dream me was operating under the logic that Maggie was really there.

despazito

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

despazito

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

draculasstrawhat

Huh fascinating, I wonder what the fash have against Eric Carle? I wonder what he might have said about his life, and influences, and early experiences that makes them say he’s part of an ‘insalubrious culture’?

Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement.

dionysiaproductions

bruzum

lastvalyrian

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

mephistopheles

um so quick question you do know that the world isn’t divided into People Blindly Accepting Of Gender Roles and Smart Trans Ppl. the world isn’t divided into People In Romantic Relationships and Single Aros. the world isn’t divided into People Who Socialize Easily and Oppressed Autistics. the world isn’t divided into Enlightened Queer People and Stupid Misogynists. like you are aware of this ? i hope you are aware of this

cryptotheism

Dahling you simply must explore the backrooms they're just brimming with all sorts of delightful little entities.

lutraviolet

i keep forgetting to post sorry, heres scolipede stretching like a kitty

nyx-sio

wish they played around with Shions design a bit more...

#overwatch

decompose1

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

decompose1

Hold on i should've been more specific.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of produc

digitalkiddo

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.