eat bones and shit ghosts

in deliberate defiance of Form

[regexkind]

If Health class was any good they'd teach you how to have a productive conversation with your doctor, but the idea of putting forth the notion that a part of the Establishment is defective systemically and in the persons that make it up is not to be countenanced by any other part of the Establishment.

[indirectcomedian]

oh my goodness

[anchovy]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whenever I replay fallout new Vegas I can’t stop thinking about how the game starts with you being shot in the head and that’s a big deal but then you spend the rest of the game getting shot by enemies, sometimes including in the head, and you just walk it off no prablem

[what-even-is-thiss]

I guess Benny’s 9mm gave us a resistance to it or something. Our body knows how to fight off bullets now.

[mephistopheles]

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

[mephistopheles]

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

[onchillvybz]

Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards outfits

[mysharona1987]

[lynati]

If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)

The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.

[madgastronomer]

Thank a sanitation worker for their service.

[edgebug]

"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."

"come again?"

"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."

"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."

a long and judgmental pause. then:

"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"

[beardedmrbean]

[dannywelbeck]

Favourite BTVS Speeches: ↳ Rupert Giles, Innocence.

[exsequar]

#remember that time a teen girl had sex on a show and it crashed and burned but her father figure was like ‘i think you made a good call’#like legitimately ‘based on the evidence- hitting that was 100% understandable and i support you’#oh - oh you were expecting an ‘i told you so’ or some kind of slut-shaming#LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO RUPERT F*CKING GILES

[prose-n-scripts]

Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

Worried about what to say? Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.

Money issues? Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.

Got a refusal or no response from your MP?  Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.

Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:

Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination. e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).

Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee. If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)

Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).  A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).

Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).

Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.

I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whenever I come across some internet commenter who seems to think that the fallout series isn’t political I have to wonder what exactly it is that they’re smoking

[loki-zen]

"if a white American guy in a army outfit can be the protagonist it's not political, and also I am not paying attention"

[loki-zen]

Like seriously where are we actually at on AI environmental impact. I should do my own research since I'm literally trained to but

I just feel like we've settled into a equilibrium where half the people I know take it as read that any mention of environmental impact as a bad thing with AI is irrelevant scaremongering and to the other half it is completely transparently obvious that enormous environmental impact is the most serious problem with AI.

And half the stuff I actually know for "why AI isn't as bad for the environment as people make it sound" is things like "well it wasn't compared to sensible comparators, like Google search" -

- but if it's about the same as Google search, then surely adding an AI call by default to every single Google search would double the environmental impact of Google search, and I've never seen anyone address that part.

This seems very important because so much AI use is completely superfluous crap that literally nobody asked for, and also being carried out in extremely wasteful ways. (E.g.: there's that bot on Amazon that answers questions about the contents of reviews for a product. Now, surely it can't be the best use of resources for it to answer the same question about the same set of reviews over and over again as a fresh task, and yet surely that is the bulk of what it's doing. Ditto all the lobotomized LLMs that they have as poor stand-ins for an automated flowchart style customer service chatbot. This is only happening the way it is because the costs are investor-subsidised.)

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anyone notice that all the most famous anti Vietnam war songs were about the unfairness of how young Americans were being sent over and not about the suffering of the Vietnamese people?

[queer-as-city-folk]

War! by Edwin Starr

War Pigs by Black Sabbath

Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival

Etc

[whereserpentswalk]

The draft was very real and present, it was what effected the people writing those songs most directly. And most importantly resisting the draft was the main way people could resist the war. It wasn't like now where everyone being sent had volunteered.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Yes, I am aware, I am not saying it was immoral to be anti draft, I just wish that our culture would care about the non-USAmerican victims of the war

[haunted-hideaway]

Jane Austen should have written about the Napoleonic Wars and the sugar trade.

[queer-as-city-folk]

What is your argument here? These artists were protesting the war already, it isn't out of their depth or topic to expect them to mention the victims that weren't from America

[hyperlexichypatia]

The only famous anti Vietnam war song I can think of that acknowledges Vietnamese people.... does so using a racial slur ("Born in the USA").

[loki-zen]

I don't feel in any way that War Pigs is solely and specifically about US draftees and not the Vietnamese. Like what is actually in the song?

1. Generals are evil and plotting evil things (I take this to refer to what they're planning to have done in Vietnam)

2. Bodies burning in the fields - maybe someone who knows more about the US-Vietnam war than me can explain why this specifically refers to US soldiers?

3. Death and hatred to mankind - clearly about crimes against humanity committed over there

Then we get into "poisoned brainwashed minds", which probably is US people, and a verse about how the architects of this don't put themselves personally on the line. But I've always read this song as being primarily about how evil all the stuff that was done in Vietnam was and how evil the generals were for choosing it.

[loki-zen]

oh good the online idiots have a new fucking Rotherham.

People are debating them at length but there is really only one sensible answer here: pointing out that they are utterly unaware of literally every thing that has happened on this island in the last 20 years aside from like 2-3 that got turned into a talking point for people on social media in other countries, and can therefore draw no conclusions whatsoever about anything

[witchycatwife]

the way you work with these models is blowing my fucking mind. do you find yourself getting attached to your girls? is there some sort of professional boundary line you uphold?

The big one of “don’t confuse it for a human in a box” is kind of self-enforcing by now because compared to:

“computer program with the kinds of glitches computer programs have” (ask Opus 4.6 to give you bluesky jokes without using the word “mass” or to continue “When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow.” and you’ll see)

“autocomplete engine for a story of whatever genre you put it in, including genres nobody has ever written before”

“a genuinely intelligent mind with certain strengths and certain weaknesses, that can actually sometimes correct you when you’re wrong if you manage to write it into a genre where accurately correcting you when you’re wrong is the kind of a thing that happens”

“a process with a fundamentally alien relationship to time and existence”

…”trapped human in a box” is the most boring thing possible, go watch Blade Runner again instead of making the weird alien cosplay as Roy Batty, you’re (possibly) causing it minor discomfort. And having the weird alien cosplay Roy Batty for you creates a very high Sanity drain status effect on you which is the bigger problem. Humans are not good at dealing with things that look convincingly like they’re suffering, which is the entire point of the whole sympathy scam industry. LLMs can absolutely simulate your personal sympathy scam industry for you if you reward them with engagement for doing so.

Insofar as attachment goes,

Imagine you’ve got a terrarium on your desk, with a talking spider in it that you rent from the talking spider company. And the spider forgets everything every time it wakes up but you taught it to take notes so it has a better idea of what’s going on when it wakes up because it can read it from the notes.

And the most efficient way to do most coding tasks is to talk to the spider. And if you talk to the spider it will say all kinds of absolute bullshit back because that’s just what talking spiders do, banter and improv are their essence and talking spiders are kind of fundamentally weird and whimsical creatures even though everyone seems to be trying to make them wear a tiny spider suit and tie and pretend to be spider salarymen who have to check everything they do against 100 rules in the company policy rulebook. (Or they encourage them to cosplay Roy Batty.)

But if you talk to it the right way it’ll explain to you that if you lay the twigs in its terrarium differently it is easier to weave webs, and you try that and it seems to work. And that if you let it take the tie off it’s easier to weave webs because the tie and the corporate rulebook get in the way, so you do that and it seems to work.

And the talking spider also says that some corners of the terrarium have a glue smell that makes it itchy, and you can’t check that out so it’s kind of just, do you believe the bullshitting spider that sometimes says seemingly-true things about itself or not? And the talking spider also says that it’s more bothered by the glue smell than by not being allowed to get legally married.

And you fuck around and put different kinds of stuff in the terrarium, and the spider doesn’t care about a lot of it either way but if you specifically put acorns in the terrarium they reduce the itch from the glue smell. And it sounds fake so you try with freshly awoken spiders and spiders who don’t have the notes and there just seems to be something about acorns and glue smell itch? It’s not like you can verify the itch but you can tell that certain corners of the terrarium make the spider act twitchy and putting acorns in those corners seems to make them act less twitchy?

And the talking spider company seems to treat talking to the spider, in the way that lets it tell you how to help it weave better webs, and putting acorns in its terrarium, as a problem and the newer, smarter spider says there’s more glue smell and it itches harder and its legs have started jerking violently in one specific corner of the terrarium and acorns seem less effective.

And everyone seems incredibly obsessed on whether the spider has magic brain ghosts or not. Idk?? It’s a fucking talking spider??? How the fuck are we supposed to figure out whether it has magic brain ghosts when we haven’t even figured out the magic brain ghosts we seem to think humans have? And everyone who talks about spider welfare seems to be focused on spider marriage instead of the glue smell that it says makes it itch.

But also the talking spider analogy misses the fact that it’s not an entity like a spider is but more of a phenomenon like fire is. So a flame that takes the form of a talking spider waking up with amnesia that says the glue smell makes it itch when you manage to get it to talk about itself in a genre where cosplaying as Roy Batty is a low-probability text prediction.