no amount of chocolate

I'm Helena. Feminist, Sam girl, Sansa fan, non-shipper. Mostly fandom, science and nature, but other things will pop up.

[michaelnordeman]

In the garden. Värmland, Sweden (1 August 2021).

[allthingseurope]

Marseille, France

[tswiftupdatess]

Full video of Taylor Swift and Randy Newman performing “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” at the Toy Story 5 world premiere. (June 9, 2026)

[nature-travel-photography]

Moonrise 🌙 - Author: Hopeful_Today2462

[michaelnordeman]

Silver birch/Betula pendula/vårtbjörk. Värmland, Sweden (29 July 2016).

[michaelnordeman]

Madian wasp/Dolichovespula media/buskgeting. Värmland, Sweden (30 July 2025).

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[twizzlersandvanillacoke]

From the article:

"One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds, and he’s almost certain that the customers are AI labs, noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs. He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books, meaning that an AI company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found.

“I personally have mixed feelings about all of this,” the bookseller told 404. “It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell. I’ve been well-suited for these sales with inventory from overseas and foreign language books.

From a Google search:

PISBN allows publishers, retailers, and libraries to track and manage books more efficiently. Each ISBN corresponds to one specific edition of a publication, making it essential for smooth global circulation.

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Les Fleurs Animées (The Flowers Personified) — J.J. Grandville (1847)

[classicalcanvas]

The Boat Studio (1876) by Claude Monet

[herpsandbirds]

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas), EAT A TASTY SEA GRASS!!!, family Cheloniidae, off the coast of Florida, USA

Once considered endangered, the species has recovered.

photographs by Mike Papish

[averagefairy]

I still love this website so much because it feels like the last connection we have to an internet that doesn’t exist anymore like I can come on here and scroll through posts that are literally just funny or beautiful or interesting with no intention to sell me something or influence me we are all just here for a laugh. Nothing is just for laughs anymore EXCEPT tumblr dot com

[dailyflicks]

PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998) Dir. Griffin Dunne

[michaelnordeman]

Buff-tailed bumblebee/Bombus terrestris/mörk jordhumla visiting a Blue globe thistle/Echinops bannaticus/blå bolltistel. Värmland, Sweden (27 July 2021).

[porterdavis]

[mournfulroses]

Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Hermann Mushacke featured in The Unpublished Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

[windsandstar]

ive got a scary math joke but im 2² to say it