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Fuck genAI. A reminder that if you support genAI in any form, use chatGPT instead of your brain etc - pls unfollow me 🥰
People replying to this that not all data centers are bad and some are used for the tech that is really needed - pease youse your cognitive skills, the discussion here is clearly about genAI. I understand that people's reading comprehension and understanding context sucks nowadays, but come on.
A few more decades
all powerscaling is dumb as everyone knows the strongest character in fiction is mr rogers in a bloodstained sweater as per the prophecy of 2006
Huntrix based on Klimt’s Water Serpents
Regarding witchy abortifacients, didn’t native Americans have pretty effective plant-based abortifacients? If they did and that’s not just a myth, there’s got to be some way to recreate what they did safely right? Or is this a willow-bark /aspirin case, ie, the plan based compounds have since been synthesized and that’s what we call Plan B or whatever….?
Herbal and "natural medicine" abortifacients will straight up fucking kill you and have straight up fucking killed people in the populations that used them throughout history.
A while back I tried to start a website that was meant to provide information about safe reproductive and abortion care post 2022; the site broke down over my inability to manage projects and I regret that it never went anywhere but legitimately one of the most terrifying things that we came across was a pro-choice zine full of witchy "traditional herbal medicine" abortion options that included pennyroyal and rue.
This is a "the poison is in the dose; you have absolutely no way of knowing what amount of the active compound you're getting from a tea or tincture so a crop collected in an area that had richer soil might kill you while a crop collected in an area that got more sun might not work at all" issue.
When people talk about traditional medicine remedies that "worked" for terminating pregnancies or other pregnancy-related care, I think one of the things we're leaving out of that conversation is that the mortality associated with pregnancy has traditionally been *staggeringly* high compared to modern standards.
If you need a medical abortion or think that you might need a medical abortion in the future, consider reaching out to Aid Access, which provides abortion pills by mail.
"Native American" or "TCM" or "Ayurvedic" herbal preparations are sometimes elevated as safe options because they've been 'tested over time' or 'used for centuries.'
In many cases the remedies in question have NOT been used for centuries, or are based on preparations that are no longer possible or are fundamentally different due to different growing conditions, or were used for centuries but were never compared against the list of people who 'successfully' used the treatment and died of liver failure three months later, or were used for centuries but only recorded the people for whom the treatment was successful, not the people for whom it did nothing.
The point of using science based treatments is not that the word 'science' imbues the treatments with some special efficacy, but that the concept refers to treatments that have known, tested outcomes that are predictable in their results. The process of science is the process of documenting repeatability. We know the percentages of pregnant people for whom mifepristone is an effective abortifacient within 14 weeks of conception and the percentages of pregnant people who had allergic reactions to the medication and the percentages of pregnant people who needed post-medication care to prevent infection. We have *no idea* what those numbers look like with herbal remedies that have not been similarly studied, and oral traditions reflecting success and safety likely do not accurately represent the risks associated with taking wildly variable doses of a compound that could have catastrophic interactions with your daily dose of insulin or antidepressants or bloodthinners.
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harm reduction dislikers will say shit like "I see that a problem has occurred. my plan for how to handle the problem is to make everyone pretend that it has not, in fact, occurred. if you try to treat the problem then I will give you a second and significantly Worse problem on purpose."
obvs the purpose of the system is what it does, the majority of, like, politicians who push this kind of stuff very clearly approve of the problems and are actively problemmaxxing, but I come across regular laypeople all the time who seem to genuinely think this works. comrade, what the fuck are you doing.
"we have to make problems illegal to discourage people from having them" we already tried that several times "well we will make them DOUBLE illegal this time" ??????
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This is Morty, a nonreleasable coyote, from the ICRC
only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for
there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs
I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows
GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ
"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.
Oh, dear. I can't reblog that fast enough.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually
Tag via @bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated
the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second
The thing that I find most annoying about signs in store windows advertising that they're welcoming to LGBT or that they accept everybody is that I really just assume that anyway. The sign is literally just a virtue signal and it's not there for any other reason, because every store is supposed to be open to the public by default. I would think it goes without saying you're not going to turn away a black person or someone wearing religious garb or a gay couple that walked in holding hands. If you did, word would get out immediately and you'd be in trouble. The signs are really a turn-off tbh because they're just so dumb.
It's like a restaurant putting up a "My cooks won't spit in your food!" sign.
If I was walking past a store with a sign that said "immigrants welcome!" my first thought would be "what did they do to suggest that they weren't welcome?", because why would you need to specifically tell members of a specific group they can walk in and buy things, that they can do what you want as many people as possible to be doing because that's how stores work, unless there was some reason for them to think they couldn't or shouldn't? That's the vibe it gives off.
The only sign of this type that’s actually telling people any new information are the “we speak [non-English] language] come on in” in the non-English language. There’s some auto shops in my area that list three or four languages, and obviously a shop advertising some ethnic treat or shampoo or whatever in a non English language says “immigrants we got the stuff you missed from home”. Like, that’s the real, non virtue signaling way for a store to communicate “immigrants welcome”.
That said, I have seen gay flags on shop doors where it really did mean something; gun shops aren’t default assumed to be gay friendly, and it’s not a zero cost move to openly announce a gun shop is gay friendly.
Sometimes it’s a “we don’t spit in your food” sign and sometimes it’s a “we are nut-free” sign, you know? It’s contextual.
this is huge actually
I used to think like this, but then Lauri Carleton was murdered. It's actually extremely brave to announce your support for a marginalized group in an era of increasing hate crimes and gun violence.
Lauri Carleton was shot and killed in August 2023 following a dispute over a Pride flag outside her Lake Arrowhead shop.
As a lesbian myself I hard agree with prev:
#as a gay person i actually like seeing pride flags on businesses bc i know that if i go in there with my girlfriend#im not going to get bizarre attitude or hostility from the people who work there#which is not necessarily a given! some people will take your money while treating you horribly and its bad!
Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere. In more hostile environments, it's very heartening to see that if you are in a group that can't be sure of that. And as this article shows, it's not like people who put those signs up are not assuming risk!
I'm so tired of this very insular Tumblr attitude that is so disdainful of allyship, assuming it must always be performative and fake - when allies have often been a (sometimes quite literal) lifeline for marginalized groups throughout history. It shows how much people who say these things live in a bubble, at a complete removal from anyone who has lived lives unlike their own, presently or currently. Go to a small town in a red state, you sheltered children. Or at least just like, leave the Internet once in a while, since I'm sure that is the real issue with a lot of people who make these posts.
Being able to see these as purely "virtue signaling" means you've had the privilege to only live in places where support is assumed, which is not everywhere.
I live in one of the bluest areas in the US and these kind of signs are still absolutely necessary. Because the assholes are all around like fungal spores and it can be the difference between them shutting up and fucking off or taking root and becoming regulars and inviting all their asshole friends.
Yeah as a trans lesbian living in Sask its relieving when places have that up, because its kinda the norm to not be treated well. Places doing that place themselves at risk to an extent. My uni regularly had nazi vandalization of our pride walk, theres a pretty famous video of a guy harassing volunteers who were painting the pride walk on broadway a few years back, and Ive heard of other instances around town. It has risk attached. It also makes me comfortable going places with my girlfriend, it makes me know staffs probably not going to harass us or stand by when I get called slurs in front of them(has happened many times usually when Im alone) or some weird transphobe in Harry Potter merch stalks me through a store(happened twice, the second time security of their own accors stopped the stalker just from how weird they were being following me). Its super helpful when medical places show it because discrimination is common, thankfully the pharmacy my gf and I go to has a really supportive staff, they display and wear pride flags and then back it up with how they support trans people going there for HRT. Sure a flag can be performative but not here, not when you can get harassed for it, not when its relatively uncommon. This reminds me of the people who whine about pronoun circles and other things and it tells me they've never lived somewhere thats norm isnt being queer supportive.
“city that traditionally decorates their doors with garlic found to have no vampire problems, therefore hanging garlic is useless vanity” is a hell of a take in the vampire states of america
my friend told me that her boyfriend got her a super cool rock while they were on vacation together and you would not BELIEVE my disappointment when i realized she was talking about her engagement ring
*holds your head in my hands* im sorry i let you down
Here’s some fossilized coral.
There are many birds in the world with even more names. One of those names is 'dickcissel' and this is 'Sizzlin' Dick the Dickcissel'. What else was I supposed to do with this information? Not draw a fuck boy bird? What kind of life is that?
ACEO 'Sizzlin Dick the Dickcissel', ink on 220 GSM sketchpaper
More bad animal jokes on paper here
Hehe, Brushbug. New episode of the anime tomorrow! Shirahama posted these to her twitter today.
