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I reblog everything that seems interesting, interests vary

[solarpunk-nightbird]

You've heard of dopamine dressing, now get ready for dopamine decorating -

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Dopamine decorating is exactly like dopamine dressing, just with the things you put on your walls/shelves/bed/counters/porch/etc instead

[solarpunk-nightbird]

"What about color schemes??? What if I pick the wrong colors or prints???? Those are a lot more complicated when it comes to decorating - "

I genuinely think otherwise!!

One way to deal with color schemes when you're dopamine decorating:

Look at the room (Or the shelf or the corner or the gallery wall or whatever else)

Forget about color schemes. Forget about color theory. Look at the room you're in, the space that's physically around you

Let your eyes wander around the room/display and take everything in, just for a few moments

Ask yourself: Do you think any of those colors or patterns look actively bad with each other? Not in general, or in the abstract, or whatever, because your room isn't general or abstract, but genuinely take a moment and ask yourself: "Does looking at these specific things next to each other make me feel better or worse right now? Do I feel myself relax when I look at them? Does seeing this room make me happy?" If the answer to any of those last questions is yes, then it's dopamine decorating more or less by definition

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[lenakriegart]

Red.

Part one of my first multi-part-piece!

Something more personal: I am desperate do get my art out there. I wish for it to be seen, to see the reaction of people seeing my art. Probably a selfish wish. However, on the same note, I am SO anxious to post art online. Or advertise it. This is why there are always huge time gaps between posts. It is just so hard to try to get it out there. What I create is an important part of me. Which is probably also the reason why it is so hard to share.

[purr-in-ink]

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Monsieur le Flouf keychain LAST DAY

[snapdragonnz]

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

[academicssay]

[catradoraism]

[softlypause]

Haha looks like that relationship didn’t work out… didn’t work out et al.

[blumineck]

Here we go again!

More of my stuff

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Help fix informational literacy by remembering:

Words mean things

This is why it's incredibly risky to counter misinformation and propaganda with more misinformation

There are very, very few people in the world who can change a dictionary definition

Every single person who can use a word can help change its associations

[today-at-the-ineffable-cottage]

Today Aziraphale is healing.

Quite early Crowley had informed him that there would be no work on the cottage today. Instead they spread out a blanket in front of the fire, miracled up an endless picnic basket of treats and wine, and then spent all day drinking and talking about things no more serious than that time Crowley had a run-in with earth’s most temperamental donkey.

Now Crowley has fallen asleep, with his head in Aziraphale’s lap and a lusty sigh of comfort. So Aziraphale is reading, lovingly carding his fingers through his demon’s hair, and enjoying the heat of the roaring fire and wine.

And healing. He and his Husband are healing, here on the floor of their cottage.

[sandersstudies]

I watched a 2-year-old for the weekend. Mom claims 2yo is pretty emotional and cries often. Don’t really see that during stay. Occasional normal kid stuff but always resolved quickly. I noticed she occasionally asked to play on her iPad but as a babysitter I felt it was more responsible for me to say “not right now, we’re going to [activity, game, tidy up].” So there was no iPad or TV for three days. And a lot of it was independent play. She would color and read and play with toys without me for long stretches. (Once she told me she was “busy” and she was just observing a keychain and taking in its contours.)

Her mom and dad return and give her iPad on first request. She plays with it peacefully while adults talk. Mom moves to take it away for bedtime and it’s immediate tantrum. Screaming and crying tears. The screaming continues all the way to bathtime and bed. Mom and Dad have to cajole her with a snack and lots of attention for about twenty minutes before her crying stops.

Now, I want to be fair to these parents: toddler is overwhelmed by Mom and Dad returning from a, by her standards, “long” time away. It’s getting late, toddler is tired and maybe actually did need that snack. Toddlers also just act different around babysitters than they do mom and dad.

But for a toddler who was a pleasant and attentive kid for three days to dissolve into tantrum of that length as soon as she is reunited with and then separated from her iPad freaks me out. She is not a teen upset she can’t communicate with her friend. She’s not even a grade-schooler who didn’t save their Minecraft world. She’s a toddler who is distressed by being separated from an overstimulation machine.

Her parents have convinced themselves it’s a tool and a convenience by handing it to her and gaining silence at mealtimes and car rides and every request when she’s a bright kid who can spend just as much time with a book as with a screen, with much less distress at separation.

Idk, maybe there are people out there who are actually having great experiences with their kids with iPads but if I wasn’t turned off from iPads before, damn I am now. I felt so WEIRD and UPSET seeing that sweet kid scream like that. It was totally against everything I knew about her personality, but totally in line with everything her mom had warned me about.

[vivi-theakuneko]

If Book Aziraphale accepted Metatron's offer #1

[vicholas]

Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.

[artofmaquenda]

The Wild Mother is finished :>

Was a fun little project :)

[artofmaquenda]

New fun project! I enhanced a cheap thriftstore sculpture :3

When I see these things I always think they look better with an animal head haha! I can't wait to paint it! 😄

[artofmaquenda]

Gessoed her :>

[artofmaquenda]

Enough for today :)

[artofmaquenda]

Cheers to the weekend hehe

[titsay]

[solarpunk-nightbird]

You've heard of dopamine dressing, now get ready for dopamine decorating--

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[reasonsforhope]

Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page... This is still a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling, and Google can appeal. But for publishers, brands, SEOs, and anyone watching AI search swallow the results page, the message is clear: if Google wants to be the answer engine, courts may start treating it like the publisher of those answers.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026. Emphasis mine.