dying on this hill, ttyl

grant us eyes~☆

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[craicisirish]

reminds me of how artists flip the canvas to make sure their art looks good

Just flip the genders real quick and check if you accidentally made a cult

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[purgaytorysupremacy]

if you’re wondering why spellcheck and grammar check is worse now, it’s because they replaced it with AI! 🥰

now, instead of maintaining a comprehensive, nuanced, and human-maintained encyclopedia by which to check your document, they have switched to an AI that just compares what you’ve written to what other people write in, say, Google Docs, and use the most commonly used iteration.

ever have it change something like “all intents and purposes” to “all intensive purposes” or “should’ve” to “should of”? that’s why!

people make the same spelling and grammar mistakes so often, AI thinks that’s the way you say it because it is a PATTERN DETECTOR and cannot THINK let alone use language.

[youre-only-gay-once]

"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[boycritter]

maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.

[hungry-skeleton]

Why isn't "too scary" a good enough reason to never drive a car

[hungry-skeleton]

Girl you do NOT want my scared ass behind the wheel I'll take you all with me whether I'm trying to or not

[largishcat]

i actually get a bit annoyed with people who get a bit annoyed when people say “sorry” in response to their bad news. “why are you apologizing you didn’t do anything :/” like okay well a) you don’t know that and actually yes i am the secret architect of all your woes and have been this whole time, way to refuse to acknowledge a woman (gender neutral)’s accomplishments. and b) we’re both fluent english speakers so you know perfectly well that “sorry” isn’t always an apology and is very commonly used as an expression of general regret or sympathy. not in this case, because i have been your secret nemesis for years, meticulously plotting your every misery, but, like, in general

[homunculus-argument]

A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

[homunculus-argument]

@gem-is-still-bored I was so inspired by this comment that I had to make a grunge poster about it:

photo source

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine getting an aztec death whistle and moving into the Paris catacombs. Living in the dark, learning to navigate by touch. Cultivating some kind of mushrooms that don't need sunlight, maybe catching rats to eat. Letting your hair grow out until it becomes a matted cape running down your back, nails hardened by the layer of dirt under them. Every time you hear people or see lights approaching, you blow into the whistle and scare them away with the shriek, and then once they've fled you can go see if they dropped their backpacks and whether there's food or other things you can loot. If one of them trips while running and breaks a leg or something, you might have to mercy kill them with a big rock and then loot their stuff. Maybe commit some cannibalism and eat the corpse, too, assuming that you're willing to endure the light of a fire long enough to cook it, or willing to eat it raw, chasing off the rats that are trying to come steal bits of your kill.

If any part of that sounds appealing to you, you're probably in the need of some kind of a mental health intervention.

[prettydeaddes]

Two ladybirds having a shag that i edited cbat over

[prettydeaddes]

let the people decide.

[insomniac-arrest]

guy who wins at poker not by being stoic but by bursting into tears every time he looks at his cards, just full hysterical breakdown every round and you gotta peer through the void of theatre kid problems to figure it out

[youramradio-deactivated20240428]

i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

[youramradio-deactivated20240428]

elaboration

[theroseunblown]

if I may:

[agoodjake54-deactivated20150429]

[ruinedchildhood]

Jinkies

[jesterday00]

Jeepers!

[dollfacemcghost]

Zoinks!

[galvaniccorsair]

Ruh roh!

[paperandpencilsandskips]

FUCK

[pirateprincessjess]

My favorite part of this post is that it implies Fred is the one saying “FUCK” because we know who typically says the other 4 things

[exuberantocean]

In all fairness, it is his van right?

[kaijuno]

Sacred image

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

Look a this photograph

[kaijuno]

[bloedgetuige]

archbishop? what are you arching? your back?

[monk-brother-sebastien]

prior? what are you prying? the abbot's - nay i shant say

[omnipotina]

Settle a bet.

Who wins in a fight?

Kronk

Gaston

Voting ended onSep 7, 2023

[beemojis]

soooo true bestie

[wintermoth]

NO ONE GETS THEIR ASS BEAT IN A POLL LIKE GASTON

[masterhandss]

Have you ever been curious about the EnStars MC Anzu, what she does in EnGirls and EnStars, and what information we could gather about her from each story?

For Paradise's 10th Anniversary, I made an "Anzu Story Breakdown doc" where you can read what she does & any info about her in each story🌸⭐️‼️ (twitter post)

(currently doesn't contain EnStars stories, but they are in progress and will be added once they are finished per year)

09.14.24 - Added EnGirls and extra materials 09.15.24 - Added story names in the outline for easier navigation 10.08.24 - Added the following ES! stories: Marching Band, Sweets, Duel, Hero Show, Tanabata Festival, Pool Opening, Test of Courage, Restaurant, Quarrel Festival, Holiday, First Shrine Visit, Amusement Park Show, WANTED!!!, Robin Hood, Passionate Carmen, Sweet Halloween, Beasts, Buddy

anzu activity per story breakdown

Notes before reading Uuuuuh I don’t really know how to answer the question of “what anzu-related stories to recommend” because: Anzu is all

[sadclowncentral]

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

[sadclowncentral]

no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work