Meret

This tumblr sometimes deals with adult topics. Please come back when you're 18 or older. I'm Meret on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Meret I don't use ai, and never will!

[meret118]

My Fics and Bookmarks on AO3

My Fic Recs on Tumblr

My Fics on Tumblr

[bulljumpingfresco]

Minoan fresco from the Aktotiri settlement, Thira, Greece

[taraljc]

reblogging for Ny

[meret118]

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It's Gross

People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as wel

“In the office, we actually get really bummed when we realize we’re having a conversation and we forgot to turn on Granola,” AI marketing platform Flint CEO and cofounder Michelle Lim told the WSJ. “I wish there was a Granola in every room.” Lim admitted that she simply assumed she was being recorded, noting that being asked “almost kills the mood.”

Others, like AI sales company Yuzu Labs founder Emmie Chang, go even further. Chang admitted to the WSJ that she records most of her first dates by putting her phone on the table or chair. Afterwards, she asks Anthropic’s Claude how the date went, wondering if she could be “more engaging or empathetic.”

. . .

In the workplace, workers have little recourse, and will likely have to accept being recorded, as privacy law expert Alex Alben told the WSJ.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Apparently this weekend my nephew innovated a campfire s'more with an Oreo, twisted apart, peanut butter on the non-iced half, toasted marshmallow in the middle.

The world isn't ready for this kid's brilliance

[20dollarlolita]

Did you sell a Nintendo Wii to The Cave in the greater Sacramento area?

I just bought one and it's got like 400 family photos on it.

Personally, all my family photos from like 2003-2014 are locked on some inaccessible hard drive that's probably been lost or thrown away, so if anyone had my family photos from 2006, I'd like to at least see them before they're deleted. If this is your vacation to Yosemite, your dog, your 2-year-old's birthday party, your trip to the park, please contact me [you can send this blog a tumblr ask even if you don't have an account at 20dollarlolita.tumblr.com/ask or you can email me at pink @ pinkandthekeytarcat.com (I'm pink and my cat is the keytar cat)].

These pictures are all separately named so please tell me the names of people in the photos to verify that it's you. Photos from a 1gb wii SD card aren't going to take up too much space on my computer so I'm going to just hold onto these. If they're yours, or you can contact anyone in the pictures, please let me know. I'd like to reuinte them with their owner.

I don't usually ask for signal boost but if anyone wants to help me out here, feel free to boost.

[crabussy]

siphonophores will never not freak me out. stop doing that its SCARY but also please don't ever stop doing that you ethereal marine cryptid

[crabussy]

[crabussy]

the red shape is a person of average height. the green line is one of these freaks. btw

[thefloatingstone]

Ya'll forgot my favourite one

[pisskinkyaoi]

That's an angel

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster of lore

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[meret118]

I really wish the show had made it clear that Shane would pick Ilya even if he were attracted to women, the same way Ilya picks Shane.

[steampunktendencies]

Steampunk Wonderland in France

[denynothing1]

Krater from Phaistos, 1900-1700 BCE

Photograph: Heraklion Archaeological Museum

[yiddishfisting]

great

[yiddishfisting]

this looks helpful at least

[mcbitchtits]

another good source i would recommend following is Matthew Cortland, who is a public health/disability/law professional who does excellent writeups:

Cyclosporiasis Is Here: How to Protect Yourself | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Cyclospora infection is often asymptomatic, but when symptoms occur, illness is characterized by anorexia, nausea, flatulence, fatigue, abdo

What Is Safe To Eat? How I'm Thinking About Cyclosporiasis | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. I got into this outbreak in detail, even though I was having surgery, because I need to know what is safe for me to eat as someone who

[meret118]

Great articles!

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

That's an incredible headline

[aizawas-upper-left-wisdom-tooth]

I know just the bin up for the job

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[ilyapasta]

Anyway scrimmages are enrichment for post-rivalry married on the Cens hollanov. Don’t talk to Shane right now Luca, he’s thinking about slamming Ilya into the boards and saying “Too slow, eh Rozanov?” Before expertly stealing the puck and scoring with reckless aggression on their poor backup goalie. He’s going to suck on Ilya’s bruise later. Wiebe is wondering if this is at all productive but like. Hollander and Rozanov did take a slight pay-cut.

[ilyapasta]

Ilya in a huddle with Bood and Troy and the d-men like “don’t fuck this up for me we have to take him down” and Troy is smirking like “don’t you mean them?” And Ilya is like “NO. Hollander. We take him down like a hoard of ants. Why are you laughing Barrett? This is not funny. This is not haha. He sees through you and knows all your fears. He is relentless. When he can’t play hockey he reads about it. What was the last book you read, Dykstra?”

[raincitygirl76]

The rest of the Centaurs realize during the very first practice of the 2021-2022 hockey season that they are collectively sitting in the cuck chair. But they’ll probably win a Stanley Cup as a result of these two freaks being so competitive with each other, so they’re okay with it.

[meret118]

Shout out to people in the replies who confirm that yes, this is ai, or the information is just plain wrong, and save me from having to take the time to double check it, especially if they include a link disproving what the post says. Thank you!

[meret118]

I wonder if Gabriella will kill Alex for helping behead Lestat. Not out of love of course. But because she needs him, and Alex threatened that. I was watching that scene where she tells Lestat she left him in Spain because she didn't need him anymore. She's a sociapath. I mean they are all to some extent. They kill people after all. But she sees everything as transactional. No feelings for anyone but herself.

[meret118]

Beautiful piano music during that scene where Lestat meets Regina. So many shows would have gone with something bigger, but just having the spare piano notes were fragile and painful like grief, and the perfect lead into Stained Glass Eyes. Absolutely gorgeous. I've been so impressed with the music this season.