Accurate spelling is overrated

[kojad]

Hi, it's been a while because I forgot tumblr

[erysium]

my endpaper illustrations for the Illumicrate editions of Song of the Lioness ✨

one of my favourite childhood series, it was such a dream to work on these!!

[imsrryoisin]

trans unity

[justsheerfilth1]

Why would you use duct tape to hold hands ?

[justsheerfilth1]

Wait I’m a fucking idiot

[maktubisasheep]

@iricolor

[wizardarchetypes]

went to my best friend’s house last night and saw a little plushie dog and plushie cat that had been sewn together down the middle into a two-headed chimera. I said, “did you do that?” she said, “yes, I saved them.”

turns out at her old job when the last two plushies hadn’t sold and became deadstock, her boss told her to cut them up and throw them out. so she cut them each in half, preserved their heads, and then rebuilt them together.

cannot stop thinking about the way these little plushies were approached with the instinct of a Vampire or some sort of ancient god. “Let me save you [turn you into a monster].”

[cipheramnesia]

The fact that the beheading was at the order of a superior, and the solution was to create some sort of monster of disobediance to the letter of the law instead of just lying and saving them adds a certain mythological resonance.

[parkchanwoohoo]

You have to admit it's funny

[bearcatcatbear]

Generative AI is not capable of thinking or panicking.

GENERATIVE AI IS NOT CAPABLE OF THINKING OR PANICKING.

This chatbot received negative feedback after it wrongly predicted, based on its training data, the correct action to take.

It did what chatbots do when they get negative feedback, which is to generate a response (derived from lots of real human apologies) that will satisfy the user.

There are semantics involved in how we use the word "think." We say computers are "thinking" all the time when no computer has ever had a "thought" in any way that resembles a human mind—a thing that remains more or less of a black box, philosophically, that we can affect and observe but whose fundamental workings are deeply unknown.

But there are no semantics involved in "panic." "Panic" is an emotional state. The AI didn't "panic," it followed the same decision-making process it always uses and got the answer wrong. It wasn't stressed out. It wasn't surprised. That's all absurd.

It's lying—with the sole caveat that it isn't even capable of knowing that it's lying, because it is just a fancy, fancy chatbot.

But the people building and selling them and convincing people to entrust them with the power to destroy huge amounts of real human work?

Those people are ABSOLUTELY lying.

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

[thatgiraffebutt]

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

[literallyaflame]

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

[madd-catter]

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

[gen-is-gone]

this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”

(note the dates)

[anarchistmemedistro]

this post aged like an ice cube in an oven

[deathcomes4u]

worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!

[mod2amaryllis]

[thotsoflore]

Literally looking like the kind of note you find in a post apocalyptic horror game jesus

[sunnywalnut]

If only we as a society learned from our mistakes

[lionfloss]

NON SIGN II is a billboard created in 2010 by Lead Pencil Studio and is located near the Canada-US border in Washington. It consists of thousands of stainless steel rods.

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous lack

[quasi-normalcy]

The flies are building a drive-in cinema.

[maggotmuncher0]

sketch

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

another relatable thing about Murderbot is it is obsessed with its favorite show (Sanctuary Moon). it has watched and re-watched it so many times, it uses its favorite episodes to self-soothe, it credits this show with being the first thing that "made it feel like a person." Murderbot's identity is as entwined with Sanctuary Moon as a preteen fandom blogger experiencing the drug that is self-discovery-through-media for the very first time. Murderbot is a FAN, okay.

and despite being the pov narrator for multiple novels and novellas, Murderbot never once, not even inside its own head, claims that Sanctuary Moon is a good show.

[nofilter-cory]

Dog

[marinella-ela]

[blankboyo]

little dingus

[dampfnudeldove]

shot in the HEAD. and you're to blame. You are not good. At dart game

[squaresaw]

Fucked up that the ultimate goal of therapy/medication/journaling/whatever is just to get *functional* enough to live as a normal human being; which would be baseline for everybody else but. If you START at -100 after 100 years of agony torture hell you're still at 0

[s0ftpillow]

mama and her little guy

[goth-queen]