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she/her | 30 | bisexual | black lives matter | trans rights are human rights | love thy neighbor | if you know me please don't follow

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[thesixthstar]

they should invent a secret second weekend so that you can see friends and do fun things while still having enough time to do errands and sleep in without dying of exhaustion all the time

[thatdykepunkslut]

[ofdarklands]

him doing a fakeout death and throwing everyone out of the instance is the funniest shit

kefka voice: you did it wrong! have this pretty fake treasure chest and get out

[skweebs]

Everybody say "Thank you trans bears!" 🤎🧡💛🤍🖤

[skweebs]

You're welcome btw

[bisexualbaker]

Okay so. Someone has probably done this before? But I couldn’t stand the thought of it not existing, so I made it anyway just in case. I hope it's not too visually jarring!

[Image: The Bear Pride flag, but the bear paw in the upper left corner is now the Trans Pride flag, like a trans bear has left his stamp of bear-ish approval on the flag. End ID.]

[skweebs]

FUCK YEAH

[bisexualbaker]

@verycoordinatedmoths says:

 i need an nb version 

I gotchu covered 👍

[Image: Same as above, but the pawprint is now nonbinary, and the bear may be using different pronouns; end ID.]

I was planning to make one for a bunch more nonbinary/genderqueer flags and posting them all at once, but something came up so the rest will have to wait a few hours. Currently planned:

Genderqueer

Genderfluid

Genderflux

Agender

Demiboy

If there’s an other bear gender identities that have flags that someone wants, let me know and I’ll see what I can do! I’ll even do a bear-gender Bear Pride flag if someone wants it 😉

[kingscrown666]

Made this during Pride month and now I get to use it again (note the flag)

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Several photos of large ursine bears (as opposed to human bears) arranged in a collage. "If not fren," the text asks, "then why fren shaped? Befriend a bear today!" Behind the collage poster and dimly lit is the Bear Pride flag. End ID.]

An excellent addition, and the perfect jumping off point for the rest of the flags I’ve made!

[Image: The Bear Pride flag with paws in Agender, Demiboy, Genderfluid, Genderflux, and Genderqueer pride variants. End ID.]

And as a bonus, here’s a version that anyone who wants to should hopefully be able to use for their own color-in-the-paw-print needs! Or at least I hope the paw-print is clear here...

[skweebs]

I just wanna say it's been a rough month for me mentally but every night I've been looking at the notes on this post and it's been really nice to see the sheer amount of love and support for ppl like me.

If you've left a tag on this post, I've seen it, and I just want to say thank you it really means a lot to me

🤎🧡💛🤍🩶🖤

[bisexualbaker]

Reblogs that make me look at the notes and damned if I’m not overcome with happiness for all of you now ♥

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.

[viiioca]

i think everyone who is worried about their skill doing content in ff14 should watch an ultimate world race. if you have ever felt like shit for not immediately understanding a mechanic you've never seen before, you will be Spiritually Healed watching the absolute best players in the world spend multiple hours and 20 pulls just to make it 25 milliseconds further into a fight. you will watch people just completely fuck mechanics that they have successfully done 30 pulls in a row for no other reason than they're tired and their brain shidded. no matter what your skill ceiling is, the trajectory of gaining competence follows pretty much the same arc. be soothed

[rosalesbeausderholle]

One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!

[notalotgoingonatthisinstant]

As a neurologist, I’ll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.

[lovelettersfromasia]

lesbian flag inspired makeup 🧡🤍🩷

[wheeloffortune-design]

My gift to the community:

Pastel Pride flags because my eyes hurt.

I recolored them all stripe by stripe on Photoshop because I'm a *perfectionist*. You can't just lighten a color, you need to adjust the saturation too.

Want to support me? I just published a novel, it's a sapphic western, check it out.

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[byakuya-mioda]

I like to think this is the story of him breaking out of prison and then going on an extended spree of mischief

[kaylmao]

[jadeharleyinc]

kind of crazy no one has drawn the time traveler and the medieval peasant staring at the night sky with their bag of doritos

[jadeharleyinc]

in 2014 there would have been shipping fanart

[nanndana]

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[kulvefaggoth]

THIS ULTIMATE IS NEXT LEVEL OH MY GOD

source

[ofdarklands]

this is what he says, apparently

[polkadotmotmot]

Salvo - Strada con lampioni, 2001

[mitakasasa]

favorite ffxiv themes: wayward daughter

Westward lies bleed t'ward the east Wayward daughter, step into the night Restless eyes, blind to the beast Barren waters yield unto the tide