[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[animelionessmika]

^what artistic growth feels like

[syn4k]

i will give tiktok one concession and that is that it has spawned a comment that contains a phrase that i think of often at relevant moments: pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

[syn4k]

(from a video featuring someone's father/grandfather)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

is anyone else reading "pack it up boys we've made a social blunder" in the voice of the lead penguin guy from Madagascar

[ivara]

[ovid]

it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom

[allbuthuman]

it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror

[etirabys]

I deserve more credit for not picking stupid fights on the internet than a nice person who doesn't pick fights does, because I have an unpleasant personality and it's harder for me

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[jessdrawz]

look both ways ↔️

[realest-slenderman]

i do accomodate people with disabilities when they collect my pages btw

[realest-slenderman]

i cant provide adderall for you but i can give you an extended time limit + cryptic hints for collecting my pages

[soupkiddo]

thank you Slenderman! can I wear earplugs? the static is a bit overstimulating

[realest-slenderman]

yes you can 👍

[soupkiddo]

I love you Slenderman. can you kill my boss.

[realest-slenderman]

i love you too and i cant leave my forest but if you send your boss over to me i can probably arrange something

[omegaversereloaded]

ilove when someone posts about an issue that's supposedly plaguing society and it's painfully obvious that said issue is not a thing that matters if youre not on tiktok

[nianeyna]

reminds me of this reddit comment I have saved

[malinaa]

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[nervousnexus]

I fucking love letterboxd

[nervousnexus]

I am 100% for shipping freedom, ship whoever you want in a piece of media, we all interpret stories through our own personal lens and therefore want to make different metaphorical dolls kiss.

That being said.

The Strattland ship squicks me out badddd bc i went to religious schooling and its like. Eva Stratt is not just Eve in the story, she is also (and imo, MORESO) representative of God the Father. With Grace obviously being God the Son (Jesus). I haven't quite figured out if there's any character meant to represent the Holy Spirit. Its a mess bc a lot of the characters have narrative parallels to MULTIPLE biblical figures so its just. Anyways. I think Eva sees Grace as representing the best of humanity - the thing she cares about above all else - and sacrificing him is like sacrificing a child.

I dont want them to kiss, I want her to hold his corpse Ivan the Terrible style.

[animentality]

[twomothsholdinghands]

Tags via @shallow-between-stars & @bonerambles (excellent username btw even if it doesn’t come up on the @ list)

[rattle-my-stars]

Grandfather recovering from surgery after bison attack at Yellowstone sent him flying | CNN

What started as a yearly trip for a grandfather and his grandson turned into a visit to a Montana hospital after a bison attack at Yellowsto

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[researchplaceholder]

I would once again like to remind folks that the et al. at the end of a published article means someone published this as part of a community. Scientific research happens collaboratively. This is a super cool topic. But just highlighting one person instead of a team supports the ideas of an individualistic society and hides how much community and government support goes into this kind of work.

[nervousnexus]

A load bearing pillar of my belief system which I have zero evidence for but that provides a personally satisfying narrative is that I think a LOT of cultural norms/quirks/what have you that seem to have no basis in science exist bc someone a long time ago had OCD and the people around them just kinda latched onto a specific compulsion that made narrative sense to them. That they just kinda vibed with for whatever reason. And then force of habit and generations of "this is just how it is" child rearing cemented ideas like certain colors are just somehow luckier than other ones. But only on certain days of the year, or only on certain genders, etc etc. Did I explain that well?

[buttastic]

feeling like I am perhaps downwind from an argument my brother in law is having with his fiancée about wedding planning