that's not that weird, to have a train name

Oak • 30s • they/them • This is my main blog; I also have an FFXIV and a TES blog.

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]

[chinesewednesday]

[dogpuppy]

[guiltygearbridget]

yeah thatll do it

[crevicedwelling]

location: moss oasis, endless barren waste

known for: moisture, spores, mite farming

[bogleech]

They say there are other worlds out there beyond the stone sea, but I think that's stupid nonsense.

[pangur-and-grim]

my guy

[pangur-and-grim]

mind the folds

[dampfnudeldove]

[pangur-and-grim]

wait….. he’s cutie?

[pangur-and-grim]

a lot of his poses are just “corpse of a marine mammal bloating on the beach”

[pangur-and-grim]

he really is so beautiful sometimes

[pangur-and-grim]

for contrast, this was Belphie one year ago. he's grown so much fur since then!!

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

[uncahier]

Fargo, ND just elected its first openly gay mayor!

North Dakota Sen. Josh Boschee elected mayor of Fargo

The Democratic state senator had the least city government experience of any of his opponents and won with nearly 47 percent of the vote.

Fargo bets on Boschee: State senator elected mayor

Fargo's first openly gay mayor-elect collected 47% of the vote, according to complete but unofficial results. Fargo City Commissioner Turnbe

For those of you unfamiliar with North Dakota/the Upper Midwest, yes, this is a really big deal.

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[catchymemes]

Wild Dogs see a Domesticated Dog

[headspace-hotel]

African wild dogs are one of my favorite animals. Those huge round circle ears and tricolored coats. I love you African wild dogs

[bunjywunjy]

HEY. HEY. HOW DID YOU GET OUT??? HEY-

[timefortigers]

dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog?

[that1nkyone]

[dailycatsblog]

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[rainbow-demoness]

I think it deserves pointing out that it doesn't just reproduce or amplify existing bigotries: it can fabricate them out of whole cloth, without even needing any bigotry in the input dataset. This is because, as a technology, it is inherently severely conformist: anything that is unusual, it will flag as likely wrong.

Man with a husband? Even if every person on earth sincerely feels "love is love, some men have husbands and I love that we are diverse like that", the software will still see that the majority of people with husbands are women, and mark "person with husband is a man" as "likely wrong". This will happen to any minority, because any technology that calls the most common thing "correct" and everything else "incorrect" is, inevitably, inherently, violently anti-minority.

It's not enough to get rid of widely held bigotry or filter it out of the dataset, even if we could do that. The flaw is in the tool, and we have no reason to believe it can be fixed. The only solution I can see would work for sure is if none of us ever used it again.

[amnhnyc]

Meet the Toucan Barbet (Semnornis ramphastinus)! This thick-billed bird inhabits cloud forests throughout parts of Colombia and Ecuador. It uses its bill to crush berries and squeeze nectar out of flowers. Both males and females have vibrant plumage; the main difference in appearance is that males have a black tuft by their necks.

Photo: David Martin, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[fandomsandfeminism]

This may be the best Pride merch I've seen from a major corporation.

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

And the assless chaps sold out on June 1.

[aetherograph]

They also specifically contacted members of the leather community, used them as models iirc, and donated $100k to Outright International. They talked the talk and walked the walk and put their money on it too. I don't really care that I can't afford and don't want this merch, I love to see my community getting the respect it deserves. Levi's said, "We make jeans which gays wear lots of jeans? Oh leather daddies? Let's call them."

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think Levi's donates to Outreach International every year too, as well as sponsoring pride events and other community support. They were offering Same Sex domestic partner benefits to employees in the 90s, and have been very public about their support for pro-lgbt legislation all through the 2000s.

So, you know, a giant corporation that walks the walk pretty consistently.

[tar-black-eyes]

All chaps are assless

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

I think they're generally called assless when they are worn with, uh..., just a codpiece or similar underneath.

[terramythos]

I asked Jaspurr to stare at gay people