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[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[tallowandport]

I have seen glimpses of phm Ryland Grace being turned/reborn/made into an eridian to extend his life or some-such-similar-reason.

And I propose.

Since Eridian brains seem better with memory and such.

(I wonder if, because their brains are basically a big crystal, the reason their memory is so good is because it literally gets carved into the crystal so they can revisit it whenever with no problem.)

Imagine they manage to basically transfer Grace's consciousness into crystal brain into Eridian body.

and suddenly Grace is one of the smartest bitches on Erid (not that he wasn't already smart, or that the Eridians didn't already view him as smart, but now they have an easier way to comprehend how smart he is) because he no longer has the feeble flaws of a human brain with it's weird memory and stuff.

Rocky when Grace is human: This is my very smart, squishy alien friend.

Rocky when Grace becomes an Eridian and can finally properly chatter about Science: holy shit, Grace is a very smart fucking Nerd.

[lutheban]

The Future, Somewhere Far Away From Here

Some dejointed drawings and doodles of my own post-canon headcanons! Where humans send a ship to their neighbors in order to meet them, and make sure their sun didnt die in case Rocky wasn't successful, but end up finding a very much alive Ryland Grace, looking younger than he should and living his best life on Erid

I'm just fascinated by the idea of ​​humans and eridians collaborating and what that would look like. We are so advanced in some areas they lack, while they are so advanced in some areas where WE lack due to our respective biologies, the progress from both sides would be insane.

Of course, Eridians would also want to go to Earth, and is only fair they get a nice place to stay too. Maybe is then Grace decides to go back, to act as an ambassador for the Eridians, to see the place he worked so hard to keep alive. But i think eventually, after many years living on Earth (specially with the extended lifespan) he would want to go back, yeah the 2gs suck on his bones but he has more of a home on Erid than he ever did on Earth, anyway, there's people waiting for him there.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 7,532 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

great news! 7,556 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hey don't cry, now there are 7,576 species of frog in the world, ok?!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

excellent news! 7,591 species of frog in the world, peace and love on planet earth

[werewolf-transgenderism]

guess what! 7,624 species of frog on planet earth, ok?

[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[wandering-aloneo-o]

@markscherz how many of these do we get to thank you for again?

[markscherz]

95 at present, more on the way :)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

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[werewolf-transgenderism]

HEY DON'T CRY. 8,008 SPECIES OF FROG IN THE WORLD PER AMPHIBIAWEB AND THE 8,000TH FROG WAS DESCRIBED BY TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR. Scherz, ET AL., PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH ‼️‼️‼️

[urlocalweatherboy]

okay so i usually see zosan written as gay zoro and bi/pan sanji (which is totally cool and im not trying to hate on that w/ this post and if u prefer that ur interpretation is totally just as valid as mine!!) but I actually see it as the other way around.

So i first got the idea when i was doing some deep dive research into bisexual culture in the 19th century for my 21 page gay vampires history final paper (don’t ask lol). And it turns out that dual wielding blades is slang in Japan for bisexual. There are two different words for it but one of them, nitoryu (which admittedly from what i could glean is the less common one in terms of bi slang, but still!) is the one zoro uses to refer to his two-sword style. So then i was like “what sort of elevated plane must a triple wielding bisexual have reached?” And my pansexual sister went “may i suggest pansexuality?” And now i can’t stop thinking about it. Little kid zoro asks kuina about some couple he sees and she’s like “well they are romantic partners which means they care about each other the most and can trust each other to have each other’s backs in a fight. And also there’s kissing i guess. I don’t know.” And little zoro is like hmm okay ig. And then he does not think about it again, like, at all, until forever later when he’s a bounty hunter. He sees two people kissing or something and he’s like “oh yeah. Romance. Forgot that existed.” And then he basically decides that romance is someone who can always match you in a fight, but because zoro’s gonna be the best and also can’t yet conceptualize fighting that doesn’t involve swords he’s like ig I won’t have romance since no one will be able to match me sword fighting. And then he stops thinking about it again. Until he meets sanji. And sanji can match him in a fight, no problem, but also isn’t someone zoro has to get better than to become the greatesf swordsman. Sanji has his back in a fight. He cares a lot about sanji. Sounds awesome. Perfect romanic partner for him. But sanji also, kinda…pisses him off to no end. Because the guy has somehow got the idea in his head that only women and men can be romantic together, and zoro has literally never heard of this idea before and it makes no sense, and he can’t understand why the cook thinks it or why no one else finds it weird. He seriously cannot conceptualize what the hell mental gymnastics sanji is doing in his head to perceive the world so strangely and so differently from how it actually is. Where the heck does the cook get the idea that women are the complete opposite of men and are weak and in need of protection?? Instead how they really are: human, ultimately, just one way to be and capable of everything that men are. But zoro is kinda bad at articulating his thoughts so all this comes out more like “oi shit-cook, why are you acting so stupid?” And then sanji gets mad and they fight. But yeah pansexual zoro who does not give a shit what a person looks like as long as they can match him in a fight. I feel like it fits really well with his backstory/character.

Okay so then i got thinking about sanji, and here’s the thing. The way he treats women in canon really bothers me, and it comes off as so performative and definitely gives Learned Behavior. So i was thinking where he might have learned it. And here’s my theory. Sanji loves to feel helpful and wanted. So when he starts working on the Baratie he acts so gentlemanly and polite and doting to everyone. And a lot of fragile little man egos on the staff and among the guests can’t handle it and he gets hit a lot, and zeff of course kicks everyone who does that off the boat, but still it’s gonna stick with such a traumatized kid. And so he gradually focuses his attention on the women who will coo over this cute little kid trying so hard to be all suave and mature. And it feels nice to him to be told positive things like he never got before in germa. After feeling useless his whole life, being complimented feels so nice that he starts getting a little desperate for it. And I can’t imagine that every single cook and guest on the baratie would have fantastic views on gender, or that zeff would have the time and vocabulary to sit him down and explain how he was slowly drifting into the realm of misogyny and why that was bad. So he probably picked up a lot of stupid ideas about how men should act around women and what women wanted, and there were no women working on the baratie to explain things to him or provide a counter example. And he starts fearing being perceived as weak as well so being vulnerable around men becomes something he avoids, because he is exposed to all this macho, toxic masculinity bs, and no one is explaining that it’s wrong to him. And then puberty hits and suddenly he’s getting teased by all the cooks who perceive his doting on women as trying to get in their pants. And he internalizes that as “this is how im supposed to act” and so he starts being performative about it, and it’s encouraged so it only gets worse. Especially because he’s so terrified of being vulnerable, that when he begins to experience his gay awakening he shoves it down as far as it can go and starts putting more emphasis onto how “obviously heterosexual” he is. And then he meets zoro, who is every thing he wants to be without even trying. He’s masculine and strong and respected and doesn’t need to perform like sanji does to be perceived as any of those things. And sanji also finds him really, really attractive, as terrified as he is to admit it, so he constantly gets angry at the guy and picks fights on purpose to avoid confronting his own feelings. So yeah gay sanji, cause i really just can’t read his wierd heart eyes routine around women as anything but a performance for heteronormativity. Someone put that man in therapy.

but yeah that’s my argument for pan zoro x gay sanji.

[fagstaynight]

some people on the internet have only been on here for five minutes

[cowboyspones]

i will never get over this one i’m afraid

[muguathepapaya]

Okay, yes, I know fanon likes Cody to be tired of Jedi loosing lightsabers and to be tired of everyone’s crapp all the time, but consider. This is the same commander that spin kicks and punches droids. His best friend is from the 501st. He’s more unhinged than the fandom gives him credit for. So here is my head canon of what happened at least once.

[duckbunny]

"biblical angels" you do realise there are angels in the old testament that are literally just regular looking guys, right? you do know that the hallucinogenic incoherent descriptions are in like. two books. and the rest of the time angels are just guys. you know that, right?

and I'm not saying don't have fun with weird angels. I'm saying, either the eldritch forms are for special occasions, or the society of the angels is Many-Eyed-Many-Winged-Interlocking-Circles, Four-Faces-Six-Wings, and Mike.

[witches-ofcolor]

Literally Raphael is just a normal person!

[rubensmuse]

this is what the heavenly breakroom is like

[callmebliss]

Oh no now I love the water cooler angel

[a-sentient-cup]

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[tieflingkisser]

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

[benjimint]

[renthony]

People in my notes of my youth liberation post keep asking me if I think kids should be allowed in bars, and it's driving me up the wall for two main reasons:

1. My original post was talking about the ways I watched my mother get harassed for bringing toddlers to *the grocery store.* Jumping to "omg so you think kids should be allowed in BARS?!" is a hell of a stretch.

2. If you have to be 18 or 21 to get into a bar/club, duh, that's not a place for kids. They check ID at the door for a reason. But not every bar is like that. My favorite local bar is actually a brewery and family pub with board games and big tables for game nights. They host food trucks and have a nice outdoor seating area. I have been up there for multiple community events that welcome kids and families. I have literally held a toddler at the pub while their mama got herself a glass of cider from the bar as an "I just stopped breastfeeding and can have a drink again" treat. Family-friendly establishments that also serve alcohol are, like, 100% a thing. Hell, *Applebee's* has both a kids' menu and an alcohol menu.

[palesweetdeeer]

I love the idea of Rocky extending Grace’s lifespan to Eridian levels without telling him

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes