The Pepper Whisperer

formerly facethetideandswim. pep, 31, gardener and gecko mom, dog enthusiast

[duckdotcom]

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

[finleycannotdraw]

reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

@ tags: don’t make me tap the sign again

“Saying humans are naturally evil and violent is just another form of anthrocentrism and isn’t any better than saying we’re perfect and better than other organisms”

Humans! Are! Normal!

Not! Evil! Not! Perfect! Just! Normal!

[devil-do-you-like-drums-deactiv]

honestly more important than it being anthrocentrism, is that mindset being a deeply colonialist, capitalist-apologist mindset, akin to "humans are the virus" or other gross shit like that

get it Very Fucking Straight, especially in the end-stage capitalist hellscape we're living through - the only virus is our economics. Humans were around for a long time, and were caring for the earth and its land for a long time, before some european dipshits hundreds of years ago started colonizing the world and enslaving other humans in the name of "capital."

The real "don't make me tap the sign" here is that Capitalism is the virus, not humanity. Humanity continually suffers under, and would be 100% Fully Serious better off than, capitalism, and the shit the system demands from ordinary people. If human daily life at the societal systemic level revolved fully around caring for others, making sure everyone's needs were well met, and making our collective world a happier better place - the improvement to the world would be immeasurable.

[mamaangiwine]

When people graffiti on buildings: Yes! Ha ha! Fuck yes!

When people graffiti on rockfaces and cliffsides on hiking trails: What the absolute fuck.

[mamaangiwine]

It's not punk to poison the soil, dude.

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Showy Lady’s Slipper Cypripedium reginae Orchidaceae

Photograph taken on June 18, 2023, at Purdon Conservation Area, Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada.

[fiollaigean]

wizards thinking of clerics as hacks cause we spent years of study learning the secrets of the universe they cheated and got a god to do their magic for them

clerics thinking of wizards as hacks cause we spent years serving and cultivating a deeply personal relationship with a god they copied down some cheat codes to make stuff blow up

[its-your-mind]

[dungeonmalcontent]

And sorcerers are like "no wait, hold on. This is basically a curse. I've been *experiencing* magic against my will since I was born and it's hurt a lot of people."

... and then everyone glares at the warlock in the corner. Their response: "Yeah, no. That's fair. I blew Cthulhu in the parking lot behind the McDonald's and now I can do magic. Best deal ever. You all can (and should) suck it."

[only-tiktoks]

[depsidase]

[redarmyscreaming]

Sharecropping.

[transcyberism]

FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[teathattast]

[teathattast]

Mad because you don't have bird vision?

[teathattast]

Seethe . You will never b them

[martindykewood]

[guy who doesnt do literally anything voice] there just aint enough hours in the day to get everything done that needs to be done am i right

[theperksofneurodivergency]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Weaving goldfish with corn leaves

[animentality]

[odekiisu]

Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”

(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)

[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]

[prokopetz]

Something just occurred to me.

You know how back in the pre-Internet days, it was nearly impossible to watch a TV series in its entirety because the local affiliate stations would deliberately air the episodes all out of order, then do some sort of statistical sorcery to figure out which particular episodes gave the advertisers the best return for their dollar and just run those ten or twelve specific episodes in an endless semi-randomised rotation, and that was why every time you channel-surfed across a particular show it always seemed to be the same damn episode?

Twitter’s algorithm is literally the social media equivalent of that.

[mrmeriwether]

In middle/high school I put all the music I had on an off-brand mp3 player and would just set it to Shuffle All. I quickly realized the player’s shuffle fuction wasn’t purely random–it was weighted towards my favorite songs (aka the songs with the most plays).

Only I had never chosen those songs. They were just the random few to pop up the first time I shuffled everything, and they started playing more and more frequently as this horribly short-sighted algorithm fed itself bad data, until I was so annoyed at those few songs that I stopped listening entirely.

Anyway a few years later Facebook did the exact same thing with my friends list, siphoning me off from seeing most of my feed because OBVIOUSLY I interacted with them the most, therefore they must be my besties. But really they were just the only people showing up for me to interact with in the first place, until I was down to just a few people I never really talked to from high school, a college prof, and my racist uncle I kept calling out.

And shortly after that, YouTube followed suit, replacing “Subscriptions” with “Recommended” as the default category, and trying to find “things I liked” when it was really just whatever three channels I’d watched last, whatever unrelated viral vid it wanted to push that week, and weird perennials like Whose Line clips or lockpick reviews or YTPs that seem to hibernate for months at a time then return like locusts.

All this to say: the big mysterious algorithms that now run all the major platforms on the internet are never acting in your best interests. They’re just that junky mp3 player’s Shuffle All with a fresh coat of paint, and, to be clear, this is by design. They are VERY good at what they do, which is funneling users into nice predictable pockets of content that advertisers can exploit.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

[hamletthedane]

(No but seriously OP you’re exactly right)

[plaguedocboi]

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

[jaewul]

[tainbocuailnge]

10am is a normal time to wake up and 9am is early. and other unemployable statements.