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if tumblr dies you will find me in all the little things that remind you of me - mannerisms, figures of speech, certain jokes, pieces of media you gave me the honor of sharing with you. you may also find me in fighting game lobbies trying to convince people that i am a bodhisattva

#from friends #galaxy youre so right #mousecore

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

whitachi

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

araceil

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

alovelywaytospendanevening

Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone in publicity stills for The Mark of Zorro (1940)

#lw

lonestatus

hi! my name is 🦭! my job is play toys and shapes at the water factory! i get paid in fish. after a long day i like to unwind with my hobby, kissing and hugging my friends! which i also get paid in fish for!

kippwire

my lesbian clown girls

imsobadatnicknames2

I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

imsobadatnicknames2

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

vanglaggle

you can't make miis fat enough

#ive been saying this

sodomit

One of the cornerstones of my political values is liberation and acceptance of identity. Where "identity" is defined as a personally significant set of concepts or experiences.

Identity does not need to be evaluated or confirmed by others before becoming real. Identity is what frees you from being defined externally and limited to what's considered most reasonable, sane, or desirable by someone else.

There is no contradiction between observing identity and observing social classes, because class and identity, while not being synonymous, exist in a complicated mutual connection, and you need to be aware of both. Erasing either in favor of the other will make you erroneously attack members of your community.

In application to gender politics, observing identity means understanding that anyone can have any kind of an internal relationship with gender, without any being more true, more real, or more important than others. Observing class means understanding that trans people hold a marginalized position that's not neatly split along identity lines. You need to do both. You can't make up artificial material distinctions between trans people a la "if you're 1% girl you're affected by misogyny, if you're 0% girl, you aren't" in an attempt to reverse engineer class from identity. Neither you can reverse engineer identity from class and claim an experience with misogyny means a link to womanhood.

I see more and more bloggers in the trans community try to erase identity in favor of class, which is regressive and results in what's basically mass misgendering. Gender is not material. Gender is a feeling. And that doesn't take away from material impact of transition. Y'all need to stop discarding a half of the trans experience.

aesungaia

mahodo

holy cow this figure is phenomenal????

thecryptkeeper

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”