Hello? Is this thing on?

Call me Sandy. Upwards of 20 years old. ""Professional Mathematician"".

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[scribe-cas]

Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[saym0-0]

guards! make that man a woman !

[wintercorrybriea2]

juvenile springtail

[i-am-a-fish]

no more dichotomies. I would like to introduce you to my friends Both, Neither, and Something else entirely

[lizardsfromspace]

[lizardsfromspace]

Remember early on in the AI boom where people were asking if the same woman appearing in generated images all the time meant there was a "digital cryptid" and then it turns out that AI just inexplicably gets stuck on stuff and keeps making it over and over and

[bismuthfool]

more bloodymary whahahaha do you think I won't do it again?? I will do more and more

this guys have no one else to stare at, so they stare at each other (even if there were a bunch of people around, they would still stare at each other)

aroace Grace is my Roman Empire. aroace Grace in a queerplatonic relationship with Simon is my second Roman Empire

[bismuthfool]

Imagine that your knowledge of the once-lost Earth is limited to religious stories, legends about the past, rare and hard-to-find texts and images, and one tree you've seen in person... And then you're given access to nature documentaries. Would you choose sleep over watching movies?

Simon rejected sleep.

Simon is afraid that everything will be taken away from him again(((

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[tanadrin]

'should a pure utilitarian kill innocent people apparently causally remote from others to save their lives, if it saves lives on net' is i think an example of a thought experiment that is on the one hand kind of useful for exposing the way pure utilitarianism stresses our moral intuitions, but also where IMO starting from the abstract idea and moving toward real-world applicability illuminates useful ideas.

like if it were true that by committing one act of wanton murder in Spokane you could save the life of everyone in India, i would say you should at least consider it. but the less uneven you make the tradeoff, and the more you try to find real-world situations that look like this, the more you approach the naive utilitarian's fail states like "we should choose random citizens by lottery and harvest their organs to save lives on net."

and that's a situation where like. suddenly you have an in-theory implementable policy, and also a lot of obvious practical objections like "this would destroy the legitimacy of any government that tried it, if it didn't it would be intensely socially corrosive and everyone involved would have massive incentives to rig the system to protect their loved ones, and there would be huge political incentives to turn this into a weapon against socially disfavored groups." and i think this in turn tells you something useful: that naive utilitarian reasoning is really good at tricking you into believing stupid shit, and any decent moral philosophy has to be pretty engaged with how the world actually works to produce useful policy prescriptions.

and that's not an indictment of utilitarianism at the end of the day! in fact, i think the intelligent utilitarian would happily acknowledge "yeah ok this policy saves lives on net if you ignore how it would work in practice, but we don't live in a bad 1960s sci fi short story, we live in a society and the best outcome here is that before you can ever implement it every member of the Utilitarian Health Ministry gets dragged out in the street and beaten to death." non-stupid utilitarianism is pretty capable of reasoning its way out of those kinds of traps. ergo, the no galaxy brain shit rule, which is really just a heuristic to remind you not to get so far up your own ass you decide moral intuitions have nothing useful to say or that the absurdity heuristic is never useful. that you do live in the world, and not in Gedankensburg, and you have to account for the difference.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[autumn-sweet-fae]

I think I know why I love the idea of Simon on Erid first and bonding with Adrian before meeting Grace or Rocky.

Because then Adrian and Rocky can be that couple moving in together and desperately trying to get their cats to get along.

Rocky with his cuddly chatty orange cat who has so many brain cells they often negate each other, and is a maximum clinger. Currently recovering from scurvy.

And Adrian with their feral rescue, an unlucky black cat they found injured at the bottom of a metal dumpster. Who’s aloof and avoidant of everyone except Adrian, the Only One he loves and trust.

Rocky and Adrian are like those victims of the cat distribution system who have No Idea how to care for a cat, but they have been chosen so they gotta learn fast. 

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[supermalmoart]

Centauropod

[supermalmoart]

That's a great question. Consider:

[supermalmoart]

Centauropod

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.