Piqulsky

20+yo nerd / imagine the unimaginable / we are never alone

[piqulsky]

Sherlock x Moriarty is SO BACK

[radicalgraff]

“Make America Nothing Again”

Seen in Philadelphia

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[depsidase]

[seymour-butz-stuff]

Remove immunity and require each officer to carry insurance. The more fucked up the department the higher their insurance and individually it swings further based on claims.

Hit their pocketbooks the way they hit their wives and kids.

[milkinyourtoaster]

i have an easier suggestion

[hittingpeoplewithmycar-official]

fuck wrong account

[mysharona1987]

They semi-cancelled Timothee Chalamet for simply saying he found opera and ballet boring, by the way.

How does Hollywood work these days?

Being a bit of a naive, foolish young man and (wrongfully) calling opera and ballet irrelevant?

“You must apologise immediately! No Oscar for you.”

Acknowledging you stole terrified teenage girls from their bedrooms?

“Eh, you get a pass.”

[hittingpeoplewithmycar-official]

i have a suggestion

[solarpunks]

"There's an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it's an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance. " Adam Flynn - Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto - 2014

Balcony Solar. Somewhere in Athens, Greece. Shared by friend of the blog

[zombiiibleh]

Climate change denial is one of the dumbest things to be ignorant about. Foreign affairs? Just don't read the papers. Racism? If you're in a rural community and have barely interacted with non-white people, makes sense. Sexism? Built into every culture and, again, makes more sense in rural areas.

But climate change? It feels impossible to ignore that. Unless you were born like a month ago, you feel it. You feel the summers getting hotter, the sunburns getting worse, the droughts coming early, the allergies hitting different, the bugs fading away. It's not a social issue. It's not in one place. Every person on earth is affected by this all the time, and people are saying it's not real???

Like Bro, it used to actually snow during the winter. Remember that?

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest we should do something about this

[bumblebeeappletree]

Because I absolutely love joan_de_art’s sustainable city series I’mma share it in one post since I see the art scattered about.

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So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

[piqulsky]

Brennan you have taken away my breath, my soul my safety with those three death saving throws.

Calamity vibes are here already. And here I was thinking we would have gotten at least a few episodes of chill.

[roadhogsbigbelly]

video games are fun but i do think it's fucked how video games went from "hey remember to take a break every once in a while :)" to "if you don't log in every day and play 6 hours you're gonna lose your streak and won't earn the 10 in-game currency you're saving up to buy our overpriced cosmetics" in the span of like. 10 years.

[piqulsky]

I just realized that the three biggest books on my shelf are „Psychology and Life” (improvised translating the title from my language, don’t fact check me pls) by Philip Zimbardo, Jamie’s Olivier Italian Cookbook and Lancer TTRPG Rulebook.

Ah yes, the three pillars of (my) life:

- Complexity of mind and mental disorders

- Food

- Tabletop role playing games

Makes a lot of sense tbh

[bananathebookworm]

So to clarify, Brennan is going to be:

GM-ing the next core campaign for Critical Role

Launching new shows with Dropout

GM-ing more Dimension 20 campaigns

Working on Worlds Beyond Number even if not as a GM

Taking care of his young child

Making American Girl Doll shoes

I need to know where the fuck he finds his energy because like... can I borrow a tiny bit of it?

[piqulsky]

This feels like a proof to „if you follow your passion, you will not work a single day”

[blackwoolncrown]

oh also? An absolutely freaky thing I'm seeing yt leftists do?

STOP TRYING TO TRACK DOWN PROTESTORS THAT DO 'BADASS STUFF'. STOP POSTING ABOUT IT ONLINE.

PEOPLE FUCKING DIE.

AND IT'S USUALLY SOMEONE MELANATED.

THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING YOU FUCKING DUMBASS.

y'all are so stuck on egoistic heroism that every time someone does something 'sick' at a protest you wanna turn them in to the next celebrity to have a parasocial relationship with and then they go missing.

Tf is wrong w y'all.

[blackwoolncrown]

Friendly reminder that this man is fucking dead.

[crypticarchivist]

If you try to praise or draw attention to a specific protester for doing something photogenic THAT IS SNITCHING.

NO YOU *DON’T* KNOW THEM.

[blackwoolncrown]

SNITCH ACTIVITY

OP ACTIVITY

FED ACTIVITY

IF YOU SEE SOMEONE DO SOME BOSS SHIT NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T CLOWN

STFU

[armandology]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[piqulsky]

Sometimes it requires surviving. It gets hard

[piqulsky]

How much allowing your choice of followers / algorithm to show you posts that match your thoughts are need of validation or building up confirmation bias? Looking through my tumblr feed gives me two feelings:

1. Why everything I am being shown builds up what I already know?

2. So this is why I am always angry.

In the mess of the today’s world I am sometimes left to worry that I always have a reason to doubt my strongest convictions because the true information is no longer available and algorithms will make sure to make one feel good about what they think and make it stronger so that you will be always restrained by the bubble made of our own convictions.

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post