Guess My Alignment

Nat. Look, I have no side blogs. I get and spread E V E R Y T H I N G here. They.

[galileosballs]

To the tumblr user who I just blocked, I hope you at least know (if you're not a bot, which I suspect you might be) that 'can I get your mom's linkedin' is, like, a generational innovation in negging

[hbmmaster]

did you know that the nsmb soundtrack on nintendo music is called "New Super Mario Bros. " with a trailing space

[leo60228]

other fun facts

there's some other trailing spaces (ex. the track "Approaching the Ghost Ship " in Phantom Hourglass)

"Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield" has non-breaking spaces around the "and"

"Fly or Dive, Shipshape Island!" in Mario & Luigi: Brothership originally had a trailing newline (this was fixed oops no it wasn't i got confused)

for like a year after launch the server served non-DRM versions of all of the tracks lmao (no, these were not used in any way)

[ironmyrmidon]

When the AI bubble pops, the demand for computing power will fall much more quickly than the supply. For a brief window, we will have an amazing digital surplus.

[markvomit]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[mayothompson]

this is my all time fav tapir pic

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[skeleetromm]

[xalatath]

I'm high looking at street cat wiki. Thus is too much for me

[theonion]

Upending long-held beliefs about how the prehistoric reptiles commemorated a juvenile female’s transition into adulthood, new evidence published Thursday by researchers at Montana State University suggests that dinosaurs had quinceañeras. “As we examined fossilized footprints in a traditional waltz pattern at dig sites across multiple continents, it became clear that dinosaurs did in fact throw lavish 15th birthday parties for their female offspring, usually with friends and extended family members present,” said paleontologist Edwin Scanlon, who cited the prevalence of petrified las últimas muñecas in sedimentary rock layers and observed that the practice of holding a Catholic mass to mark the 15-year-old’s emergence into Mesozoic society appears to have been common among tyrannosaurs, diplodocuses, and other dinosaurs.

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[kaijutegu]

"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on, repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine, breakfast time, seven-nine!

In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills."

Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes."

It's surreal realizing that I'm living during the timeline of one of my favorite science fiction stories. Anyways, if you haven't read it, There Will Come Soft Rains is set today, August 4, 2026.

Here's where you can read it.

Here's where you can listen to Leonard Nimoy reading it.

And here's my favorite adaptation of it, the Soviet cartoon. It was recolored and remastered a couple of years ago, and if you turn on the captions you'll get the English translation as an option.

[hiveswap]

Hey guys you should totally get into this thing i like. Yeah it's mid at best. It also aged poorly. You'll get nothing out of it at all. You'll like the idea of it more than the actual thing. But at least only takes half your natural lifespan to finish it

[sarahmackattack]

I love shooting spiders in bisexual lighting. They just look so good. I mean look at her. She’s a natural!

[victor-the-woolslave]

[papasmoke]

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

New bombshell reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer resulted in a medical plane crashing into the side of a mountain. The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable. Due to a combination of low visibility and an air-traffic control that was stretched far beyond capacity — at least three other planes reported navigation disruptions due to the GPS jamming — the pilots failed to register a mountainous formation between their plane and the landing strip

[threedollarsdotcom]

wanted to see all the hype about "aps"

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes