We Are Only Temporary

Hi hi, I’m an older genderqueer person who’s working hard to unlearn a bunch of awful mindsets and behaviors and become a better person. This is my personal blog: a sprinkling of art, science, cartoons, cute animals, and other random things I like. There is no theme other than “I like it” and will occasionally spam reblog 💕

[sardonyxlestrange]

Some of my personal vampiric highlights from this year lol. I LOVE LOOKING LIKE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT🖤

[usik-paleo-illust]

Dinosaurs of Korea🇰🇷

[kabber]

[becherdireinen]

sorry i never responded to your text, i've been busy being paralyzed by my own inability to do basic tasks that are piling up.

[rabbittongues]

[lesbx]

SUN AND MOON

[nora-yoko]

[princncess]

porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]

[princncess]

thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!

[fantaboy91]

The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake

[programmerhumour]

Funny how that works

[ferrousferrule]

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

[brunhiddensmusings]

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

[mugwomps]

That’s it exactly. GMO is great ciant corporations can go straight to hell

[sleaterkinnie-deactivated202412]

i love this image

[tzurim]

THEODORA DES MYTHOS (2026)

[anderwater]

THEODORA, fashion designa (2025)

[skaldish]

The idea that the Norse were highly-individualistic is extremely funny to me. These are people who were cooped up in the same abode together for 4-5 frozen months out of the year. Optimizing their ability to cooperate was essential.

[skaldish]

If you think quarantining during the pandemic made you crazy, try doing it when you, your spouse, your kids, and probably your parents all live together in a drafty 14'x14' hutch, and the only think keeping you from dying of hypothermia at that very moment is a single fireplace, the presence of warm bodies, and your ability to emotionally self-regulate.

[skaldish]

Oh yeah. Your cows and goats would be in there with you as well.

[coolnormalgirl]

just a little reminder on where i stand

[homunculus-argument]

I want to see what goes on in your brain you intrigue me

My 3 braincells.

[catchymemes]

[7littlelibraries-deactivated201]

This is humanity put to good use. Screw all the stuff that’s happening these days, this is basically the only reason I like us stupid ape people. Little things like this, designed to keep us all happy and busy

[fuckyahumor]

i love this!!!

[electricpentacle]

Now this is good design. Pay attention, tech companies - it’s not about looking shiny, it’s about understanding the end user’s needs and working with them.

[yankeeblue]

[deeranddog]

Mamdani Shuts Down NYC's Disastrous AI Chatbot

New York City's new mayor is unplugging a disastrous government chatbot that encouraged small business owners to break the law.

And the funniest part?

[fabiansociety]

this framing really winds me up. no knock on mamdani, but a lot of these key changes are the result of a tremendous amount of unsung work by the DWCP and other agencies and lawmakers. he’s not flipping switches that other politicians have refused to touch, he’s arriving at the moment those switches are ready to flip.

there’s just something off about giving all the credit to a charismatic socialist and ignoring the collective work that made these things actually possible, y’know?

[boltstuck]

This is exactly what bothers me. Changes like this take hundreds of people and thousands of hours of work to pull off. Everyone wants to sneer at the idea that important things take time, effort, and money to implement, and use Mamdani as evidence that everyone who claims it can't be done in 5 minutes with some elbow grease is a scam artist and a liar, but it's flat out not true.

In Mamdani's own speech, he says:

"Under President Biden, the FTC took sweeping action to go after junk fees and they delivered change. Under Chair Leader Khan, they instituted a junk fees rule that they estimated would save Americans 53 million hours a year that they would otherwise spend searching for the true price that they would have to pay, or $11 billion in time savings over a decade. We are going to deliver similar action on behalf of the 8.5 million New Yorkers who call our city home."

Lawmakers and agencies have been working to eliminate junk fees since at LEAST 2023, when Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning junk fees in California. Biden then took up the work with the FTC, targeting hidden fees on live event tickets. Biden went on to work with the CFPB to remove junk fees on banks and credit cards. The CFPB is continuing this work, which you can learn more about over here.

Even with the Chatbot thing -- Mamdani didn't just turn it off. He (and especially his crew) worked up a report to show where funds were being wasted in city government, and then did a presentation on it where he pointed to the specific failure of the Chatbot. He still had to go through a process to prove why he was taking action, it just so happened that this was comparatively quick fix, on account of being one single program running on one single government website.

[schniggles]

#stop ignoring the work #it has to get done #there is no loophole #there is no perfect person who can just make things happen #there are only people doing the work #and people continuing the work until it is done (via beezelbubbies)