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Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸

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Misplaced Lens Cap

if i look back, i am lost
Keni
noise dept.
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Claire Keane

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ellievsbear
One Nice Bug Per Day
YOU ARE THE REASON

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izzy's playlists!
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oozey mess

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@professorfonz
the brothers Area
Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)
mutuals
Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.
Delusion as a service
IT'S THE LAST DAY to pre-order my next book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, at my Kickstarter. Get it as a print book, a DRM-free audiobook or ebook,, and help me continue to prove that DRM-free isn't just the right way to reach an audience, it's also the best way to reach them.
In 2003, Disney opened a new Epcot ride, "Mission: Space." Formally, it was a space travel sim that used a giant, high-intensity centrifuge to simulate gee stresses; practically, it turned out to be the most efficient machine ever created for surfacing previously undiagnosed heart defects in extremely dramatic and potentially lethal ways.
It turned out that a small number of people have these heart defects, and that the defects themselves are quite harmless, provided that you are never put in a giant, high-intensity centrifuge. Given that most of us will never be put in one of these centrifuges, it is quite possible to live your whole life without ever knowing that you have this lurking vulnerability. But once you build one of these machines and start shoving millions of people through it, you're bound to catch some of those rare people, and they will have cardiac episodes that are scary at a minimum, and are at the worst fatal.
For me, the lesson isn't that Disney did something wrong by building a giant cocktail shaker for human bodies. I'm not a thrill-ride guy, but lots of people like 'em and the machines themselves are benign for nearly everyone who puts their bodies into them.
Rather, I think the lesson here is that there are rare pathologies lurking in all of us, vulnerabilities that may never surface â until we come into the presence of a novel stimulus that unlocks them.
There's an analogy here to technology debt: technologically unsophisticated people think of software as a machine that never wears out and has no incremental usage costs (apart from electricity). In this framing, software is the perfect asset, one that never depreciates. But the reality is that software is a liability, not an asset:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes
Software exists in a system, and while software might function perfectly under the conditions in which it is first created and deployed, there are continuous changes to all the technology that is upstream, downstream and adjacent to the software, which means that systems that are robust and secure at the time of deployment can become brittle and dangerous, even though the software doesn't change at all:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/24/automation-is-magic/
"You don't perfect your society just by making it work well. You have to make it fail well. A utopia isn't a society where nothing goes wrong â it's a society where things go wrong all the time, but we're able to fix them"
dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms
New BBC Sherlock Super-High-Quality Production Pictures by Arwel (x) - 221B S3 set - Note the speaker dock on the table, which Sherlock uses to play the Watson waltz on.
why are these causing me more emotions than shots with the actual characters in them
/me squinting at tiny mobile screen: ah yes, very details, much HD
I feel like Iâve lived here for years.
Source
Happy Pride Month!
Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!
-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026
everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet
I love this so much, Iâm gonna start saying ânutsâ we need to bring it back
I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with âsonofabitchâ
"OHH you're following me, oUUhhh I didn't know that!"
It brings me such joy that people seem to have always done the *sputters and blows raspberries like you're having a stroke* thing when they stammer
If youâd like to see more of these, go on YouTube and search âbreakdowns of 1938â (or 1939, 1940, etc). The editors at Warner Bros used to save them and make a blooper reel for the whole year to show at the staff holiday party.
ive invented (note: dubious claim) something i call the bear diet which is mostly fruits and vegetables with fish as the main protein source and something like once a month you eat a few hyperprocessed foods of your liking because that is when you, the bear, raid a dumpster in the suburbs
Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.
what time do you go to bed? (local time)
7pm or before
8pm
9pm
10pm
11pm
12am
1am
2am or after
it's never consistent
some other time entirely
I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!
@staff
How about a wheel for specific cat breeds?
you have been turned into this cat breed!
How do you feel!
I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT
I'm happy!
:3
ew.
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HOLY SHIT DEVON REX AAAAA MY CURLY FLUFFY BBYYYYYSSSS
LOOKIT THESE CUTIES I'D BE SO STOKED TO BE THIS KIND OF CAT
trying to explain why i like horror to people who donât: ok so you know how itâs fun to be deeply disturbed and unsettled
Hieronymus Bosch
He looks a bit different than I imagined.
Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.
@fishyfishyfishtimes
Absolute perfection