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[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[unclefather]

Reblog if you’re a true 90s kid and you remember this tumblr

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[fibromyalgicaf]

Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...

I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[itsrainingshadybitches]

[tygermama]

“We heard youse are behind on your payments to Fat Tony.”

[defydamage]

I ALMOST SPIT MY ROOTBEER

[gallusrostromegalus]

“Think you’re all aesthetic, huh? A real instagram Wiseguy!  You want something to blog about? We’ll give ya something to blog about!”

[quendergeer]

the nature of tumblr is such that every few years it will independently invent goodfeathers

[asteroidtroglodyte]

What the heck, I’ll give it a shot.

How bad could it be?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Guys I’m not ok

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Do tell

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Oh jeez where to begin

Ok, First of all, Dorothy Gale is played by a young Fairuza Balk.

These pictures do not do justice to the raw Traumatized Child energy she brings to this role.

A bit of plot: Dorothy Gale won’t sleep. She’s always talking about Emerald Cities and Talking Scarecrows and Ruby Slippers. At her wit’s end, Aunt Em decides to commit her to the sanitarium for electroshock therapy.

Disney made this.

It is strongly implied that her journey back to Oz is a hallucination caused by the electroshock treatment. Herr Doktor flips the switch, lightning flashes, and the supernatural part of the movie begins.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Ok. So. Dorothy gets to Oz by almost drowning in a flash flood. She rides to safety in a produce crate with one of her family chickens.

This is where one of the core Uncanny elements of the film first appears; this movie does not share continuity with the 1939 Judy Garland film.

It is a much more faithful adaptation of L.F. Baum’s Books, but despite being a sequel both objectively and canonically, it really just pretends the ‘39 film doesn’t exist.

They land in a desert that turns people to stone called the Deadly Desert. They get food from a Lunch Pail Tree. The chicken can talk. The Scarecrow is King of Oz, allegedly.

But, like,

Here’s her house from the first movie.

The one that landed on a witch? Right smack dab in the middle of a whole dang Munchkin Village?

There was literally a whole song and dance!

Where did the Munchkins go, you might ask?

Well, while Dorothy was away,

There was an Apocalypse.

OZ HAS FALLEN

And this is where we meet the nightmarish Eldritch spawn of Roller Disco and David Bowie:

The Wheelers

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Alright. The fucking Wheelers.

I don’t-

What is-

What these pictures don’t convey is that, as they move, they make the exact same sound the gurneys in the sanitariums make. The Wheelers are played by the same actors who play the orderlies. Oz is the sanitarium.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Now, let’s discuss Jack Skellington Pumpkinhead

This is one of the Good Guys

He’s just a guy. Like, really, very much, Just A Guy of a character. His entire personality, such as it is, is comprised of

His quest to find his Mom (we’ll get back to that) and

Commenting on his lifelessness. For example, when faced with death, he comments calmly that he won’t miss eating or sleeping, since he does neither.

His mom ends up being this girl:

We’ll get to her.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I had this fever-dream memory of the Army of Oz in the Hall of Ornaments from when I was a kid as well and I gotta say it’s kinda nice to finally put that memory in some kind of context. A horrible, terrible, awful context, but a context nonetheless.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

One and the same, friend.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I LIVE TO PLEASE

Ahem. Sorry. Anyway.

So. I mentioned an Apocalypse.

Behold! The citizenry of Oz!

They have been turned to stone by the evil Nome King! Why, you ask?

For stealing his Emeralds, of course!

But I’m getting ahead of myself. I forgot to introduce The Army of Oz, affectionately referred to as Tik-Tok!

This guy

That’s… apparently the whole army?

He’s spring-wound. Has 3 winding keys: one for moving, one for talking, and one for thinking. At one point his thinking gears wind down while his action and talking gears are still tight and he creates a lot of trouble. He has a… spin attack…

I really don’t know what to make of him to be honest.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Ok so like fully half of what makes The Wheelers so unsettling is the audio so I found a clip:

Hospital gurney noises and echoing, mocking laughter. The way it’s cut doesn’t help. Nor does the… craft store kitsch of the Wheeler outfits. I genuinely have no idea what they were going for. David Bowie vibes, a little bit, but not in a good way.

[scots-dragon]

Oh this film. This isn’t even the end of it.

[korrasera]

This is one of the few films that tried for, and managed to succeed for the most part, at capturing the same sort of dark magic of films like Labyrinth, the Dark Crystal, or the Secret of NIMH. That time when some creators were willing to tell stories to children that reflected the darkness that we already saw in the world.

It’s got some problems, but Return to Oz is honestly great. I also never felt like it was patronizing me when I watched it as child, which seemed like an awfully hard ask for most movies.

[actualhumancryptid]

Yeah this is absolutely of its era, when it comes to terrifying 80’s children’s films.

I used get dad to rent this film for us when I was 8 or so. Mostly because I knew it was the only film my tough little sister was visibly scared of. Children are brutal.

This breakdown doesn’t even touch on Mombi, who scared the living daylights out of me. She is played by the same actress who plays the nurse at the sanatorium. And she is the reason the citizens of Oz up there are missing their heads. She keeps the still living heads locked in glass cabinets in her palace and swaps them out for her own head depending on her mood.

There is a later scene where all the heads are screaming as Dorothy makes a run for it. Mombi’s original head bellowing ‘Dorothy Gale!’ It is genuinely disturbing. I love this film so much.

[ekjohnston]

…i was so traumatized by this movie i would not have been able to tell you pumpkinhead was a good guy

[saltandlimes]

So this is actually less accurate to the books in that it’s a bunch of the books smashed together with characters jumbled and smushed. Also the wheelers literally give me a visceral fear reaction when I see them.

[youvejustthoughtofeverything]

I LOVED this movie as a kid.  Don’t think I found it particularly traumatic, not sure what that says about me…

[asteroidtroglodyte]

So you know how good children’s entertainment will contain jokes that go over the kids heads but that help the adults enjoy the film too?

You don’t have to limit yourself to jokes.

There’s a lot of horror that will also go over kids heads.

Ever seen Coraline?

Most kids who watch it go “that was a fun movie. Little scary.” Meanwhile the adults are having a panic attack, especially if they’re the parents.

This movie has plenty of that. Most of the stuff I talk about being “traumatizing” is really, if I’m being honest, “remembering trauma.” It’s the stuff that I, an adult, can put together contextually but which is not necessarily obvious to a child viewer.

Hope that helps

[airandangels]

The movie’s Mombi is a composite of book characters Princess Langwidere, who swaps her heads, and the witch Mombi who agreed to hide the heir to the kingdom of Oz, the infant princess Ozma, when the Wizard took over the country. She did this by magically changing the princess’s sex and raising her as a boy called Tip, so even she couldn’t figure out who she was and reclaim her kingdom!

[catflowerqueen]

Also, the majority of the action in the movie doesn’t actually take place in Oz in the book. It takes place in a neighboring country that generally can’t be travelled to because of the mechanics of the desert surrounding Oz.

Dorothy gets there because she and her uncle were going on vacation in Australia and the ship sailed into a storm, then she meets with Ozma and other assorted characters because Ozma is trying to save the Queen of Ev and her children from the Gnome King after they got sold to him by her husband in return for “a long life,” if not outright immortality, and then he immediately rendered that deal kind of pointless because he committed suicide out of guilt for what he did to his wife and kids.

Meanwhile, Langwidere the head swapping woman is in charge because she is the only relative of the royal family left (i think she’s a cousin or something)

Tik-Tok is also originally from Ev, and he was just a mechanical marvel of sorts. But he goes to Oz at the end of the book and joins Ozma’s army. …Eventually becoming the only member of the army who is actually permitted to do dangerous things and face combat (after the course of a few more books) because all the other members of the army get promoted to positions that typically don’t see combat.

By the way, there are 14-ish Oz books that Baum actually wrote, and then a few more that were written by ghostwriters. And they do have a loose continuity they keep up with, mostly in the form of returning characters.

Like the Gnome King.

Also the Wizard ends up moving back to Oz at some point and learning actual magic.

[strawberryblondebutch]

Inspired by a couple other posts I’ve seen—

Can you name an active NBA player other than LeBron James?

Yes, I’m a sicko

Yes, but only a few

Yes, but not for basketball reasons (celeb gossip, creative ventures)

Yes, but I had to think about it

No, only retired players

No, only WNBA players

No, and I barely know LeBron

Voting ended onMay 21

Feel free to put in the tags the first player that came to mind!

[womanguy]

you should get a second evening for reading fan fiction. And you should get an extra day in the week to do arts and crafts.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

This is the best one

[ruffboi-mags]

(in case anyone needs context, since i know there's a bunch of younguns who didn't even know the "It's gonna be May" meme... The song playing is NSync's song "It's Gonna Be Me", the guy in the mint green t-shirt is NSync member Lance Bass, and the guy in the pink hoodie is his husband Michael.)

[elephino-but-i-need-a-name]

I need to you all to know that the original caption for this is : “POV your friend mispronounces a word once and now it’s a national holiday.”

[flower-cute-posts]

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[ryan-sometimes]

I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious

[targetedknowledge]

[targetedknowledge]

[svantetic]