the lovers, the dreamers, and me

Ripley. They/Them, 28

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[minmos]

making my own post in a similar vein to this one because i don't want to derail, but:

i just need yall to know that, if you ever message the mods of a reddit, reddit now automatically includes an AI generated summary of your entire post history with whatever message you send. yes it includes extremely personal information. i mod a support group for victims, the AI summary will regularly list out peoples' child abuse histories along with information on shit like them using reddit to seek out extramarital affairs

i don't think reddit has put out any official statements letting people know this is happening, so just as a heads up

[tgatbc]

[hacash]

someone at the marketing department had a little too much fun with this

[villainessbian]

a challenger

[psshaw]

[lilifred]

everyone's talking about the ibs/autism haha funny comparison thing while I'm still stuck on the concept that hamsters exist in the wild. like naturally

tf do you mean they're a wild creature. you find those ankle-biters at the pet store

[psshaw]

Not a biologist, but the evolution of mammals is way more granular than you might expect. Humans are the sole surviving species of the genus Homo, which was a real party before the other ones went extinct. You're in for a fun time.

Domestic cats are believed to be domesticated not from tigers, but from the African wildcat:

Which evolved to be small just because it's sometimes more useful to be small.

And no, hamsters are not off-brand rats. They're part of the rodent order, which includes beavers, moles, capybaras, guinea pigs (yes, also wild) and lots of other fun things:

[thesecretuncle]

Shit. This dude knows an extreme amount about a niche subject. Crazy what you can accomplish when you have treatment resistant IBS

[psshaw]

I want it on record that I shit mostly normal.

[transmortifried]

idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

you could talk about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable category

[charlesoberonn]

I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design

[anatomizer]

"hear me out" and it's a picture of the most fuckable building you've ever seen. c'mon now.

[thepersonalmossblog]

“hear me out” and it’s the fucking dildopolis

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[mxtomituck]

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me

[kalimaxxing]

in the club freakin it in a sensitive style

[ms-demeanor]

milcl (man i love copyright law)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or sincere but either way mickey mouse isn't going to fuck you.

[ms-demeanor]

milrwjamudcacaltdartsfhtlaodwarbopagkbaapm (man i love remembering when jstor and mit used draconian copyright and computer access laws to drive a researcher to suicide for his totally legal access of documents written and researched by other people and gate kept by an academic publishing monopoly)

[publiusmaximum]

It's really too bad he didn't steal all that work and feed it into an LLM. He'd be a billionaire if he had.

[ms-demeanor]

I mean one of the foundational points of Swartz's activisim is that from an open access perspective, he wouldn't have been stealing if he had downloaded all of those documents and trained an LLM on them. And doing so would not have broken any laws (just like downloading them wasn't breaking any laws and wasn't even a ToS violation for either MIT or JSTOR at the time).

I think there's a reasonable argument to be made that Swartz was planning to use the documents for some kind of data project that might have eventually looked like an LLM and if I'm being perfectly honest I think we'd be in a less shitty world if someone with Aaron's beliefs about freedom of information was at the forefront of LLM development.

[amiya-shirou]

(Guy who has only read the manga of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and hasn't really watched Miyazaki's other movies) yeah I love the #ghibli aesthetic

[samusblewupmyplanet]

#aesthetic #comfy vibes

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[snoopylovessoup]

[clementine-kesh]

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

[clementine-kesh]

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself

[trapped--under--rice]

please behold the 24 Hours of Lemons race, in which you can only spend $500 total on a car to cross country race for 24 hours

named after the legendary 24 hour Le Mans race, Lemons rallies barely legal cars in an endurance race across America. had the privilege of sharing the freeway with this race and seeing the absolute art od this event

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

This is so American I could CRY

[hogmilked]

oh this is nothing. some of my favorite lemons entries are:

an airplane stuck on a toyota minivan

this miata built by rocket scientists

the mr2 boat

the nyan cat bmw that i think actually played the song at all times

the homer simpson car built by uranium workers

this limo whose brakes caught on fire

the dumbest corolla and supra wearing funny hats

and so much more. 24 hours of lemons my beloved

[willgrahamscock]

how it feels to be surrounded by perverted mutants

[willgrahamscock]

STOP REBLOGGING I MEAN MUTUALS

[willgrahamscock]

oh come onnnnnn