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the world's smallest carnivore is called the "least weasel" 😭😭 i'm dying but like if it's the smallest carnivore then it sure is the least amount of weasel you can have 😭😭😭
Look at him: this is absolutely the least amount of weasel you can have
To really put it in perspective
Immediately I love him
Wikipedia says that "the Ancient Macedonians believed that to see a least weasel was a good omen"
and I agree! I saw the small beast and now I am happier than before. omen fulfilled
Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane
my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time
i think the joker should start talking like this for real. no other character should do this only the joker. i want batman to have to deal with this
Would you be comfortable with me sharing the story of how I got these scars
That would have been an incredible episode of Batman: The Animated Series, though. Joker gets out of Arkham, having convinced the psychs he's rehabilitated by speaking in fluent Therapy. Bats spends the entire episode losing his mind, because he KNOWS it's an act because NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT and Joker reacts with total calm and understanding when he finds Batman in his pantry at 2AM. "You're violating a boundary right now, but I realize this behavior is caused by a history of trauma. Can we talk about how your inability to trust negatively affects those around you?" Meanwhile steam is just coming out of Batman's ears
Are you in the right headspace to receive information on you potentially being overserious?
Hot take: writing is super easy actually, you just have depression.
I figured it out by the way: people try to write sentence by sentence or even word by word, but that’s not how you talk. And writing is a speech act, just mediated by characters instead of sounds.
When you say writing who you talk, do you mean just focusing on getting the general ideas and plot beats out first and foremost, and editing the finer details when it's all finished, or am I misunderstanding?
Not exactly. I am saying that writing is talking, but with letters not your mouth. You don’t talk word by word or sentence by sentence, you talk in whole ideas. It’s not the same as just getting general ideas out first, though, because you’re actually telling your story, the way you would tell a story in person—but you do then go through and edit it to add detail and make it clearer.
the only bad thing you can say abt the lotr movies is that they dont have tom bombadil. [boredly reading ad copy] but now thanks to DisNetflHboPrime+Extra and the guys that brought you stranger things, Bombadil™️ will be an 8 episode, 16hr limited miniseries premiering only on Poob. the hilarious action fantasy adventure prequel to the lord of the rings follows zendaya as galadriel, Bill skarsgard as gandalf, dave bautista as Orc Dave, and of course, chris evans as bouncing Tom Bombadil himself. score by reznor & ross with special appearances by natasha lyone, taylor swift, and ed sheeran (from the game of thrones cinematic universe) and 2 million dollar budget per episode critics are raving "its fine" and "theres some good stuff in there i guess" poob subscriptions start at 39.99/wk
One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.
The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...
idc what you guys think I'm proud of him
Several AI services (chatbots ) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!
AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import
Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users
AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.
Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose
Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.
None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.
"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.
Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.
Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:
Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)
anytime someone from the UK orders a print from me I’m delighted because the addresses tend to be charming and sound completely made-up, I just suspend my disbelief and accept that I’m sending a package someplace with a name like Bristleberry House at Ditchmallow in Brambleford-on-Cotton—incredible lmaooo I bet this gets delivered to you by a badger in a little coat
The replies to this post are fucking hilarious
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I am once again posting my ever-growing collection of towns that sound like PG Wodehouse characters:
All of these areas are places you would certainly get killed in on Midsomer Murders.
I mean these are cute but I also need you to know I grew up near a place called Nasty
this post is absolutely bafling as a british person because like 85% of these names just feel so incredibly normal to me it’s so jarring to see how non-british people react to them
you can’t convince me there isn’t some dude - sorry, some bloke named Kirby Underdale who lives near that last sign. he drives a little too fast, it makes everyone nervous, and his neighbors decide to have a sign made and installed instead of talking to him about it.
When you’re an American kid reading Harry Potter and you see that the Weasleys live at the Burrow in Ottery-Saint-Catchpole, you think that’s a very wizardy-sounding place to live, and then you get older and realize that’s just a normal British address
I mean British people would probably have a similar reaction to knowing that there are two places between my town and Phoenix that are called Bloody Basin and Horsethief Basin, and that near Tucson you can hike in the Superstition Mountains.
thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry
ohhhh my god
”#I LOVE that the comic keeps the lens on Calvin’s dad to the degree of not even showing Calvin’s excited face when his dad surprises him, #You can see the joy and excitement of the moment in his pose and reflected in his dad’s expression, #it’s a great little artistic decision, #I realized what gets me about it it’s the hat covering his dad’s head and hair so the dad just looks like Calvin. #you don’t HAVE to show Calvin! You already see him in the dad becoming a kid for a moment you only have to draw that once”
if you see a Jabberwocky in an American National Park i cannot stress this enough you HAVE to report them to the nearest Park ranger. I know, I know, they fill human hearts with terror and whimsy in equal measure, but they are an aggressively invasive species in the Americas. Jackalopes are at risk of becoming extinct because during shedding season they have no natural defences against jaws that bite and claws that catch.
You don't have to worry about them killing it, they're actually endangered in England due to Victorian Era overhunting, so the British government's provided the National Park service with Vorpal Tranquilizer Darts so they can safely transport them to their native British Countryside where they can feast on borogroves and jubjub birds to their hearts' content.
Jabberwocks are starting to really intrude on the territory of the Snallygaster and crowd them out. Please report when you see them and help preserve our American monsters!
Biologists prefer the term “fearsome critters”, just FYI. They resemble monsters but only due to convergent evolution.
I’ve been wigged out by the term “bodies” since I first saw it used in some essay I ready in college. “Black bodies” “queer bodies” “fat bodies” “female bodies” why are you so unwilling to see people as people.
People qua people are inherently valuable for what is within them. When you are a Marxist psychopath, everything is class based; you are your categorization. The valuable thing isn’t who you are but what you are. Your characteristics as a meat-thing determine your class; your character and intellect just muddy the waters.
It also often carries the assumption that being black/queer/etc is the reason you have issues, even if you were some rando who got shot trying to stab a cop.
I suspect there's a strong overlap with the sort of person who cherry picks how cops acted in different states, and said "see? They captured this one white guy and shot this one black guy, therefore racism!"
“I ain’t reading all that” your brain is rotting and shrinking
Yes, but also, I am begging you on bended knee, paragraph breaks.
Ethics paper argues abortion as “adequate care” for minors, suggests overriding consent and using restraint in treatment decisions.
They say, “the unpleasantness of the abortion or the use of restraint … does not justify leaving … a child to endure further harm through continued pregnancy.” They assume that continuing pregnancy is just as a standard thing more harm than an abortion, even an abortion that a teenage girl specifically doesn’t want. Elsewhere in the paper, they acknowledge that she might view abortion as killing a baby, but they gloss over that very briefly and treat it as just sort of a silly thing a child might think and not something to be taken seriously by her adult caregivers who know better.
Btw, maternal health specialists and others can safely monitor the pregnancy, and then remove the baby at an appropriate time that is safe for both children/the teen involved. Obviously child pregnancy no matter the outcome is not to be treated lightly, but that is precisely why the appropriate options for pre and post natal care is a valid and safe option. If you want to help children who are pregnant, consider Village of Hope Guatemala. They offer a space place for girls to heal, continue their education, and also stay in touch with the babies without having to act as mothers.
To combat against and help prevent child pregnancy, be very aware of child marriage and consent laws that entrap girls in relationships with older, predatory men (both globally and in the US). You can learn more at Girls Not Brides and Unchained At Last.
Prev tags: #pro life#women's rights#thing i have to say every time this comes up#as of May 2026 marrying a child under 18 is legal in 33 US states. only 17 states have made it illegal with no exceptions#this is NOT an overseas issue. just to remind Americans#i'm shaking with anger just thinking about it#abortion
^^^THIS. Precisely why I linked to Unchained At Last. The US and even other Western nations are NOT free of this horrendous human rights abuse.
One of my favorite hoaxes was in early 1962. There was a musical that debuted in 1961 called Subways are for Sleeping that was doing very poorly. For bizarre reasons (ads were banned in the New York subway system lest people take it as permission to sleep there) and normal (the reviews were poor).
But in 1962 an ad came out full of effusive praise from every prominent theater critic in New York. Every single one. From the Times to the Post, all of the famous theater critics in New York LOVED Subways Are For Sleeping
Except...
One of the papers paid to run this ad noticed something...off. Namely, that he knew Richard Watts the theater critic and he wasn't African-American.
It turns out that the producer of the musical had found seven New Yorkers with the same names as the seven biggest theater critics in New York, since while he couldn't lie and say they liked it, but he could pay for *a* John Chapman or *a* Robert Coleman to see the musical and quote them next to their photo truthfully, bc how many people even knew what the leading theater critics in NYC looked like?
Turns out the producer had wanted to do this for ages, but had to wait for the NYT's critic to retire bc he couldn't find anyone with the same name. Anyway it worked: it went from being about to close, to running another couple hundred shows and winning a Tony
Here's the main source for this, btw
So can we be so fucking serious about the literacy crisis yet or are y’all still pretending that it’s just exaggeration that there’s a massive systemic issue where parents and educators have catastrophically failed a generation by passing them through school when they literally can’t do basic reading and math.
The thing for me is, how does a parent allow that to happen?
I understand the teacher's couldn't care less, they get paid either way, but the parents allowing it to happen? Not even teaching them at home?
The teachers don’t get paid either way, the parents get them fired for attempting to really teach reading, or anything else, in such a way that the parents’ precious little darlings might be told they’re wrong.
Parents have exactly the education system they deserve.
Most teachers care very much. Its the only reason we stay in the low-paying, soul-sucking, burnout inducing profession for so long. The education system is built on emotionally manipulating teachers into doing unpaid labor, without which it would cease to function.
Teachers beg parents to read to their kids. Parents don't. We try to get kids to work through frustration, but parents have given them screens to microdose them with dopamine all day long, so they're incapable of focusing or sitting with discomfort. We're not allowed to tell kids they're wrong, and not allowed to hold kids back even if there's no way they could succeed in the next grade, since they can't read. When we do get to hold a kid back? Parents can appeal it and the school board will automatically pass the kid to the next grade in most districts.
Teachers care more than anyone gives us credit for, but it's much easier to ignore what we say while blaming us for not fixing a system we have zero control over. Teachers have been sounding the alarm about the literacy crisis since WAY before covid, and no one wanted to hear it. Teachers can't be the only ones working with kids and expect them to succeed. And I don't just mean working on reading. I'm talking about teaching kids how to handle emotions, how to not hit people, how to take no for an answer, and how to recover when they're disregulated. Teachers are increasingly expected to handle aaaaalllll that (and worse) times 30 (or more) before we can even begin to teach what the kids are actually supposed to be learning. And we get told if we just create relationships it will all be fixed. Oh and also make our lessons more engaging (when our competition for their attention is tiktok). Oh and document every behavior and every intervention (which means every single thing WE did to bend over backwards and try to get kids to participate in any way in their own learning, and also all the things WE did to fix their behavior problems before we get any support from admin) because "if you didn't document it it didn't happen. That documentation, btw, is pretty much always done for free outside of contract hours because there's not time in the day for it. And we don't get paid overtime. So tell me again how "teachers couldn't care less".
Parents. Have. Exactly. The. Education. System. They. Deserve.
If I were a murderer, and I'd meticulously planned a murder, and then I turned up at the place to do the murder and found that world-famous-murder-solver Hercule Poirot was also there, I would simply not do the murder.
It’s not fans’ job to keep theaters open, it’s our job to make things that make it worth coming out.
Ryan Gosling on the theater-going experience for Project Hail Mary
