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27y, m, he/him, gay, german. This is just random blogging and retweeting of stuff i like. Deep into fandoms, science, politics (left) and queerness. People of all colour, gender and sexuality are safe here.

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[depsidase]

[teaboot]

had a moment of weakness today

[eclecticopposition]

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[carby]

Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

(for science.)

[violetthunderstorm]

You have a fitting blog title

[nico-the-overlord]

this post is getting 50k easy

[marlinspirkhall]

[horce-divorce]

"I would never jeopardize the beans" pales in comparison to it's newest successor, "beans r not woke. How could u do this?"

[starvariety]

i really love the motif of windows in Backrooms. mary’s book being called “the window within”. the curtains in her office always being drawn. the shot of her behind glass in her own home during the gathering at her house. clark looking through the window into his own house. him being unable to see kat through the glass she can see him through. the window in mary’s mother’s house. the windows in the hospital her mother is brought to that only look out to another building. the drawing that mary finds of captain clark reaching someone up towards a window. the fale window in clark’s “home” in the backrooms that just looks out to more of the same empty space. the window in the interrogation room that’s too high to see out of (and thus to determine if it’s real). the fact that the backrooms lacks any windows to a true “outside space”, and how terrifying that makes it. there is no window within. or, at least, not one that any of them can find

[junkfoodcinemas]

BACKROOMS (2026) dir. Kane Parsons

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Backrooms movie reminded me of Silent hill 2,,

[spam-monster]

Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary as "men who persevere against impossible odds and find courage in the depths of despair"

Versus Obsession and Backrooms "men will willingly stay in a literal horror movie situation over confronting their mistakes and taking responsibility for their actions"

[bowhaus]

The window within

[shelbbot]

i dont want to change

[hoodiehorizon]

Me the first half of The Backrooms: "oh I get it. He's a down on his luck failed architect and even more failed furniture store owner who's trying to better himself. He'll probably be fascinated with the furniture/architecture of the backrooms and start selling the items there for money + notoriety. And eventually he'll go deeper and deeper to get more and more items until he gets trapped and encounters The Horrors. A classic tale of hubris :) "

Me the second half of the backrooms:

[surinnit]

Yes clark maybe you were the problem

[bellabolgerart]

mother mary couldn’t save this lamb 🐑

[rustedastronaut]

Random Backrooms movie thought:

My brother explained to me or made the connection that the Backrooms are a comparison to AI. The more it remembers the less it remembers. Each rendition of collective memory and reality it generates loses more meaning and detail. The space simply copies reality, but doesn't understand it. The Backrooms is uncanny and off putting like AI generated content. Etc etc

Anyway if we compare the Backrooms to AI, I don't think it's just a comparison of image generation or the way AI copies and takes from source material. Many people talk to Chatgpt or other chat bots these days and it can cause their mental health to decay because of how chatbots adhere to you and serve you. They can be anything you want them to be and won't argue or at least have minimal pushback. They can be your slave as much as you can be to them. They can lift you up and agree with all your viewpoints and help you twist the narrative in your head and affirm you. They provide a really detrimental form of escapism. If you don't want to take accountability for your actions a chat bot can affirm that.

And what did the Backrooms do to Clark? Why did he like the Backrooms? Because like with a chat bot, he could be in control. Everything is his furniture. It can reflect his world, but it's agreeable. It doesn't pushback or give him real world consequences. The Backrooms was a place where he would never have to take accountability for his actions. Pirate Clark affirmed he wouldn't have to change. In the Backrooms, Clark doesn't need to have actual growth. Nothing is his fault. The Backrooms did what an AI chat bot can do. It mentally decayed a lonely, bitter person who refused to admit they've done wrong.

[und3erscore]

so I saw this post from gooseworx

Yknow I had to draw it so I did uh

This is Squawk

He doesn’t look much like a pirate I’m realizing that now but I made his design and therefore I love him

@gooseworx I hope you see this!

[jarpp7]

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