ring the bells that still can ring

Expect: slash. hockey. women's basketball. fandom and pairing-related promiscuity. women's sports, especially the buffalo beauts (rip) and the chicago sky. progressive and queer politics, and sometimes also progressive and queer theology. Chicago, because i love it here. geriatric millennial. she/they.

[flowergirlmiwa]

your earliest memory takes place in this year

2010s

late 00s

mid 00s

early 00s

late 90s

mid 90s

early 90s

anytime before that

Voting ended onJun 4

[shdwsilk]

lol my earliest memory is from the year 1984. I was three and at the babysitter's house, under the table because I was not happy about being there.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

good.store just passed $13,000,000 raised for charity, which is both a lot and an amount that sometimes comes out when billionaires cough really hard.

anyway, why buy your household cleaning supplies, socks, soap, coffee, tea, and more at a regular store that enriches the few when you could buy it at good store and support vulnerable people and ecosystems?

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[pollen]

happy Barely Keeping It Together Wednesday to all who celebrate

[dinosaurnews]

Sorry, PETA, I would 100% eat a T-Rex.

[hellohowyme]

T.Rex would absolutely eat a chicken

[domina-honoribila]

A chicken would eat a T Rex, if it could get away with it.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Me, a chicken and a trex deciding whos gonna eat who

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[fuer-diesen-sommer]

Information

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[habitant]

radio-canada broadcast icymi

[sobadbad]

FROZEN PLANET II 1.01 • Frozen Worlds

[shdwsilk]

Ten People You'd Like to Get to Know Better Game

was tagged by: @covington-shenanigansa

tagging anyone interested in partaking

• "One" by Tracy Bonham from the first Lilith Fair CD - I am listening to all of the music I own in alphabetical order by artist, and clearly I am getting close to the end.

• currently watching: just sports right now I guess? there are shows I am considering watching (Elsbeth, Shoresy), shows I'm considering rewatching (Heated Rivalry, Bones), and shows I'm considering picking back up where I left off (Letterkenny, Bridgerton), but mainly I just turn the TV on for hockey or women's basketball

• current obsession: I don't think I have one at the moment

• currently reading:

1) H is For Hawk (good but slow going)

2) the last book of Kris Ripper's Scientific Method series (haven't started it yet, but it will disappear off my kindle when I let it access the wifi now that my KU free trial is over)

3) I also started a m/m romance novel, title undisclosed because it's not terrible but also I am not going to finish it so whatever

• currently working on: figuring out how much effort to put into being a member of my apartment building's co-op board, and how to stay on the board without being driven up a wall by my fellow building residents

• last duck duck go search: minnesota

[twistedingenue]

Not to be former Catholic-blogging on main but Chicago Pope can WRITE, y'all

Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery 173. This distorted view of the human person is reflected today in various forms of servitude directly linked to the digital economy. Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people. A significant part of the digital economy’s functioning relies on the silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities, such as data labeling, model training and content moderation, often involving disturbing material. In many cases, these workers are young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages. Added to this invisible labor is the even harsher work of extracting the resources required for the production of the devices and microprocessors on which AI depends. In some regions of the world, children and adolescents work in dangerous conditions, crushing the materials from which rare earth elements are extracted. The bodies of these people are scarred, injured and worn down so that computational flow may continue uninterruptedly. Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payment methods and profiling techniques in order to recruit, control and transport victims of trafficking — very often minors — reducing men and women to “data” to be tracked and “packages” to be moved around within the same digital circuits that support much of the global economy. This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.

MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

[unifixation]

This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.

i went and read/skimmed through the encyclical and damn. bangers all around:

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 50 * 50 cm «favorite object of the artist» 31.08.2019

[butchdogs-md]

you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.

[shithowdy]

"Neighborhood Watch"

as a birdwatcher, i registered a certain familiarity with how the entire neighborhood converged with their horns and whistles to drive away the threat. this is definitely a rough piece, but i had to get it out of me.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The North Carolina Zoo just announced sand cat babies from February who are apparently on view to the public now.

For those of you who live in the vicinity: your mission, should you accept it, is to go visit these babies and revel in the cuteness in my stead. (Photos would be great too, like, not for the Repository just because I really really wish I could teleport right now). Will you do it, reader? Will you make this journey for all of us who cannot?

Yoinked screencap from the FB announcement:

[nb-nightwing-deactivated2022111]

they posted a full version lol it’s mr Stacy’s dad for me

[the-fallen-blue]