Em

Angsty fuckhead | airborne realist | practicing friend of Dorothy

[rederiswrites]

Look. Listen to me.

I am worn out and frightened and tired. You probably are, too. But I am absolutely certain of these things: We can make a better world. We can raise happier, kinder people. We can farm in ways that nourish the soil, and create energy in ways that don't warm the planet, and build institutions that don't just answer to whoever has the most money. We have the knowledge and we have the means. We can do it.

If I plant bulbs this fall, flowers will bloom next spring. I'm tired, but I'll keep moving.

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[tilthat]

TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”

[beggars-opera]

that’s…a pretty good analogy actually

[ti-bae-rius]

US moron came to town

Hunting for some coochie

Wrote a G up on his belt

And this bitch called it Gucci

[ti-bae-rius]

Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America

[walmart-the-official]

Happy fourth to those who celebrate

[skyfullofembers]

All the ogs of course know that the crashout today is legen - wait for it - dary

Legendary

[skyfullofembers]

That’s funny bc that was before we even knew the rest of it (If we’ll ever learn the whole of it)

[skyfullofembers]

All the ogs of course know that the crashout today is legen - wait for it - dary

Legendary

[skyfullofembers]

Despite what it seems like I’ve actually been doing a mad good job at self reflecting lately and also I’ve got to stop doing thissss just all around what am I thinking (other than being a nosy sonofagon but yknow)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im so sick of unnecessary dinner scenes in movies 😡 every fucking movie they just want to titillate you with some food because they think you’re a dumb animal who just wants to see mashed potatoes bouncing. if its an IMPORTANT dinner scene where they explain lore then whatever i understand. but they shove useless meals into every movie these days and its disgusting

[cheaphalloweencostume]

really? you don’t say

[skyfullofembers]

Also happy pride even if you don’t celebrate anymore

[skyfullofembers]

They’ve recalled the dog food and baby wipes and iceberg lettuce

And I’ve barely gotten over hoping you’ll recall

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

cultures that do an afternoon nap are OBJECTIVELY CORRECT and the world should be learning from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you've heard of the spanish siesta now get ready for places like Vietnam where it's commonplace to see workers pull out a mattress & take an afternoon nap on the office/store floor. very powerful way to roll. give kindergarten-style naptime BACK to the people ✊

[greenmossloveisreal1998iloveyou]

Can’t talk rn dude, yearning.

[midnightglances]

I don’t understand people who hate on love stories like ~love like that doesn’t exist in real life~ blah blah blah ok guess what Chad, superheroes and jedis don’t exist either so what now bud

[skyfullofembers]

Also chat what do you do when you’re just (redacted) instead of (redacted)

[skyfullofembers]

Honestly what is it with people with siblings that always accuse other people of yelling the instant they get criticized? For something they did?

It’s just bizarre because honestly if I wanted to tell I would have yelled. And if I wanted to tell you what I actually think I would. And instead. You’re actively acting like the side settlement is a bad deal? Crazy

[skyfullofembers]

She said “situationship” and I said “girl whatttt”

Audience we all know I wish I was the situationship

[stephenroot]

How are we as a society going to claw our way back from the fact that a not-insignificant portion of our population is incurably fucking stupid and superstitious in ways we used to mock Pilgrims for being?

[stephenroot]

There is a substantial portion of our country that (1) believes Satan is real, (2) that he is actively working to harm them, (3) that these plans are at times enacted through country music shows at the Las Vegas Sphere by the guy who sang Chicken Fry, and (4) vote.