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Heya everyone! I'm Solas, I use they/it pronouns, and I'm a 20 year old gamer hoping to become an internet micro-celebrity, though I'd settle for being a freelance video editor / 3D animator.

I reblog quite a bit of minecraft content, video game content, and left-wing political content, if that's not your thing don't follow. I may also post updates on my various projects, I'm currently making a lot of minecraft modpacks and putting some of them up on curseforge as well as various streams and videos, keep an eye out for that!

other social medias linked here: https://beacons.ai/soulsongplays

#intro post #minecraft

drink-bread

Kasane Teto, in light of recent events

pangur-and-grim

Brutus. my champion

pangur-and-grim

I also have one-day-old photos of her, where you can see all the special white markings that will become secret when her colour lightens

africanaquarian

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

astraltrickster

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

fernwah-funzone

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

i-suggest-piracy

i have a suggestion

thegaymertrainer

TikTok live is such a waste of time there are no good….

cognitohazardous

this is how we should generate power for cities

transmechanicus

contextual storytelling from that sign in the back

quendergeer

muttering "the hamsters control the wheels" as i wander around like a blind medieval soothsayer

monstrous-femme

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

enamega

(with the intonation of a 45 year old detective who's picked up cigarettes after the fourth time he said he'd quit) so there's this annoying fictional blonde man.

deepfrieddeltarunememes

shoutout to the Manly Mandanna actually belonging (in Deltarune, at least) to a little girl that just wanted to be seen as tough and brave and probably drew the abs on it herself

deepfrieddeltarunememes

whatever you do don't imagine the Orange soul crying this out to Asgore before he took the soul, and then Orange souls becoming associated with Bravery in the underground

briarpatch-kids

My favorite Philomena Cunk bits are when she's talking to Professor Ronald Hutton, who specializes in folklore and paganism in the British Isles. Mainly because she's trying her damnest to throw him off by asking the stupidest questions she can think of, and he's not even phased because he's a folklore and paganism historian so OF COURSE he's been asked worse questions in earnest.

briarpatch-kids

These are two masters of their art going head to head at the peak of their game.

softness-and-shattering

He has a very soothing way of speaking

briarpatch-kids

He's one of my favorite TV historians and shows up in Farm Series and its related shows a lot to contextualize the festivals and rituals they do on there and explain what they meant to the people who lived in the time period. One of my favorite lectures he gives on is about bonfires and the superstition around the Bloody Flux and how we had no idea what actually caused it until some fairly recent humanitarian crises.

lizard-of-oz

Irving Finkel does well with her, too. He is a treasure as always.

rowlfthedog

superchat

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

superchat

source another source

the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother

quasi-normalcy

Thereby disproving Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

dragon-in-a-fez

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

even-more-nonsense

Failure to reach the heavens

even-more-nonsense

Hi op here! I really like your tags a normal amount

unyieldingsilence

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mexicast

"Overconsumption is bad because we have limited resources on earth and the production of your comforts is done by practically enslaved global southerners" - yes real. Fucking real and true.

"Overconsumption is bad because you will get fat and lazy and stupid and fat and your brain will rot and youll be a feeble whiny disabled" - okay you are a eugenecist. Can you fucking hear yourself

mexicast

same thing for ai usage. Are you complaining about companies investing in ai over people, or are you just an inch of self preservation away from openly calling its users the R slur? Be fucking honest i see how you talk.

jadeharleyinc

#i dont think ppl reliant on ai are inherently disabled actually. im disabled and i find that frankly offensive#ive received my fair share of brain damage but i can tell people who are outsourcing everything to ai are basically headshotting themselves#it is genuinely bad for you thats not said out of a desire to be intellectually superior to anyone.#it is said because i think purposefully lobotomizing yourself is bad for your health#especially when youre poisoning the earth air and water at unprecedented scale to do so#and purposefully sabotaging yourself is... uh... bad?

ok but you are doing the exact thing OP is talking about. what you are saying is false, reactionary, and deeply ableist! you are talking about "headshotting" yourself and "lobotomizing" yourself, that IS exactly what OP means by one inch away from the R slur!

none of this is supported by the science. the most shared studies about AI "brainrot" (and other lovely woke ways to call people brain damaged) are a microsoft survey where nothing was measured, and a MIT paper by some lady with an AI chatbots cognitive consulting startup.

the idea that AI pollution is especially bad compared to the tech industry in general is just blatantly false. the idea that it is in any way "unprecedented" is absurd if you know anything about datacenters in general, the tech industry in general, or industry in general. especially if you're paying attention to its effect on the global south. this is a drop in the bucket compared to cars, agriculture, plastic, literally anything else.

i am disabled. sometimes i rely on AI tools. that includes all the "evil generative AI" (to make todo lists, write boilerplate code, etc) but also the "good analytical AI" like speech to text. if i ran an AI image program 45 minutes a day for a month to make 1400 images, that would emit as much CO2 as a 3 mile car drive, or as making a single meatball of beef.

you're repeating ableist, reactionary propaganda that scapegoats AI as exceptional, and sweeps under the rug much older, worse shit caused by tech you like, like netflix and youtube. you don't have to do that.

rob-by

The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.

of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?

rob-by

“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”

“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)

until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand