An Assortment of Things

Soup ● she/her • 18+ please

[anarchopuppy]

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

[bowditch]

me, trying to coax my tomato plants to grow, softly, with feeling: piano

[bowditch]

u guys literally got water six hours ago so like piano or whatever stay alive

[shattersaurus]

Old foes

Always been a sucker for whales

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[vividplanet]

fairy glen, scotland

[jstor]

The Gay Coloring Book (undated), another gem from Cornell University's Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections on JSTOR.

You'll have to visit the university library to see the inside of the book, though. But fret not, with more than 11,000 additional images in the collection, there's plenty to keep you busy—and they are all free and open for everyone!

UPDATE: @commander-kiranerys just shared a link to the full scan! https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted%20Pubs/gay%20coloring%20book.pdf

[tunglo]

Pages cleaned up for printing... :)

[comparativetarot]

Lovers. Art by Abigail Larson, from The Vampire's Tale Tarot.

[bleekay]

had a fucked up dream i had a book that turned out could never be read again the same as the first time because each reread the characters became incrementally more aware that the events of the book had happened before and they were “reliving” it and i reread enough times that they became self aware, figured out they were in a book, acknowledged me as the reader, and some lost their minds or had existential crises, became violent to other characters or themselves, some begged me to never stop reading or they ceased to exist and others begged me to end it all stop reading and keeping them trapped in the endless loop of torment, and the literal only way to get the book back to its first run was to hand it off to someone else to read for the first time and for some reason i physically couldn’t tell anyone about it so i’d have to just hope whoever i gave it to would only read it once and i could never open the book again to check if they were okay and back to normal because i was terrified of fucking them all up again :(

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[reasonsforhope]

Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026

[frightfullytreeish]

dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now

[blogquantumreality]

Squidge! Holy blast from the past, Batman. The last time I remember even looking at that site was... eons ago.

( Oh, what was I reading? The Quartz Key. Yes, it's m/m. )

[beatrice-otter]

Not only is Squidge still around, it's expanded and grown! It is still run by the same guy, though now it's a nonprofit with a board and everything, and while they maintain all the old squidge sites as static archives, they have a new multifandom archive using the AO3 code at squidgeworld.org. They also host podfics and fanart.

For those younguns in the crowd, back in the day erotic fanworks--especially slash--was not welcome very many places. Walter was willing to host it, and has been a haven for NSFW fanworks since 1994. The various archives and so on hosted at squidge.org were never very large, compared to lots of other archives, but they were a necessary part of the fannish ecosystem, and I'm really glad that there is now a structure in place to keep the whole system running beyond just "Walter's a great guy willing to donate lots of time and money." Walter is a great guy! but like. it's good to have other people to help out and keep things going in the long run.

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down. and look at the little auk.

[soup-maiden]

Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman, narrated by Jeff Hays

Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, find the world as they knew it turned upside down by the alien Borant Corporation; an intergalactic entity that has claimed Earth for its own. Borant has taken all structures on Earth and recycled them to make an enormous, multi-level dungeon beneath the Earth’s surface in order to televise a horrific game show/reality tv show featuring the remaining inhabitants of Earth to the denizens of the universe. The hard work of voice actor Jeff Hays really makes the numerous characters shine. Figuring out how exactly reluctantly heroic Carl and Donut will solve the myriad of wacky and horrific puzzles they find themselves in will keep readers engaged, even through the many narrative conveniences that work to keep Carl a sympathetic hero.

[pauvre-lola]

absolution

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello CBC!! Firstly just wanted to say I really appreciate your blog and, as a librarian, especially love your recommendations and reading lessons. I wanted to ask if you’ve heard of a newer book called “When Trees Testify” by Beronda L. Montgomery, a plant biologist from Arkansas. It’s part memoir, and part scientific/cultural analysis of trees and how intertwined Black history is with them. Wonderfully written and very informative!

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d77a0e75-a2c9-4bd2-84e5-c9aad70411ed

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery

How the Word Is Passed meets Braiding Sweetgrass in a cultural and personal reclamation of Black ...

Ahhh I haven't!! This is dope, thank you for sharing!

[victusinveritas]

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[lochnessieart]

It is Richeh time! She’s my favorite!! I think the budgie suits her perfectly

Also thank you to everyone who saw me at Momocon! I sold out of like 90% of my witch hat stuff which was CRAZY