All it ever was and ever will be is stardust

…and I'd promise you anything for another shot at life ✨

[space-wandering-nerd]

And I read about the afterlife

But I never really lived / 08.11.2023, Berlin

[judasisgayriot]

(x)

[epoxyconfetti]

[queen-mihai]

I love your grandpa and this is gonna do NUMBERS here

[always-coffee]

This is delightful!

[notbecauseofvictories]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

[cameoappearance]

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

[sophia-becketts]

Ryan Gosling performs 'I'm just Ken' at the 2024 Oscars

[enidsinclair]

Academy Award Winner Cillian Murphy

Actor in a Leading Role | Oppenheimer

[the-bluespirit]

RYAN GOSLING performs Oscar-nominated "I'm Just Ken" from BARBIE at the 96th Academy Awards

[technofeudalism]

yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you greedy fucks

[puppygirl-hornyposting2]

good.

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

"We keep making our service worse, cancelling shows before their time, hiking up the prices, and generally ruining what once was a decent product--piracy keeps wining somehow. 🤷"

[blasphemous-nina]

The nuns who took care of the building are thrilled that skaters saved the church. They even let the skaters push them around on the skateboards.

[legalinthevoid]

I looked it up to verify and found not only that one but also

[the-errant-bard]

If they make another Tony Hawk, this needs to be in there

[hexmaniacmareen]

I wanted to read more about the nuns so here it is from their facebook page:

Also, the building is currently closed and theyre raising money to get the remodeling needed

https://sk8liborius.com/

[obeekris]

Nuns on skateboards - a bunch of holy rollers

[lookupmedicalmisogyny]

Isnt it weird that hotel rooms provide toilet paper, tissues, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, soap, and ive even seen some provide make removal wipes, but I’ve never seen a single one provide pads or tampons?

[lemurchick]

Russian-speaking twitter had a huuuuge discussion about that last month I think, it was crazy how angry men were after just reading this question.

The arguments against varied from “hotels can’t afford it” to “you should plan your periods women, you have apps for that” to “but what if men eat tampons by mistake” (what???)

It really blew up and as far as I know quite a few workplaces began to put pads and tampons in office toilets. Hopefully hotels will too.

[lookupmedicalmisogyny]

Yeah i just thought about it when i saw make up wipes in the hotel i stayed in the other day. Like make up wipes are very much something men could accidentally eat yet they are okay to provide but not pads??

[electricsircuit-deactivated2024]

Men will see a hypothetical hotel tampon and eat it

[feministyaoi]

men will see a tampon and say is anyone gonna eat that and not wait for an answer

[dankmemeuniversity]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

[a-book-of-creatures]

The text has been redone and the source at the bottom has been removed. Original is by thejenkinscomic.

[dragongirlbunny]

weed gummies are such a fake sounding concept like yeah if you eat this piece of candy and wait an hour you'll suddenly become very easily entertained and airheaded and cuddly

[somethingsomethingwizard]

willy wonka creation

[emotionalwords]

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

[virtualgirladvance]

Got that vampire autism where you gotta invite me in every time

[inspectorlyfra]

dating-type app but instead of matching for romance it connects writers/artists+ who don't want to do research with autistic people with the appropriate special interest

[inspectorlyfra]

the creators get the needed information without needing to filter out filler and translate technical jargon, and the autistic person gets someone who's willing to listen to their infodumps. what is there to lose

[bernard-jackson]

[violentoffender]

this would fix me

[wizard-email]

fish want me women divorce me

[grandmasmut]

Fish want women to divorce me

[wizard-email]

fish are sabotaging my romantic relationships

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sindri42]

So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

[gailcarriger]

I knew pastry would save the world one day.

[rosalarian]

This is a good use of AI! Do the tedious work so the worker can socialize with the customer. And then use that same AI to fight cancer. This is fantastic! I hate AI “art” but not AI as a whole.