The Squishiest Blog*

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[dear-ao3]

it truly is cringe to rely on chatgpt for anything tho. like whats the purpose of your life if you cant even be assed to make a grocery list. or think. or do anything. u people cant do anything, can u?

[squish-this]

I hate AI too but this commentary is starting to get into the ableist territory. Like Ai helping someone meal plan who has depression, executive dysfunction and/or any number of disabilities or illnesses that make some tasks difficult for them are not the enemy. That’s actually a great example of how AI could be a useful tool without hurting people’s livelihoods.

Ai scraping the internet of all human creativity, ingenuity and spitting it back out in some Frankensteinian amalgamation and slapping a price tag on it—that’s the enemy.

Ai books and book art over saturating the self-publishing book industry and crowding out human author’s who’ve spent years writing and editing their debut novel—that’s the enemy.

Movie studios permanently stealing actor’s faces, voices and likenesses in perpetuity to do whatever the fuck they want with it—that’s the enemy.

Deepfakes so realistic you can’t tell if it’s real or fake other than by context clues that Obama is probably not walking into a corner store with an AR-15 and knocking it over for the cash drawer. —That’s the fucking enemy by god.

As we move into a more virtual based society where we consume most of our media and news from virtual sources and algorithms powered by Ai to target specific demographics with specific emotional cues and distractions to create trends in behaviors that are predictable and controllable —THAT. IS. THE. ENEMY.

It is not the dysfunctional ADHD person using ChatGPT to help manage their grocery list.

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[pseudomantis]

Scientific fraud is the most baffling thing ever to me like do they think they're just going to make a huge breakthrough and no one will notice that it's fake by trying to replicate their results

[pseudomantis]

Yeah actually I just discovered how to turn plastic into gold. Oh you want to know how I did it

Starts running away cutely

[jonnywaistcoat]

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[wickanderhalovar]

Speaking of which, do you think she's ignoring me a little? You tried to exile her into another dimension. In my experience, ladies tend to be a little less trusting after that sort of thing. Right, but...I'm not that guy. I was just briefly possessed by that guy.

[inkskinned]

y'okay can we stop pretending yet. like can we all acknowledge that eating disorders are chic again, and it's going to kill someone.

and like. do we have to keep gently phrasing things to protect naturally-thin people's feelings. in my life it has never been fashionable to be fat. "fat" is still a bad word. there has never been institutional power pushing people to gain weight; no trillion-dollar industry to "fix" skinny people. a larger body type has never been over-represented in models, influencers, celebrities. sure, people might say "i'm worried for your health," but they do it with respect and gentleness, like they're talking to a scared deer.

every single fucking time i talk about this, i have to be so careful with what i say, in case i offend even one skinny person. it is just true that skinny people have social capital across many cultures. there is a reason you almost never hear someone say "i wish i was fat," but you will constantly see people say "I wish i was thin." and yet inevitably some skinny person will tell me: i thought you wanted body positivity. it is the same fucking attitude as when a cis man says "when you say men have power, well, i've been bullied for being a man. i thought you believe in mental health awareness. don't you know men have a higher suicide rate?"

two things can be true at once: your experience being bullied for being thin was terrible. and people with larger bodies probably have it worse.

i have been big and small. i know many other people who have been big and small. trust what i'm about to tell you: being small is much easier. the world is kinder to you. people treat you better. honestly, this pattern occurs pretty much regardless of gender - my guy friends have confided that they'd rather be bullied for being thin than be bullied for being fat. if you're skinny, the pressure might be to gain weight, sure, but it's often to do so in a way that keeps you skinny - to gain muscle, specifically.

thinness is seen as innate and natural, genetic. whereas carrying any fat - that is a moral failing. it is assumed to be related to your character, your personality. i have seen people equate it to discipline, to hygiene. that bias is why we need to talk about this.

of course i want nobody to make a comment about anyone's bodies. and i think that hyper-thinness and an obsession with weight loss and a recession and a rise of conservative values... all of this is very fucking concerning. we are watching a return of "pro-ana" content, reframed as choice feminism, "health-conscious" behavior, "looksmaxxing". it's fucking terrifying.

[systlin]

One of the contractors at work is a dude who recently moved here from the Bay Area. He is used to Northern California, which is to say that he is NOT used to the general Tornado Alley attitude towards Thor dragging his dick across the plains and causing massive destruction on a semi-regular basis.

Namely, the fact that we get them at all, and the fact that the general Midwestern response is to wander outside to see if we can see it.

We have bad weather forcasted the next few days and I had to talk him through the site tornado plan and storm shelter locations (we have six on site, my office is actually inside one) to head off the poor guy's anxiety and also I had to admit that yes, I also share the general Tornado Alley brain damage and go outside to try and see it when the sirens go off.

Poor man thinks everyone in tornado Alley is out of their minds and as one of those people I can't even deny it. 'I seek shelter if it's heading this way' did not reassure him, he's convinced we are mad.

[systlin]

To answer the question in the notes, @what-about-second-tmblr ; when I visited Sacramento and LA some years ago, the sensation of a minor earthquake shifting the ground around just barely enough for a human to feel it had me freaked out and basically lying flat on my back outside going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA while the Californians looked at me like I'd lost my mind.

So yes it is reciprocal.

[verschlimmbesserung]

[systlin]

Thor's dick what's not clicking

[starryhoundbloo]

Shout out to my mom who explains my transition as "Having a daughterpillar turn into a Boyterfly". It doesn't erase the fact I was an adorable little girl, and also affirms my gender now. I love my mother.

[moonlit-dragon-atlas]

@this-is-trans-joy 🥹

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[danishprince]

speaking of is god is, i love showing excerpts from the play to intro playwriting students because without fail it inspires at least one of them to try some adventures in typography

[thebisexualmandalorian]

I have fourteen microwaveable heating pads up for sale on my shop! They're soft flannel, and stay warm for quite a while! I know it's warming up here in the northern hemisphere, but they're great for achy joints or cramps too.

Check them out!

[thebisexualmandalorian]

These are all on sale for $12 each for now! Get 'em while you can!

[gallusrostromegalus]

YOOOOOOO!! This is my longtime friend Jesse, these are his microwavable heating pads and THEY. WORK. GREAT. $12 is a steal for these, if you or anyone you know has carpal tunnel or poor circulation in their feet these things are a godsend A+ Get them while you can!

[innerchildabortionclinic]

this dumbass fake tweet screenshot from reddit had me in hysterics earlier for some reason

[thejorie-deactivated20160327]

My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

[airoehead]

that’s really great man

[e-the-village-cryptid]

seeing this post without the monologue is like seeing a single detached human arm lying on the sidewalk

[thejorie-deactivated20160327]

My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

[airoehead]

that’s really great man

[sovietnam]

[pekingopera]

[hardwrench]

We make fun of steampunk and mock it but imagine if there really were marvelous devices

[cryptotheism]

Your coworker with a septum piercing is not going to fix your life and you do not have to play magic the gathering with him. The world is full of demons.