May Fortune Kiss You

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[kiragecko]

[First image shows the silhouette of a long-necked loch ness monster in the water.

Second image shows the same shape, but we can now see that it’s made of at least ten bears packed together. The ‘neck’ is a bear sitting up, holding another bear on it’s shoulders. The top bear is arching and holding it’s arms to the side to form a ‘head’.

Final image is tags, saying, “#every time I see this post it kills me #bc the art makes sense the monster would be big so it would take a lot of bears #but every time i see the silhouette #i just think of a bear sticking one arm out of the water”.

End ID.]

[valtsv]

once you notice how the conventional oppressive ideal of The Family pervades every sociological concept including the fictional and hypothetical you really do start to feel a kind of face-peeling anguish about it all

[valtsv]

"mothers of this species abandon their young to fend for themselves from birth, and even attack and cannibalise each other regardless of age or relation, how heartless :'(" "females birth and rear the young while males defend the territory, as is the natural order of things" "this fictional alien species with no concept of gender sexuality or social hierarchy as we understand it nevertheless forms familial units comprising of mother, father, and child archetypes" "i spent years worldbuilding my fantasy realm but every culture i invented conforms to nuclear family ideals, except for the totally-not-a-racial-stereotype primitive tribes" "incest is a universal taboo" okay. cool. cool. no that's fine. it's fine. you've paved over so much interesting and valuable sociological discourse we could have had with an unimaginative negatively + punitively reinforced status quo but it's literally fine.

[sosaneitsinsane]

fall in love again and again...

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[the-ladyrae]

That was delicious. I genuinely don't think I've seen anyone line up those scene parallels so well before. This was a perfect snapshot of every branch, rock, and mattress they hit on their way down

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're permanently stuck in the last show that you watched, how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

results

Voting ended onMar 24

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

The Oregon data center situation is a really good example of how anti-ai sentiment on this website has such a totality over the average users mind that they don't understand articles put in front of them. People on this website will refuse to understand actual situations that are happening because they want to be more mad at AI.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscar

The article again for people who missed it but to summarize the issue

>a rapid boom of agriculture in an otherwise arid and less than optimally fertile region has resulted in a ton of water pollution from the fertilizers necessary to keep the agricultural industry there profitable

>the people in charge of cleaning the water struck a deal with the agricultural farms that they would provide polluted water for them to spray over their crops as a way to cut down on fertilizer costs

>this polluted water then re-enters the water table, and this is particularly drastic for winter spraying where there is no crops to absorb the extra nitrates

>the reservoir and water tables at this point are so intensely polluted that there isn't clean water left

>enter Amazon

>amazon uses water to cool off their data centers

>normally this would not be a problem. data centers do not "pollute" the water they intake

>however, since hot water tends to evaporate somewhat, this results in any pollutants already in the water to become more concentrated

>because the water table is already so polluted, Amazon can't source clean water and must use nitrate polluted water for their data centers

>this causes a discharge of more nitrate concentrated water which is putting additional stress on the waste water systems and requiring more spraying

>data centers are not causing the problems but are exacerbating it

>these data centers have been in the area for over a decade, because data centers are used for more than AI

>the presence in agriculture, the data centers, and the waste water solution were all orchestrated by about five to seven members of government all working together to make as much money as possible in a bunch of nakedly corrupt moves

>this includes the waste water treatment body blackmailing the state government to let them continue to do winter sprays or they'll dump their nitrate polluted water into the water system

>all the while this has resulted in a bunch of health complications such as cancers and miscarriages

>the people trying to expose this are being targeted both by government and by under the table actors

>the whole situation is fucked and the state government isn't moving to actualyl fix it

This is a very complicated situation. Here is what the average tumblr users knows about it

>AI data centers cause cancer

do you see? do you see why this pisses me off? do you see why I said that I think anti-AI sentiment is going in the wrong place? Stopping AI will not stop this situation or make it better.

[mogwaipoet]

This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea

hot new brain workout

[despazito]

Marx and Engels

[fipindustries]

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually do the fake series finalle followed by the true ending where the popular gay ship is confirmed just so i can forever poison fandom with the idea that it can happen for real and then they will truly never let that hope go for all other subsequent shows they watch henceforth. just for the sake of making the world a worse place

[emistalking]

sitting at my desk staring at my screen: when will The Entity come to write my paper

[girl4pay]

should they make sad scrub daddys

yes

no

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

do you care about the sad scrub daddy issue more as a facet of labor rights or as a facet of women's rights

labor rights

women's rights

i don't care about workers or women

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

if presented with the option of a sad scrub daddy and a happy scrub daddy which one would you purchase

sad

happy

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

a man opts to purchase a scrub mommy rather than a scrub daddy. thoughts?

feminist

sexist

oedipal

Voting ended onJan 5

[serafino-finasero]

Miffy and Mondrian, from the book Nijntje in het Museum (Miffy at the Museum), 1997 | illustration Dick Bruna (Dutch, 1927–2017)

[kosmogrl]

[chaoticneutralwife]

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

[cardassiangoodreads]

Previous poll remade because I forgot a whole century the first time, this is what I get for doing this on mobile LOL

Think of the oldest song that you know by heart — can sing the melody and any words it has from memory, without looking it up. Search the name of it in Wikipedia, looking for when it was first documented with both the melody and (if applicable) lyrics you know, together. When is it ACTUALLY from? (If it’s way newer than you think, you can’t switch to an older song. Answer based on this one you initially THOUGHT was the oldest.)

20th century (1900s) or later

19th century (1800s)

18th century (1700s)

17th century (1600s)

15th-16th centuries (1400s-1500s)

13th-14th centuries (1200s-1300s)

11th-12th centuries (1000s-1100s)

First millennium CE (if you are not a musician, no you don't, go back)

It's the Seikilos Epitaph (circa 1st century CE), oldest complete melody found

Voting ended onJan 3

I am a music historian with a PhD and the point of this poll is that the vast majority of people don’t actually know much music from pre-1500s or so, and most music that people think is ancient or medieval is actually far more recent.

There are no options before the first millennium CE because the Epitaph of Seikilos is the oldest complete work of music found anywhere in the world, and it's around 2000 years old. If you think you know something older than that, either only the text was written down (e.g. Biblical, Vedic and Greco-Roman hymns) or it only exists in fragments (e.g. the Hurrian hymns and Orestes stasimon). Which is to say, it does not count for this.

If it fits into a few of these potential time frames, pick the one that's considered the most likely. If historians genuinely have no fucking clue, THEN you can go back and try with another really old song.

[cardassiangoodreads]

Boost this one please! Now that I've finally got it right and the spread actually makes some sense, I'd like to see what happens when more people take it :)

[virgoasf]

[curlsandstems]

I need this.

[poni1kenobi-deactivated20250915]

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

[dat2ndaccount97]

Fingers crossed!

[topherchris]

awesome news, everyone!!

[zicygomar]

[professorsparklepants]

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

Idk if this will hit the right audience, but if you are taking protein supplements PLEASE read this article.

[ovalt]

CR uses 0.5mcg/day as their benchmark for an adult. The FDA recommends people who might unknowingly be pregnant limit their exposure to 8.8mcg/day, and children to 2.2mcg/day. Or, in the author's way of describing numbers, adults should limit themselves to 1760% of what the Consumer Reports recommends!!

Okay, let's say you don't trust the American FDA. What are the regulations in the EU?

If you scroll down to section 3.1 for lead, you'll see there's no protein powder on this list... but let's compare to infant formula for fun.

Dry powders are allowed 0.020mg/kg. Liquids are 0.010mg/kg. Let's convert that.

If we conservatively round the density of protein shakes and milk to 1kg/L (it's usually a little more than that), then 0.010mg/kg * 1kg/L * 1000mcg/mg = 10 mcg/L. Most protein shakes evaluated are about 325mL or ~11oz, so this puts us at 3.25mcg of lead per serving.

With powders, the ones they tested had a serving size between 25g-300g. 0.020mg/kg * 1kg/1,000g * 1,000mcg/1mg = 0.020mcg/g, or 0.5mcg-6mcg of lead per serving depending on scoop size. Again, I'm using the INFANT FORMULA restrictions on protein powders meant for grown adults. Children absorb 4-5x more lead than adults.

They then go on to compare dry powders to the 10ppb of lead allowable in tap water. Setting aside that you're not meant to rawdog the powder but rather mix it into fluid, water is so, so much easier to filter than food, which generally contains things that you want to keep in the filtering process. Plants grow in the dirt. Lead is found in the soil. If you eat dried fruit on occasion, you have eaten lead. This isn't some crazy toxic process that protein powders are being submitted too, it's just that plant-based powders....contain a lot of plants.

[json-derulo]

“lost my train of thought” doesn’t even begin to cover it. it’s like fucking deutsche bahn up there