Fandoms & Stuff

[hilarious-nefarious]

Source

[positively--speculative]

This is way better than straight up telling your kid “Santa isn’t real.”

[matt-the-radar-techncian]

I never thought about it this way, and it makes me really happy

[miku-p]

Can we just acknowledge this video for a second

[hawwwlucha]

For those curious, the guy dancing is known as B-Boy Atsushi and is a member of a b-boy group called “Real Akiba Boyz” on Youtube and the lady is Saki Fujita, the voice bank for Hatsune Miku

[lemonheadart]

*gasp* Your askbox is open again!!! O frabjous day. :D Answering your call for Sky requests. Could we pls get him hanging out with his immediate successor Four? I've always found it a bit strange they're almost never portrayed as having a relationship similar to Downfall Duo or Time+Twilight, given that Four probably grew up on stories of Sky's exploits and likely looks up to him a lot.

Oh, what a great request, now lemme just sketch this real quick *blacks out for seven hours* OH...

Soooo, here you go, two guys hanging out on the sky islands! Sorry for the wait, and hope you like it!

[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.

[guerrillatech]

[sharper-and-bigger]

[weissguertena]

tangentially related:

[rollership]

plunder

[ofthefog-deactivated20241127]

[maybeiwasserious]

[robertpattisons]

#chaotic mess

[silversarcasm]

Disabled people being killed off or cured in stories tells us very clearly that we are not wanted and it fucking hurts

[dedly]

Do you not want to be cured, though? Say, if you had the chance to live without your disability, would you not take it?

[silversarcasm]

No I do not want to be cured of being disabled, many disabled people do not, I am not the problem to be fixed, society is.

Even for those who want to be cured, curing characters does nothing for them except remove representation

[dysfunctionalqueer]

And even for disabilities that are solely or almost solely negative, like illnesses, curing a character that has a disease that cannot be cured in real life removes the representation to those people still living with the disease. I’d love to see representation of people with joint pain, and i’d fucking love a cure for my pain. But I wont get one. And curing a character when the people their representing can not be cured only serves to tell us “you can not be happy until you’re cured.” and we can’t be cured, ie we can’t be happy. Don’t even get me started on disabilities that aren’t bad like autism or deafness.

[turtwig387]

Curing characters does nothing for them except remove representation

[rollinsroses]

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

I Did A Newborn Photo Shoot With My Baby Bunny

[southbreak]

This is hands down the best newborn photo shoot that has ever existed, period.

[glorianas]

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister

[whatspeaksofter]

If you’re shorter than the assailant, what I usually do is use the ground to anchor myself and use my legs for any movements

[memescomedy]

[justgot1]

This is precious and good

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

This makes me really happy

[action]

#BlackExcellence365 Spotlight: Dee Williams

We’re back with our third spotlight of the year: @shotbydee, a Brooklyn-based photographer. We sat down with Dee as she discussed her creative process and how we can continue to support Black female photographers.

Tell us a little bit about yourself. When did your passion for photography start?

My name is Dee Williams, and I am a portrait photographer with an emphasis on documenting Black and LGBTQIA+ life. My overall goal is to disrupt the white male gaze within the photo industry. 

My passion for photography started in high school. I was influenced by my uncle, who had a point and shoot film camera and took photos of EVERYTHING. The joy that I saw in his face whenever he showed me his developed film is what sparked my interest. In high school, I was that girl who always had a camera on me and had thousands of photos on my Myspace and Facebook pages.

Black female photographers have been pioneering our creative industries but are still hugely underrepresented. What have you found that works in increasing that visibility?

Social media will always be a free and easy way to increase visibility. Consistency works, and the luck of that one huge follower RT’ing your work also helps (LOL). Entering online contests is a great way to get new eyes on your work, from photo editors or curators. Lastly, submitting your work to sites that center and uplift photographers of color. A few examples are Diversify Photo and Women Photograph. I have gotten many bookings via being seen on these websites, or a specific editor recommending me for a gig.

Your particular shooting style is portraiture. What kind of beauty do you find in portraits?

I love getting up close and personal in people’s faces. Black people are so beautiful! It is honestly a blessing being able to capture the essence of a person’s existence in a photograph. Skin texture, blemishes, eyes, jawline, etc.—I find beauty in everything, to be honest.

How do you embody the mission of #BlackExcellence365 in your everyday work?

I embody the mission of #BlackExcellence365 by waking up every day and doing one thing that brings me joy. In a society with systems in place that want to see you fall down, focusing on your internal joy is excellence in itself. Sharing that joy with others around you is the next step in keeping that going for the whole 365.

How has Tumblr enabled you to showcase your work and connect with other Black creatives?

Aside from being my safe space and favorite social media platform, Tumblr is where my photography gets the most views, reblogs, and comments. I get so much love on this platform. It is my mood board, my getaway from other toxic platforms, and a place in which I have found work from some of the most amazing Black creatives. I’m in my own Black creative world on Tumblr, and I wish everyone could enjoy what I do on Tumblr.

Thank you, Dee, for sharing your talent and your love of portraits with us. Make sure to check out and support Dee’s work, Tumblr. What are some of your favorite portraits of Black people? Use the tag #BlackExcellence365 for a chance to be reblogged to Action.

This interview has been condensed for clarity.

[timemachineyeah]

Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.

[thestudentprincesss]

#this didn’t end the way i expected

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Sean “Raiko” Tay

[writing-and-nutmeg]

[blujayonthewing]

yeah just leave it on the table for me I’ll get some in a minute