Gneiss Things

Running thoughts and shares.

[oliviawhen]

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

[tastefullyoffensive]

[roachpatrol]

i enjoy that every single human’s reaction to penguin is unrestrained delight

[ayellowbirds]

And penguins lack large terrestrial predators, so their reaction to humans tends to be, “HELLO STRANGE GIANT PENGUINS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DO YOU HAVE ANY FISH?”

[it-is-bugs]

I will reblog this on my deathbed.

[huggableotter-deactivated202010]

Please let him science 🐧

[mrshamill]

i think at least half of the million reblabs on this are from me

[hopefulqueer]

I rly like it when the team is like HARDISON. We need you to forge an old piece of art/document/etc.

And Hardison is like you are MISUSING my TALENTS. You are DISREGARDING the fact that I am an INTERNET MAN and my skills lay in HACKING. You DARE to ask ME to do something as MUNDANE as perfectly construct an 18th century diary, complete with all of the writing inside of it, in TWO DAYS. That is BENEATH ME and also I dont think I can DO IT and you people are RIDICULOUS and why am I even WORKING with people who dont APRECIATE me and ABUSE me so. This house is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE.

And then the team is like so u'll have it done by wednesday and Hardison goes yea lol of course it sounds fun

[cyberxbattalion]

[authornicholemarie]

[beneathsilverstars]

tomorrow i have to give my daughter’s pikachu plushie gender-affirming surgery

[intellectual-punk]

[ferrousferrule]

A follow up!

https://www.tumblr.com/beneathsilverstars/799495969229176832

[a-queer-little-wombat]

[hippieghost]

This is a tea checkpoint.

Is your tea getting cold?

Did you turn on your kettle and forget about it and now the water is cold again?

Is the tea bag still in?

Did you intend to start the tea making process and forget?

Congratulations! You remember now.

[kestrellady]

If this is you, may I point you to a most relevant comic? By @pterribledinosaurdrawings

Pterrible Dinosaur Drawings

it hapen. again.

With a mug!

"Dinosaur forgets tea" Coffee Mug for Sale by Vincent Briggs

A dinosaur pours a cup of tea and then forgets it, only to suddenly remember it 70 million years later. • Millions of unique designs by inde

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Amazingly, when I saw this tag in my notifications I did not have a cup of cold tea!

But that's probably because I ran out of milk this morning and haven't had any tea this afternoon.

[crabussy]

mesmerised by this random photo taken by the hiking club I'm part of. the soft cool tones and radiant warm tones, the composition and lighting...

[crabussy]

I think this is the best part of this photo. the point of that entire trip was to find and read an old storybook that they knew was at a particular hut. he genuinely is reading it out loud to the others. I can't remember what it was about, but this scene is the cozy and well deserved reward of a wild endeavour through rugged terrain. I think that's beautiful [:

[cilantroodon]

[ID 1: A group of three hikers sitting at a table. Two of them are resting, the other is flipping through a book. Various items are scattered across the table, and they are lit by a small candle.

ID 2: Tumblr tag that says: what is he reading that put them to sleep. End IDs.]

(ID 1 via @banquetsinger)

[sirfrogsworth]

If your hot take about the movie industry involves the blaming of artists, I am begging you to resist that instinct. Because they are rarely at fault.

I have been working on an essay about subtitles and cinematic audio mixing for probably 6 months. It is about 80% complete. It's a complicated, multifactorial issue.

"Audio guys" are asked to take a cinematic timeline that looks like this...

And then make it sound good on a system like this...

While also making that same mult-track cinematic mix sound good on speakers like this...

And then people hate on these artists because they can't violate the laws of physics.

Could studios invest in a second audio mix that is more suited to tiny speakers?

Absolutely.

They literally did it for years on DVDs and Blu-ray discs. You could select a basic stereo mix or a surround mix.

Why don't they do that anymore?

I'm going to try and dedicate any future writing energy I have to finishing the subtitle essay.

Until then, be nice to the audio guys, okay?

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[exhuastedpigeon]

Realizing the writing doesn't have to be done alone and is often more fun and more engaging when you're doing it with friends is a life changing experience.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

Nothing is created in a vacuum and nothing can be created alone. Sharing drafts and ideas is a vital part of the creative process and it's a really fun part too.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing that I can't stop noticing about commercials for chatgpt and other ai shit is that they can't even seem to come up with creative or interesting shit to do with it. like everything that they show people using it for is stuff that you could already do if you had, like, any friends or the ability to use any search engine

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I do want to be cautious of ableism here because many of the critiques of ai use turn into "uuuuh what kind of braindead moron can't even think of what to make for dinner without help???" when the answer to that is "lots of people, for lots of different reasons, many of which are related to some form of disability." needing help picking out a meal isn't a problem. I'm just flummoxed as to why we're pretending there weren't already tools to do that.

[materassassino]

My favourite ad is the woman outside a florist asking Gemini for what flowers to pick, and how long they'll last. Questions answered best by the person who fucking works in the shop.

[bonniebugsy]

What bugs me so much are the people who use it, assume you also use it, and accuse you of lying when you say that you don't.

[charlizetheronsbush-official]

every friend group has:

guy who is really talented at everything he tries but mostly just punches people

girl who would rather be crawling around in your walls than socializing

guy who has strong opinions on star trek and thinks “a good time” is hacking into the NSA

girl who hasn’t stopped lying in forty years and may or may not be royalty

guy who looks like he just woke up with a hangover (he’s in charge)

[star-anise]

The most valuable thing I learned doing a Masters degree with depression, anxiety and ADHD was to change my “things I’m bad at” list to “things I can’t do on my own.” Stop thinking of them as things I could do if I tried hard enough, and accept that I can’t accomplish them by effort and willpower alone; they’re genuine neurocognitive deficits, and if I need to do the thing, then just like a blind person reading or a mobility impaired person going up a storey in a building, I need to find a different method.

I’m “bad at” working on long-term projects without an imminent deadline or someone breathing down my neck? Okay, let’s change that: I can’t work on long-term projects without an imminent deadline and someone breathing down my neck. So let’s create an imminent deadline and recruit neck-breathers. Find a sympathetic prof who will agree that 3 weeks before the due date they expect me to show them my preliminary notes and bibliography. Get a friend I trust to block off an hour to sit with me and keep asking, “Are you working on your project?” Write a blog post about my progress. Arrange to trade papers and proofread them with another student.

Accept your limitations and learn to leverage them, instead of buying the neurotypical fairytale that they’ll go away if you just try hard enough.

[curioscurio]

when I tell you I had to do a double take because I thought these were 2 parts of the same whole joke

[truestoriesaboutme]

I can't quite explain it, but Clue (1985), The Princess Bride (1987), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) are all the same genre

[short-and-angry]

They aren't a spoof (roast) or a love letter (tribute), but a best man's speech; an expression of love with a gentle ribbing on ocassion.

[kayvsworld]

I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

[an-na-ko]

Saw it was make a terrible comic day today (June 24 2025) so meet my cats