tasto

she/they • Tasto • 25 • blogging about whatever i like • current fixation: bg3 • stardew valley, dnd, star trek, art, social stuff, cryptidcore, decay • teacher in training • not tagging anything cuz i am too lazy and keep forgetting to do it, so please leave now if you need tagged content

[aviantastic]

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

[fluentisonus]

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

[cryptidofthecove]

[english-mace]

nonononononono

‘saw from the 1600s’ = ~400 years ago

this fresco is from ~3600 years ago

[moinsbienquekaworu]

@zeawesomebirdie

[seabeck]

Fungi in lichens

[gawki]

[depsidase]

[unicorncryptid]

"my life isn't a crime, I'm not one of those people -"

"you sure? new parameters for Those People just dropped. check again."

[lizardywizard]

And if you truly cannot imagine this, if you're convinced that it will never happen to you, consider this one thing.

Would you want scammers to know the state of your loved one's dementia?

[headspace-hotel]

Oh. Shit.

[thesweetiepienovels]

People who recycle and put their trash in their pocket until they find a trash can and people who pick up liter when they see it and people who still cut the six-pack rings so animals don’t get trapped or choke on them and people who move turtles out of the road and people who stop for ducks and geese to cross all have a very special place in my heart. You are so good to this world and earth. I hope you know that.

[studyblr]

Never limit yourself. You don’t have to choose between STEM and the arts. You don’t have to choose between that aesthetic or the other. Just let yourself be the most authentic self you can be, embrace all the different aspects of your personality, your interests, and your skills.

[seabeck]

Art of decay

[gender-trash]

zero patience for "irreversible damage" rhetoric because like... parents are allowed to do all kinds of other irreversible body modification to their kids and nobody gives a fuck. you can pierce your kid's ears, you can sign them up for a sport that will injure them for life, you can provide or withhold medical care like vaccines according to whatever whims you like. i've mentioned this before but my mom forced me to get laser hair removal done on my legs when i was a teenager because my body wasn't mine, the way i chose to upkeep it was a reflection on her. "irreversible damage" is very much part and parcel of the broader belief that parents own their children's bodies.

[milf--adjacent]

This Re: Societal dismissal of the threat covid presents to everyone. In less than five years, long covid has become the most common chronic illness in children, surpassing asthma. Somehow HRT is "irreversible damage" but giving millions of kids a poorly understood chronic illness is just "back to normal"

(P.S. Wear a respirator. Don't catch or spread covid.)

[pending-trans-action-2]

Mutuals are a lot like cats in that you kinda have to harmlessly pester and annoy them sometimes

[virtualgirladvance]

*brushes all your fur the wrong way so you look like a feather duster*

[auternadelaide-deactivated20240]

reblog to pet your mutuals the wrong way

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

if you're on my dash or vice versa then u are get pet fluffy style~

[the-haiku-bot]

if you’re on my dash

or vice versa then u are

get pet fluffy style~

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[star-angel-selkie]

this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

Level 2: We shouldn't treat mental health facilities as objects of horror because it stigmatises mental illness.

Level 3: Asylums are scary because there's psychiatrists there.

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[queenlua]

Everyone who plays around with Tarot cards long enough winds up with a “bad” card that they love. I just barely persuaded my husband not to get the Ten of Swords tattooed on his body; traditionally, it shows a corpse with ten swords stuck in their body and means “utter ruin,” but he thought that if it took ten swords to kill you, then you must have put up a pretty good fight.

honestly this is the most badass ten of swords interpretation i've ever heard.  i'm stealing this

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

WIZARD TIP: They will run out of swords eventually.

[creature-wizard]

Every time you censor a word describing something unpleasant - like writing abuse as ab*se, rape as r*pe, covid as c*vid, or murder as m*rd*r, what you're communicating is that there is something shameful in describing reality as it is. There is nothing shameful in talking about reality as it is, but fascists want you to think there is. Stop censoring words. Write them in full so people know you feel no shame in discussing these topics.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended on9h

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended on9h

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended on9h

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[directactionforhope]

Also honestly useful numbers to keep around for anyone who needs some data to convince a boss or coworkers that young people dislike AI.

Literally just don't say the poll was on tumblr:

"A poll of over 100,000 social media users found that a strong majority of 18-29 year olds believe that AI is a net negative in our lives, and are less likely to go to an institution that they notice uses AI in its marketing."

Boom. Every word of that is true. We're saying "a strong majority" to compensate for the massive sampling bias (aka running the poll on like the one social media website where everyone still hates AI). Because a poll or study with a biased sample can absolutely still give you information - as long as you remember that your data will be skewed by a certain amount

Also the less you get into specific numbers, the less likely anyone is to ask where you found the poll lol

[dragongirlsweetie]

the problem with fantasyposting on here is the amount of people who try to "um actually" you on the basis that your post doesn't comply with the rules/mechanics/worldbuilding of dungeons and dragons

[endorph1n2set]

Geralt of Rivia