cry.

silly and sometimes sad here but mostly just blorbos :] 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[so-many-ocs]

*voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

those few lines of a song where you want to crush up like leaves and inject in your veins to trigger cardiac arrest >>>

[inchidentally]

the way Lando was given the babies to fawn over and nurture and Oscar was given the seniors and special needs dogs to be calm and gentle with

parents landoscar night times are canonically Lando as the "oh! you're so good!! brushed your teeth without me even asking!" parent and Oscar as the "hey, hey shhh I'm here, baby… monster can't get you, okay? it was just a nightmare!" parent

smth to do with Lando thriving on positive reinforcement and Oscar thriving on stability and reassurance

[headspace-hotel]

tumblr is, if anything, the Appalachia of social media...easy to get lost, sparsely populated, out of the loop with fast-moving modern trends. Attached to tradition. Close-knit communities. Believe in "talk shit, get hit." Everyone is doing their own thing in their own obscure little holler. Prone to pulling the most inventive turns of phrase you've ever heard out of nowhere. Somebody's always starting a racket. We sometimes repel outsiders with much aggression. Lots of talk about hell and damnation to be found. Everybody tends to forget about us for some reason

[headspace-hotel]

What is pirating media but the moonshining of the internet

[vincent-sinclair-deserved-better]

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[catmask]

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

[daftpatience]

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

[tteoki-ari]

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

it's giving PRT prompt 😙

[ferrettoy]

you! guy who likes fictional lesbians to the point of feeling a strange sense of pain! you can be a lesbian. but there are some steps you have to complete first

[elamimax]

First, you need to gather [4 BOAR HIDES] from the Haunted Village.

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

idk . maybe something about how i always get so sad at night. ☹️

[daddyfuckedme]

[mens-rights-activia]

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

[ffcrazy15]

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.

[starlit-mansion]

listen. i honestly do try my best to not be bitchy about stuff. but if you not-joking-joked that you wanted to watch a video essay from hbomb on the kendrick-drake rap beef. i think that you are obligated to watch fd signifier's 3 hour video essay. i KNOW the watch time is not the issue.

[hearthfire-heartfire]

[grammarpedant]

I spent three and a half hours utterly immersed in a beef I was barely aware of from a scene I am not part of. This is a video about rap artists, of course, but also if you like hearing about scene drama, art history, Black culture, or if you just enjoy watching video essays, you gotta watch this video. F.D. Signifier is not playing around- this is documentary-level production covering decades of what rap means through the lens of a conflict between prominent artists, presented in a way that's both informative and engaging for a newcomer AND also deeply incisive and analytical for the seasoned rap purist. And aside from teaching me a fuckton about hip hop, this video also just made me feel excited about and open to nonfiction media once again.

Cannot overstate how HIGHLY I recommend this video essay.

[turnpikeghosts]

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths

[turnpikeghosts]

if you use chatgpt to write your english assignments that is bad. you should not do that

[turnpikeghosts]

this has been accelerated by watching my roommate who teaches freshmen composition slowly become ben_affleck_smoking.jpg as he has to fail multiple students every semester for using chatgpt

[turnpikeghosts]

like. this is bad and this person should feel bad lol this completely misses the point of writing assignments. the point is the production, not the end product

[turnpikeghosts]

critical thinking is a genuinely important life skill, whether or not you pursue higher education. fascism relies on anti-intellectualism!

[turnpikeghosts]

AND IT’S TERRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. what are we doing here

[headspace-hotel]

Your ability to think for yourself is one of the most valuable powers you have, and one of the only things no one can take away from you.

Do not give it away willingly.

[voidkraken]

How does this stuff not count as plagiarism?

[headspace-hotel]

It is plagiarism, and it's plagiarism even if you disclosed that you used chatgpt, because chatgpt cannot cite its sources and plagiarism in academia is less about "intellectual property" like disney type shit and more about being able to trace an idea back to where it came from.

Without the power to follow a line of citations back to the original source, human knowledge falls apart like a sand castle. You cant criticize an idea if you don't know where it came from. You cant even tell if it's true. If there is no source, you don't know if it came from a reputable scientific journal or some pamphlet titled Why White People Are The Superior Race.

i think some professors are well meaningly openminded about these technologies and don't really truly understand how they work. Which is not their fault, the technologies have been consistently called something they're not.

ChatGPT creates sentences based on probabilities of what words are likely to go together. This is especially dangerous because it's likely to say things that "everyone knows," things that lots of people believe, the very things that seem the most innocuous simply because they're commonplace, and are the most dangerously wrong because they're commonplace.

ChatGPT's training data contains all of the racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and other prejudice, hatred, and bigotry of the society that produced that data. The developers can stop ChatGPT from saying slurs and other disgusting stuff its training data certainly provides, but censoring the filth that is present within this machine really makes it more dangerous: the bigotry is still there, it's just that the text will only be generated if the bigotry is subtle enough to escape these filters.

If ChatGPT's training data shows that someone named "John" is more likely to be described as "brilliant" or "great" or "strong" and someone named Mary is more likely to be described as "pretty," it's going to make sentences that reflect that. If the data shows a statistical correlation between the words "Muslim" or "Islam" and the words "extremism" or "war," it's going to put those words together more often. Can we see how this might be a problem

[headspace-hotel]

your ability to have your own thoughts and ideas is so valuable. it is absolutely priceless and precious. You can be born into a world where a disease is incurable and become the person to cure it, you can be born into a bigoted culture and choose to believe in the value of all human beings, you can see a weird bug that no one has ever found beautiful or interesting or worthy of study and devote your life to studying it and learning to see its amazing and divine beauty. Why? Because you can THINK. Because you have your own mind and your own power to create new ideas and to direct and channel the love within your heart.

You are not just a muddled puddle of all the ideas and knowledge you have happened to encounter, passively absorbing whatever is around you. You have your own energy to confront the world with ferocious curiosity!

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

heartbreakign news, as in: the only band i listen to in the music section of hot topic has an UGLY TEE SHIRT ..... 💔💔

[dearausten]

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

when do you stop trying to love something that used to love you back :(

[untitledcoffeeshopau]

hot girls listen to maneskin whilst fixing their life at 11pm and also being very very fevered

[coffeelepigeon]

I'm screaming