all the stars are a-bloom with flowers

elliott/29/white (xe/hir & they/them) trans anarcho-communist corvid v inconsistent content v big heart \ (•◡•) /

[waterloggedangel-deactivated202]

Emotional support animal but I just bite you a lot and sleep on top of you like a weighted blanket

[theheartofdecember]

I Can Do All Things Through Crafts Which Strengthen Me

[geitonas]

90s

[dozydawn]

“Of rectangular form with rounded corners, overall enamelled in translucent pale green enamel over guilloché sunburst ground, each side incorporating twenty-six flies set with diamonds and rubies, with gold-mounted cabochon ruby pushpiece, engraved inside, 'Quinze années de bonheur', fully marked, 8.5 cm. long. By Hahn and with the workmaster's mark of Carl Blank, St. Petersburg, circa 1896.”

[bagelbarr0n]

Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning

[bisexualwario]

[nubbsgalore]

flamingos flying over tanzania’s lake natron, a salt lake which is home to three quarters of the world’s three million lesser flamingos, as well as toxic multicoloured extremophile cyanobacteria that thrive in water so hypersaline it would strip away human skin. for the flamingos, however, the tough skin and scales on their legs prevents burning, leaving them uniquely free to drink from the near boiling freshwater found from springs and geysers at the lake’s edges.  (x, x, x, x, x)

[chujellys]

there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful

[chujellys]

yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[minotauri]

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

[drops-of-universe]

*genuinely absorbed zero information* got it

[melonramune]

2025-07-06

[cumdumpstiel]

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

[iraffiruse]

[furaffinity]

i’m so fucking pissed off at this picture

[stargh0st-deactivated20131025]

wwhat the fuck….

[tubaplaysmatt]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

oh my god thank you for the second perspective, it honestly makes me feel way less stressed about this image, you have no idea

[smimon]

Here’s the second image again since it somehow disappeared in reblogs

[secretmellowart]

“Give to this dog son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.”

I think a lot about the folkloric story that Victor Hugo describes (or invents) in Les Mis, that uses dogs/wolves as a metaphor for that way that Inspector Javert betrays his own social class. It feels very fairytale-like, so here’s a Lotte-Reiniger style adaptation. Many thoughts, many emotions. I may animate this eventually. (And thanks to @valvertweek for the motivation!)

[grack-attack]

my barricade day 2026 contribution.... i ❤️ linocut bc now i can reproduce this scene forever!

[asteralpanda]

it annoys me so so so much when people credit victor hugo with musical lines :(

you think that man could have written "to love another person is to see the face of god"? he'd write "to open your heart to another human being in this world who lives at a similar time to yourself, to love them as mother, brother, father, sister, cousin, friend, husband, wife, is to see the Lord Himself's visage: it is to peer into the soul of God, and such a feeling do all experience, or at least all those with non-unimpenetrable hearts" or something twice as long with fifteen interludes about french politics