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[thai-09]

I didn't totally finish this but anyway 😀

[bubblemintbabe]

Boys of Summer

It was 1980, the summer after Race turned eleven, and it was the first summer his parents let him visit his Nana’s without their supervision. Without them, Race felt brand new: older, wiser, cooler. He was able to be independent, could make his own decisions and plans. He got to spend the summer, each summer, if this went well, with his favorite Nana in her quiet little cottage town, running around however he pleased, and he could hardly contain his excitement.

Race’s running thoughts were cut through by a red bicycle riding by. The rider, a brunette boy probably about his age, had a striped red tank top and tan skin. He waved to Race as he rolled down the street, and the blond returned the wave with an easy grin.

Here for less than an hour and Race’d already found a new friend. Almost, anyway. He was pretty proud of that.

OR

A 1980s coming-of-age tale about Racetrack Higgins and Spot Conlon, strangers turned best friends turned…something else entirely.

Read Chapter One on AO3

[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).

[pierogiy]

every day i learn and grow, too

[cloudabserk]

🩵

[pmamtraveller]

Edvard Munch, The Sun

[softwaring]

[despazito]

challenging all white women to put in even half the effort they spend on fearmongering to other white women about parking lot abductions to instead support MMIWG initiatives if they want to actually make a difference in protecting women

[mexicast]

Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls - Assembly of First Nations

The AFN's Seeking have yet to see real, on-the-ground changes to end violence against First Nations women, girls, and gender-diverse people.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[bewbin]

dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats

[daggerdoggy]

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

[daggerdoggy]

do not forget this

[ozth]

[probuccalfat]

they don’t warn you about it but if you love your own company enough to be content by yourself and you’ve got some standards for who you’d date, you’ll spend a lot of time single and nobody will really get why you’re doing that because surely you want to come home and hang out with craig, right? right????? don’t you want to hang out with craig?

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[redstonedust]

i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .

[daredevil-vagabond]

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“Your pets only love you because you feed them”

Yeah well that’s also how your relationship with your parents starts out but more stuff happens after that doesn’t it