Just a little guy

You can call me Wy or Wywy 💖 she/her Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[grootficguy]

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

[grootficguy]

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

[clumsypuppy]

turnabout serenade

[dreamsy990]

i saw someone say nobody needs to know what a .txt file is anymore. what the fuck is the world coming to

[dreamsy990]

unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school

[dreamsy990]

things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)

how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem

what common file types are

some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)

how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private

how to understand terms of service (hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)

what a cookie actually is

internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl

basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)

common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)

as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on

vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)

how to not get a virus while pirating something

what a temporary email is and when to use one

red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)

what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls

[dreamsy990]

ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)

an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous

a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps

a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)

some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself

[rederiswrites]

With what's being done to Snap benefits--food stamps--this month, and Thanksgiving coming up, I think it's a really good time to give what you can to food pantries. With the reminder that money is always better than giving food, because the pantry is able to make that money go further and knows what they actually need.

[rederiswrites]

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitche

[pia-duo]

Day 8: Witness

[morireblogscoolart]

He had it coming

[misterloveletter]

[werefeathers]

i love this image so much. his hand

[skyesisters]

no one ever even mentions the crucial part about the unnecessary feelings scene. which is of course that will powers is standing there listening to the entire conversation

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[laerugo]

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

[mortimermcmirestinks]

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

[rue-nightly]

A 2025 update

[hawlucha]

guys. holy fuck

[hawlucha]

im not just OP im actually the hawlucha in the picture. místico later put me in a pokeball but we dont gotta get into that

[cloevr]

when i take my phone case off i feel concern and fear knowing that some people just rawdog their phone like that like its so slippery girl you are carrying around a little fish

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Handle a naked smartphone and you can just feel the eagerness of this device to lemming itself onto the pavement

[energyprison]

I have to make the bed but hes in the way

[energyprison]

Be sealed for all time

[visenyaism]

Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

[blignick]

[cute-catts]

[onimartialartist]

Boundless greed

[crazysodomite]

people refuse to understand the concept of "this isn't important to me but i understand why it might be important to other people"

[crazysodomite]

or hell you dont even have to 'understand' or get it or agree with it you just need to understand that certain things you dont care about or dont matter to you are important to others. and you're not necessarily better or more correct for not caring

[stjohnstarling]

Just caught an AI generated song being played in the grocery store. 👍

[stjohnstarling]

It's worth noting that it first caught my attention because it sounded notably bad - before noticing it was AI, the first thing I did was turn to @beastliness and say "this is terrible," and they paused and replied "I think this is AI." I think a lot of people assume AI generated music sounds generic, but this stood out among the other music in the store because in some difficult to define way it just sounded worse.

There are three main ways to check whether what you're listening to is AI generated:

The song will not be structured properly. Most pop songs follow a structure of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus, whereas an AI song is likely to not have an identifiable chorus and instead be built out of a whole bunch of segments that don't serve any particular structural function. It'll usually sound like it's continuously building but not ever going anywhere.

The vocals will sound slightly robotic. This sounds a little bit like autotune, but it is subtly distinct from the way autotune sounds.

The song will sound compressed, like a low quality MP3 file. If you've ever listened to a bad upload of a song to YouTube or downloaded a low quality torrent of a movie, you'll have some idea of what I mean. Everything in the song will sound a little bit muddy, nothing will be crisp or easily distinguished.

Alternately, you can try googling some of the lyrics or running the song through Shazam.