[luckylucullus]

Yep yep, all those tricks with good intentions to get it sold… think twice… a government, good intentions, yeah right, completely crazy.

[thememedaddy]

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[muttsandmustelidae]

Because people will pay attention to cute animals, here are some of the critically endangered/endangered species housed at the Nashville Zoo!

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

Look at them!!!! Look at them and fight like hell to save them!!!!

[traycakes]

Data centers have been recorded creating constant noise at a frequency outside the human range of hearing but which still causes severe issues. This could be even worse with animals that have more sensitive hearing than humans do.

We don't need to wait years to find out these things cause real harm to the communities near them, we have proof already.

[kipinkling]

This is my local-ish zoo. Please sign the petition if you can (and call your state reps if you're a Tennessean).

[selenekallanwriter]

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

[64mpg]

u can just do whatever at any age all of the time nobody cares except teenagers

[64mpg]

teenager will be like ur 40 with a hobby ? 💀 that’s sad <- nobody else thinks this way though they are just going through some stuff

[pmamtraveller]

"Sunflowers" by artist Lisbet Schultz.

[b0nkcreat]

this is so mean i have tears in my eyes

[b0nkcreat]

do you have something to say to him

[jabberding0]

make friends with a crow

Whoa, was not expecting hearing Polish. Quite funny (rough translation): "Look how hot birds are. Drink young one. But.. you know.. I want to drink too, so make it quick, pal"

[partysoon]

[sapphling]

and honestly it's just fucking insane that every time we try to talk about harm to children in particular we have to talk circles around the fact that these things are very, very overwhelmingly done by parents/family members/teachers/religious leaders/known and trusted adults in a position of power over a child, to the extent that many people's suggested solution to child abuse is "give the people most likely to abuse a child EVEN MORE strangling legal and material power over the kid"

[sapphling]

you're not supposed to actually address who is abusing children and what can be done to give those children recourse and the ability to leave abusive situations because nobody actually gives a shit about child abuse beyond the familial property rights violation it represents to them and the cudgel against minorities which it can be turned into

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

You see something broadly similar in nursing where you have to tip toe round the fact that nurses can directly and intentionally harm patients; one of the most common phrases you'll hear when trying to address an issue is something like "well no nurse is coming to work deliberately wanting to hurt their patients". I don't say this to derail from the issue of protecting children from their parents/guardians, i say it because i think it highlights the consistent problems that not offending the sensibilities of people in positions of power over vulnerable people is seen as more important then actually protecting those vulnerable people. "How dare you suggest I'm a bad parent, I'm not going to listen to anything you say because clearly you just hate me, and my feelings are clearly the real issue now" type mindset that means you end you talking circles around issues trying not offend anyone instead of directly addressing what is wrong

[willgrahamscock]

ai fatigue

[willgrahamscock]

ai books, fanfics, ai google assist, ai short form content, ai summaries, ai memes, ai artists

[averyfortshire]

I cant even go and see some street food trucks without their damn menus having AI images on it. you have a camera. take photos of your goddamn food. I would rather see a photo of the most weirdly lit burger than the fake monstrosity you're showing me.

[bandtshirt]

do y’all remember before direct messages tumblr had a dumbass ask limit of 10 per hour and communication was impossible until they introduced dumbass fan mail and we were basically sending telegraphs back in forth trying to communicate those were…dark times

Do y'all remember when they finally gave us direct messages and instead of doing it normally, they gave it to a few people at a time and we had to infect each other with it like a virus

[piedude]

[abandonrun]

remember when any post with more than like 6 people talking was unreadably smushed except for the last few additions remember when any post of over 500 characters became a link back to op’s blog readmore style remember when video and audio posts had about a 10% chance of working when you click play

[curseofsisyphus]

As a recent user I love finding out shit like this from older users. What the fuck guys???? Why were you USING IT AT ALL?!??

[dono-harm-totonystark]

believe it or not, we liked that more

[thefloralpeach]

its worth noting that immediately after these updates that made everything better, we were all angry about it

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

This was before I joined. But the reblog threads used to look like this

But it always moved the new post over so on posts with a lot of reblogs/ additions, it would just be one letter at a time in a vertical column that go down a mile

[quasi-normalcy]

The following two statements are both true:

Star Trek has always been woke

Star Trek has always been corporate

[quasi-normalcy]

Star Trek has always been internationalist

Star Trek has always been American

[quasi-normalcy]

Star Trek has mostly been utopian

Star Trek has mostly been written by middle-class white heterosexual men

[quasi-normalcy]

Conversation that Tumblr is not ready for:

A Vampire's fangs are also it's reproductive organs

[autumngracy]

I scrolled past that before realizing op was being literal and not just making some kind of weird joke

[plateauofmemories]

Oh please, "the penetration of the vampire's bite as metaphor for sexual penetration" is like, horny classic vampire symbolism 101 🙄 Taking this to the next level of "vampire bite as literal reproductive penetration" is a conversation Tumblr is thoroughly and uniquely prepared for and one that we will all severely regret very shortly

[gothiccharmschool]

Oh, I’m ready to be a spectator for this conversation. I’m ready. 

[dee-the-red-witch]

So, when a vampire doesn’t want to become a vaddy, they use a set of these, right?

[saint-batrick]

SIR.

[grumpytrans]

ooohhh so that's what those are for.... vampire condom

[beauty-funny-trippy]

[condemnedouthouse]

[burntblueberrywaffles]

I LOVE being autistic and trying to communicate because every time it’s