The Sixth Power

A conglomeration of things that amuse me. AuDHD nonbinary sapphic gremlin. They/them

[ruinedchildhood]

[jareckiworld]

Alexis Mata — The Mirror in the Desert (oil on canvas, 2024)

[animentality]

[crazy-brazilian]

same bro

[wholesome-animal-images]

be nice @wholesome-animal-images

[mbari-blog]

Spend some quality time with this scarlet stunner ❤️✨️⁠

Red disk jellies (Poralia rufescens) are found worldwide and grow to about 25 centimeters (nearly 10 inches). They live deep below the sea surface to thousands of meters and are usually seen floating near the seafloor, where prey accumulates as a result of ocean currents. They use those trailing tentacles to catch their next meal, often smaller jellies or arrow worms.

[herpsandbirds]

Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata), family Cariamidae, order Cariamiformes, Brazil

Seriemas were once placed in the Gruiformes, but in 2014 were elevated to their own order. They are most closely related to Falconidae, Psittaciformes and Passeriformes.

They are territorial, and some people in South America use them as guard animals.

Seriemas eat a wide variety of small prey, and are known to pick up snakes with their beaks and slam them hard onto the ground repeatedly, to subdue & kill them.

photograph by Jainy Maria

[basil-mage]

Queer and autistic freedom of expression or whatever

[godteri-takk]

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND JOYUS!!! WAAUHHHh!!!!! love the colurs and texture and stickerss!!!!!!

[fangorn-forest]

scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can make women’s clothing

[thatdisasterauthor]

World's thinnest spaghetti won't please gourmands but may heal wounds

Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections

Technically they're using it for bandages. For now.

[ghost-gallery]

Quote from the article

The resulting “nanopasta” can then be spun into a tiny mat about 2 centimetres across. While it isn’t intended as food, Clancy says that it should be safe to eat, but is reticent to talk about having tried it. “It’s an ethical quandary to talk about scientific self-experimentation,” he says. “But, hypothetically, one might expect it to be chewier than you’d expect.”

[ralfmaximus]

Oh he's definitely eating it

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can surreptitiously eat it

[memecucker]

[fatfemmefreaquency]

[beardedmrbean]

[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).

[ralfmaximus]

They used Reddit AITA posts as prompts and the sycophantic AIs sided with the Asshole most of the time, reinforcing the idea that the human was right even when they weren't.

No wonder pro-AI people are acting more and more dickish.

[pmamtraveller]

Cats by Shou Xin

[hangsawoman]

therapist: and what do we say when we feel like this?

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

therapist: no

[troywagner]

How did you find out you were bi

They sent me a notice in the mail

[amare-habeo]

Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884 - 1920)

Portrait of Soutine, 1916

[soundclown]

[teethwreath]