dc-comics-heritage-posts:

galahadwilder:

Batman: I have 800 costumes because I must be prepared for any eventuality

Wonder Woman: I have 1200 costumes because I’m 6,000 years old, I like a little variety, it’s important to dress for diplomacy, and Hephaestus doesn’t get much commission from anywhere else these days

Superman: I have one costume because my moms made it. No I will not get a new one and fuck you for suggesting it

dc comics heritage post

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dyk-tv-theme-song:

Do you recognize this TV theme song? #299

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can’t name the series

I might know this

I’ve never heard this

digby-official:

bat-anon:

jewishbarbies:

jewishbarbies:

anathemaegg:

jewishbarbies:

jewishbarbies:

I’ve been laughing at “fuck this lemon you take it” for several minutes

take this papaya from my cold dead hands is sending me again oh my god

badminton is dont hit the fucking ground you stupid disgusting baby bird

every day this post has more responses that make me lunge back in my chair with the most unnecessarily loud cackle

Hockey is I’m gonna launch this peppermint patty at you and the only way to stop me is violence

curling is my two friends and i really want to put a watermelon in that exact spot, but the floor disagrees

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velvetvexations:

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pagerunner-j:

Somebody please give the WSDOT social media folks a raise.

ALT

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atlaculture:

esmeralda-anistasia:

muffinlance:

Watching movies with small children is an EXPERIENCE, like tiny human, you have NO sense of story progression

Which is to say we put on the first How to Train Your Dragon

And at the dramatic “first flight” scene, two-year-old shouted “HIM FALL” and started SOBBING. She straight up thought that movie had murdered Hiccup and Toothless halfway through. Had to get double parental hugs and a constant stream of reassurances until they figured that whole flying thing out

All movies could be horror movies if your brain hasn’t equipped Plot Armor to the protagonists

Anyway five-year-old is pleased to report that he “liked the part where the big dragon exploded”

#Welcome to the action adventure genre my children#Five year old was VIBRATING through the climax like straight up legs kicking fists clenched#Had to be held by Spouse until we figured out he wasn’t afraid#He was experiencing baby’s first blood lust#Kid wanted that dragon DEAD and it HAPPENED and he was VIOLENTLY SATISFIED

I have a somewhat related story that I’ve always wanted to share.

At my old high school, one of our graduation requirements was to do 10 hours of community service. I decided I would knock out one or two of those hours reading to kids at the nearby elementary school during my free period. I brought this book here:

Which is just a collection of all the classic Disney movies adapted into book form. I ended up reading Cinderella to a group of kindergarteners.

When I got to the part where Cinderella’s stepsisters ripped apart her first dress, all the children were on the edge of their seats. One little girl was on the verge of tears. Another little girl shouted in horror, “She doesn’t get to go to the ball?!”

I can’t even begin to tell you how tempted I was to immediately close the book and go “Yup, that’s life, kid” and walk off without missing a beat.

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acerosedrop:

“You’re Asexual, so how could you possibly enjoy watching/reading/engaging with sexual content?!?!”

The same way I’m able to enjoy horror movies without having murdered an entire cabin full of teenagers before, Barbara you pedantic piece of pipe cleaner.

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derinthescarletpescatarian:

ecrivainsolitaire:

tinkerbitch69:

papyrussuggestions-archive:

DON’T ASK YOURSELF “AM I A GOOD PERSON?” ASK YOURSELF “IS WHAT I AM DOING GOOD?” OR EVEN! “WHAT’S A GOOD THING I CAN DO RIGHT NOW?”

DON’T WORRY ABOUT JUDGING AND SORTING YOURSELF! JUST MAKE YOUR BEST CHOICES!!

Ok but pls actually do this people. There is no such thing as a good person. Stop trying to be one and starting trying to do good instead

#the ophans dont care why you built the orphanage

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cosmicbiologist:

mateodoodle:

walmart-the-official:

Y’ALL!!

THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is “making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation”

and Other Stuff - Nostr Funding Initiative

A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem

andotherstuff.org

What is open source AI?

It’s a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it’ll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn’t allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers’ reasons for the project here:

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive | TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give

TechCrunch

TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It’s a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model

Spread the word

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honoriaw:

rockmusicplays:

comicgeekscomicgeek:

malspinningyarns:

The Muppet Christmas Carol is now considered a holiday classic and probably one of the best of the Muppets’ filmography, but when you look at it, it is such a departure from all the previous Muppet media. It’s much darker- both in terms of tone and color palette. There’s no celebrity cameos. A human is the central character instead of one of the Muppets. There are many new Muppets instead of relying on regular Muppets for some of the roles and some the Muppets are in roles you wouldn’t expect.

A lot of this makes much more sense with the context that this is the first Muppet project after Jim Henson’s sudden death and Muppeteer Richard Hunt was incredibly sick due to complications from AIDS that he was unable to participate (he would die during production). It’s a film created by a lot of people actively in the grieving process. You can feel that grief in scenes like the ones in the Cratchit home. It also explains why certain Muppets appear and some don’t. They really only use Jim and Richard’s characters when they have to. You can’t have a Muppet movie without Kermit, so Kermit is in. Statler and Waldorf are both perfect for Jacob Marley, so they both had to be recast because they were performed by Richard and Jim (which makes the fact they are ghosts kind of sad). Beaker is one of Richard’s characters and because you can’t have Bunsen without Beaker, Beaker was recast. Of Jim’s other major characters, Dr. Teeth and Rowlf are present but silent and the Swedish Chef has a more active cameo. Of Richard’s regular characters, only Janice is present. Scooter and Sweetums are not in the film. Frank Oz was busy with other jobs, so he really only does his main four of Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie, and Sam the Eagle. Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, and Jerry Nelson did a lot of the main characters, except the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Future. Jerry Nelson did the face puppeteering and voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present. I think it speaks to Jerry Juhl’s skill as a writer that he was able to not only adapt to these casting considerations, but also write one of the most faithful adaptations of A Christmas Carol.

The movie also launched the absolutely spectacular duo act of Gonzo and Rizzo.

But it is definitely weird that they created new puppets/characters for the Ghosts, rather than casting existing Muppets in the role. But it’s also a move that garnered them a lot of praise. More understandable with the casting necessities though. I could certainly have very easily seen Sweetums as Present, for example.

Rewatching this movie as an adult knowing all of this, and knowing how hard it was for Steve Whitmire to step into the roll after Jim Henson’s death adds a whole other level of heartbreak to “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it. We shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting there was among us.”

oh

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