My absolute favourite comic journal by Stevenson. Made me cry my eyes out. Even when I can’t articulate it, it gets to the core of what I think love is.
Another thing about light pollution and adjacent things is. They threatened my area with rolling blackouts last winter. Now this was of course largely because the AI datacenters are hogging all the electricity, but in the notifications about it they always specified that that residential areas would be the blacked out areas. Not offices. Not businesses. If you’re at home and freezing, well, you can just go loiter in a McDonald’s I guess. Never mind that this is extremely difficult for disabled people and often not allowed for pets.
Well, as winter turned into spring, I started biking home from work. A long, circuitous route that took me through residential areas, and past offices and businesses. Offices and businesses that were closed for the day. And yet their signs were still lit up. The lights were still on inside. There were TVs playing in empty breakrooms. All the computers in the school district offices stayed on, their monitors not even going to sleep, all night. Paused to take a break in an empty strip mall once and when I leaned against the glass of a restaurant I could hear the music still playing inside.
Like. There’s something deeply rotten about the priorities here. These places that are so flagrantly wasting electricity will never be subject to the rolling blackouts that could freeze you out of your home. Not even at night, when no one is there, when they don’t need their lights on. Their waste is prioritized over normal people’s life.
I need to leave my apartment and go to work but there’s a female Downy Woodpecker on my suet block pecking crumbs onto the ground where a female Carolina Wren is eating them #womensupportingwomen
But I can’t leave because I would disturb them and they really need this right now (it’s 3F and going to snow)
love that you respectfully drew them instead of sharing them live for the world to see 😳
This is the content I like to see on my Tumblr dash
I started reading The Raven Cycle about a week ago and goshhhh, I’m in awe 😭 I got into it because of all the beautiful fanarts I’ve been seeing for a while now… I needed to contribute one as well. One of many more to come, most likely. I love them!!! They’re so fun to draw!!
I’m only finishing the second book so please don’t spoil it for me 🫢
hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to “in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?”, respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn’t pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
watch out for the trap! there’s ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn’t* the max ‘no AI’ option, read each part carefully to be sure
This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL
Plotting, scheming, etc.
This was filmed at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases orphaned elephants in Kenya (among other conservation efforts). Charity Navigator has given it a 4/4 star rating, and you can make donations here or “adopt” a baby elephant here.
THANK YOU FOR THIS IMPORTANT ADDITION.
I have enjoyed this video so much and am very happy to share ways to help the babies!!
That man held it in until he knew for a fact that they’d need another take anyway, and not a moment less.
