we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo

I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory

uses him to scroll on tumblr for 2 hours

I was baffled so I had to look it up but yeah, it IS in fact a real fucking beetle (possibly Hololepta aequalis just by looking at them but I could very well be wrong bc i don't know shit about this family)

love when ppl ask to see pics of my axolotl and are expecting something cute + pink + all smiles and instead with genuine fear in their eyes, and in their heart, say WHAT the fuck is that.

demon

run.

"Multiple leviathan-class lifeforms detected in the region. Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?"

Went for a walk without my bins and saw a jird I couldn't immediately identify. This was the best picture I got. We eventually figured out it's a double crested cormorant

I am certain this is wrong but I can't unsee it

now I can't unsee it either

Let's all be unable to unsee it together

Pork sausage is just inverted pig

#one of my favourite authors whose work I can't get enough of#but sometimes I do wish you would shut the fuck up

^ A derin post centrist I see

Text: decoupling pregnancy from femininity means accurate and more inclusive language and treatment, but it also allows cis women to refuse motherhood without refusing womanhood, which is great for feminism and terrifying for misogyny.

–THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. As a sterile cis woman who doesn’t want to have children anyway I feel this is every ounce of my being. “Define woman” types tend to do so in a way that excludes me too, so I got to stand with my trans sisters.

Your periodic reminder that “divine feminine” this “magic womb” that is just patriarchy in gauze and glitter. REJECT THE BOX even when it has a makeover.

As a trans man who wants to have babies? THIS

barn dwelling beasts

available on my kofi as adoptables

I'm often really dedicated to the visual quality and authenticity of the memes I make, but like idk if I could ever make another human being care about that. I used the proper font and color picked the correct color and sized everything correctly and used the alignment tool to get the spacing right and redrew the nebula background and spent way too long messing with the drop shadow settings to mimic the original text. Skyrim media literacy 0 skill meme. If you care.

Your commitment to craftsmanship is appreciated. Years ago I spent way too long on this stupid meme to get the pull lines in the dark green and the fading of the lime color just right.

i am still stupidly proud of this lmao

my kitty cat was wandering around going ‘mrrph?” so i was like “in here!” he goes “mrrph!” shoves open my bedroom door with his big round head and FLOPS on me. as in hard enough that he made a little “oof” noise when he did it. followed by a category five purring event. there’s good in this world mr frodo etc

nobody in that church mentioning a goddamn thing about the lack of Mary the blessed virgin the woman among women ANYWHERE in the church or the sermons is so telling.

Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude in name only. The bedrock being a story of a woman scorned and villainizing her. the church technically being saved by a woman killing a man who perpetuated this hate for an innocent girl. All the women in the story becoming free from the misogyny of the church by leaving one way or another. Jud renaming it to Our Lady of Perpetual Grace both in memorium of the poor girl and a push for forgiveness and open arms and not a battle-ready mindset. Kindness being a traditionally feminine associated trait and Wicks rejecting it. Benoit learning to accept it near the end.

Grace of course meaning grace. Vera meaning faith. Simone meaning to listen. Martha meaning the lady of the house. Our Lady of Grace. Martha being the lady of the house, formerly Perpetual Fortitude, now Perpetual Grace. Learning to forgive instead of dying with the hatred in her heart. Rian Johnson i am in your walls.

zero patience for "irreversible damage" rhetoric because like... parents are allowed to do all kinds of other irreversible body modification to their kids and nobody gives a fuck. you can pierce your kid's ears, you can sign them up for a sport that will injure them for life, you can provide or withhold medical care like vaccines according to whatever whims you like. i've mentioned this before but my mom forced me to get laser hair removal done on my legs when i was a teenager because my body wasn't mine, the way i chose to upkeep it was a reflection on her. "irreversible damage" is very much part and parcel of the broader belief that parents own their children's bodies.

yknow when you can tell that someones opinion on the homeless is dictacted by the fact they seem to imagine every homeless person just like. spawned in the back alleys of a city as a fully grown scruffy hobo with no life goals other than scrounging enough pocket change for a hit of Drugs™ . like you suggest that perhaps a homeless person was not always homeless and probably had a life and a childhood like the rest of us and they blank like they genuinely didnt consider it. like they forgot thats a human being too.

love the genre of discourse that’s like “the world used to be [thing it never was] but now society is [I’m over thirty]”

evergreen post

I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"

like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"

that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.

y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't

A BIRD POOPED ON MY HEAD ON THE WAY TO WORK.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIRD WAS ON THE WAY TO WORK?

DONT MAKE ME ANGRIER THAN I AM