My RSS aggregator sent me an email announcing they were rolling out AI features for premium users. Who asked for that. That’s not your job. Your job is to be a bastion of Web 1.0 functionality. No one who knows what RSS is wants AI summaries.
anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember
im not fucking crazy.
if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god
They’re squeans I’m pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of “symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art” is called “Emanata” because it emanates from a person or object.
Peat bogs are also one of Earth’s most effective contributing carbon sinks that help keep our air breathable!
Yes, bogs are absolutely filled to the brim with evil intent and malicious intentions to any human who comes across it, but I don’t need my super heroes to like me *personally*, y'know?
My mom got phished in an EXTREMELY refined scam that pretty much anyone could fall for– basically her account was already pre-hacked and they spoofed the bank’s number exactly, called her pretending there was fraud, and read back legitimate and fake transactions and personal info so she wouldn’t suspect they weren’t the bank. Then discouraged her from logging in claiming the account was locked so they could investigate the fraud– all so she wouldnt catch them making massive purchases using her stolen info.
We have the same boss and when she told him what happened he recommended she call the bank directly, so she did and they managed to catch it in time before $20k of transactions went through. Very scary
I guess the lesson here is never ever answer your phone, I love that fraud is so rampant an entire form of mass communication is now useless
ANYONE can fall for phishing scams- my mom is extremely smart and we discuss common scams that target her age demographic and she still fell for this. If it happened to me I may have fallen for it too. Always be careful!
that’s EXACTLY what happened to me last spring. it’s dire out there….
that’s EXACTLY what
happened to me last spring.
it’s dire out there….
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
If you EVER get ANY call from ANYONE claiming to be a bank or other important group asking you for anything, tell them you will call them back and call them yourself. Do not call a number they give you, look it up yourself.
Banks don’t call people, IME. They send emails and texts and put notices on your online account. Credit cards sometimes do I believe, but in that case, just call the number on your card back.
Never take a call from anyone and assume they are who they say. Period. These people are skilled at social manipulation. They will always tell you there is a crisis.
And don’t just google the number, use your bank’s official site! A lot of search engines are now providing phone numbers of scams instead of legit ones. Also make sure the url of the site matches the one available on cards and other papers you’ve been given by your bank because fake sites can look VERY convincing.
One thing which weighed on me during Trump I was how many of the people around him obviously had no sense of the responsbility that they had embraced. I get the evil guys who are working to destroy everything - at least it's an ethos - but the ones who just treat it with less sense of responsibility than they would running the high school prom committee just mystify me.
As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.
In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions on clothing sales.
Maybe the phones really have destroyed all their brains. The world is just an image in their phone, a reflection of themselves.
i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)
Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.
Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.
Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.
It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.
65/402 16% Danny Trejo 60/282 21% Christopher Lee 51/259 20% Lance Henriksen 41/211 19% Vincent Price 41/205 20% Dennis Hopper 41/204 20% Boris Karloff 39/209 19% John Hurt 33/117 28% Sean Bean
I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.
So I reblogged that “vaccines cause adults” post from @copperbadge and predictably my inbox has gone to shit with a handful of people asking me how I can “trust” vaccines and if you’re looking for me validate your fear mongering over vaccines causing autism, I’m afraid you’re in the wrong place.
I’m the bitch that has anaphylactic reactions to vaccines due to my mast cell disorder and still turn up for my Covid booster shots with my epi pen in one hand and a fistful of Benadryl in the other.
I had reactions to all my MMR boosters and every other booster I’ve ever needed and I still show up because I look at the choices and I prefer the risk of potential immediate death over potentially getting shit like measles and spreading it to the wider community.
The only one I don’t get is the flu shot because the speed at which I react is terrifying and it’s in my file that I’m not allowed it anymore. Doctors made that decision for me, I didn’t.
My MCAS might make me a crunchy hippy dippy bitch against my will, but I’m a science based crunchy hippy dippy bitch and vaccines do not cause autism.
Most adults, especially considering what happened 5 years ago, now understand at least a little of how the human immune system works. But a new study out of Israel has demonstrated that even after 120 years of research, there was a whole new component of that system which is now being theorized as a “gold […]
I come from a culture that has no nudity taboo - nudity is not considered inherently sexual, or somehow traumatising to witness. What that means in practice is that there is a clearly drawn line between sexual and non-sexual nudity. There is nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a sexual context, and nothing wrong or inappropriate about nudity in a non-sexual context. However, it is 100% inappropriate to be nude in a situation where it is not obvious from context whether this is sexual or not.
I’ve seen random kids who briefly escaped from their parents bolt across a public park buck-ass naked after they were playing in the water fountain and their parents were in the middle of changing their kid from wet clothes to dry clothes when the small nudist escaped. Changing your small kid’s clothes right there in public is ok because there is obviously nothing sexual about a child whose clothes got wet. But although people will have baby pictures of their kids in the bath or just running around the house like that because sometimes little apes hate clothes for some reason, it’s considered common sense to not share those pictures on facebook mom groups and such, because you have no way of knowing who’s seeing them, and that blurs the line of context.
It all boils down to the clearly defined context. Bathing nude in the same sauna with five of your co-workers at the office christmas party? Clearly nonsexual, therefore completely fine. Your friend-with-benefits inviting you to come over and opening the door in nothing but a doggy collar and the most porn-scented perfume? Clearly sexual, therefore completely fine. A woman checking her breasts for lumps in the gym lockers just before or after a shower? Clearly non-sexual, therefore completely fine.
But if you went to the bank today and there’s some guy who walks in and immediately strips naked, doing his banking business wearing nothing but a deep smile and being clearly very content with this situation, you have no way of telling whether he’s getting kicks out of this or not. There is no contextual reason for him to be nude. Therefore, that is inappropriate.
Then you go home and post on tumblr - as one does - going like “there was some dude completely fucking buck-ass naked in the bank today. That was fucking weird and I wish he had not done that.” And someone immediately swoops into inform you that actually nudity is not inherently sexual or inappropriate, and there are cultures out there that have no nudity taboo. It’s not fair to call somebody a freak for something like that, maybe that guy was just finnish.
the thing about latinoamérica is that it’s the most beautiful wonderful place on earth. there’s a spinal cord of mountains running through, and at their feet you have everything from deserts to forests to jungles to glaciers. the lungs of the world are here, and so are the eyes into the sky. there are animals like axolotls and vicuñas and llamas and condors and jaguars. and the people are the most clever, the most resilient people in the world. you have cultures that are thousands of years old that have been resisting colonization for hundreds of years and in several cases successfully fighting back and even gaining territory. you have people who have lost their loved ones decades and decades ago who are still fighting for justice. you have a rich history of solidarity and struggle and you can sit with people in a circle passing a mate around and they will tell you of all the times they put everything on the line for a better world. there is an entire island that inspired revolutions around the world and that has been resisting a blockade for 60 years. there are communities building autonomous, revolutionary structures right now. and really it’s not a surprise that there’s so much grit and strength here because it would be inconceivable to be born and to live in this beautiful place without fighting for it.
Don’t worry, guys. Carl is clearly a brachiosaurus, which lived during the Jurassic period. (And before anyone says our lil’ boy Steve is a velociraptor and therefore puts our comic in the late cretaceous, aka the time of the comet–that lil guy could easily be a compsognathus or a caudipteryx, both Jurassic-era species of small theropod dinosaurs. So the light getting bigger every night is going to pass by harmlessly, and Steve and Carl can go on enjoying the stars together until they die of old age, since Carl has very few natural predators at his size and I bet he’ll protect Steve, if he needs it (though small, fast and carnivorous as Steve is, he probably won’t).
So it’s all good!!
That entire response explaining how these two characters didn’t die a fiery death but instead lived long and happy lives literally made my day.
I was ready to be heartbroken again. Thank you for making it happy after all.
My animation of a flour sack. Words can’t express how proud I am of these 11 seconds.
I’m so delighted people are enjoying this so much. It was one of my very first animations in freshmen year, after bouncing balls. I was so excited that I just poured time and love into this little guy, and I’m so happy a lot of people like the tiny story I told.
i’ll look forward to hearing your statement if you ever make it out
Do americans actually live like this
Ai generated photo right. Right?
that looks like an entirely normal suburban american neighborhood so if its AI-generated, it’s realistically done.
So the rest of the world watches our movies and in a lot of our movies we mock and satirize the eeriness and soullessness of these manufactured communities but I’m guessing you guys thought it was exaggeration
Bogleech, there really is a moment in everybody who is not from North America’s life when we realise that what happens in movies is actually very close to reality if not exactly the way things are there.
Suddenly, one day, you meet an exchange student, a tourist, a coworker, and they tell you something. And you remember the movies and ask, hoping you are certainly mistaken because in movies people fly or have magic powers, so movies are movies.
But it turns out, not everything is The World of Movies but The Real World is Different. Actually, things are Like That.
This is a deduction because our world does not look like the movies’ world. And even when we use your tropes (say, high school tv series), we copy your high schools often because they belong in the TV, nobody actually goes to a high school with lockers, right? but a series is a different thing so lockers it is.
Ok but for real, that image has to be AI generated or some kind of set: there are no street lamps, no storm drains, no road markings, crosswalks, street signs, etc… This doesn’t even look inhabited
ok, ok, folks, I get it, this is a very normal and very unremarkable USian neighborhood, ok, I believe you.
Also, yes, I missed 1 (one) streetlamp and 1 (one, maybe two) storm drain(s)… but let me tell you, having ONE streetlamp in this big ass street is even weirder than not having any.
What is this place? fucking Narnia?
… Huh, are school lockers not commonplace worldwide? Here they’re a place to store some of your textbooks so you don’t have to carry all of them to every class, plus like your coat on cold days, maybe your lunch, other personal effects you want available but not necessarily on your person. Is there a different solution to those things that’s more widely used?
Yeah: you make the kids stay in the same classroom all the time (save for PE, music, and any subject that needs a special classroom), and the teachers are the ones who move between classrooms between hours. So kids keep their stuff on their desks.
In Feburary 2020, the showrunner of DuckTales 2017 Francisco Angones shared a failed pitch involving a Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers reboot that involved The Rescuers as well as The Great Mouse Detective.
In May 2022, Tom Caulfield shared a pitch for a Rescuers project. It’s unknown if this was part of the aforementioned pitch, however there is a character that resembles Basil.
In the replies it is confirmed that this character is a descendant of Basil.
Chip and Dale were intended to appear.
The pitch may have been turned down due to the release of the 2022 Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers movie.
Authentic Traveling went to Turkmenistan and found a capital city full of bizarrely beautiful buildings with no one there to look at them. The country hardly allows any foreign visitors and the locals just… weren’t around. Watch the entire video, it’s like a surreal dream. It reminds me of LSD Dream Emulator actually. You’re not allowed to drive a car that isn’t white or silver and it cannot be dirty. Internet exists, but nearly every website is blocked. I found the super high tech empty mall and the indoor Ferris wheel that no one rides the most eerie.
I kinda thought AT had probably just filmed all the impressive buildings and maybe exaggerated just how many of them there are, but then I watched some more videos on the topic, and… nope, there are so many more.
Something about this is just so fascinating to me. A country that is apparently something like fancy North Korea having a capital like this. The grandiose style of these monuments and buildings, the white marble and gold, combined with very modern and austere architecture. And to think how much of it is just empty. It has this dream logic to it, like an IRL abandoned but immaculately maintained theme park. The city has the flesh of a sci-fi utopia and the bones of a post-Soviet dictatorship.
Annabell, a solid white and completely deaf pit bull that used to let mom draw on her belly
The World’s Ugliest Tom Cat, who turned out to be the cuddiest teddy bear of an animal
Cocker spaniel named “Captain”
Stupid, the Cat
Litter of baby raccoons
Three more cats
A completely bald and extremely anxious canary that sang beautifully, but only at 4 AM
Baby Squirrel that grew up in the house and then refused to move out
A Genuine Thoroughbred Racehorse who was a spectacular athelete but had a habit of running races in the wrong direction. Benny turned out to be a terrific trail horse instead.
Turtle
Snapping Turtle
A bucket full of 43 goldfish left over from the fair. Mom counted once they were all in the bathtub in the backyard with the snapping turtle.
Another cocker spaniel named “Major”, who had the tremendous talent of eating green beans silently
Red-tailed hawk he found on the highway, and sucessfully nursed back to health and released.
Dummy, Son of Stupid
Strange, the dog that lived under the porch and only came into the house at night.
An “abandoned” baby deer.
Spooky, an alleged dog.
Joey the parakeet whose tricks were 1. drinking tea out of a tiny cup 2. threatening to peck out people’s eyes 3. wearing hats
A Really Big Toad he found behind the factory, because the other auto workers were discussing using it for target practice. Mr. Grumpity was guardian of the rosebed for several years and granny’s (his mother) favorite animal he ever brought home.
Gretchen, a St. Bernard that had to be shaved from her prior owner’s neglect, and spent a week hiding from sight with such success in the house that they thought she’d run away.
Arson, Burglary and Murder, three frankly adorable little kittens. They did not change the names, much to the regret of the cop who lived three doors down.
Yet another Cocker Spaniel, named “Colonel”
Cardinal (bird)
Canada Goose (Demon)
Once in the nursing home, he had a “pet” 12-point whitetail buck that would come to his window to be fed corn and get headskritches, inexplicably named “Florence”
The marriage only ended because thier time on earth did. He never kept an animal Grandma wouldn’t allow and if anything she was worse about it.
CBS on Thursday filed two motions to dismiss President Donald Trump’s amended complaint against the network over its editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election campaign.
Paramount Global, CBS Broadcasting Inc., and CBS Interactive Inc., the three defendants in the case, argued that Trump’s lawsuit, which was amended last month, in part, to add Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) as a plaintiff, is “an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact.”
Trump and Jackson “seek to punish a news organization for constitutionally protected editorial judgments they do not like,” the defendants said.
“They not only ask for $20 billion in damages but also seek an order directing how a news organization may exercise its editorial judgment in the future,” they added. “The First Amendment stands resolutely against these demands.”
Trump’s legal action stems from two different versions the network released for Harris’ answer to a question about Israel during a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast in October. Trump has accused the network of election interference over what he described as deceptive editing of the show’s sit-down interview with Harris, an assertion that has been repeatedly disputed by CBS.
“The answers that aired on each news show were simply excerpts of a single answer Vice President Harris gave to a single question, and taken together, viewers heard virtually all of Harris’ answer,” the CBS motion said.
CBS has also released the full transcript and camera feeds of its interview with Harris following pressure from Brendan Carr, the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission under Trump.
CBS rightly calls Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against the network “an affront to the 1st Amendment.”
I read a brilliant explanation that it’s the clash of two world views: consent/non-consent vs approved/sinful.
For sane people, straight, gay, polyamorous, casual relationships are on one side because all the participants consent, and there’s a clear line between that and bestiality, pædophilia, or marrying a toaster, because animals, children, and appliances cannot meaningfully give consent.
To the sin-based mind, gay marriage is just as Wrong as pædophilia or bestiality because they’re all sins, so if you’re going to sin anyway why not fuck a sheep?
The big problem is they think we think like them. They think that people who support gay marriage are okay with child sexual abuse and are just lying about it. Until they can wrap their heads around the idea that other people don’t think like them, they will continue to be hateful about it. But that kind of introspection and empathy is specifically discouraged by their parody-Christian culture.
the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they’re pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they’d butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.
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where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall
Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they’ve done:
Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.
They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.
It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈
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