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Would you love me if I’m a (scared) worm?

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marlinspirkhall:

marlinspirkhall:

frogus:

marlinspirkhall:

frogus:

hey guys. Real question. would you rather turn into a worm whenever you’re scared or turn into a snail for thirty minutes every time you sneeze

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I can control my fear but I sneeze whenever there’s sunlight so I have to be a worm

You’re in mid argument and then just go *plap* to the ground as a worm

Power move

#snail seems so frail

Also there’s no time limit on being a worm. I’d get stressed out, wormify, calm down, become human again. If I was a snail for 30 minutes and got carried away, some fuckass bird is going to digest me.

Would you love me if I’m a (scared) worm?

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“We are building a Terminator, but for your dick and/or pussy.”

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defilerwyrm:

phillystrega:

tiktoks-lost-n-found:

I respect a doctor who has likely had to answer a lot of stupid questions about transition surgery and has just reached the end of his rope.

This is the surgeon who did both my top and bottom surgeries. Love that guy.

(I can confirm he’s like that IRL. And hot.)

“We are building a Terminator, but for your dick and/or pussy.”

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For once MPLS is in the news for something other than scary PoC crime

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“So if you want a California-style housing crisis, don’t do anything. But if you want to avoid the fate of states like California, learn some of the lessons of what we’ve been doing over the last few years and allow for more of that infill, mixed-income housing.”

Source: A housing shortage in the U.S. is leading to zoning changes : NPR

We don’t own a car, instead we bike; we bike year round. In Minneapolis this means we’ll bike in sub-zero Fahrenheit weather during winter.

Every time I think about living anywhere else in the continental United States, it is the cost of housing that stops me. Here in Minneapolis I work two jobs so I can afford my lifestyle; anywhere else I would have two jobs just to survive.

Also Strong Boy Mayor Frey Guy did the most to prevent these changes from happening, so fuck him and his coterie of bitchass motherfuckers

Some idiot will claim theirs is the first full AI song and it will suck

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No, the goal was instead to see if AI mastering could really be a “sonic accelerant” for the hobbyist, the amateur, the laptop producer, the opening act, the indie label, the Famous Artist doing demos in their home studio, or the mix engineer who has five minutes to send a band home with something they can play in the car.

Source: AI can now master your music—and it does shockingly well | Ars Technica

Just picked up a jerb (henceforth referred to as musicbarJerb). I wonder if the musicians up on the stage even know about this.

I’m sure the small-time rappers in town already do but… like the post says, at the end of the day, most people in the music industry consider this a tool, not the end result.

A week after this, wacom goes and uses AI-gen imagery to sell their DRAWING TABLETS

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chillinwrh:

theamazingian:

it’s wild how many companies are rushing to AI for promo art. Like, just scrolling down social media for one (1) second will show you gorgeous illustrations and works of passion; wouldn’t you want to promote YOUR OWN PRODUCT with genuine artwork??

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Other excellent call outs for folks sharing this with non-artist or people who don’t care: the article goes on to not only talk about the roast but also how AI/Microsoft is literally depleting entire city water sources to keep their servers from melting from all the power AI irresponsibly consumes.

While my job doesn’t care about the ethics of art & artists- they literally have an environmental clause in our business that this will literally hault projects because we wouldn’t be caught reporting this internally. Lots of folks talk environmental impact of AI but it’s great to see literal MIT research and reports detailing it. Keeping this in pocket for when the Digital Guy on the team starts pitching AI art for our company blog article headers.

A week after this, wacom goes and uses AI-gen imagery to sell their DRAWING TABLETS

Wacom uses AI “Art” to promote products to artists #art #wacom #aiart #artists #huion #theft #berserkdad

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Chale hijo!

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So, in the interest of systematic knowledge (and public safety), this essay tabulates the streets’ honks into a taxonomy of cláxones [horns], a “claxonomy” of Mexico City’s traffic.

Source: A Claxonomy of Mexico City’s Traffic – Allegra Lab

As a cyclist I’ve learned one or two “words” i.e. groupings of honks, but they apply only to the Twin Cities area and are in English. What the essay goes over is like me learning Spanish all over again.

Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are…

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Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

Monster that feeds on suffering becomes a professional caretaker for people with chronic pain and terminal illnesses. They can’t change the fact that these people are suffering, but they help a bit and in the meantime they’re fat and happy off that Sweet Sweet ambient pain in the air.

Two towns over there’s a demon lord trying to get their cult to abduct people for torture, but they keep getting stopped by heroes and the like, so they’re barely scraping by. Meanwhile Belogarth the Registered PCA is chowing down on back pain, medication side effects and looming mortality for eight hours a day and has become the most powerful demon on earth without realizing it.

“But don’t their clients feel weird knowing that they’re feeding off their suffering?” No they think it’s hilarious and they’re real shits about it.

It’s a form of spiritual husbandry. Like how you get more milk from a cow if you take good care of it than if you kill it.

If “Life is suffering,” a demon who feeds off suffering must love life.

Another thought: If someone is suffering, and a demon eats that suffering, that implies that the suffering is (temporarily, at least) alleviated.

“I’ve been depressed for months, but then a demon ate my sorrow and worry, and I feel so much better now.”

I was just thinking about this! Like with things that eat nightmares - the nightmare gets consumed, right? what a great way to get rid of persistent nightmares!

Something something capitalist realism where it’s impossible for certain people to imagine something not wanting to endlessly grow and expand, instead of merely being contented with enough.

D&D has an entity called “Dendar the night serpent” which is a Jörmungandr style snake titan that lives between worlds and is responsible for eating all the nightmares that ever existed….for some reason in the canon lore she’s evil….

WHY!?! big friendly space snake wants to make sure you sleep good! Every player I’ve told about her has been an instant fan with a dedicated minority making it a personal goal to boop the all-devouring snoot.

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wait so technically vampires are vegetarians

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wait so technically vampires are vegetarians

op elaborate

blood is a non-meat animal product, like diary or eggs. that counts as vegetarian don’t it

if a vampire only feeds on villagers it finds wandering around in a haunted forest or whatever, that counts as both eating local and free-range

#well. it counts as eating locals

new alignment chart made out of the Most Common Replies to this post:

  • not vegetarian, blood counts as part of the meat
  • not vegetarian bc you have to harm/kill the animal (human) to get it (not sure how these people think blood drives work???)
  • maybe vegetarian but only if you don’t kill the animal (human) to harvest the blood
  • BLOOD IS VEGAN if the donor provides consent

an example, per se?

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Some on twitter have bragged about having sex with their fitbits on

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For instance, Google kneecapped the Fitbit Versa 4 and Sense 2 by removing features like Google Assistant and third-party apps like Spotify and Starbucks. As a result, any longtime Fitbit user would be “upgrading” to products with fewer smart features than their predecessors — unless they chose to buy a Pixel Watch instead. And the decision to remove legacy Fitbit social features without offering an alternative threatens to chip away at one of Fitbit’s greatest strengths: its community.

Source: What is going on with Fitbit? – The Verge

A repeat of what Yahoo did to Flickr

And that was the problem. At the time, the Web was rapidly becoming more social, and Flickr was at the forefront of that movement. It was all about groups and comments and identifying people as contacts, friends or family. To Yahoo, it was just a fucking database.

All they’re trying to do is figure out how to make money off it. Fuck the people that came up with the devices, fuck the community built on those devices. To googke, fitbit is just a fucking database of lots of some of the most intimate and personal data they have: Their bodies themselves.

Abusers face the wall

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Sexual harassment as a rule is terrible. The #MeToo campaign on social media was heartbreaking, as I watched nearly all the women I knew bravely lay out their stories, or simply admit that it had happened to them. But when sexual harassment and assault happens in the military, it’s incredibly disturbing. See, in the military, we all joined up to serve in an organization where implicit trust in those around us is key for survival. Trust is built through continued training and operations as well as day-to-day interaction. In the Army, we have seven key values, and most support the growth of trust amongst fellow Soldiers; especially integrity.

Source: I Didn’t Know – The Angry Staff Officer

Makes you wonder how many female-presenting soldiers did the ethical and heroic thing and let an Abuser eat an enemy bullet.

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