The Crushing Weight of Not Knowing If There Is a Task

im starting to think this crushing weight is not about the tasks

I made a keychain with the best boy for myself :3

I know that skinny jeans are supposed to be for old ladies now, but like… I’m six foot one, I have small hips and long legs, I just look better in them???

I’m half convinced Trends in jeans are a psy-op to make sure women hate themselves. You’ll have about two years out of twenty where the style that looks great on you is actually in season. I’m six feet tall, pear-shaped and have a pronounced tummy, so naturally as a teen in the late-90’s/early-oughts I just thought I was hideous because my choice of jeans was low rise or ultra low rise. One time we were visiting my grandparents who were depression babies and never threw anything out so I discovered my mom’s high waist flares from the seventies and was just like “holy shit, do I actually look cute…. In jeans?????? Is that allowed” she’d even got them from the Navy surplus store and hemmed them just by turning up the hem, not cutting any of the length so I could even let out the hem and they were long enough

It’s a scam, a scam I tell you. Everyone should just wear whatever jeans look nice on them (I will say things have gotten better since in early oughts in that you can now usually find multiple styles of jeans in the store, it’s not just “do you want to expose just your belly button, or would you also like to expose some of your public bone”)

Okay I may be an idiot but I spent ages trying to figure out which bone you meant by “public bone” before I realized you mistyped pubic bone.

I mean to be fair to you, in 2003 it was very much a public bone

I have short little legs and I’m fat. You can pry my high waisted skinny jeans out of my cold dead hands.

And I need a high waist and a straight leg, because I have the calves of a Valkyrie. They should just sell all the styles (and to be fair, in some of the department stores, they do)

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

Ronald Searle Cats, 1967

I think tumblr should let us post diagrammes and graphs and tables. We can be trusted with math. I promiss.

You would draw dicks.

My first anatomy tutorial! How I connect arms to the torso. Simplified the muscles for better comprehension

PS. Pectoral is misspelled as “pectorial” in the picture! Don’t make that mistake haha

Geralt and Regis' raven for @wednesdayhey

Prompts for 2024! Image description below the cut~

Humans Are Space Orcs: Vestigial Systems Edition

What if aliens don’t have the concept of vestigial systems? And so while they are a much, much older species and their bodies don’t really have cure-alls, when the problem solving thing kicks in, it pretty much just works.

Take the most obvious example for humans: appendixes. The prevailing theory is that it used to be important (like for digestion or immunity), but now we know it’s largely useless. So maybe a human has an appendicitis, they get taken to the med bay, the other humans are a little worried, but not overly so. Alien gets told about it and they flip.

“Human Barbara’s organ has exploded?!”

“Okay, not exactly exploded, but it got all swollen and filled with goo. So they’re taking it out.”

“Human Barbara is having an internal organ permanently removed?!”

“Dude, chill. This happens all the time, no biggie.”

“You are telling me that your internal organs will frequently, and without warning, cease to function entirely?”

“Well, it’s not really ‘cease to function’ per se, ‘cause the appendix doesn’t really do anything. I mean, some scientists think it might? Or like, it did a while ago? But not anymore. We don’t really know anything about it, it’s kinda there.”

“…you have an entire organ inside of your abdomen that simply has no purpose except to malfunction?”

“I mean, yeah, pretty much. It’s called appendicitis.”

“This specific condition happens on such a regular basis that you have a name for it?!”

And maybe even weirder, it’s not just physical stuff. Our social-emotional makeup flaws are responsible for a huge part of humanity’s problems. Our pack-bonding instincts manifest in tons of negative ways, like our nasty habit of “us verses them” conflicts. The fact that we define entire cultures and lifetimes by our dissimilarities is whack.

“Human Bob, I have just heard mention of something called ‘The Crusades.’ What is that?”

“Oh, they were these huge wars that happened during the Middle Ages. Basically it was Muslims and Christians fighting each other for, like, two hundred years over some land that was considered holy.”

“Two groups of humans systematically slaughtered each other for roughly eight generations? Why did they not just share the land?”

“They didn’t want to.”

“I do not understand. Why did they not wish to share?”

“It’s sort of a territorial thing. We don’t like other people near what’s ours. It’s how we survived when we were a developing species, by making groups and fighting off outsiders. That’s why a crew has to do a test run before they get sent out to space. When we first started sending out explorers, we didn’t do that, so lots of missions went to shit because crew members couldn’t handle living together and, in a couple of cases, ended up murdering each other. Pretty bad for PR back then.”

“Humans will become violent if someone they are not pack-bonded with comes near them?”

“Not even near. A lot of colonisation and wars happened because one group didn’t agree with another, so they went out and killed them all.”

“What?!”

“Yeah. Pack-bonding is super super important to us. Human infants will actually die if they don’t get enough physical affection.”

“What?!”

“Uh-huh. Remember when Brian and Steve weren’t talking to each other for a week because Brian’s favourite sports team lost to Steve’s? We don’t even have to belong to a group to get crazy about it.”

“…I must go update the Human Interactions Manual.”

Broke: The Greek gods were often ruthless and bad.

Woke: The Greek Gods were described by humans to be "in their image". So the gods although immortals and powerful, they still expressed anger, happiness, sadness, jealousy. Because to the ancient Greeks the gods were reflections to humanity, who were supposed to be flawed. So the deities themselves are too complex to simply put labels on them.

LIFE ADVICE FOR YOUR TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES (and probably beyond but I haven't made it much farther than that so far):

ai covers make me so uncomfortable dude. like i know hearing characters or creators sing songs is cool cause its like wow youve never heard them do that that sound cool but like man if that was my voice and people did that id be fucking ill. that would make me so anxious that people were using my voice to make whatever they wanted to hear even if it was nothing malicious. ‘wow that sounded so good, x has so much potential if they did this!’ well they didnt. because they didnt want to. and it wouldnt sound like that anyway cause its fucking ai. but you made them do it anyway i guess

I’m a voice actor. This is my worst fear.

Having your voice stolen by AI is not just terrifying to me because my voice is my job, it’s also terrifying because THAT IS MY VOICE. That is my literal voice. How I communicate day to day. My biological instrument that I play. It’s not yours to take! It’s not a toy for you to play with! You can use that to pretend to be me and I have no way of definitely getting it removed from the AI database now WHY would you do that to someone what is wrong with you???

A colleague of mine, who voiced an UNDERAGE character, had her voice stolen for a song with adult content. She reported the song multiple times, but trolls kept reposting it. the caption read (paraphrasing) ‘haha, we can do whatever we like, we don’t care if voice actors lose their jobs, it’s funny so we’ll keep doing it.’ that is the mentality of these people. They genuinely don’t care about the impact it has on the victim. My colleague could be impersonated for fraud, her voice could be used for ANYTHING, those clips she never recorded could lose her work in the future or be used to smear her and she has no recourse at all. The FUCK is wrong with these people.

Not to mention that AI voices were trained on voice clips stolen from the internet without the owners’ knowledge or consent, or that they’re already being used to replace human actors and their years of training with a worse, amoral alternative. It’s just another tool for the rich to get even richer.

All you need to clone someone’s voice with AI is eight seconds of clear audio. If you have any videos on social media, on YouTube, on TV, your voice can be stolen. This software should already be banned but the fuckwits in charge couldn’t legislate their way out of a paper bag so here we are.

STOP USING AI VOICES.

Oh thank God a reputable profession

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

have decided this is my first day on planet earth !! and it is beautiful!!!!

this is my first day on planet earth!!! the BIRDS 😭😭😭are you guys hearing this!!!!!

first day on planet earth!!!! just WAIT till i tell you guys about LEAVES

fantastic stuff

OH MY GOD GUYS......GUYS HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT PEBBLES?!

PEBBLES!!!!!!!!!!! THEY CLICK!! AND CLACK!!!!! AND CLICK AGAIN!!!!! WHAT A DAY 💖💖💖

first day on planet earth and LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND

these guys just show up?? all the time??? for FREE???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY CHANGE COLOURS

absolutely fantastic lads !!!

Hey @soracities, have you heard of sea glass yet?

im.............in the SEA???? she does that???? bless u OP i am going to weep 😭😭😭😭

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

Happy Petrov Day, everyone. To celebrate, try to follow his example and not end the world.

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as “the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war” for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident. The incident was unknown to the public until it was revealed shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the satellite-based early-warning system of the Soviet Union reported the launch of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles from the United States. At the time, tensions with the U.S. were on edge, and high officials of the Soviet Union, including General Secretary Yuri Andropov, were thought to be highly suspicious of a U.S. attack.

Petrov checked ground-based radars which had not detected a launch, noted that the warning system had detected only 1-5 missiles instead of the hundreds that would have been expected in the event of a first strike, and chose to mark the system alert as a false alarm. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear attack, which would have probably resulted in immediate escalation of the Cold War stalemate to a full-scale nuclear war and the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Investigation of the satellite warning system later confirmed that the system had indeed malfunctioned.

While it is highly probable that if Petrov had reported this incident to his superiors they would have come to the same conclusion, it was a point in time when many people feared that the Cold War might become hot. Andropov, the new Soviet leader, was considered weak by the US president Ronald Reagan, and the Western countries were deploying new missile installation in Europe to counter existing missiles in the Eastern Bloc. This fear of nuclear war meant that at this time the peace movement in most western countries reached one of its highest levels.

(source)

Happy stanislav petrov day

40 years ago now! Let’s keep up this streak of the world not ending

40 years ago

now! Let’s keep up this streak of

the world not ending

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Wait, it got better.

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton