screaming

im a proud "ive never used chat gpt" user btw

i honestly dont think I've willingly used a chatbot since..... cleverbot in 2012. i genuinely dont know why so many people care about this ai bullshit. sorry im with the boomers on this one. i need human creation, emotion, and thought to be interested, pal

hearing these words coming from wwx like

wwx was so strong throughout every single thing he suffered, but deep down even he wanted someone to save him from it all 😭

this is my favorite reddit relationships post ❤️

“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race.

 A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn't understand his Spanish. Fernandez eventually caught up to him and instead of passing him, he pushed him to victory.

A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"

Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win.”

The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win.” The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”

Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of that medal? What would my Mom think of that?” Values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values are we teaching our children? Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways to WIN.”

Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is... drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren't joining this site anyway, you're not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.

Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can't keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You'd kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.

A love story two lifetimes in the making 💌

now would be the absolute funniest time for tumblr to unban porn

never let the haters get to you

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

Manslut

I gotta sell this one I think. Anybuggy wanna make an offer before I put braincycles toward figuring out a cost?

Hood of Toyota RAV4 for scale (with lounging dashboard skeleton for lols)

May I offer you some texture in these trying times?

Before I read the text I thought someone put panties on their car

#its tumblr that’s not the weirdest thing Ive seen today

Knitting center of my brain: Ooh, nice shawl

Entire rest of my brain: Marketing so misogynistic now they've cut out the whole entire woman and just put the bikini directly on the car

Everyone else shut up this is the only funny response on the entire post

Oh ZOD it’s happening

You got that right

Oh hey, spotted the UK reblogger

I also thought for a brief moment that it was a car in… briefs

I just finished another one and so help me Zod I am holding off until tomorrow on photographing so I can take pictures of it on the hood of the car

Here we goooooooo

But wait—

AND MORE

Anyway these are all for sale. Ask questions. Make me an offer!

<Announcer Voice> This

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

SATURDAY

come on down to the Blissgrounds! We have

SHAWLS

SHAWLS

SHAWLS!

So many colors!

So many sizes!

So much texture!

<slaps the roof of the Rav 4>

You can fit so much cozy on this bad boy!

So come down to the Blissgrounds this weekend!

takenaka in the telepathy club discord server

wish i had a bit going where whenever i said "the prophecy" like three of my friends would repeat "the prophecy" in different tones while squinting into the distance and rubbing their chins like sages deep in thought. i would also do this for them, im a team player

okay, so, be me, 27 years old at the time, an adult by any definition in the world

be me at the los angeles zoo, one of my very favorite places in the world, because i love animals. i am immedietly 8 years old when presented with a little creature. i can’t help it. 

okay, wait, go back. we must establish two things for this to hit right

first: 

the year before, i’d gone to the san diego zoo with my aunt and grandma and! they let you feed giraffes there!! 

how wonderful a world and how wonderful a life, where for $10 I can hand feed a giant creature three crispy biscuits. i go “i am feeding the giraffes right now” and go in line to buy the biscuits and return moments later triumphant, 3 biscuits in my grasp

“oh good!” my grandmother says, “one for each of us!” 

“yes,” i say, despondent, “one for each of us.” 

i wanted to feed all three to the giraffes myself but since i am an actual adult and not a child i do not say this and share the biscuits 

second: 

my friend group echoes. a lot

someone tells a story and ends it with “and that’s what happened!” and the rest of us will repeat “and that’s what happened!” 

often in unison. and it’s constant, all the time, even to little stuff. often said in the tone of “they don’t even have dental” 

ok, so we’re back at the los angeles zoo. they have opened the giraffe feeding 

i am not going to be thwarted again 

my two friends (K and M) get in line to feed them and i go to buy the biscuits. i return with nine biscuits because i am going to give the giraffes three biscuits myself and i do not want to hear a word of protest. i am being fair. i am being equitable. i am sharing. no one can judge me 

“wow!” says K. “that’s a lot of biscuits!” 

“the cult provides,” i say generously, handing over their share, because what is a friend group if not a small cult 

and then, automatically, in unison, like they have so many times before and thinking nothing of what exactly they’re saying, M and K reply, “the cult provides” 

two different people in line turn to stare at us while we all blink at each other and then M nervously shouts, “we are definitely not in a cult!” which sounds like something someone who is in a cult might say 

and ever since it’s been a running bit where one person says “the cult ____” and everyone echoes it as seriously as possible, no matter where we are or who we’re around

which is to say, OP, that you could be living the dream if your friends weren’t cowards 

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you’re using one source from 1859.

having gone to the linked source I’m actually very unsure even if you got behind the paywalled source it says what it’s claimed, as among the preview pages are:

“In all our operations with the bees we must use gentleness. All quick sudden jars and motions irritate them. So does breathing on them. Bees are always more gentle and less inclined to sting when they are gathering honey; and at such times hives can be opened with very little danger; whereas when a dearth of honey prevails the inmates of the same hive might show a great spirit of resentment. I have observed that colour exerts some influence on the temper of this insect. I have found that dark shades of clothing, particularly red, are more distasteful to them than white. Hence when working among them I always go in shirt sleeves pr in light coloured clothes.”

The broader page is about how being stung is unpleasant but not the end of the world, and you can easily minimize it…. By being thoughtful and careful and calm. I can’t find reference to clipping wings or culling; there is a mention of removing drone comb but only carefully, and it’s useful to remember that the hive itself literally drives the drones out to die once they’ve served their purpose. There’s no mention I could find of artificial insemination of queens, and I’m VERY sure that in 1859 they did not have reliable access to BEE PHEROMONES xD xD

There is mention of using smoke but dire warnings of oversmoking; and since the first record of Africanized honey bees is from THE NINETEEN FIFTIES, not the eighteen fifties, that poster is DEFINITELY lying about that citation, as unless the Victorian writer of that book was a fucking Time Lord, they can’t have known that cross breeding was a concern.

This is why it’s not enough to merely assume that because someone has REFERENCED a source, this means they have evidence. It is necessary to check that the source says what they claim. In this case that is in many cases literally impossible, and in all other cases unproven.

the other thing is that, like, the hive very much makes decisions in its own collective self-interest with little care for the dignity of individual bees, including the queen. Any framework which treats the individual bees as the primary units of ethical treatment is missing the entire concept of what a beehive is as a eusocial organism. Bees do not meaningfully exist outside of a hive any more than human cells exist outside a human. You need to be looking at what’s good for the hive, not what’s good for individual bees. You know the Borg? The aliens in Star Trek who completely disregard the needs of the individuals and act as a single mind? Yeah, they were very much inspired by bees.

But back on topic. doing things like re-queening a hive if the queen is unproductive or has bad genetics is, spoiler alert, something the hive will do to itself if necessary. like I cannot emphasize this enough, worker bees will kill an unproductive queen and crown a successor themselves. workers decide collectively when a new queen is pupated, not the prior queen. the queen’s job is simply to lay an egg in the appropriate cells as directed by workers. that is her ONLY purpose. she is the reproductive tract of the hive. if she is not doing her job, SHE WILL BE REPLACED - BY THE HIVE.

conversely, if the existing queen is perfectly fine at her job and she detects another queen in the hive, she will seek it out and kill it - often before it has even emerged. all queens have the innate drive to fight each other to the death, because there can only be one per hive. a new queen represents a threat to both her life individually and her hive collectively, because the presence of two queens is likely to cause a split, pulling half the bees away from the colony as they swarm to follow the new queen as she leaves, and in a small hive this could mean death if the remainder do not have the numbers to stay warm in winter. so the queen will attempt to kill new virgin queens for exactly the same reason beekeepers will cut out queen cups - to protect the hive and keep its population large and strong. not only that, if you’re still really insisting on being “humane” to individual bees over considering the health of the collective and the natural ecology of eusocial organisms, you should know that queen cups can be removed by the beekeeper before there is even a larva in them - the workers build the cups and then the queen lays an egg into them, in that order. A freshly-built cup can be pinched out before an egg is even laid in it if the beekeeper is checking the hive frequently enough. This is in contrast to the queen killing her daughter queens while they are pupas or freshly-emerged adults.

And yeah there are certain beekeeping practices that can be bad for the hive! “Bees-for-hire” schemes where bees are trucked around as mobile pollinators is one example; hives are stationary in nature and moving them can easily spread diseases that they are not equipped to deal with. I’ll be the first to say that’s an unsustainable practice - but if you want to avoid consuming products that result from that, you’ll need to give up almonds and a whole host of other fruits and tree nuts that are ostensibly vegan, because the pollination of orchards is the primary application of doing that - if you just want to produce honey, it’s cheaper to just leave the bees stationary since they tend to live longer and stay healthier like that, and healthy bees means more honey.

Yes, and, quick, minor note, when bees swarm, it’s the older queen that leaves, after laying eggs into queen cells, and whichever of those eggs hatch first kills the other unhatched queens, before becoming the new queen of the remaining old hive.

I only point this out bc I thought the young queens left to go get fertilized, returned maybe, and then left forever to start a new hive, and was surprised to find that the old queen leaves instead, and while the young queen does leave to get fertilized, she returns to her birth hive to continue growing the hive.

I fucking love bees.

All this but also can we acknowledge the active maliciousness in purposefully creating an untrue and completely made up narrative and then attempting to make it look legitimate by adding links to the same url 13 times and then the fucking thing wasn’t even relevant to any of the citations. This is why people don’t fucking trust vegans fr, out here acting like a one man astroturf campaign citing fake sources like you’re Fox News.

Art by u/reachling

one time I saw the take on here that anti-hippie attitudes and violence in the 60’s were motivated by opposition to cultural appropriation. yeah dude that’s absolutely it. that is for sure what conservatives in 1969 cared about.