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@mmangaboi

Come to the dark side. We have poptarts.
He/They || Nonbinary || Aro/Ace :)

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED

YOU KNOW THE HAIKU BOT???

OFC YOU DO

YOU KNOW THAT MESSAGE HE PUTS AT THE END OF EVERY POST????

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

YEAH???????

WELL THATS A HAIKU TOO

Beep boop! I look for

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.

NOW YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME THATS NOT THE CUTEST THNIG YOUVE EVER HEARD

“Beep boop! I look for

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.”

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

It’s full circle now. He did it, by god he did. What a little champ.

It’s full circle now.

He did it, by god he did.

What a little champ.

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

in honor of barbie movie, i dug my Midge ™ out of my parents’ shed so i could show you all just how she worked if you’ve never witnessed it in action

as you can see, Midge has a magnetic pregnancy belly that contours to her unpregnant body

now inside the pregnancy belly of course is the barbie baby. it comes right out, no vagina to exit through. and if you look closely you can see that her underwear is also painted across the bottom of the belly. there is no mistaking this for a woman with any genitalia. just underwear.

here is the baby within the belly. i don’t think either of these is the correct way a baby should sit in a uterus but do i look like a fucking doctor to you?

the clearly very happy mother and child. and discarded magnetic belly. with underwear band.

fin

unrelated but i also found my louis tomlinson doll

fuck it. pregnant louis tomlinson

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Look we all want a robo dog but if you kill someone with a sledgehammer to steal theirs, they are going to find you. There's no way a 75k$ dog doesn't have gps

we are killing the dog

NO.
ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.
Even robot ones.

its not a dog, its a machine used and designed for police surveillance and the entire reason they made it dog shaped is so idiots like you would go "awwww robot dog how precious" instead of seeing them as the oppressive tools they are.

we're killing the fucking dog

That's not a robot dog.

It's a four-legged robot spider.

It is not a dog, a spider, a chicken, a horse, a fish, a tick, a mosquito, a tapeworm or a baby

It is a weapon

There is nothing morally wrong about breaking weapons that are hurting people for any reason other than to prevent those people from hurting others worse

the dog robots are fully capable of hurting people, and badly. failsafes that would prevent that have not been installed. the police are deploying a thing out in public that can maim anyone who touches it wrong.

look, when i was a kid i was passionately in love with the idea of robots--that humans would one day create another sort of intelligence to share our world with-- and believed very firmly that we should respect and protect all our robot friends from the start, so there would be no violent humans-against-robots revolution or anything.

anyway it turns out that the people trying to keep end-stage capitalism running are really banking on us feeling more love for the robots than for the kind of people they're going to be using the robots to oppress.

so like. maybe lets all agree right now that if a robot is being used to hurt a person, you need to smash the fucking robot. they're going to make the robots really cute. they're going to show us so many movies about how much robots need to be loved. and then they are going to use robots to hurt people.

let's try not to fall for it, okay?

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And don't forget that scary af episode of Black Mirror, Metalhead. Robot dogs can fuck right off.

They created a weapon, told you to call it a friend and watched as your empathy became their trap and tool. 

Real life dogs are oftentimes weapons as well

People who exploit animals will often exploit humans too. They’re exploiting the cuteness of animals to manipulate you and the potential danger of dogs to control you.

So if we’re being intersectional about this, also be cautious about people who use animals as tools.

Boston Dynamics publicly condemned the project for using its robot “in any way that cpromotes violence, harm, or intimidation.” The day after Spot’s Rampage debuted, Boston Dynamics rolled out a partnership with the NYPD.
Boston Dynamics remotely disabled MSCHF’s legally-purchased Spot® robot via an undisclosed backdoor.

If it ain’t three laws safe, it ain’t friend shaped.

Bludgeon it.

Sooooo the company I work for works with law enforcement. As in, they're our main customers. (Which I'm actually all for, because the amount of accountability we're loading into the back end while "making their jobs easier" is ASTONISHING. My very leftist old hippy Dad is excited about me working here.)

Anyway, I have seen these robot dogs in person at a conference, and it took under a minute for my brain to go "Doggo! Friend shaped!" When I stepped back and thought about it, it was unnerving as HELL.

So yeah. Go buy that hammer. Bet you can find similar ones at thrift stores, too.

IT'S FINALLY HERE! The true full size of my "do you love the colour of the sky HD remake director's cut" tumblr post

This ended up being 2 3/4 inches wide by 36 FEET LONG. 

The 2 3/4 inch width was chosen because that's the same width as a pretty average phone screen, and I wanted to know how physically far you have to scroll to get past this post.

also dont tell my boss that I got into the art gallery before we opened just to set up this rainbow CVS receipt looking motherfucker. in my defense i literally couldn't find any other location that was long enough to show this off

Please consider subscribing to my Patreon to gain access to my original content a week before its posted on tumblr!

reblogging this because the og post is suddenly getting a bunch of notes and i want everyone to see just how long this motherfucker is in real life

that is impressively long omg

also you all should be so grateful I never reblogged that post because WOW

I was just reading an article from Psychology Today about apologies, and how too many people just use them to gain instant forgiveness without making any effort afterwards to change their behavior.

But then the author wrote that whenever his short-tempered teenage son apologizes after an outburst of rage, he always responds "I don't want you to be sorry. I want your behavior to change."

That made me feel slightly uncomfortable, because my dad sometimes responded to my apologies in much the same way when I was growing up. And it hurt. I know he meant well, and maybe he was in the right to respond that way, but it hurt.

Some kids – and adults – aren't just trying to use "I'm sorry" as an instant-forgiveness, get-away-with-everything card. Some of us, especially on the autism spectrum and/or with ADHD, have rejection sensitive dysphoria, and to have an apology rejected, especially by a parent, can truly feel like the end of the world.

But maybe that's the point. It's supposed to hurt. It's supposed to be devastating, because that's what inspires change.

Still, might there be some different way to approach it? Instead of "I don't want you to be sorry..." would it be so bad to say "I accept your apology, but I also want your behavior to change"? Isn't it possible to teach kids that just saying "I'm sorry" doesn't fix everything without rejecting their apologies?

I'm curious what other people think.

I think that's a harsh response, and it feels to me it is part of a wider trend where, using and abusing the demand for public apology, we have devalued apology into an act of submission or a power trip instead of as an attempt at reconciliation. And a reconciliation cannot happen in an exchange of two lines.

To me reconciliation must involve both things: the offender acknowledging they did something wrong that hurt someone they loved, or that caused an evil to an innocent part or themselves, and because of that, the express desire to do better in future. And I cannot think of a better way to teach your kids how to apologize and how to forgive properly, than modeling apologizing yourself. "I'm sorry I yelled at you. I am worried about many things, and I took it out on you. Will you forgive me? I will try to be more patient in future, can you help me with that?"

I think that the thing they're missing is that 'I'm sorry ' already implies that you're going to change your behavior. Responding like this to an apology is like responding to 'I love you' with 'I don't want you to love me, I want you to care for my happiness and well-being' -- you're not helping someone understand how to behave, you're telling them that you don't believe that they mean what they say. Additionally, you're telling them that apologizing isn't proper behavior after realizing they're in the wrong, when it actually IS.

If you want to impress the importance of changed behavior, I think a better response to 'I'm sorry' would be:

1. 'I forgive you' (who wouldn't forgive a kid for doing--presumably--semi-normal kid things?)

2. A hug, or some other form of comfort (this is an emotional conversation!! And you are talking to your child! They need reassurance that you love them and that they're safe and it's going to be okay!)

3. Have a conversation along the lines of 'what do you think would help to keep this from happening again?' You're modeling the behavior change instead of demanding it happen in a vacuum, and you can have a conversation about what might help and why.

4. Most importantly--when you have to apologize, when you, the parent, are in the wrong, *make sure your apologies lead to changed behavior*. Again, you gotta model the behavior you demand from your kids. You're supposed to be raising them to be competent adults, not trying to win a power contest against them.

I think this is probably a communication issue. The parents may believe they’re being kind: “I don’t want you to feel bad, just do better next time.” A sensitive kid seeing a parent upset doesn’t want to wait for that abstract “next time” to prove contrition, he wants the problem fixed by the parent’s forgiveness right now.

You never know if someone needs this. Reblog this, even if its not your ‘blog type’. Just do it.

Yes, please reblog

Do it. Now.

i sat here and thought about reblogging this or not but then i realized how many people feel suicidal, and i  have too its not dan and phil but i could honestly care less, bc i rather have someone not die then make sure i strictly stay to my ‘blog type’ 

Blog type doesn’t matter. Caring for people does.

This isn’t my blog type but *deep inhale* 

SAVING SUICIDAL LIVES IS BETTER THAN KEEPING IT TO MY BLOG THEME SO DEAR YA’LL WHO ARE SUICIDAL I’M HERE SIS/BRO/SIBLING!! STAY STRONG!!

Fine I promise.

This could save people!!

Read and reblog this, regardless of anything.