A Game of Cat and Computer Mouse

calling chatgpt “AI” feels exactly the same to me as calling those motorized skateboards “hoverboards”

Model of a decomposing Tyrannosaurus rex at the Altmühltal Museum by Aart Walen. Bavarian Forest, Germany

What a wonderful, evocative, REAL sculpture. It really brings home how these were living thing, flesh and blood, not immortal. Fellow earthlings.

You can’t fool me that’s just an actual photo of a rotting tyrannosaur carcass.

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

wake up babe, new anti-shipper discourse just dropped

Favorite Waterfall of Washington [3559 x 5338] [OC]

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the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye

I didn’t come this far just to come this far and leave it here. The work is what makes it holy. I have succeeded a million times over and will continue to do so.

happy pride!!

[ID: a light brown rabbit under a blanket with black text in the corners reading “it has gotten better before / and it will again”. /end ID.]

do you ever just

happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services

can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up

anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions

ok but how funny would it be for an adaptation of The Murderbot Diaries to be told from the humans' perspectives? Every single one of the books would translate directly into a superficially generic sci-fi horror/thriller as the humans face off against whatever threat (giant alien fauna, killer robots, evil corporations, alien remnant contamination, etc) until the world's snarkiest, most anxiety-riddled deus ex machina comes wall-jumping in to save the day in sweat pants and steel toed boots. Brilliant.

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

i think it’s very very interesting that adhd and autism comparisons and solidarity are very prominent in the neurodiverse community, but autism and schizophrenia, another disorder that has a lot of ties and similarity to autism almost NEVER gets brought up in relation to it. i wonder why that is.

i think it’s also very interesting how much antipsychotic ableism there is inside the neurodiverse community, despite the fact that a lot of neurodivergencies share quite a few traits with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

people with autism will go “oh i hate when people “go why can’t you act normal” it’s so ableist” and then hold psychotic people up to often a higher standard, despite the fact that a lot of psychosis inducing disorders affect the way you think, similar to how autism does- particularly schizophrenia. it’s hmmm. hm!

this post got a little bit more attention that i thought it would, so i’ll try to explain:

autism and schizophrenia are both neurodevelopmental disorders that were are so close they used to be considered the exact same disorder, with autism being thought of as the earlier stage of schizophrenia. schizophrenia and autism are often co-morbid, with psychotic disorders having a much higher chance of having autism- and autistic people having a higher chance of having schizophrenia though that’s not alway the case. autism and schizophrenia are both on a spectrum, that autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum (or schizospec), respectively.

they share common differences in cognition, mostly relating to nonverbal reasoning, how we think and reason and come to come to conclusions- memory, often less the storing of memories but encoding and learning and organization and retrieval of memories- and language, articulating things in a coherent way. or talking. having conversations or talking in ways that make sense.

and though the reasons and the direct way our brains do this differently varies from autism to schizophrenia, enough that they are not the same thing as once thought, but instead share a lot of similarities.

we both have a hard time reading facial emotions, and responding of those facial features- i.e. taking it as a cue, (though schizophrenics more often jump to conclusions surrounding facial expressions if they’re hard to decipher) we both struggle with eye tracking, following peoples vision and line of sight, as well as visual processing. there’s also evidence to suggest that schizophrenics also avoid eye contact, though it’s not as a pronounced thing as with autistic people.

both autism and schizophrenia are genetic, meaning they’re passed down through family. autistic people often have trouble controlling their facial features or voices expressing emotions in a “normal way”. and schizophrenics experience something called flat affect, meaning our faces look “flat” or numb- think stereotype, the “psycho stare” same with flat voices, that’s also flat affect. we don’t express a lot of emotion verbally or nonverbally. this doesn’t mean schizophrenic people don’t experience emotions. it means we have a limited affect of showing those emotions.

socially, autistic people and schizophrenic people both struggle, though it’s shown that schizophrenic people often don’t express an “appropriate” emotional response for a situation, and autistic people don’t ask a lot of questions of their conversation partner or “reciprocate” socially.

there are SO MANY more similarities and i’ll add them as i think of them, but this is all i could think of off the top of my head and come up with from a cursory search on google. 👍 feel free to add on.

when you start reading again and it's like oh. oh . the sun actually does still shine.

i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing