3 kobolds in a trench coat

Btw, privatization is stealing from *you.* You are the public in "publicly owned." Oligarchs are coming in to take the things we all share ownership of as Americans, like Medicare, Social Security, National Parks, PBS and scrapping them for parts they find profitable.

The right is planning to rob us and quite literally want us to thank them for the privilege by calling it "government efficiency."

Happy Neil Banging Out the Tunes Day!!!

in celebration of april 13, i present all four known photos of neil, who banged out the tunes 19 years ago today

source: theagilerat.com (click right to see all four photos!)

Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”

I think it's incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.

every ad is a personal insult to everyone who sees it and i’m not kidding

I'm paying my internet bill for you to use MY bandwidth to put your horrid images and videos on MY screen, draining MY device's power, wasting MY time? 10000 giant murder hornets forever.

Gf and I have coined “sky is orange” arguments for when you see a take that requires the poster to fundamentally disagree or misunderstand a level of reality required to disprove that argument

There’s a post going around saying that the Ghibli AI isn’t a big deal because people misattribute the work of animators to the work of directors and therefore arguing that Miyazaki does not deserve the credit he gets for his films. I’m not engaging with it but I just have to vent here that the crux of auteur theory is that the director of the film, as the creative driving force, makes all the decisions in regards to what the film contains and excludes. Many many people work on films and they all contribute deeply important aspects to the films they work on, but ultimately the work that ends up in the final project is there because the director wanted it there. Everyone who works on a movie is credited; that’s why the words that scroll at the end of the movie are called the credits. To say that their contributions are not appreciated is a fair argument to try and make, but to say that they are ignored in favor of a figurehead is just wrong. Their contributions are guided by the director and their choices, and that is why the director is often considered to be the “artist” responsible for the work of art the film is.

Not only is AI incapable of making those decisions and judgments, but it also cannot understand the meanings behind the images it “creates.” The false equivalency of “AI that imitates this studio’s work is okay because it’s not just one guy making it” is patently detached from reality.

Not even close to the argument I’m making, which I agree is the facile “AI bad because Miyazaki said so.” While I understand the post’s sarcastic message, I still disagree with the baseline assumptions of that argument. The “added” context here is semantics, whether it is Miyazaki or Ghibli who is getting “ripped off,” it doesn’t matter because AI is incapable of creativity and collaboration. I have not brought up Miyazaki’s personal feelings on AI, though I’m very familiar with the clip in question (an excerpt from the 2013 documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness). My argument is simply fundamentally anti-AI “art,” by explaining the role of the director in the animation pipeline and how it is something that ai is incapable of, while simultaneously attempting to demystify auteur theory as it is understood in academia as opposed to the meaning tumblr users have ascribed to it. You are officially engaged in a sky is orange argument.

ohhh I’m so sleepy you’ll have to rip me apart with your bare hands

on it boss!
*breaks alllllll of my fingers trying to pull you apart*
bad news boss.

my weakest homonculus you have failed nme yet again

*wrinkles nose* shouldnt you be repressing that

we all love timeloops, but what piece of media introduced you to the concept? i feel like it says a lot about how and why someone enjoys them. reblog and tag with your first loop!

HOW TO WIN BROWNIE POINTS WITH ME: YOU SEE A MUSHROOM. YOU SHOW IT TO ME. MUSHROOM ANYTHING.

i bring to you

the tiny boys

holy SHIT THOSE ARE THE TINIEST BOYS I’VE EVER SEEN

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[ID: A hand delicately holding between finger and thumb a little splinter of wood with three tiny white mushrooms on it. No, smaller than that. Even smaller. The whole thing is no larger than the person’s thumbnail; each mushroom has a graceful stalk approximately the thickness and length of an eyelash with the teeniest tiniest half-moon cap on top. One of them has grown out horizontally and makes a jaunty ninety degree curve upward.]

aquarium advertisments say stuiff like discover the longtooth grouper this friday

I see that, and raise you my local aquarium's advertising.

Vancouver Aquarium has similar ads!

They also have some SERIOUSLY inventive ones:

(High and Low Tide ^)

the only type of advertising that should exist: "ooooohhhh you want to come look at the animal"

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

This is why accessibilityis so important.

To everyone saying they recognize the program this was made in and thinks this was an architectural software — NO IT WASN’T. This is a player wearing an orca avatar in an MMO at a public humiliation/exposure fetish place and as soon as the orca entered that place he found it was a bunch of real life photographs of old guys bending over and exposing their assholes. After staring at a certain German guy’s picture for too long the guy in the picture noticed this (he was zoomed in) and messaged the orca some shit like “does Sir like what he sees?” “the slave thanks you for looking.” the orca didn’t have the social skills to handle this, tried to be polite, panicked, tried to turn around but since the avatar is so big it was like the Austin Powers truck driving scene and every way he turned he saw more babyboomer asshole. how do i know this? that orca, was me

https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protected-landscape-area-while-local-officials-still-8841536

A beaver colony in the Brdy region has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed. It saved the local authorities 30 million crowns, and has the public cracking jokes about public administration and red tape.

The administration of the Brdy protected landscape area, which had gained approval for the 30 million crown project, was dealing with red tape and seeking the respective building permits from the Vltava River Basin authorities when the dam project was completed almost overnight by a local colony of beavers.

They could not have chosen their location better –erecting the dams on a bypass gully that was built by soldiers in the former military base years ago, so as to drain the area. The revitalization project drafted by environmentalists was supposed to remedy this. Bohumil Fišer, head of the Brdy Protected Landscape Area Administration says Nature took its course and the beavers created the necessary biotope conditions practically overnight.