why-animals-do-the-thing:

Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.

ALT

duran-duran-less-official:

shwarmadillo:

oh how the turns have tables

The absolute fear in his voice climbing over the course of the clip, peaking when he says “THIS IS SO MANY DIFFERENT DAYS!!!!!”

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

troglobite:

transhuman-priestess:

Functionally, there’s very little difference between watching a movie on poob and watching a movie on basic cable. Yet, for some reason, the advertisements on poob offend me far more

ad breaks on poob always interrupt important scenes or make really jarring cuts.

when it’s on cable, they’ve timed the commercial breaks in a way that generally isn’t as disruptive. someone took the time to “reformat” the movie for tv.

ads on poob always KNOW that they’re on poob and want me to interact with them or click them. the number of QR codes or ads-in-separate-ad-framing/window are infuriating and jarring.

cable commercials are just stupid little skits i can mute to go use the bathroom.

ads on poob are less than 2 minutes–not enough time to do anything, but enough time to piss me off.

cable commercials are 2-5 minutes, which is enough time to go do something/bathroom or snack break, or talk to whoever you’re watching with.

ads on poob are the same 3-4 commercials over and over and over and over again, often cutting to them immediately with no warning, and poob struggles to like, catch up to the fact that it’s having to show a different progress bar, or a different timer.

cable commercials, esp during primetime, generally cycle through like 10-15 minimum, so you can go an ad break or two without seeing the same commercial. and they usually only pop up during quiet moments, at regular intervals, so you can see them coming–and there isn’t a weird lag/loading time.

in both cases i am being accosted by advertisements and treated like a consumer to manipulate and exploit. the volume changes on cable and poob, the brightness level is eye-searing in both cases.

but poob doesn’t respect that i’m here for the MOVIE. cable, thanks to preexisting, decades-old norms around broadcast television, still kind of does. kind of. it’s easier to ignore those commercials than the ones on poob.

basically i think poob follows ad norms established on the internet–pop-ups, invasive flashing bullshit, creating lag, taking up time and attention–and cable follows established cable norms of, “time for a few minutes of ads that are just stupid little skits instead of spam machines, and then back to your otherwise uninterrupted movie.”

Yeah honestly that all tracks.

#you are doing some goncharov shit to me

I mean i know what you’re saying, but there’s about a dozen free ad-supported streaming services and i respect none of them to use any of their names. Meanwhile, Poob has fully entered the tumblr lexicon as a shorthand for stupidly-named tech products, especially streaming services.

katsuorr:

Arthur: Merlin! You can’t stay with the cat!!

Merlin: But she’s so cute-

Arthur: YOU HAVE ALLERGY!!!

1st-knight-of-camelot:

Arthur greeting Leon before a battle (BBC Merlin 3×02)

penissuperfluous:

You all disappoint me. Not one (1) drawing of a personified tumblr mourning the lifeless corpse of 4chan? Not ome? They were our rivals you sick fucks. Nary a whiff of 1 (one) fix-it AU? Im going to hibernate now..youve pirssed me off

dogwoodbite:

bluebeesknees:

To reduce my screen time, I have weaponised my overactive and entirely impractical levels of empathy for inanimate objects. Wym you’re picking it up again? While it was sleeping? You complete and utter monster, let it rest!!

And it works. It works like a CHARM. Silly problems require silly solutions!

[ID: a phone tucked in very cozy in a perfectly fitting wooden doll-size canopy bed with floral motifs. it has a little dishtowel as a blanket /End ID]

spookacola:

roaldamundsen:

sacred-portal:

baking with my mama

Baking with my mama 🍞🥖🥐

fairycosmos:

Top Ten Reasons You Should Hire Me Despite My Disillusionment With Reality And My Subsequent Hatred For The System

kaciart:

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Patreon | Ko-Fi

hummerous:

boysbooksandbandsohmy:

bluescreenofthedead:

faceboored:

CLEAR SKIN IS SO ATTRACTIVE I’D CHOP A TOE OFF FOR CLEAR SKIN FOREVER

I swear to fucking god writing a post on this website is like talking to a fucking genie! Better be specific as shit or some smart as is gonna ruin your life

headspace-hotel:

dejaysus:

I thought you might like these moss-filled pawprints in concrete which I saw earlier. :-)

Left by the Creature of Gentle Moss

dogkin:

nicodranas:

Wizard: Oh, I like your Goblin detecting sword! That’s funny.

Goblin who thought they just had a cool glowing sword: … My what now?

These comments are breaking me

wanderingcas:

The Truth

tags: post-s12x02, mutual pining, case fic, truth spell, cas and dean use their feelings irresponsibly || rated: E || chapters posted weekly

“I think,” Cas grits out, “that the spell requires me to say the truth. I’ve been trying to suppress it with my grace, but it’s… not working.”

“Got it,” Dean says, nodding, because he can work with this. “Yeah. Sure. So give me some truths. Some stupid little ones.”

Cas narrows his eyes. “Such as?” 

“Like, I dunno, what’s your favorite color?”

Cas’s face somehow goes stonier. “Green,” he ekes out.

Dean clears his throat. Blinks a few times. “Oh.”

Or: when Dean and Cas investigate a group of high school students getting mysteriously ill, Cas gets hit with a truth spell. 

read chapter 1 on ao3

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headspace-hotel:

I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”

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