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Meanwhile, in Newfoundland...

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It is a Shads, your local bog and forest monster! It/they.

I got a very early lesson in how not-dangerous cities are b/c I was 19 when I moved from The Woods(tm) to The Big City(tm) for the first time and I was also suicidally depressed and I got it into my head that if I spent enough time wandering about in The Bad Part of Town(tm) eventually some manner of Dangerous Criminal(tm) would show up and attempt to do violence to me, which sounded like a decently rock-and-roll way to die when you're 19 years old and have a lot of untreated mental illnesseses.

So what happened was I spent a lot of free time getting drunk and aimlessly wandering around the city, where I had lots of interesting conversations with lots of perfectly nice people, which helped a lot with the suicidal depression it turned out.

I don’t have tiktok so I had to find this like a mole digging for worms and nothing could have prepared me for the actual video itself

Still makes me ghhhhbffddxxccd

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

Every time you have GenAI make you an anime waifu with three titties and a dumptruck ass a family doesn't get to have a drink or bathe.

Every time you ask Copilot to write you a PowerShell script to stroke your boss' ego, a city experiences a brownout.

Every time you chat with your AI "girlfriend" a farmer doesn't get to water their animals.

Using these tools actively hurts you and your community, while at the same time enriching some shitheel who would happily step on your neck to make an additional dollar. Don't use them. Actively remove them from devices you own. Disable them whenever possible. Go out of your way to avoid them. It's honestly not hard. You've been using the internet just fine without GenAI hallucinating at you.

excellent names on the enemy team tonight

[ID: original post: a screenshot from a video game (I think Team Fortress Two) showing a list of five players on the red team. Their screennames are Greed, Lust, Shrimp, Envy, and Sloth, in that order]

[ID: Images in the reblog: a series of eyecatches from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Each image shows a character from the show, labeled with their name. The characters are Greed, Lust, Edward Elric, Envy, and Sloth, in that order]

AFFIRMATIONS

  • There is no shame in taking a few tries to get it right
  • Everyone struggles with fine motor skills from time to time
  • I can do fine motor activities
  • I can locate a port and plug in a cable
  • I can plug my phone in on the first try
  • I can plug my phone in while sober
  • BBC Sherlock does not exist
  • I can do hard things

I'm going to *remembers suicide jokes are detrimental to my mental health* quit my job and start making shoes for American Girl Dolls

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