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Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.

It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.

Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):

For the love of God sound ON

Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.

They're right, though. Now is exactly the wrong time to make dramatic investment moves. Everybody's shit is doing the same thing; unless you need your retirement money in the next twelve months or whatever, you're better off leaving it alone and waiting for the eventual correction. Like, this is not a comforting lie, this is good advice!

one thing about my mutuals is they will be on spectrums. autistic? asexual? aromantic? gender? sexuality? you name it they're on it

being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."

"cunoesse has a deep connection to water"

remembering that Cuno found her huddled in the hallway closet dripping wet. . .

is that how she killed the other kid, you think? i subscribe to the theory that cunoesse is tied to the snuff radio ring and that she was forced to kill a kid and was likely trafficked to Revachol for that purpose but then escaped

do you think she was maybe about to be drowned too?

and the fact that she was trafficked by boat (at least most likely was) she would associate water with being taken from her home and forced into an unsafe and dangerous place

this is an incredible map

One aspect of the perennial “I wish I was a farmer 300 years ago instead of having to answer emails” “no you don’t, that shit sucks” discourse that doesn’t get talked about quite so often is that half the fantasy isn’t about not having problems and stressors, it’s the fantasy of knowing how to deal with those problems and stressors.

Life comes at us fast now—and it came at us just as fast then, to be perfectly candid. But, for the most part crises in the past seem to us to be understandable, to be precedented. I’m sick. That plant isn’t growing enough. Taxes are too high. The sea peoples are raiding us. All bad, all far far worse than emails. But they were established, or rather, in hindsight they look established.

Surely, we imagine, a farmer in 1700 would look at [whatever problem is happening to them] and remember grandpapa talking about when [exactly this problem] happened to him and what he did about it, and from that, surely our 1700s farmer would know how to fix it! Which is much better than me, staring at my emails about [some unprecedented crazy modern bullshit] and not knowing how to respond!

This is of course just as much a fiction “everything was easy for subsistence farmers” thing, but unlike that one, basic historical fact isn’t enough to dispel it, partly because I’m sure that in the past as now there were plenty of people who did know what they were doing, (or at least were confident in whatever ridiculous answer they came up with) and partly because it’s much harder to know “how stressed each individual was about the crop failure” vs. “they starved or didn’t starve”

Basically, we’d do better if we engaged with this side of those fantasies as well, acknowledging the very legitimate place it comes from, instead of just debunking the easily disproven blatantly counterfactual side and acting like anyone who engages with such an attractive fantasy is de facto ignorant of historical realities.

Idgaf if you don't want to write essays for school. I don't care if you don't want to write corporate emails yourself. I don't care if you can't draw well, I don't care if you can't write well, I don't care if you just really really want to talk to your favorite fictional character but don't want to RP with a real person because you have social anxiety or whatever

If you're still regularly using generative ai, chatgpt or midjourney or character.ai or literally whatever the fuck, im personally blaming you when my utility prices start going up.

Why would utility prices go up because of ai?

(I am not defending the usage of generative AI/ChatGPT/Character.ai etc etc i am very much against it - I am just curious as to the correlation between using it and utility price surge please don't come at me this is a genuine question)

Happy to help.

ChatGPT uses so much energy that the US is literally reversing course on coal and gas usage to make up for it. In Santa Clara, for example, data centers used 60% of the ENTIRE CITY'S electricity.

ChatGPT uses 1-3 bottles of water for cooling for every query you put into it. This is FRESH WATER, which is evaporated and eventually mostly returns to the ocean, effectively removing a lot of it from our already dwindling fresh water supply on the planet. It also consumes 17 THOUSAND TIMES more electricity than the average American home.

The AI boom wastes so much electricity that we are very immediately risking US cities having to have rolling blackouts just to keep up with the energy demands, as early as NEXT YEAR

Gen AI's water usage is projected to hit 6.6 BILLION meters cubed by 2027

More AI use = more data centers = power drain on local cities = gas, electricity, and water utility prices rise because all of our resources are being funneled into a machine that makes garbage

sex isn't sexy unless it's a little bit gross. have you forgotten that you are a divine ape? plastic smooth skin, plucked hair, painted faces, scripted reactions, scrubbed til only the smell of perfumed soap remains, proportions that are conflictingly cookiecutter yet unattainable, none of this is even a little bit interesting.

you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.

What are your thoughts on musk?

i hope he dies