vampire miku!!!! ❤️🦇💟

controversial opinion but ive suffered enough and should get everything i want for forever from now on and also im pretty cute

can someone recommend some beginner normal behaviors for someone looking to become normal

my uncle killed my father and married with my mother and now i must *remembers that suicide jokes do nothing for my mental health and wellbeing* put on a play

LOVE IS THE WHOLE POINT. OF IT ALL

lets stay in and play minecraft

U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

So I haven’t really been seeing folks talk much here at all about what’s been going on with Hurricane Helene recovery- but I thought I might share something I thought was cool and important.

Because of how roads have been washed out making homes and towns inaccessible to vehicles, the Cajun Navy (organizations that performs search, rescue, and assistance during disasters) has partnered with Mountain Mule Packer Ranch to use the mules to get medications, food, and water to people in need.

I just think it’s incredible. Despite all the technology you’d think is accessible to help people out, mules are still the most reliable form of transport to save people’s lives

#this IS the technology humans developed for this problem!#carries more than a donkey! calmer than a horse!#surefooted enough to handle rough terrain#and smart enough to find a path for itself#doesn't need the landing space of a helicopter#“I need to move people and supplies where there is no road or even ground” is a problem we have tried to prevent (with roads)#but when it shows up the solution hasn't changed - via @cygnahime

thinking about anastasia trusova paintings again

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

my friend moved to Pennsylvania from SE Ohio so like barely even a move but for ten years she’s been saying “I swear it’s just somehow slightly greener here.”

Hey, non-disabled people (and/or disabled people who are still able to work).

If you've ever been like "I mean the system is broken, but is it really THAT bad?"

Or if you or a family member are like "These disabled people are just leeching off the system and something something Welfare Queens something something Cadillacs"

Or even if you just hear me shouting about esoteric bullshit like the In-Kind Support and Maintenance Rule and are like "Why do we even have that lever?"

John Oliver's most recent episode covers the harrowing world of disability benefits and I'd invite anyone who hasn't had to go through that process to watch it, because I think people should know what I mean

Anyway, harass your representatives in congress to pass the Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act and the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act.

It'd be life-changing for a LOT of people.

Eva Funderburgh

reminder that being against ai also means being against character.ai and not using character.ai and not interacting with character.ai

i've never talked to chatgpt i've never talked to character.ai i have no interest in talking to a chatbot even if it's fun or based on my comfort character. if we want companies to stop using ai we need to tell them we aren't going to interact with it - so don't.

don't talk to robots. full stop.

if you're seeing this it means you're on tumblr. there are like 600 gay people on here who will rp with you, you don't need c.ai for anything

There's something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.

On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.

But on the other I'm seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, "yeah, sure, the adults know what's safe."

I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn't want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.

Be safe, be smart, be a fucking ghost.

Regardless of what you think about generative AI in general, NaNoWriMo allowing AI-generated works is beyond stupid because that completely defeats the purpose of the challenge, which is for you, a human being, to write 50,000 words in a month. Yeah, that's hard. That's why it's a challenge. Where is the challenge when you can ask a chatbot to spit out 50,000 words of whatthefuckever for you? Even if you think that is a legitimate way to produce fiction, even if you don't care about the ethics of training on stolen works... where's the challenge? What's left of NaNo at that point?