Maybe I can help. Vaccines are a product of natural sciences that study unchanging physical properties and while imperfect, are the best chance we have at understanding the world around us. Economics, however, is simply astrology for pedophiles

New sticker sheet!! Hot… drinks…get it…

Shiver in the Mists

#awkwardzombie #989: Home on the Range (Pokemon Pokopia) www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/home-o...

You’re supposed to get sloppy with your pencils. That’s what they’re for!

"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it."

"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it."

That's how I met my wife~

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

matthew always brings the receipts

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

Shareholders are suing big tech execs for taking on the massive legal risk of training AI on copyrighted work without permission, and I’m so here for it news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/big-t...

These images are spiritually related #jimothy

oh to be a unicorn who knows nothing of literary analysis

When you (an editor or a critique partner or a classmate) comment on someone's writing, you can absolutely deal them a disabling injury if you're thoughtless about it. I'm not saying anyone should be dishonest or refrain from pointing out issues. I'm saying

This isn't to say there isn't a time and place for critique and instruction (especially when asked for/in the proper settings). But holy crud. Having an opinion doesn't qualify you to make critiques. There is power in saying simply, "This isn't for me."

A bit down the thread, the idea arises that an "honest" critique has to be harsh. I hate this idea so much and notice it everywhere -- society has warped itself into believing positivity and "enjoying" things is less intelligent than dislike, critique, and antagonism. The devil has enough advocates.

Omega Kirk and (Alpha) Spock 😊 #spirk #omegaverse

Today is my 8-year wedding anniversary so if I get around to streaming today, it will be a short one.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

going from the book I just finished (which was rife with the erotic bait-and-switch mentioned in my essay below) to Night's Master, where Tanith Lee in the intro is like "yeah I was reading a lot of Wilde so this is full-on bisexual eroticism" was a stark about-face www.riengray.com/blog/the-per...

Summer Session: Week 4 Help Prof. Lutra make it to fall quarter! Now that I am full of delicious food, let's play some Deadlock with @sofichor.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/lutraluna

one of the biggest takeaways from my fiction writing class was this exact point. when i told my professor that i liked story-driven games and mourned the fact that my brain had an easier time playing rather than reading (i was working 45+ hours a week AND going to uni full-time), his said "good;

Summer Session: Week 4 Help Prof. Lutra make it to fall quarter! There was some crazy thunder earlier, but now that it's past let's play more Deadfire! www.twitch.tv/lutraluna

puts a ton of effort on lineart for these new fugis with my new WIP design ends up just liking the original rough sketches anyways. OH WELL. The edginess to the old lines and the energy in the face is better

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

Slime beach episode 🏖️

imagining a universe where vampires fucking hate necromancers because they can command their bodies unwillingly as undead, so towns all have a necromancer in the court just to keep the vamps and ghosts in check

when you stop presuming the social relations of the sexed body do not rationally fall along the myth of "bodily sex" but rather sexing the body is an act of control and violence itself, the whole world opens up. this is why misgendering/degendering can be a misogynistic & transphobic threat action

when sketchbook art bros draw women

Watching Inuyasha for the first time and omg this is peak 90 anime dubbing i love it. The ye olde english, the stupid 90s American pop culture references, Inuyasha’s edgy sonic voice. Its delightful

Summer Session: Week 4 Help Prof. Lutra make it to fall quarter! I'm playing more Deadlock today with @sofichor.bsky.social! I'm gonna try learning to play Ivy and expand my roster. Come hang out with us! www.twitch.tv/lutraluna

Every elderly Republican senator's wiki bio is like: Famed for bipartisanship, he co-sponsored the Expand Education (1977) and Anti-Radio Monopoly (1986) acts. His later career was more controversal, with the Legalize Puppy Murder (2021) and Sex Island Tax Relief (2023) acts drawing some criticism

#emmrichvolkarin #datv #makiart give him some comfy clothes

you know how in Sailor Moon it's like. if any new trendy product or shop or something pops up you're like DUDE DON'T GO IT'S A TRAP YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR ENERGY STOLEN this is how fun little social media trends feel in the age of AI 🫠

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

it's kind of a meme that posting anything you made makes you instantly see the mistakes in it but the reason that happens is because your POV instantly changes from one who making decisions to someone who is seeing it as a passive viewer like anyone else, from a dynamic canvas to a static image.

Commission 🖤 #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #vaxildan

The difference between ‘drawing things for money’ and ‘drawing things so a large corporation doesnt financially ruin your life forever” is so fucking large

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

in art circles in jp / chn, artists get referred to as “sensei” / “laoshi”, but we don’t have that in english and we should. but i also don’t really like the way “teacher” sounds in english, so i think we should start addressing all artists as “boss”, like we’re all goons (the normal definiton)

there isn't a contradiction between being an extremely closeted gay man and being a conservative you can own them on. Conservatives genuinely think that is a virtuous way to live

A couple glimpses of what we’re working with 😏 #WIP #Halsin #Astarion #BG3

It took me a solid five minutes to realize that Lindsay Graham was dead because I kept mentally reading Mitch McConnell and then an additional minute to realize they’re both probably dead now hell yeah Saturday night baby

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

hard x soft