How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it? Chiitan forever

I know I will catch a few blocks for this but it's not like I care: Consuming AI is just as bad as making it. You're not less part of a big nasty problem just because you're thirsting for it with what's left of your singular braincell instead of creating the slop yourself.

Looking at the npc possessiveness discourse Looking at my wolsid folk like

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

there is a well documented phenomenon in linguistics in which overreliance on euphemisms simply attributes to the euphemism the full brunt of the original word, to the point of eventually replacing it in the lexicon entirely. we physically cannot bad-word our way out of talking about hard topics

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

wandering flame + #ffx + #yuna

it's so fucking funny that pro-AI guys insist AI is alive because they don't understand what humans are

"silent hill f is too Woke" umineko ch 1 is about family turning women & girls into objects & tools for inheritance and higurashi ch 1 is like watching your boy cousin who is a sweetie pie start trusting old men and calling them based as he slowly deteriorates into a violent & paranoid misogyny

This is a brilliant take & I will add She shouldve done what Beyonce did and WAIT TIL SHE WAS MARRIED to switch to overt sexual themes in her music. That’s what Bey had to do to make sexual music palatable (plus Bey is Black). It’s partly why the primary critique of this album is how cringe it is

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

I love your fit. Don't fucking talk to me

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

But really do not let this moment pass you up, call your reps and beat them over the head with evidence that ID verification will lead to uncontrollable sensitive information leaks and identity theft

they're posing like all three of them were pregnant with that baby

its so endearing to me that birch trees have eyes

Today's an important day for Fullmetal Alchemist and Mean Girls fans

if your standard sense of humor is the sort where you routinely heckle and roast your friends I need you to understand you can't just automatically do that to strangers on the internet and expect them to be chill about it. it really just comes off like you are being mean to someone for no reason.

Basically how I've been internalizing it lol

I don’t think ppl understand the whole “who cares if nobody likes it! make content for yourself” is extremely dismissive Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time

The real reason he split his face in half is so they could smooch him both at once😌 #art #scribbles #MelJayVik

In better news, I've been thinking a lot about how great sharks are lately so I'm on the wikipedia page for sharks. Thread of top-tier shark names: -Starry smooth-hound (M. asterias) -Flaccid catshark (A. exsanguis) -Lollipop catshark (C. cephalus) -Puffadder shyshark (H. edwardsii)

I'm always super chill with people using she/her toward me on occasion, but when friends correct others on my pronouns being they/them I just👌👌👌

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

i know antibiotics make you feel worse before you feel better but holy moly does it make my brain think i'm mcdying

ff14 was truly a godsend for millennials who grew up in a climate where making mary sue ocs was the greatest sin and can now make the sexy perfect goddesses that they wanted to make when they were teenagers

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

Something from the backyard.

It's funny because the wafer to ice cream proportion doesn't look like it could possibly be right but when you take a bite you realize they know what the fuck they're doing and you're an idiot

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Arcane skin tone + lighting study by @jwhisktea on twt, with alt text 💚 Ekko (1/4) #arcane

"end of you" by poppy, amy lee, and courtney laplante (2025)

Friday at last…

I hate coding forums bc I wake up in a cold sweat at 1am from a dream in code

I think to this day one of the most slept on characterizing moments in XIV, one which maybe not even the writers realised they'd pulled off, was Meteion: "those with the will to live cannot persist here" Thancred: *stands up*

“Well, you don’t look/act disabled” I hope your pillow is always warm.

Yeah, tell him Mel #MelMedarda #JayceTalis #Meljay #Arcane #ArcaneSeason2

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.