…is a colorful species of Chromodorid nudibranch which is endemic to the waters around New South Wales, Australia. Like many species of nudibranch Chromodoris splendida is carnivorous and will feed on a variety of sessile invertebrates like sponges.
I had a dream last night that tumblr came up with a pride flag for closeted gays and it was just a light blue flag with a shrimp on it. People would also wear shrimp pins on their lapels for some Reason???
and the vegan gays started Discourse because shrimp deserved more respect
Wth that’s brilliant
like this?
closeted queers, you now have a discreet pride flag. wreak havoc.
Just saw someone with “use whatever pronouns you use for yourself for me” in bio. I honestly never considered the depth the pronoun metagame could have, we’ve barely scratched the surface with this shit
They forget to mention that the industrialist also eventually caught all the fish severely depleting and eventually destroying the balanced ecosystem.
and that the industrialist had to create a market for the fish by advertising.
ID: An excerpt from “Timeless Simplicity” by John Lane that reads, The industrialist was horrified to find the fisherman lying beside his boat, smoking a pipe. “Why aren’t you fishing?” asked the industrialist. “Because I’ve caught enough fish for the day.” “Why don’t you catch some more?” “What would I do with them?” “Earn more money. Then you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish. That would bring you money to buy nylon nets, so more fish, more money. Soon you would have enough to buy two boats, even a fleet of boats, then you could be rich like me.” “What would I do then?” “Then you could sit back and enjoy life.” “What do you think I’m doing now?” / end ID
This reminds me of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s descriptions of Indigenous harvesting & fishing practices that looked like laziness to colonizers (extra paragraph breaks added by me for accessibility):
‘ Early colonists on Turtle Island were stunned by the plenitude they found here, attributing the richness to the bounty of nature.
Settlers in the Great Lakes wrote in their journals about the extraordinary abundance of wild rice harvested by Native peoples; in just a few days, they could fill their canoes with enough rice to last all year.
But the settlers were puzzled by the fact that, as one of them wrote, “the savages stopped gathering long before all the rice was harvested.” She observed that “the rice harvest starts with a ceremony of thanksgiving and prayers for good weather for the next four days. They will harvest dawn till dusk for the prescribed four days and then stop, often leaving much rice to stand unreaped. This rice, they say, is not for them but for the Thunders. Nothing will compel them to continue, therefore much goes to waste.”
The settlers took this as certain evidence of laziness and lack of industry on the part of the heathens. They did not understand how indigenous land-care practices might contribute to the wealth they encountered.
I once met an engineering student visiting from Europe who told me excitedly about going ricing in Minnesota with his friend’s Ojibwe family. He was eager to experience a bit of Native American culture. They were on the lake by dawn and all day long they poled through the rice beds, knocking the ripe seed into the canoe. “It didn’t take long to collect quite a bit,” he reported, “but it’s not very efficient. At least half of the rice just falls in the water and they didn’t seem to care. It’s wasted.”
As a gesture of thanks to his hosts, a traditional ricing family, he offered to design a grain capture system that could be attached to the gunwales of their canoes. He sketched it out for them, showing how his technique could get 85 percent more rice. His hosts listened respectfully, then said, “Yes, we could get more that way. But it’s got to seed itself for next year. And what we leave behind is not wasted. You know, we’re not the only ones who like rice.Do you think the ducks would stop here if we took it all?” Our teachings tell us to never take more than half. ’
so some news about AI. It seems Discord is apparently just. going to unconsentually add Clyde AI to servers in a slow roll out. The way they are doing this is rather than how we initially suspected he would show up as an option via the integrations tab on server settings, it appears that he is apparently being added into servers as a user who is part of the server that the admin would have to manually kick. He cannot be banned, but we can kick him repeatedly. The issue is it’s unclear if there will be a greeting message for when Clyde arrives into servers and he will attempt to infiltrate again and again. Small servers this is easy to spot, big servers this is an obvious issue of sifting through who is in your server.
if you see this man in your server kill him
Important to note this has only been seen so far in a friend server and I have only seen it in one server so far. Community servers might be different it is simply something we do not know yet.
Here is an article from Discord about this thag updated about an hour ago
Aside from that I was able to go into permissions and make it so nobody in my server could interact with Clyde. I still do not know what information Clyde and by extension OpenAI has from what it might have taken from my server to “make Clyde better” there was no warning and no message despite how discord had pitched this. It says in this article that it will notify users but Discord did not do that at all.
Fuck AI
Another update! You can only kick Clyde in mobile if you are a server mod and you have to go through server settings and then members and click on clyde and then block!
i have GOT to get over my obsessive worry about being a burden on others oh my god. it is okay to inconvenience people! people in your life who really care about you won’t mind being inconvenienced!! it’s literally just the human experience!!! communicate your needs for the love of god it’ll be FINE!!!!!
Write a story about a young apprentice who becomes entangled in a forbidden form of dark magic.
Explore the consequences of a character who uses dark magic to resurrect a loved one.
Create a world where dark magic is the only means of survival, and the protagonist must choose between embracing it or resisting its allure.
Write about a cursed artifact that grants immense dark magical power to anyone who possesses it.
Imagine a society where practitioners of dark magic are feared and hunted, and a protagonist must hide their abilities to survive.
Tell the story of a character who unintentionally unleashes a powerful and malevolent dark force upon the world.
Write a tale of a group of individuals who use dark magic for noble purposes, challenging the conventional notions of good and evil.
Explore the psychological toll on a character who delves too deep into dark magic and loses their sense of self.
Create a magical academy where students are taught both light and dark magic, and follow a student’s journey as they grapple with the temptation of the dark arts.
Describe a character who discovers an ancient book of dark magic and becomes consumed by its power.
Write about a protagonist who must make a pact with a dark entity to save their loved ones, at the cost of their own soul.
Imagine a world where dark magic is the dominant force, and a small group of rebels fight to restore balance using light magic.
Explore the origins of dark magic in a mythological world and the tragic events that led to its corruption.
Write a story about a character who is wrongly accused of practicing dark magic and must prove their innocence.
Imagine a character who uses dark magic to exact revenge on those who have wronged them, only to discover the consequences are far greater than anticipated.
Create a protagonist who possesses the ability to absorb and manipulate dark magic, struggling to control their powers and resist its corrupting influence.
Write about a character who discovers a hidden society of dark magic users and must decide whether to join them or fight against their destructive ways.
Explore the moral dilemma of a character who uses dark magic to save lives but must sacrifice their own humanity in the process.
Describe a cursed forest filled with dark magic where a group of adventurers must navigate its dangers to retrieve a powerful artifact.
Write a story about a character who seeks out forbidden knowledge of dark magic to gain immortality but finds that eternal life comes at a cost.
Imagine a world where dark magic is outlawed, and a character becomes an underground practitioner, fighting against oppressive forces.
Create a protagonist who is born with an uncontrollable dark magic that threatens to consume them unless they find a way to harness and control it.
Write about a character who becomes possessed by a malevolent spirit and must find a way to break free from its control.
Describe a character who uses dark magic to manipulate time and alter the course of history, leading to unforeseen consequences.
Imagine a protagonist who discovers a hidden society of benevolent dark magic practitioners, challenging the notion that all dark magic is inherently evil.
Write a story about a character who accidentally curses themselves with a dark spell and must find a way to reverse it before it’s too late.
Create a world where dark magic is a natural force that must be balanced with light magic to prevent catastrophic events.
Describe a character who must navigate a labyrinth filled with dark magic traps and illusions to reach a coveted artifact.
Write about a character who is born into a prestigious family of dark magic practitioners but rejects their heritage, choosing a different path.
Imagine a character who discovers a hidden library of ancient dark magic spells and becomes obsessed with mastering their power, regardless of the consequences.
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
The first 3 pages of my latest Plucked Up story line (which I just recently finished). Continued on patreon, links to everything here: https://pluckedup.com/ ❤
obsessed with how working with middle schoolers is how they’re all soooo cool and everything is sooooo lame but the second you introduce a stuffed animal as a new student who “doesn’t know anything about math and wants to learn but is too scared to do it alone” one of them says it’s a girl, calls her Baby T, this spreads as fact until everyone is using the same name, and even though Baby T lives in the math classroom they convinced me to take her with us to the park because she is a student
if you ever feel bad about yourself, just remember this one time in my english class, we were writing horror stories and one of the girls wrote “it was friday the 13th, the night before halloween” for her opening sentence
I want to explain something that’s happening on Latin American social media.
There’s a dish called “Rosca de Reyes”, it’s a cake with slices of fruit. Inside of it, they place a small baby shaped figure that represents baby Jesus. This year, in Mexico, people were selling the cake with figures of Baby Yoda instead of the baby Jesus. So, conservative groups are extremely upset about it, and are calling it a direct attack to family values and religion. So now, Baby Yoda is considered a LGBT icon for making furious those conservative, homophobic people.
i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it’s common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i’m starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that’s what it’s built for. but nowadays we don’t think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don’t keep address books anymore because it’s all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it’s all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you’re still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.
as a scandinavian girl, this just gets extra close y'know.
It’s my culture, I’ve celebrated this my whole life(in all scandinavian countries christmas is still called yule, and many of the old traditions are still used)
And like I assume it’s like this for most who celebrate christmas, but the food is very close to my heart. So don’t fuck with that.
Don’t fuck with my culture either trying to use it to push your damn agenda as so many right wing chuds are doing.
Norse culture is about fucking with gender and eating hella meat. Fuck you PETA and fuck you right wingers
unless you’re voluntarily a vegan and don’t force it on people, in which case they should still be an option for you.
But yea, the food is so important. Yule without meat wouldn’t be Yule.
I could even easily imagine vegans and vegetarians making an exception for this
But yea, the food is
so important. Yule without
meat wouldn’t be Yule.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I still need to see those vegans and vegetarians forcing it on others in like real life. I know, I know, there is everything on the internet, but the closest thing I have found to someone “forcing” it on me was them telling me they only have and prepare vegan food in their own home and won’t make exceptions for guests.
Not everyone presenting options is “pushing an agenda”, sometimes they just share a recipe.
PETA is definitely pushing an agenda and so has pretty much all the vegans who’ve come to this post about PETA where I specified I don’t hate vegans.
Also if vegans invite people over for a Christmas dinner and don’t plan on making traditional diskes as Well as their pen vegan dishes. Then yea it’s on Them, because that’s pretty dickish. As they’ll expect that they’ve been considered if they go to another Christmas dinner
Every Friday. Every Friday i either see this post or live in fear of seeing it. I can’t wake up and say ‘it’s friday’ anymore without thinking of this post. I am living a nightmare and it’s your fault
I came up with a really funny sentence but I'm too scared to say it. [Context: friend of mine said they're leaving vc cause they're horny], I stayed up cause I still wanted to talk to em, but they took too long and I slept. I wanted to send them a message along the lines of 'i wanted to talk to you but you were too busy cumming or smth'. I am proud of this so you have to read it. Sorry
I interned at a place w butterflies and had to tell a mom to please stop offering the “snacks” on the pedestals to her kids and we had to give a speech to all the ppl who entered which I added lines to daily. Including the infamous “butterflies like fruit that’s a little older than what we eat, so the fruit is just for them! Please don’t eat it!” And “please please please please please don’t come in here if you’re afraid of butterflies.” It was the closest thing to hell I’ve ever experienced
*going to a butterfly farm* there better not be any fuckin butterflies in here
