The “am I introverted or am I traumatized” thing is so real bc I hear so many people say how they grow up very outgoing as children and then Things happen to them (particularly turning 12) and their personality does a 180 but it never quite feels right
might be a hot take but i think we should try to retire the term ‘terf’ unless radical feminism is a core part of the persons beliefs because half the time i see it used it isnt even like. accurate? ive seen people call right wing cis men 'terfy’ and its like. the word you are looking for is transphobic. and its a word thats a lot harder for bigots to reclaim proudly, y'know?
Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine
full scansion:
– / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – mon/keys on / the in/terstate ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – igua/nas in / your home – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – all / my pa/tients kick / and bite ◡ – ◡ / ◡ – / ◡ – wild ani/mals I / have known
metrical form: Alternating lines of acephalous iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. rhyme scheme: ABCB other notes: Line 4 has an extra syllable between the first and second feet.
im so glad someone screenshot this tweet from this persons priv. this is the funniest and realest thing anyone has ever said. i think abt it like twice a week
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
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this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all
“And, to be abundantly clear, I am not sure there is enough training data in existence to get these models past the next generation. Even if generative AI companies were able to legally and freely download every single piece of text and visual media from the internet, it doesn’t appear to be enough to train these models, with some model developers potentially turning to model-generated "synthetic” data — a process that could introduce “model collapse,” a form of inbreeding that Jathan Sadowski called “Habsburg AI” that destroys the models over time.“
I basically never think about my ethnic identity at all. In America I’m white. One time I was wandering around a corner store in eastern Europe and the shopkeep kept following me like I was gonna steal something. I was really confused until I remembered “Oh right I’m romani.”
like “hey you fuckin asshole! I’m literally whiter than y-ohhhhhhh I get the last 2000 years of European history a little better now.”
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that’s an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
will never forget when i was walking thru the main walkway on my university campus and some dude hopped out from one of the side tables and went “hey youre tall you’d be good at fencing” and then handed me a paper to join the intramural fencing team and honestly wish i tried it out
”getting thicker skin” is great in theory but I think for some people “get better at handling your thin skin” is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and that’s the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.
autistic spot conlon but his special interest is just newspapers so no one realises. autistic spot conlon but when he goes non verbal people just think hes intimidating. he keeps his sleeves rolled up so his arms aren’t restricted and this is “so he can punch easier” but its actually because he hates the feeling of it. he has one (1) conversation with davey where he just talks about newspapers for an hour non stop and davey’s just like. Oh you’re like me! and they are friends because of it and without that context no one can understand how or why they’re friends.
I have no idea who these people are, but I feel like I’m in this post…
I love that it didn’t even take an actual cyberattack to cripple the entire planet, just a faulty cybersecurity software update. What a thing to wake up to
“who radicalized you” ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes
idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it’s monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.
some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they’re for businesses and organisations and important stuff.
so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.
before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there’s a reason friday is called ‘dont push to live friday’ or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday’
so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it’s not simply a 'you need to restart’ crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.
this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.
it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.
it’s a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.
another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn’t a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.
and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.
but then you start hearing about the entire country’s planes being grounded because the airport’s computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.
crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.
a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it’s the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it’s the big bag in the horror movie. it’s the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.
the issue appears to be with crowdstrike falcon, a form of antivirus software widely used in the corporate world – with emphasis on the world. there have been reports from the us, uk, australia, germany, india, france, japan and more. places affected include (but are not limited to) supermarkets, banks, basically every airline, public transport networks, major broadcasters, emergency services, corporate offices, healthcare providers and stock exchanges.
emergency service lines are currently experiencing problems within the american states of alaska, arizona, indiana, minnesota, new hampshire and ohio. similar problems likely plague other areas of the world, they just haven’t been reported on yet. australian emergency services are operating, and critical infrastructure remains stable. be sure to check in with the local news stations still online for more updates.
“Kill your darlings” means “if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty.”
That’s it! That’s all it means! It means if you’re stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you’re avoiding removing that thing because it’s good, you remove that thing. That’s the darling.
It does NOT mean
That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing
That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)
That you need to kill off characters (??? what)
That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones
That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don’t want to
The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn’t SERVING THE STORY.
The POINT is that you don’t get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.
Good grief….
Also, you don’t have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you’ll need it later.
Sometimes you can voltron all your darlings together into a single Mega Darling
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