I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly “the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts”
when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said “professor, i don’t understand the will of god”
the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can’t help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.
*me, owning a strange boutique housegoods/book store selling a variety of mystic, occult objects but no one realizes I live there, this is literally my living room*
How much for this stick I can shake at God?
10 bucks
can i get these three backscratchers with a bundle discount
15% discount for 3 or more
How bout this book? I think it’s look cool with a cosplay I’m planning
40 bucks but never attempt to read or open it
How much is the doll?
Oh that? Just take it. Take it far far away and do not allow it to return
How about this?
$29.99. Just be careful not to leave the candles burning at night, the gremlin comes alive and likes to wander around and go through your stuff
Hey this chair looks cool, how much?
the chair chooses its owner. sit down and see if it likes you
How bout this
Excuse me that’s my great-uncle, he is family
What about this?
that’s not a sale item, that’s my dang lunch
How much is this neat tea set?
OH GODS YOU’VE SET THEM LOOSE
What about this super creepy cool chair?
that’s Lionel. they’re sleeping and I suggest you do NOT wake them
How much for this dandy fellow?
YOU WOKE IT UPWHY DID YOU WAKE IT UP???
How much for the guy that claims to be my childhood friend but remembers things slightly differently than they happened?
i think we as a society need to use cell phones/laptops/cars/backpacks to flesh out characters
like. a character has a cracked phone screen and a dozen stickers and a glittery case and a photo of their dog as a background. that says so much
or a character has a completely plain phone with no decorations and a default home screen and all the contacts are people’s first names with no profile photos. except for one contact which is a stupid nickname and a shot of someone taken at a very unflattering angle. you know?
or cars!!! someone who has a disgusting car, with trash everywhere and mud caking the seats, but the passenger seat is always clean, because someone else always cleans it for them.
this has potential to become a blorbo post so now i want everyone to describe what they think their blorbo’s phone/laptop/car/backpack looks like in the tags because i like reading these things
AI people: we’re just as much artists as you are, you gotta be so observant and go through so many correcting phases for the picture to look good uwu also AI people:
if this were a hand drawn image people would be harping on about the symbolism
Yeah you know why ? Because if someone made this by hand for hours at a time, one would assume he’d have done it for a fucking reason. Meanwhile with AI we know it was completely and randomly based on the whims of a computer that doesn’t and never will think like a human.
stfu buddy symbolism is the fucking nonsense you have to memorise alongside the rest of the poetic devices in order to write 3 paragraphs about an excerpt in an english exam, it has no place in art, and none of you fuckers will gaslight me into thinking so again
This dude said symbolism has no place in art
Let’s remove that “so” in tumblr user iloveblankpaper’s last sentence
I went in the code again and saw the new Boop paws were vectors this time, so I converted them into some good sized pngs that are a little easier to work.
I accidentally discovered that if you tap the booking paw, you high five the cat and get a boop (meow) from the cat. You can keep booking the paw and generate an ongoing cycle.
Then if you go into your mentions and boop back on the meow posts, you get boops from youself!
im in a very noble mood today.. my viziers are plotting against me i swear it.. if i were to die mysteriously my lands would fall to my bastard brother.. none would recognize his legitimacy.. my realm would fall into chaos..
my liege, perhaps it is in your best interest to find a consort who can actually, y'know, sire you an heir?
i appreciate your suggestion and it has been duly ignored.. bring in another transfem my servant.. this time itll work!! i swear!!
[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]
I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :
you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
Love answering ”why are you transgender?” with “God told me to” because it’s funny and it confuses everyone except for me. And God. Because he told me to.
People see being queer as being fundamentally divorced from the concept of religion so if I tell people that my faith is interconnected with my journey to coming out as trans and played a big role in it they don’t really believe me. So saying “God told me to” is funnier than telling the whole story.
The day I came out to my dad and brother as trans was a Sunday and during the holding hands part after communion I looked up at the stained glass on the ceiling in the church and got this overwhelming sickening terrifying feeling that I’d been in the closet too long.
You normally think of spiritual experiences as happy but I felt sick in that moment deep in my chest because I knew I had to do it now. I’d been hiding too long. And you might read that moment differently than I did but to me that was my sign. And I was terrified the whole time but I did come out to my family that day. It was like pulling a thorn out. Painful but absolutely necessary.
Sometimes a sign from God is comforting and other times it’s Him telling you to do your homework. And that’s also a part of faith.
I’m not asking all of you to believe the same things I do. I don’t do that. Evangelizing isn’t one of my gifts or something I’m interested in. But I would ask you to make space for stories that don’t fit your idea of how being trans is supposed to work. Whether they involve religion or not.
There’s no one universal experience we all have and I feel like sometimes other trans people just assume that I’ve been burned by religion the exact same way they have. I haven’t been. In fact, religion and my faith community has often been there for me when secular society hasn’t been. And that too is a transgender experience. Not a universal trans experience, but my trans experience for sure.
Okay. Okay. I’m still not over this, but I’m starting to piece it together in my head.
This is NOT an accurate telling of the history of corn mazes. This is just a hypothesis.
So. What do we need for a corn maze? Well, we need cornfields, and we need the concept of a vegetation maze.
Hedge mazes are a European concept, first created in the mid 16th century.
And while indigenous Americans obviously had corn, they typically grew it alongside other plants and not in vast monocultures.
And so corn mazes can only exist after the widespread adoption of maize by Europeans AND the existence of hedge mazes.
But during this time, is a corn maze a good idea?
A corn maze isn’t something you make on a whim. It’s something that has to planned well in advance— and not only that, but with every path you draw, you’re losing some of your crop! And if you’re a farmer, that’s your entire livelihood! While the wealthy elite can afford to splurge on a purely decorative plant to make a maze from, you certainly can’t do the same with your product.
So a field with a maze needs to somehow bring in more money than a field without a maze to be worth considering. How does that happen?
Agritourism.
Agritourism only works as a concept when most of the population doesn’t already live on a farm. There’s no reason to draw people to your farm in colonial America, where 90% of everyone there sees a farm every day.
So this rules out any year before 1900 on principle alone.
Not only that, but to earn any actual revenue, you need a lot of middle and even lower-class people from cities and towns actually coming to your farm specifically. This isn’t feasible without the widespread adoption of the automobile.
And so corn mazes can only exist after 1920.
But why would anyone in 1920 focus on agritourism? The added costs of labor, advertising, and crop loss would far outweigh any revenue gained. The vast majority of family farmers were doing fine without it!
Until they weren’t.
As farming became more consolidated by massive corporations, family farms were suddenly seeing less and less money. All of a sudden, agritourism became a viable option. If you aren’t making that much money off of your crops in the first place, then it doesn’t matter too much if you hack them up a bit.
And when do we see a significant dip in the profits of family farms?
(from the USDA)
A large dip in 1975, and a nearly vertical slope around 1989.
Now the idea of a corn maze is a feasible one. Especially when the pressure to create new, novel experiences in your farm starts really packing on near the turn of the decade.
Corn mazes can only exist after 1989.
corn mazes are possibly a direct result of unchecked corporate oligopolies
Okay. Okay. I’m still not over this, but I’m starting to piece it together in my head.
This is NOT an accurate telling of the history of corn mazes. This is just a hypothesis.
So. What do we need for a corn maze? Well, we need cornfields, and we need the concept of a vegetation maze.
Hedge mazes are a European concept, first created in the mid 16th century.
And while indigenous Americans obviously had corn, they typically grew it alongside other plants and not in vast monocultures.
And so corn mazes can only exist after the widespread adoption of maize by Europeans AND the existence of hedge mazes.
But during this time, is a corn maze a good idea?
A corn maze isn’t something you make on a whim. It’s something that has to planned well in advance— and not only that, but with every path you draw, you’re losing some of your crop! And if you’re a farmer, that’s your entire livelihood! While the wealthy elite can afford to splurge on a purely decorative plant to make a maze from, you certainly can’t do the same with your product.
So a field with a maze needs to somehow bring in more money than a field without a maze to be worth considering. How does that happen?
Agritourism.
Agritourism only works as a concept when most of the population doesn’t already live on a farm. There’s no reason to draw people to your farm in colonial America, where 90% of everyone there sees a farm every day.
So this rules out any year before 1900 on principle alone.
Not only that, but to earn any actual revenue, you need a lot of middle and even lower-class people from cities and towns actually coming to your farm specifically. This isn’t feasible without the widespread adoption of the automobile.
And so corn mazes can only exist after 1920.
But why would anyone in 1920 focus on agritourism? The added costs of labor, advertising, and crop loss would far outweigh any revenue gained. The vast majority of family farmers were doing fine without it!
Until they weren’t.
As farming became more consolidated by massive corporations, family farms were suddenly seeing less and less money. All of a sudden, agritourism became a viable option. If you aren’t making that much money off of your crops in the first place, then it doesn’t matter too much if you hack them up a bit.
And when do we see a significant dip in the profits of family farms?
(from the USDA)
A large dip in 1975, and a nearly vertical slope around 1989.
Now the idea of a corn maze is a feasible one. Especially when the pressure to create new, novel experiences in your farm starts really packing on near the turn of the decade.
Corn mazes can only exist after 1989.
corn mazes are possibly a direct result of unchecked corporate oligopolies
having mutuals who i think are really cool and get like. starstruck when they interact with me. is so weird. like why am i reacting like this. we’re literally both on tumblr
i’m like a baby clown sitting in a circus honking my little nose and then sometimes a REALLY COOL CLOWN who has inspired me in my own clownery and who i bother regularly in hopes of friendship sits down and claps as i honk my stupid little clown nose. but the thing is that we’re still both clowns in the same circus
THE COOL CLOWNS (INCLUDING THE CLOWNS IM NOT EVEN MUTUALS WITH I JUST FOLLOW FROM A DISTANCE) FOUND THIS POST. THEY DONT KNOWWWW
^ i know this it’s just scarier to me than all my cool clowns combined. what do you MEAN ppl think im scary or intimidating or cool. im literally just a clown in the circus
Outlawing derivative works produced with machines, metadata analysis and defining a nebulous theft of subjective “style” does not prevent AI art being made or deployed in industry. What it does do is hand an absolute monopoly to companies that can simply buy up the rights to large training datasets. Well done everyone, you saved art from hobbyists and researchers by handing capital a pretext for tightening IP law.
Outlawing derivative works produced with machines, metadata analysis and defining a nebulous theft of subjective “style” does not prevent AI art being made or deployed in industry. What it does do is hand an absolute monopoly to companies that can simply buy up the rights to large training datasets. Well done everyone, you saved art from hobbyists and researchers by handing capital a pretext for tightening IP law.
