Good luck, ausies. May your election season be less nightmarish.

Let's not forget the important things though.

"white women as a class must be held accountable for their role in upholding white supremacy" and "sometimes people slap 'white' before 'woman' on a phrase to disguise misogyny" and "white women don't get to cry misogyny as a shield for legit criticisms" and "the left is obsessed with singling out white women for bigotry all white people are guilt of in ways that leave white men out of the hook and provides a way for them to deflect their white guilt onto white women in convenient ways" are sentiments that can coexist

This is what it feels like when someone infodumps to me. By the way

A meeting of dragons.

MAY YOU BE REMEMBERED FOR THE PIECE OF SHIT YOU WERE

"At the 1996 Games in Atlanta, he memorably helped an injured Kerri Strug off the floor after Strug’s vault secured the team gold for the Americans."

IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .

See . . .

"GNU Sir Terry Pratchett" - L-Space Wiki / Ursula K. LeGuin / "Terry Pratchett" - Wikipedia / "GNU" - Urban Dictionary / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett / Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett / Brandon Sanderson / Paul Kidby / The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Happs 15th Birthday, AO3!' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

One time in my early 20s I got really drunk at a party where someone handed me a stein full of what turned out to be moonshine from a barrel in some guy's garage and said "try this it tastes like pie" and a) it DID taste like pie, but b) only on the way down, not on the way back up, given it was something like 120 proof -- so my memories of the next couple hours are very vague but involve a bunch of ex-football players from South Boston walking me around the block in circles handing me bottled water trying to sober me up, and eventually because I was too shitfaced to get home but no longer puking my guts up and dying I crawled into the back of my car to sleep it off in a sleeping bag I kept there; but there was a guy at the party who was also sleeping in his car and this was Boston in the fall so it was like 40ºF out at night and anyway this other guy I met at this party who was a middle aged mercenary from liverpool who had served in the french foreign legion or something ended up knocking on my car door asking if he could huddle with me for warmth and I said yeah okay but there's only room for me in the sleeping bag so don't be weird about it, and to his credit he was not weird and we just slept in my car and in the morning he asked if I wanted brekkie and bought me dunkin donuts while I nursed the worst hangover I have ever had in my life then or since and trying to figure out whose heavy metal hoodie I was wearing and how I managed to leave this party with more clothing than I arrived in.

So if someone singing pirate shanties hands you a stein of mysterious liquid and tells you it tastes like pie, probably don't chug that shit.

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

proof that i'm a transmutation wizard, actually

I definitely thought the verbal components would be 'fuck shittity fuck fuck argh how the hell do you do this', which are at least the verbal components I use when trying any new techniques/stitches.

Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.

yknow what would be a fucked up phone feature

No, I don't. Please, proceed.

if whenever you plugged it in you had to manually enable charging mode and there was no built in way to automate it

That would be fucked up.

yknow what would be more fucked up

Football field full of viruses.

Abraham Lincoln teeth sculpture.

Really big vampire.

Inside-out Sweden.

if they added automatic charging mode but paywalled it

Yeah that's pretty fucked up.

Weakling. You will not survive the winter.

last night I had a dream that I met Bill and Ted, and I complimented Bills crop top and said something about how I would wear crop tops if my body was less bogus and he put a hand on my shoulder and said “what’s truly bogus is the way you think about yourself” and Ted nodded solemnly and then I woke up

That was the real bill and ted

last night I had a dream that I met Bill and Ted, and I complimented Bills crop top and said something about how I would wear crop tops if my body was less bogus and he put a hand on my shoulder and said “what’s truly bogus is the way you think about yourself” and Ted nodded solemnly and then I woke up

That was the real bill and ted

Rage. In my heart. All-consuming. FUCK AI.

For those who don't know, this piece is titled 'Unfinished Painting', by Keith Haring. He painted it about a year before his death of AIDs. I believe he actually finished other pieces between this one and his death. He left the majority of the canvas blank to represent his life and art career cut short due to HIV/AIDs. This was a deliberate choice and commentary about all that we lose (both personally and culturally) by ignoring the AIDs crisis at the time (1989). He was devastated he didn't have time to make more art. 'Finishing' Unfinished Painting is straight up spitting on Haring's grave and shows no understanding to the meaning behind the art. The AI interpretation doesn't even follow his extremely recognizable shape language and symbols. This is why people are angry about AI art. All commerce images and no meaning or humanity

The purpose of that tweet was pointing out how stupid AI is. It was a series of tweets sarcastically "completing" art to demonstrate how fucking stupid and empty that is and how it often robs the art of its point. It's making fun of AI bros. You're getting mad at a cherry-picked half-joke taken out of context to create a scenario that didn't exist. There's no one to be mad at here.

This is like if I put on a clown outfit and climbed into a cardboard box and said "Oooh, I'm a big man, vroom vroom, look at me in my cool Tesla Cybertruck, the most serious of hardcore trucks!" and honked my clown nose and then somebody just posted the part where I said "Look at me in my cool Tesla Cybertruck" with no context and everyone got really mad online fuming "I cannot BELIEVE that Derin bought a cybertruck!"

Sufficiently advanced extremism is indistinguishable from parody. There is nothing in the content or presentation of the tweet itself to indicate that its OP is not an AI bro.

Meanwhile the cardboard clown car is obviously a cardboard clown car.

No, in the context of the series of tweets it was very clear what the message was. Cherry picking this part and pretending it's complete to give the impression that it's serious would indeed be like cherry picking that one phrase and omitting the cardboard and clown outfit to give the impression that the cybertruck statement is serious. Did you read the original tweet series or are you just assuming that the joke couldn't have been clear?

The modern status quo is to take everything at face value. Research is dead.

Not entirely right actually, let me correct myself. Its less 'an era of the death of research', and more so that the pace is set too fast. One hour ago is yesterday's news. Its react or be left behind. The death of research isn't the cause, rather the effect. If you take the time to research the topic, you're too late and everyone has moved on.

People need to get used to being slow again.

The way twitter works makes it a little difficult to research the context of every screenshotted tweet, which is why I put an explanation in (since I saw the tweet in its original context). Most of the time I'm like "try reading the article instead of just yelling at the clickbait headline" but in cases like this I think the blame lies pretty firmly at the feet of the person who took it out of context in order to dishonestly upset people. It's a little difficult to track down the people who do this (there's absolutely no reason to assume it's OP, they could very well have innocently copy-pasted this screenshot off Facebook or something, ragebait gets spread like that all the time).

Things like this aren't always easy, or indeed worth it, for every reader to try to track down context for, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to do so. But I do think it's worth keeping in mind that most of these quick little out-of-context bites on the internet that infuriate us are engineered to do so. If you see some stupid take on the internet, some completely unhinged AITA entry, some nonsense sound bite that suggests the world is full of evil idiots, there's a pretty high chance that its entire reason for existing is just to piss you off.