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My seven year old niece has apparently started 'chalk club' at her school during recess. This is a little second grader and you're probably thinking 'aw cute' and it is. But the rules have me going 'Uhhh" and let me explain.
First, my niece is without a doubt the smallest person in this group of second graders. Despite also being one of the oldest. Tiny little blonde haired, blue eyed thing.
Second, she is actually mean. Not about this, but she is a mean little thing.
Now, onto the rules of 'chalk club'.
- Members of chalk club must call my niece 'boss'. Without exception to be part of chalk club this is required.
- Anyone is welcome in chalk club. She is not going to discriminate.
- If you leave chalk club -such as to go play on the swings or something, you are out of chalk club for the day. Yes, you can come back the next day, but for the rest of the day you are out of chalk club.
This child has made a gang revolving around chalk and I love the daylights out of her.
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The thing is. I would eat the grapes. I would eat the pomegranate seeds. I would eat the Turkish delights. It doesn’t matter what the stakes are if you put a little plate of snacks out in front of me I’ll eat them.
If you sent me to an evil fantasy realm and told me that if I ate anything I would die a painful terrible death then set a charcuterie board down in front of me that would be it for me. Like it wouldn’t even be like a torturous internal struggle to not eat the cheese. I wouldn’t even need to be that hungry.
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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.
vote no if you have not finished the entire book.
(faq · submit a book)
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reblog this w your weirdest fear!!! mine’s balloons
femmepeaxh
I said weirdest not deepest! stop reblogging this w shit like ‘my life falling apart’ and ‘intimacy’ and have fun!! be scared of figurines or something damn
When I was little I had an intense fear of being in any location by myself. Like, it could be in my own living room safe and sound, but if no one else was there, I’d be scared shirtless. I would like to say it was because we lived in a area that had bad crime rate (literally nicked named “little Detroit) but it was actually because my half brother told me if I was alone the xenomorphs (like from aliens) would eat me.
Earthworms.
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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
Ocean
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Mount Grefell National Park in Australia
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Wadi al Hayaa District, Libya. Thank goodness. Last time it was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. At least this way I don't drown. And it looks pretty there.
Ocean and like closer to Antarctica than anything else so I'm double screwed. Drowning or freezing, dealers choice!
Head for Antarctica. If you have the devil's luck, you might be able to find researchers.
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... I just did this again and I landed in the middle of the woods in Brazil.
... well at least I'm not too far from Porto Velho or at least a connecting road to it.
Guess I'm walking, but maybe I survive.
Sometimes I remember random things and they make me laugh so hard.
I have discord nitro, I am not paying for it. My friend wanted me to be able to send emotes. That's all. I forget sometimes while still using it regularly.
Then there's the fact that my 7 y/o niece managed to get me to admit to being pan because we were watching Smajor's stream/video.
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leave the answers in the tags
make sure to reblog if you vote please and thank you
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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish
Ocean
Ocean
Ocean
Ocean
Mount Grefell National Park in Australia
transgendercrt-moved-deactivate
Ocean
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Wadi al Hayaa District, Libya. Thank goodness. Last time it was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. At least this way I don't drown. And it looks pretty there.
Ocean and like closer to Antarctica than anything else so I'm double screwed. Drowning or freezing, dealers choice!
Head for Antarctica. If you have the devil's luck, you might be able to find researchers.
Ocean
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What the fuck please RB for a bigger sample size because I thought getting grounded as a kid was universal
Grounded for two weeks for me. And I definitely deserved it. It was supposed to be a couple days, but since I kept hiding rocks in my snowballs it got stretched out to two weeks.
I was grounded for an afternoon. And forbidden from reading for said afternoon.
I was a very boring child.
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People were mistaking my tango design for wukong way too many times, so i had to redesign him
ngl, even your redesign got me for a minute.
I had to stop and stare to realize what was going on.
I was genuinely stumped for like 5 seconds on 'why is Sun Wukong on my tumblr feed?' then went "oh that's tango'.
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psst, tumblr just quietly rolled out collaboration with ai training models, and it's opt-out, not opt-in, go into your blog settings to fix it [on desktop, anyway, dunno where you'd look on mobile] keep fighting the good fight <3
I don't see an option for it now, so it may not have rolled out for everyone yet? Unless I'm just missing where it is
Settings > click on your blog name > under visibility (right above blocked tumblrs), toggle this on:
*This is on a browser, I didn't look at how to do it on mobile.
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Anonymous asked:
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
- I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
- Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
- A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.
Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.
Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:
Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.
Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.
This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.
Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.
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duality of man
go-karting
Minecraft, so maybe environmental crimes? I DID level that forest and didn't replant it.....
... Genshin has a lot of crimes my character committed already, so could be anything really ngl.
