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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mothnem

casgirl

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.

casgirl

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.

#the cheese would end me #turtleduck talks

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mothnem

i-will-write

#turtleduck talks #writing #it's this #at all times

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ultirex

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

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

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.

syzygystardust13

Ocean and like closer to Antarctica than anything else so I'm double screwed. Drowning or freezing, dealers choice!

mothnem

Head for Antarctica. If you have the devil's luck, you might be able to find researchers.

the-turtleduck-pond

Ocean

discount-brain-matter

Ocean

the-turtleduck-pond

... 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.

#turtleduck talks #this time was actually possible to live

the-turtleduck-pond

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.

#turtleduck talks #smajor #fucking #it was so funny

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mothnem

l-art-stuff-l

leave the answers in the tags

l-art-stuff-l

make sure to reblog if you vote please and thank you

#turtleduck talks #an eagle

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Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Mount Grefell National Park in Australia

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

Ocean

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.

syzygystardust13

Ocean and like closer to Antarctica than anything else so I'm double screwed. Drowning or freezing, dealers choice!

mothnem

Head for Antarctica. If you have the devil's luck, you might be able to find researchers.

the-turtleduck-pond

Ocean

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43406

What the fuck please RB for a bigger sample size because I thought getting grounded as a kid was universal

mothnem

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.

the-turtleduck-pond

I was grounded for an afternoon. And forbidden from reading for said afternoon.

I was a very boring child.

#turtleduck talks

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ex0skeletal-undead

sadako3d asked:

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

ex0skeletal-undead answered:

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

ex0skeletal-undead

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.

#info #reblog #turtleduck talks #fuck this shit

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moonlitedelight

Anonymous asked:

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

jv answered:

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.

salora-rainriver

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

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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lobsterenthusiastt

duality of man

furbearingbrick

go-karting

mothnem

Minecraft, so maybe environmental crimes? I DID level that forest and didn't replant it.....

the-turtleduck-pond

... Genshin has a lot of crimes my character committed already, so could be anything really ngl.

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annnesbonny

apricitic

go find what a fic of ur life would be tagged as on ao3

#turtleduck talks #canon-typical vampire... org-#omfg #hel p #Lol

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shipaycon

zipstick

#turtleduck talks #...#that's a fuckin call out

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kora-kat

No one:

Me at 2 am: Joan is short for Joanathan

the-turtleduck-pond

I hope you are aware that my brain will now forever bring this up at inopportune times.

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chongoblog

Me, after forgetting to cut the top off an onion before dicing it: “Aw dammit”

The Gordon Ramsey that lives in my head: “Don’t worry there, this mistake isn’t going to ruin anything. No need to be too hard on yourself”

Me: “Wow, that’s…not what I was expecting”

Gordon: “Of course, you ought to know by now that I don’t shout at cooks just to do so. I do it because the people in hit television show Kitchen Nightmares are putting their services out into the public and claim to be good enough to have the title of head chef. You’re just some guy in your twenties making beef stroganoff for yourself and your roommate. I’m kind of a dick, yeah, but I’m not gonna scream at you for a minor mistake like this”

Me: “Oh….well…thanks”

Gordon: “You’re welcome…cunt…”

mothnem

Also most of those guys are literally putting people in danger with their food handling and prep.

the-turtleduck-pond

Mhm, if you want to see what Gordon Ramsay is really like, watch him on Master Chef Junior. That's who Gordon Ramsay is. Serious, yes, but willing to teach and patient. He'll scold the children, but it's calm and careful because he's teaching them something about safety with food.

Going into Kitchen Nightmares is walking into a new job and acting like you can manage the whole place and then fucking up spectacularly. Your boss walks in and of course when he finds out what you did you're in big fucking trouble.

Walking into Master Chef Junior or any other cooking show where you aren't claiming to be the best, is walking into that same job with that same boss in that same position, but knowing you're just some guy and your boss finds out you struggle with a simple task he can teach you. So he does.

Your boss both times is Gordon Ramsay, the difference is whether you're an absolute idiot who's put themselves in a bad position or just a person trying to learn.

Also note: One time on Hell's Kitchen (where the vibe is very similar to Kitchen Nightmares) Gordon was yelling at someone and accidentally said something that their abusive father said to them. When they started crying, Gordon took them aside to somewhere private, calmed them down, found out what he did to cause this extreme reaction (because they go in knowing he's going to scream) and then gently scolded them for not telling him this specifically so he could avoid harming them so badly.

Gordon Ramsay is a good guy. He just really can't handle dumbasses who are full of themselves.

#turtleduck talks