Racing Turtles

Genuinely, a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney would be awful for Midjourney (and probably Tumblr, too, given the Likely Userbase Reaction) because Tumblr's tagging system is... idiosyncratic (and probably already included in the Common Crawl/LAION as image tags).

Also, if they're looking for, like, Licenced Art that they can freely use without worrying about lawsuits or whatever, Tumblr is full of uncredited reposts of stuff! It's one of the things it's known for!

you know that bit in Fern Gully whete the little tim curry sludge monster erotically sucks down industrial pollution amounts of toxins and turns into a gigantic orgasmic demon skeleton

first of all i just like replaying that scene in my head and second of all that's literally what will happen to any chatbot or picture generator loaded up with the incredibly hazardous output of tumblr.com

i think one of the best parts about being a teenager in the early to mid 2010s was that cigarettes were definitely not cool anymore and vapes hadn’t popularized yet so my lungs made it out of my peak impressionable years relatively unscathed

my favorite historical thing about actual pirates is most of them were really young guys who died between the ages of 17 and 24 so one of the reasons blackbeard is so famous three hundred years later is because he was, like, thirty-two and still kicking which made him seem really wise and shit-together by comparison. it's like when you're a 28 year old woman and get tumblr asks from college freshman that say "oh my god you don't look like a withered corpse at all"

America slaughtering buffalo and moving whole tribes for the sake of building railroads only to decide they dont actually like trains is giving the same energy as the english conquering the world for spices and then deciding they didnt like any of them. like father like son

LETS GO!!!!! THE SHITBAG YOUNGER BROTHER ALSO COMMITS GENOCIDE AND OTHER COLONIAL ATTROCITIES!!!!!

good lord

YEAH I GOT NOTHING

i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that

I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”

I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.

topical :/

WHY IS IT TOPICAL

Me shouting at my rash ointment

great post everyone

no one will install an ordinary tub/shower insert. I WANT an ordinary tub/shower insert. Both alternatives (tile, slabs of cultured marble) are DESPERATELY UGLY.

I just want a fuckening one-piece smooth rounded cheapo bathing zone!!! I am going to drop-kick cultured marble into the sun

this is my joker moment of becoming one of those people who complains about the bay area. oh no one wants those anymore, they’re cheap—WELL APPARENTLY THEY’RE TOO DEAR TO BE HAD AT ANY COST?

It sucks when an influential piece of media becomes so imitated that it becomes commonly viewed as derivative and unoriginal itself.

"Watched Invader Zim for the first time, kind of disappointed that it was just overdone 00s rAnDoM humor."

Brother. 00s rAnDoM humor is literally just Jhonen Vasquez's sense of humor.

When GIR said "Taquitooos" in 2001 it was groundbreaking and revolutionary. Television and the nascent emo/scene culture would be changed forever.

When did hikers develop the collective impulse to stack rocks and make obnoxious, useless decorative cairns at every park and river they visit? I don’t remember seeing them as a kid except as trail markers, but now they’re EVERYWHERE. What part of “leave no trace” don’t people understand?

I’m gonna leave a trace and it’s gonna be a cool ass rock tower in the woods :D

Please don’t! 

If you want to build rock towers, get your own rocks and build them at home. That’s perfectly fine. But rocks provide vital habitat for wildlife, especially in stream bed; moving and stacking them leaves them without shelter, crushes them, exposes their eggs, and leads to soil erosion and bank destruction. Leave them where they are.

Furthermore, cairns are used as trail markers to indicate routes. Creating pointless cairns for funzies and Instagram can actually be dangerous to other hikers who rely on them for navigation, and immensely frustrating for rangers. We don’t say “leave no trace” to be mean–we’re trying to protect both the environment and our visitors. 

we’ve already proven how fucking stupid op is. this shit is so fucking annoying. aside from creek beds stacking rocks isnt hurting the fucking environment. which once again i remind you we arent separate from. please calm down and stop acting like people living their life and creating art is destroying an ecosystem.

Huytuf, if you love lost hikers and crushed salamanders so much, why don’t you carve it into a lovely old tree and let the world know? Or perhaps you’d rather chisel in the sentiment of “my artistic whims are more important than the safety of others and the health of an ecosystem”? After all, if we’re not separate from the environment, nothing we can do can hurt it or cause problems.

But what do I know? I’m just a stupid old park naturalist who is, according to you, going to hell for discussing folklore while not being militantly Christian about it.

would it be okay to make a small one, then put the rocks back where they came from after you’ve taken pictures ect.

@maqpiie​​ Please don’t move them at all.

This is a Hellbender salamander. Hellbenders are the third largest aquatic amphibian in the world, and the largest amphibian in the US. They are extremely endangered, in huge part because people are moving rocks in what little habitat they have left to them. These big boys can live for decades and once they choose a rock to live under, that’s it, that’s where they live, and they do not do well relocating. Studies have found that if their rock is moved or even disturbed, the hellbender will not return to it- even if you can replace the rock how you think you found it. Moving rocks, even just briefly, runs the risk of crushing them, their young, their eggs, or depleting the places where their food sources hide (they eat mostly crawfish and small fish that hide among rocks), either from you moving the rock or from other rocks falling in the absence of the rock you moved. Even if it doesn’t immediately kill them, it can permanently displace and ultimately cause the death of one.

These are not the only creatures that suffer from habitat being destroyed, they are just one I happen to know the face, name, and situation of. Please, please, please. It’s not worth the photo. It’s just not. Leave nature in place where it belongs, leave no trace. Protect those that have no defense against you other than your choice to be kind to them.

TAKING PICTURES IS A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM, as it spreads the idea that stacking rocks is a fine thing to do. pictures of cool-looking rock stacks are how rock stacking became such a fad in the first place. please, please, PLEASE, do not take pictures of rock stacks, share pictures of rock stacks, or in any way encourage other people to do it. 

the latest rich people craze is “raw water”

you can read more of this insanity in the new york times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html

but for the time being I think Twitter users commenting on this sums it up:

local man consumes nothing but toxic rainwater for ten days, loses his mind, now trespasses for the purpose of theft

one lunar cycle of delivery

God I hope they all get dysentery and shit themselves to death

i have a weird feeling that the suicide squad movie will somehow be responsible for the rebirth of scene kid culture and its something i knew would happen eventually but i never thought it would be so soon

Later this year high schools will be filled w/ guys trying to act like the joker in that “edgy on purpose lol u mad” kinda way and scene girls w/ pink n blue dyed pigtails giggling about how “lol im SO CRAZY LAWL X3″

i cant believe you two made me read this on my own dash

look at this shit. we’re gonna have to relive some dark times. myspace is aboutta make a comeback. preps will have to hide in fear once again. the hot topic CEO is rubbing his hands together as i’m typing this. get ready for thousands of deviant art suicide squad ocs complete with scene hair and too many belts.

if someone does that “rawr means i love u in dinosaur” think im holding you personally responsible

XxXx get fucking ready xXxX

I. Swear. To. Fucking. God.