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It’s that time of year to spread holiday cheer!
Hey real quick, can you all do me a big favor and listen to this silly little album from my favourite musician? Pretty please? Okay awesome thank you, have a great day
You’re gorgeous and deserve the world many people care about you many people will meet you and love you. You are brilliant and deserve the whole universe. You are loved and beautiful. I care about you at the very least.
if poc writers on this site come to you to critique the community and point out micro aggressions/acts of racism how about y’all just listen???? instead of immediately firing back with “this happens to everyone” or “i don’t think this just happens to poc”. we’re trying to tell you about our lived experiences to try and make the space better for everyone and you responding like that makes it clear you don’t care to change or do better
Seriously just a bit of pollen could make your cat sick within a matter of minutes. Stay far away from Easter lilies if you have kitties!
Song of all time, to me
The siren song rings like a gong It turns your mind to gravy She'll have you drown in that locker down With Jones comma Davey Such pretty tones, you've never known Like angels plucking harp strings The only defence, just common sense Fatigue has made you hear things
The Kraken was attacking us Its tentacles surrounding The timbers broke, cap'n had a stoke Our troubles were compounding And just as we prayed to the sea Deliver us salvation We realised our heavy eyes Shared a group hallucination
It's all made up! It's in our heads! It's hard work trawling those sea beds! With the physical strain there's no surprise Your faculties get compromised
(FLEET, spoken: I'll wait outside.) (CLARA, spoken: Don't you dare.)
The helmsman who was wedded to A selkie from the fathoms His judgement scarred, he'd worked as hard As any man since Adam And when we spied a sea serpent's eyes We knew our doom awaited Until it clicked, we'd been too strict And likely dehydrated!
It's all made up! It's in our heads! It's hard work trawling those sea beds! With the burn of the rope and the frozen winds It's natural to be seeing things
Sleep hygiene Good diet These things keep monsters quiet New hammocks Less motion No nightmares on the ocean
Sleep hygiene (hey!) Good diet (hey!) These things keep monsters quiet (hey!) New hammocks (hey!) Less motion (hey!) No nightmares on the ocean (hey!)
(And the lady!)
It's all made up! It's in your heads! It's hard work trawling those sea beds! We toil for days, our attention frays I never knew my father…
(SAILOR, spoken: That's a… different sort of problem, Michael, I'm sorry, that's a different song.) (MICHAEL, spoken: Sorry…) (SAILOR, spoken: Nothing to apologise for Michael, you're among friends, and you're our only basso profundo)
Oh!
It's all made up! It's in our heads! It's hard work trawling those sea beds! With the moonless sky and the narwhal's cry It's natural to forget
It's all made up! It's in our heads! It's hard work trawling those sea beds! With the raging storm and the grog lukewarm It's simple to neglect
With the blinding sun and the dearth of fun You're under the gun to fish every tonne The work's never done, the truth can be spun It's a damned hard job trawling those sea
(Oh, er, (sigh))
Be-eds!
I think folks have really lost the plot when it comes to AI.
Imo, the issue we are faced with is not how to prevent ai from being utilized or advancing, frankly I think that ball is already rolling. The issue also isn’t designating sacred work that can’t be touched by AI (I’m sorry to say, art is not inherently better than manual labor). The issue we are really faced with is now that we are embarking on a world wherein AI is rising and gaining genuine ability to match or exceed humans, how will we ensure we are taking care of our people?
A lot of folks seem to be really concerned with protecting the idea of intellectual property, but at the same time don’t we believe in an egalitarian sharing of knowledge? Should we really be prizing exclusivity of access to media or materials? I don’t really think so, but the challenge we face is how to ensure that a society that will increasingly have less and less need for human labor (particularly in data analysis or data entry jobs that AI tends to be the best in) will still see its citizens financially secure.
I have no problem with AI making art, regardless of whether I think that art is “good” or whether someone a machine makes can even be defined as “artistic” to begin with. Frankly, I don’t care. I do care that many artists will be out of a job and we don’t have a mechanism for ensuring they’re taken care of.
And that is where the discourse is so often falling short in my eyes. Many leftists who claim to want to leave the idea of personal ownership behind become the most forceful advocates for protecting intellectual property. A development that should be spurring on the greatest advance in humankind’s ability to universally take care of everyone is instead demonized on the left for somehow being theft and largely ignored on the right as a pipe dream.
AI is growing more powerful exponentially. Our lifetimes will see a shift on the level of the invention of electricity or the internet (if not much much greater) and we need to be prepared for that. The outcry cannot be “You used AI tools and therefore your work is invalid” but rather it must be “How are we restructuring ourselves to better absorb this new change?”
Universal basic income has to become a default. Removing healthcare from being tied to a job is a necessity. Eventually moving past currency might even be a possibility.
You can’t stop the world from turning, you can’t stop this progress from happening. But we still have time to focus our efforts on taking this change and handling it well. History will watch what we say, what we do, and how we addressed this.
I've read and read about these on Tumblr, but I've only been liking the posts. I feel as now more than ever us as a global government of people trying to further humanity to a greater and greener world we need to hear all of these voices speaking up about this matter. It's absolutely treacherous. Please signal boost on here or on any other social media platform or website.
Please I'm begging you to listen to these people.
People in Australia: are dying because our country is on fire and just yesterday there was around nearly 300 fires in Victoria alone, a fire truck got picked up by extreme winds on the border of nsw and vic, killed a 28 year old fireman and burned the other two firefighters, all while our firefighters arent getting paid and each household is only allowed to use around 150ml per person in household/per household. Oh also, our government cares more about taking away rights from woman, sexual assult victims, LGBT+, disabled people, any religion that isnt christianity and mentally I'll people than helping its country with fires.
Yall: ignore the fact that theres people dying more than ever due to bushfires which have successfully burned nearly 10millin ha, 10x more than the Amazon fire. But yall will care more about a building and donate billions of dollars towards that instead.
Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
You. Can. Fucking. Help.
Theres donation sites dedicated to our fire services who DO NOT GET PAID, who are VOLUNTEERING. For our WILDLIFE SHELTERS. For FOOD, WATER AND ACCOMMODATION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW HOMELESS.
If you can care so much about one building, why not care about the mass amounts of buildings lost in our fires?
the fact that bighit had to publicly come out and make a statement about the ‘fans’ behaviour really says it all. not only did they address what happen in taiwan today, but they informed us of many forms of disrespect that bangtan has experienced while traveling to different countries to preform for these fans
we know that as groups get bigger and more recognized, event such as these are bound to happen. as many say “they knew what they signed up for before they became idols, it shouldn’t be a shock”. though this is part true when someone becomes a celebrity, there is no need to take things as far has they have recently. with the events that happened in Sweden, Taiwan, and Japan (along with many others) there is a form of respect we must uphold and not treat these people we look up to and care for as anything less than human.
if you consider yourself a fan, you must respect these idols, or any celebrity for that matter and give them privacy they so rightfully deserve. we do NOT own them, they do NOT owe us anything. this is their free-time, and in their free-time they are not required to do anything FOR us, they are just trying to live their life and get from point A to point B. they are not required to sign anything, take pictures with you or talk to you. they are not at a scheduled event where they have specifically come as BTS to come see you
a similar event was addressed by justin bieber, though I am not a fan of him, I respect what he has to say:
though very blatant and straightforward, what he says is the honest truth and is very important and we must remember this
they do things to make us happy, for us to feel closer to them, not for us to feel like we own them and they must do everything for us since we bought their album and their merch
bangtan travelling the world, and coming to countries most don’t even step foot in is their thank you to us, along with all the fancafe, and twitter posts they make to keep in touch with us. we have no right at all to disrespect them in the way they have been especially this past year
x / x / x
*Screaming at my enby non passing transasc ass* YES. A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU.
I've been seeing a disturbing number of "queer safe spaces" describe themselves as things like "femme & them" and even worse "she+," conflating femininity & nonbinaryhood. cease this immediately. say it with me: nonbinary people are NOT women-lite and it is extremely violent and straight up incorrect to imply that all they/thems are fem adjacent. this is erasure and this verbiage does nothing but make gnc and nonbinary spaces unsafe for masc and male nonbinary people. nonbinary, genderqueer and other third gender people can be and are masculine and men, we can be hes as well as shes and theys, stop allowing yourself and your peers to view nonbinary as woman/femme-lite, signed a butch nonbinary person.
Stream (pretty please) Kim Sejeong’s ‘Top or Cliff’ !!!
Yall, please go stream Kim Sejeong’s newest MV “Top or Cliff” on YouTube or whatever music streaming app y’all have!! It’s such a great song and completely out of left field for me (them wise) and it definitely will NOT disappoint!!!
Not only is her acting prowess on point as always, but her vocals and the lyrics are also so amazing!!
An absolute triple threat my gal sejeong is 🤩🤩
She has worked so hard and for so long and still gets overlooked AF because of … Idek why she’s so under appreciated but she is! Let’s do her a solid people! Get her the recognition for her music and all around talent that she deserves!!!!
Like seriously y’all, WTF HAHAHAHAHA WE STAN QUEEN SEJEONG 🤯🤬😤😖😭😍😍😍
Also watch the live performances hahahahahahah they’re REALLY freaking good!!!
Please stream it, tank you very muchness my loves on Tumblr!!!
I will miss you if they finally realize about you, Tumblr the website and app Twitter account. You shined bright, you magnificent being.
ayo all of you sfw agere children should block this person. they’re gross. IF YOU ARE A MAP/NOMAP DO NOT CONTACT ME PLEASE. IF YOU ARE KINKY DO NOT CONTACT ME EITHER Look, I get it. people have kinks. understandable, I get it. i’m not trying to shame anyone for having their human urges. most of us have them. but you gotta understand, I am completely sfw agere, not to mention a MINOR and when I get shit like this, it both disgusts me and pisses me off. i’m just tryna eat chicky nuggies peacefully in my pillow fort and watch care bears, come on man.
Today I was talking to my mom about school and the conversation moved to response drills, you know, fire and earthquake drills. And of course I added in shooter drills. She made a comment on how when she was in school they didn’t do those. They didn’t do drills on what to do if a shooter came to campus. And when I asked her why not she said “That stuff just didn’t really happen, not often enough to be a concern at least. We never really had to worry about it.”..............................Wow. Just Wow.......................What does that say about what America has come to for me to be baffled by the mere mention of not having to worry about a shooter coming to school. I remember us practicing shooter drills more commonly than I do earthquake drills. I remember on the first day of school that they only gave earthquakes a brief mention. They talked about fires, then a slight, very slight, mention of earthquakes, and then we moved straight on to shooters. I remember how last year, we had a lock-in at my high school and how the middle school closest to us had a lockdown because of a shooter. I remember how we all took out our phones to check what was happening and to text our friends and family. The teacher told us to put our phones away and while we did to an extent we were still checking them. The teacher was trying to keep us calm but the problem with that was that he couldn’t calm us, because we weren’t freaking out. We acknowledged the threat, and we worried about it, and for the middle schoolers who were in lockdown. But we were just kind of numb. What has this country come to for teenagers to be numb to the possibility of being shot. There was a boy who wouldn’t put his phone away and the teacher demanded that he did. He asked if he could keep it out to keep up with the situation. Turned out his little brother was one of the students in the locked down middle school. He was worried for his little brother, but he looked so resigned. The teacher let him keep his phone out and he was texting his brother and his family. He gave us updates throughout class. I remember when everything was all said and done, when the situation was over and the crisis adverted, we were glad that nobody was hurt or killed. Then we moved on like it was normal. And that’s the thing isn’t it. It is normal. And that is disgusting. It is atrocious that students, kids and teens, have that reality. I don’t want to live like that. I don’t want to be numb and resigned to the fact that I have a plausible chance at getting shot at school. I don’t even live in a city with a lot of threats of shooters so if this our response, what about those who do have more threats of shooters. I just— this is wrong. That’s it. I just need to get this out. Please everyone who sees this, please just think about this. Even just for a second, just truly listen.