Sarah- I like food, science, bands, art, birds, all sorts of junk! 28, she/her //
I DIDN'T STEAL THE FUCKING CANDLES IT WAS A JOKE //
icon art by dan-mcneely/the-giant-rat!
I’ve decided that all bats fall somewhere on this horrid little graph I’ve devised. Here are some prime examples of the various Creature Varieties found in nature.
when i was a kid there was this guy in my neighborhood named Jerry. he was 100 years old for my entire childhood. his house was up on a hill and he had a big porch he sat on all day from sun up to sundown. his front door was always open if it wasn’t too cold out and there was a big old fridge/freezer right inside where he kept orange crush in glass bottles and freeze-pops.
kids were allowed to walk right into his house and get treats from the fridge but the rule is we had to sit on the porch while we ate the popsicles or drank the pop and this is how he got us to listen to him talk about random stuff all day.
if parents needed to find us bc we failed to come home when we were supposed to they called him and he could send other kids out looking for us. it’d be like in the creek some other 8 year old would tell you “hey your mom called Jerry. youre supposed to be home.”
if you were home sick from school and your parents worked he’d watch you for free & everyone looked out for him. i spent a lot of days napping on his couch when i was little.
idk i know i couldn’t be a full-time parent so that’s my ideal role in a community one day. old guy babysitter with a porch.
Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.
being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. “you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas”. studies have proven its making people dumber. “i asked ai to generate this meal plan”. its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. “ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign”. its spreading misinformation. “meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid”. its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. “i was talking with my snapchat ai-” theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. “youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification”. my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more “well at least-” “but it does-” “but you can-” im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
I don’t think this is being widely covered by national news, but Western Alaska has been devastated by Typhoon Halong. Thousands of people are out of their homes, the coastal Yup'ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk had 6.6 feet of water above normal. Dozens of people were rescued swimming in icy waters, houses have been ripped off their foundations, one woman is dead, three people are still missing, and most people are sheltering in the community schools. This is a roadless, remote area where it’s difficult to get supplies and help in, heading into winter. Consider giving towards the Native-coordinated disaster response sending food and other supplies if you can.
i know it pisses some people off but i find it fun that most websites use the US flag for english and the brazillian flag for portuguese. kind of awesome. sorry england and portugal you colonized too hard so you dont get to own your language anymore. you gave it up to the americas. sucks to suck. go brazil.
