O let the solid ground / Not fail beneath my feet

This isn’t the final edit but I thought y’all might like to see what I’m working on for @yellowis4happy 🫶

reblog to mark the burrow of the person you reblogged this from, so they can rest safely.

joe biden’s resumé, in order of importance:

the first time i ever heard about biden “causing” fob was in a tik tok and for some reason my immediate thought was that mr joseph biden himself told these motherfuckers to start a band, pep talk and everything. and then my second thought was maybe he had some connection with a record label, and called them up like “yeah, man, got this great band, great group of kids”

it never crossed my mind that pete wentz’s parents met at a fucking biden campaign

and it continues btw

Joe Biden being responsible for the formation of IDKhow was not something I was prepared to encounter today

Seeing Era-Defining KPOP sensation SHINee on a post about Joe Biden being directly responsible for the formation of Fall Out Boy was not something I expected to see today

tidy wires are less of a fire hazard =)

Peer reviewed tag from @queerkhazad

simply dont monday

theyre literally finally admitting that they think poor people should starve to death lmao

If I remember my pop culture version of history correctly I think the guillotine is meant to come out after this part

chronic illness mood of the week

Did I stutter

Katharine Hepburn as Amazon warrior princess Antiope & Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in stage production of The Warrior’s Husband (1932) (Corbis)

CREATURE????

just when you think it couldn’t be worse, you have to battle a creature

I’m choosing to believe him because I think there should still be mystery and adventure in the world

Okay I looked this one up. He said he talked to God, made up some songs, and lost nine kilos during his 20ish hours in the water. He was also completely nude when he was rescued.

hero’s journey

and this man? Odysseus

he also ate some kind of stick

happy pride everyone

This meme leapt into my head earlier at work, so I had to make it

Oo, I get to talk about an absolute CLASSIC marine ecology story!

This is not a story about AI being trained to pick plastic out of the ocean, but picking out something else that's harmful to the ocean: The Crown of Thorns Starfish. (Also yes, that name DOES go incredibly hard.)

The COTS is a species of venomous starfish found on the barrier reef, and they feed on corals. They aren't invasive, but they don't have many natural predators either, so large outbreaks in their population can descercate huge portions of the reef at a time. That's where this guy comes in:

This is Rangerbot. It's a "cots bot" equipped with trained AI to recognize inditidual COTS. It then injects the COTS with bile, which is toxic to the COTS but harmless for the environment. This was effectively used to keep the COTS population in check, so the coral of the barrier reef had time to grow.

There's an episode of Bizarre Beasts about the COTS (hosted by Hank Green himself) which I think is pretty cool and explains the whole situation in a fun way.

So, yeah! If an AI can be trained to recognize a species of starfish with %99 accuracy and effectively get rid of them, I think it is PERFECTLY reasonable to train AI to recognize trash in the oceans, at least in areas close to the shore, and have them clean it up.

SO I asked my Google home (shut up, I know, fuck off) to play music for me:

and do you know what playlist it started playing for me instead of "this is chvrches", like I asked for?

I'm in actual fuckin tears

Sorry to bring this back but I went through my history to make sure I wasn't insane and it really did do this to me. I wanted to grab the audio file but I don't think I can