Something has broken in me that will never be whole again.
realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"
burn out
Internet hugs for anyone else out there dealing with burn out or other mental and/or physical issues that make it hard to interact right now
jesus christ. fine. ill say it. im sleepy. im sleepy, okay? do you know what being sleepy does to a person? to their spirit? i should be pitied.
ok some days being visibly homo is the most wonderful thing in the world. an old woman walking her dog stopped to say hello to me and I asked if i could say hi to her dog. she seemed really excited and told me "his name is rupert brooke. i named him after a gay poet from the era of the first world war. he had red hair just like my dogs fur". then she leans in and whispers like she's divulging some great secret and says "i don't usually tell people about the gay part"
I’ve told this one before, but: I was in a long-distance relationship in 2010. One time, after flying back into Toronto, I got a cab to my apartment. The cab driver, who was a recent Pakistani immigrant, asked where I had been travelling.
And I had to think about my safety as a passenger and a woman, but I decided to just tell him: “I was visiting my girlfriend in New York.” And he went quiet, and I was briefly terrified, and then he said, “It’s good here in Canada, for people like us.” AND THEN I FUCKING CRIED OBVIOUSLY.
It’s good to be visibly or openly queer, when you can be. There are so many more of us out there than you ever realize otherwise.
The pronoun pin I wear at work does not stop coworkers from misgendering me but it sure as hell makes the students feel safer.
The number of students that just visibly relax and share their chosen names with me at the reference desk makes me so emotional.
"pasta only fills you up with empty calories" have you considered that it also fills me with love
love and warmth and happiness and most importantly pasta
pasta rant. pasta fills you with strength and diet culture is based in junk science
I did sports in college and the day before every tournament we'd go to Olive garden and eat as much pasta as possible. carb loading.
and literally every year the freshmen were like "you want us to eat carbs? Bc this was peak diet culture days. And yeah bc carbs make you strong the next day. You can do high intensity anerobic exercise for a long ass time after eating carbs. it was like having pasta superpowers
We'd be bringing sugary drinks to competition to keep up the energy and getting burgers and milkshakes after to recover. And all that was healthy af
You need protein to repair damaged muscles, and fats to break down vitamins and give you energy so anything that tells you any of the macros are bad for you? It's eating disorder shit, macros are literally the 3 nutrients your body needs in large quantities to survive. and sugar? That's the shit you need when you need energy Right Now.
One of the most horrifying conversations that I've ever heard, was when my (then under ten) niece and nephew told my mum that pasta, potatoes and rice were all unhealthy foods and that she shouldn't be making them dinner with them. Because they were Bad For You.
Apparently the school they were in at the time had told them All About The Evils Of Carbs. And how they should be avoiding them all.
Carb loading has it's place definitely (I used to do it a lot pre-days where I knew I was going to be doing it a lot of heavy lifting for work). But honestly so does just eating carbs.
But we really need to get people to stop saying terrifying things like "pasta only fills you up with empty calories"
Because OP is right, it fills you with love and warmth (and most importantly pasta).
But it also fills you with energy. And, if you are still growing, it fuels your growth.
remembering that calories are literally meant to be the measure of energy is one of the greatest fixes to diet culture, imo
"low calorie!!!" = low energy
"empty calories :(((" = empty energy??? = just plain energy
"cutting calories" = cutting energy
it's literally just a measure of how much energy the food lets you have. by no means a perfect or even particularly useful measurement, but it's still Just Energy
A little piece of advice for Americans navigating what will be an increasing number of posts about US politics in the coming year:
If a post makes you feel angry, upset, and hopeless, while offering no actionable information, scroll on and don't reblog it. I know that is going to feel harsh in some cases. But it's important to spend your political energy on what you can actually do and not be sunk into helpless rage and despair that benefits no one.
Helpless rage is exactly what social media companies want you to feel. It boosts engagement. Don’t give them your time.
Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.
When I say "you need to read the article" or ask "did you read the article," I mean literally nothing but "you should read the article."
Screenshots are not sources. Headlines are not the full story.
That's all I mean.
(Now if you wanna hear me out and then go "it's behind a paywall, asshole," that's completely legitimate, and I do have answers to that but I don't have the spoons rn to talk about tips and tricks for getting around pay walls).
My quickest tip for how to get around paywalls that works 95% of the time is to install the Wayback Machine extension and when I find a paywalled story I click on the extension and select "latest version" and most of the time bam there's the story.
If I'm reading a story on a website that I know has a paywall but I've got a few views before it kicks in, I'll click on the extension to see if there's already an archived version and if there isn't, I'll save a copy to the archive by clicking "save page now" for the next person who wants to read the story.
“Emile Corsi” is not real. anything claiming to be done by an artist named Emile Corsi is ai generated art, it does not exist. what’s worse is that the person behind this “artist”, these “artworks” is that they are falsifying the historical record. these images are not from the 1800s; they were not generated until just a few weeks ago… this is intentional misinformation folks
here’s an article that talks about it and gives some tips on how to identify ai, beyond the member’s only wall it goes on to tell us that research is the biggest tool in pinpointing misinformation from ai art to radical claims in the news cycle. even just simply looking something up is enough to help counter misinformation
Since this is partially walled (it requires a free account to view the entire article, but I know how low the bar is on the internet)
The full text:
A recent image has been doing the rounds on social media on Tumbr and X that caught my attention. It claims to be a painting called Bastet by Emile Corsi, 1877. At time of writing, it has thousands of notes across various blogs and tweet threads.
The thing is, it’s not real. No artist named Emile Corsi existed in the nineteenth century. Even the header of the blog that shared it originally, Shuttered-Gallery, admits “artist never existed in reality.” But of course, most people aren’t checking before reblogging. And they’re shocked when they are told it’s actually AI-generated.
Now, cards on the table: I’m not against AI art as a whole. However, I am against spreading misinformation, and I would count slapping a fake artist name and date on an AI generated image and not disclaiming its AI origins in the original post as pretty blatant intentional misinformation.
When people discuss identifying AI art, you might see advice online pointing to specific traits in the artwork: look at the hands, people suggest, because AI has trouble identifying hands.
“How to tell that this is AI generated: — The skin is “painted” in a different style from the rest of it (very smooth, brushstrokes are hardly visible) — The cat face is a VERY different style from the rest (hyper realistic with a much tinier brush than is used anywhere else in the painting). Also if you zoom in, the gold thing draped over her leg doesn’t actually start anywhere, it just kinda blends into the gold background.”
This is all good close looking, the commenter clearly has some good visual literacy skills. These are the kinds of oddities that a trained eye will pick up without realizing it. So it’s true, but the thing is that as a guide for identifying AI art, it’s not good general advice.
I clocked that Bastet was AI generated immediately. This isn’t a brag, more a slightly embarrassed admission that I’ve spent thousands of hours looking at nineteenth century academic painting. Hundreds of those have been spend looking at Orientalist art specifically. All of those hours have coalesced into my brain into a vague cluster-property of what nineteenth-century academic painting looks like, and Bastet did not fit the bill.
But I’m an Art Historian, and the average person isn’t going to spend the time that I did to look at hundreds of nineteenth century paintings to develop that pattern recognition. Frankly, I probably would have been as useless if the AI had depicted Sumerian sculpture or Song dynasty painting, because I have little expertise in those areas. The thing is that even without clocking those hundreds of hours building up area expertise, there are still good habits we can practice when encountering images online for identifying AI art misinformation.
The better the AI gets, the less we can rely on specific visual “tells.” Even the advice to look at hands is outdated by now with new iterations of AI technology producing perfectly lovely hands. Looking is not enough.
The thing that would be enough? Research. A simple Google search reveals that there is no such artist as Emile Corsi in the nineteenth century. No auction records, no Wikipedia, no books. Art Historians and art lovers have lovingly catalogued so many popular painters, there is no way that a Tumblr or an X post is the first anyone online has heard of this artist.
So the solution must be to do research before we share art online unthinkingly. This would be especially important in countering the spread of misinformation. You might not want to check absolutely every image you encounter, we encounter hundreds in our day-to-day life, but if an image was attached to some radical claim, that might be one to check.
Not that people are willing to do this for important news, of course, so maybe it’s asking too much for them to do it for silly art posts online…
attendinge the snoozefest today
everybodé invited !
where i wanna be
NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.
"Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!"
Slow down...
"Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it." (It probably is a phishing email.)
In general, "Slow the fuck down" is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.
Bitches be like ‘I’m so tired and sleepy’ and then stay up doing hyperfixtation shit for the next 5 hours
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me when I'm 33
he made it
and we will be healed. and we are going to make it
Palestine will be free in our lifetime 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ Don't look away, and let's keep supporting Palestine in any way we can.
Has this been made yet /hj
God I hope the future is kinder. I hope that they have it figured out better. I hope people don't have to work so much for so little. I hope there's time to explore passions and interests and skills. I hope people get the support they need. I hope the people from the future look back at our problems and are bewildered by them, like I'm confused by how they used to put poisonous lead in make-up, just... "how did they ever think that was okay? How did they live like that?" I hope the cruelties and hidden poisons of our world are one day so distant that they're used as fun facts in trivia games. Please be kinder, future