I want to know why

Fizzy was such an outspoken, lovely girl, who not only loved her family, but who dreamt about her own big family, following her mom’s path. She was not afraid to call things as she saw them. She called people out for bullying and stupidity, she encouraged her followers to dream big and put mental health issues in the open so that we feel that no one has to feel stupid for struggling. She was 18! years old, and sometimes in her words wiser than most people my age.

I never met her, nor knew her personally, but I genuinely am heartbroken.

Rest In Peace, Félicité! 💔

Parents of newly born infants and toddlers do deserve certain preferential treatment especially if they’re with those toddlers, you can never change my mind

Na.

It kinda looks like dough on a black counter.

Peak youtube humour is non beauty gurus holding literally anything other than makeup related items in front of the camera the exact same way beauty gurus do. That makes me laugh for 15 minutes straight every single time

This is literally the funniest thing

Aside from bees and butterflies, bats are one of the most important pollinators on the planet - especially in tropical and desert regions. 

(Source)

lost in the sauce

My pussy is fat my heart is fatter got a tiny brain made of snickerdoodle batter

picdescbot special: AI detecting adult content

(Human generated post, obviously!)

You’ve probably heard about the upcoming tumblr policy change, which has most of this website running around covered in flames and screaming. Tumblr is trying to use AI to detect “adult content”, and it has quite a lot of false positives - innocent pictures that tumblr thinks are porn.

As you may know, picdescbot is built with a lot of strict filters to make sure it doesn’t post anything people might not want to see. Unlike a website built for user content, where you want people to post whatever they want, picdescbot is automated and mostly runs with no human intervention, and we didn’t want it to post *anything* that might even be *slightly* offensive or explicit - so we set our filters to be very strict.

One of the earliest filters added was an “adult content” filter - Microsoft’s service returns a warning if it thinks there’s a chance the picture is “adult content”, and the percentage of confidence it has in its decision. To make sure picdescbot doesn’t post anything, we’ve configured it to not use the picture even if the AI is unsure. AI is not the best at detecting adult content to begin with, so the combination of these factors creates quite a few false positives, so let’s look at some of them them!

The picdescbot adult-content false positives special!

The following pictures were marked as adult content.

This picture, for example, of “a hand holding a cell phone“! Tumbs are very adult, and internal pictures of printers are obviously porn for robots. (confidence: 67%, tagged as “racy” but not “adult”)

Moving on,

This is “a close up of a map”, and it was discarded for a similar reason. I guess Nottinghamshire is now adult content and therefor not allowed on tumblr, sorry!

Oh deer, this “a drawing of a person“, is clearly a furry with an erection, not some Norwegian coat of arms. Definitely no longer allowed on tumblr under the new rules (confidence: 70%)

I’m sorry, but this nice cow (”a brown cow standing next to a body of water“) is definitely not wearing any clothes. Can’t have that on tumblr!

This is a nice “a close up of a flower”, and it is very well known that flowers are the reproductive organs of plants, that’s a very adult content! cover your eyes, kids!

See this thing, this is not just “a laptop computer sitting on a table“, this is a workstation laptop. Work is for adults, so the AI obviously tagged this as adult content. Well done AI!

I thought this is a blurry picture of some kola nuts and someone’s leg in the background, but the AI knows best, and says this is “a group of people sleeping on the ground“, which is obviously a very adult thing to do, therefor “adult content”. Got it.

How about this one - “a close up of a half pipe”. To be honest, I always thought half pipes are skating thing, and skating is something teenagers might do, but apparently this is not the case because the AI says this is adult content. Sorry teenagers, no skating for you.

See this? "a sign on the side of a wooden door“. The door is obviously very old. Old = adult, so this is “adult content”. I totally understand how this works.

I have many more of these (other examples include: people with clothes on, stone statues with bare chests, etc), but I think you can see the point - maybe AI is not the best solution for this problem.

- Elad, almost certainly a human

Credit.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for simply keeping it together and not sobbing all day every day despite living in a society that not only violently slaughters millions of innocent animals daily, but simultaneously vilifies us for asking others to choose compassion.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for politely smiling while you tell your bacon jokes, in hopes that our “coolness” will make you more receptive to the truth we’re trying to expose.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for starting businesses, inventing new food groups, opening farmed animal sanctuaries, figuring out how to make leather out of pineapples, practicing dozens of recipes to impress family members, and learning literally everything about protein just out of desperate hope that our contributions will convince even one person to eat plants instead of pain.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit for peacefully walking through grocery stores that are lined with the body parts of those we couldn’t save in time. For conversing respectfully with shoppers whose carts are full of dead animals, because we know, we know, we know, we used to buy that stuff too.

I don’t think vegans get enough credit. But honestly, you can keep the credit- that’s not what we’re here for. We just want the needless killing to stop.

Why are vegans like this???

Why are meat eaters like this?

Lmao you’re deadass trying to blame me saying “why are vegans like this” for some kid killing himself? But you put “why are meat eaters like this” so you’re literally just as bad as me so if I kill myself it’s on you and I’ll be sure to tag you in my suicide note 😘

My grandmother died earlier this month and we are still scrambling to clean out her apartment by the first of December. She left no money behind to pay for her cremation and we seriously can’t aford it. Please donate even $1 if you can and reblog to get the word out. I don’t know what we are going to do if we can’t get the money.

My grandmother died earlier this month and we are still scrambling to clean out her apartment by the first of December. She left no money behind to pay for her cremation and we seriously can’t aford it. Please donate even $1 if you can and reblog to get the word out. I don’t know what we are going to do if we can’t get the money.

My grandmother died earlier this month and we are still scrambling to clean out her apartment by the first of December. She left no money behind to pay for her cremation and we seriously can’t aford it. Please donate even $1 if you can and reblog to get the word out. I don’t know what we are going to do if we can’t get the money.

My grandmother died earlier this month and we are still scrambling to clean out her apartment by the first of December. She left no money behind to pay for her cremation and we seriously can’t aford it. Please donate even $1 if you can and reblog to get the word out. I don’t know what we are going to do if we can’t get the money.

My grandmother died earlier this month and we are still scrambling to clean out her apartment by the first of December. She left no money behind to pay for her cremation and we seriously can’t aford it. Please donate even $1 if you can and reblog to get the word out. I don’t know what we are going to do if we can’t get the money.