does anybody remember fun. Nobody even remembers fun. anymore, give me a second I— I need to get my story straight my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the empire state my lover she's waiting for me just across the bar my seats been taken by some sun glasses asking bout a scar but I know I gave it to you months ago I know you're trying to forget but between the drinks and subtle things the holes in my apologies you know I'm trying hard to take it back so if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling down I'll carry you home

TONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT WE ARE YOUUUUUUNNG SO I SET THE WORLD ON FIIIIIIIRE WE CAN BURN BRIGHTEEEEEER THAN THE SUUUUUUUUUUUN

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh’s Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

So, apparently this bill won't take effect until 90 days after the legislative session ends (I am not a lawyer, but I think this is common practice for laws), so the repeal won't be immediate. Fortunately, Arizona also has a Democratic attorney general who has said she will not prosecute doctors who perform abortions in violation of this law.

Arizona Attorney Geneeral Kris Mayes won her election by 280 votes out of ~2.5 million.

Every single vote counts. Every single vote matters.

im grading final papers and i'm being a literal monster and i am so sorry to the students who are going to get these back, truly i am, but they also deserve it.

NOT to turn this into a rant about ai

but i feel confident that this is ai's fault. that either these students are using it to write their papers or are using it to do their research and like. stop doing that. stop it.

i got into a whole argument with my friend the other day because they were using chatgpt and i loath chatgpt with every fibre of my being it makes me want to eat my own hands. and they were all like

"why, how is this different than googling something?"

AND LIKE. when you google things google provides you with several pages of results, NOW, we all know that the way those results are being presented to us is being curated by google and their bottom line, but regardless, you are given multiple sources of information and YOU have to sort through it and YOU have to make decisions about what sources you're using. there is an element of critical thinking involved here, there is also more transparency in that you see the actual sources of the information you are getting. You are USING YOUR BRAIN.

chatgpt sorts the information for you. IT decides what is relevant. IT thinks critically (usually poorly but he's just a lil robot what can you expect from him it's a big world)

so now i have all these students who do not understand the importance of knowing where sources come from or who wrote them or how you need to use multiple sources to prove a point, now i have students who do not know how to sort through sources, how to make decisions about what is good and what is bad, or just what is useful to them. you don't know how to critically sort information.

it is TERRIFYING. and what is more terrifying to me is how willing so many people are to just hand over the responsibility of the thinking to an algorithm. like all i have is my brain. i swear to god that's it. i don't own property, i don't have fame, or immense talent. BUT I CAN THINK. like i can think. WHY are you giving that away so casually???? I don't GET IT.

I don't get it for school. I don't get it for art. I don't get it!!!!!

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

"ohh what if my kid starts identifying as a CAT because of the trans agenda we have to prote—" well they've always done that. do you remember the psychological effects of h2o on young girls. of warrior cats on autistic children. i believed i was a demigod because of percy jackson. twilight came out and kids were telling their friends they were secretly vampires. this is just a thing kids do. worry less

i can't find the original post of this idea but im obsessed completely with Sam Reich! Master

upd: The original idea was by @ace-whovian-neuroscientist!!!

in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

the theories get even more egregious during the imperial era, with people straight up thinking she joined the rebellion in secret and is loading her songs with subliminal rebel propaganda. their main piece of evidence for this is if you play a certain song backwards, it sounds like she’s saying “freedom” in shyriiwook. the fans get really defensive if you point out she’s performed at the yearly empire day celebration thrice now and her family historically owned ewok slaves

i regret to inform both you beautiful people that this isn’t going to go how you think it will

spiff fans (also known as “spiffies”) insist that the two decommissioned venator-class destroyers spiff purchased, the bad blood and the reputation, are for diplomatic purposes that benefit the rebellion. jedi’lors have concocted theories that she served on both ships during the clone wars and was respectful of every clone that served there, despite her courtship of a gravball player that thrice advocated against the clone veterans being granted natural citizenship

@lesbianholster

Ok, I can make this even wilder bc the proposed SW version of her name follows Twilek naming conventions; a race whose history is full of caste divisions and the higher castes selling the lower as slaves, with especially women being shipped off world. So I can absolutely see this Twilek popstar claiming to be from an enslaved family who fought for emancipation and then it turning out that she comes from generational wealth of Twilek "nobles" who could afford to move off world by exploiting their own people.

I’ve been resistant to the idea of spiff being a twi’lek (a couple other people in the tags have floated that option) but i can fuck w this interpretation of it a lot so thank you

Im sorry op my hand slipped

Seeing these two posts back to back makes me wonder how long it'll be before Brennan attacks Sam with a halberd

I turn to Ares.

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

do you think about blood? have you thought about blood? will you think about blood? when will you think about blood?