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Have you thought about millipedes lately?

@cptn-catastrophic / cptn-catastrophic.tumblr.com

23 year old dragon enthusiast with a vested interest in historical medicine. em/it - aotearoa
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vyvybug

Pride Dinosaurs!!

Available on redbubble! Feel free to use as icons w/ credit, and requests are welcome!

[Image Description: 9 drawings of dinosaurs with pride flag colours. They are outlined, with detailed texture to represent scales and feathers.

In order: 1) A rainbow brachiosaurus. The brachiosaurus has smudged/speckled painted stripes in the 8 colour original LGBT flag. The underbelly has the progressive pride triangle. The style is slightly more cartoony/cute. 2) A sunset lesbian flag triceratops facing left with one foot up. 3) A gay mens plesiosaur. facing diagonally right and down. The fins are the blues, with the back and head being greens. 4) A bisexual flag stegosaurus facing right with one foot up. Follows the order of the flag with pink spines, purple body, blue legs. 5) Pansexual ankylosaurus facing right with a raised tail. The body is blue and pink, while the spikes, tail, and nails are yellow. 6) Transgender tyrannosaurus rex facing right. Back is blue, underneath and inside of legs are pink, with a thin white stripe of scales down the middle. 7) Nonbinary pterodactyl facing right mid flight. The wings are yellow with black edges, the body is purple with white details. 8) Asexual parasaurolophus facing left looking up. The body is purple with a grey and black underbelly. 9) An aromantic velociraptor facing diagonally left and down. The body is green with feathers, with a grey/black underbelly and tail tip. End ID]

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its of utmost importance you have sound on while watching this

If you can’t make use of the sound, please imagine the soft snuffles of a hand vacuum that’s capable of love.

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lacefuneral

i love it, sniff animal

sniff animal saturday

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I'm not millenial nor gen z im from south america

sending a kiss to all non-latinamerican third worlders in the notes. love u

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aelita15

For confudes first-worlders: the lines to divide different generation are placed by the American culture. So you would divide generations based on things within that specific culture, such as historical events that affected that culture, technology advancement, and politics.

According to my date of birth, I would be considered a generation younger than what my familiarity with certain technologies would do. Because the rest of the world didn't change at the same time as the US, or the same way. So things like dvds, cds, iphones, etc, would become widespread later than it would in the US. Which means, two people born the same year but in two different parts of the world would be introduced to said technology (or political consequences, or fashion, or culture) while one was in elementary school and the other was in the equivalent of an high-school.

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Happy International Museums Day to the following people:

  • The guy who called me the Whore of Babylon for teaching kids about Ancient Egypt as I stood there and nodded.
  • The woman who was deeply incensed that staff wouldn't open the cases so she could touch the organic objects.
  • The one guy who made me translate hieroglyphs on a stele for him, then was mad because it didn't say what he wanted it to say, and reported me for 'lying' to the public.
  • The parents who objected to the taxidermied animals having taxidermied genitalia because it was unseemly.
  • Those kids on a school trip who got on the floor in front of a mummy and started chanting 'we worship Ra' as their teacher desperately tried to get them to leave.
  • That one guy who...uh...really liked geodes. No, they were not a special interest. He really, really liked geodes.

While pretty and sparkly on the inside, the outer shell of a geode is incredibly hard, just like the man who was viewing them.

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apas-95

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

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Nononono silica dust is a known and common hazard in construction and manufacturing. This is deliberate and horrifying neglect on the part of these employers. They could have properly implemented engineering controls, they could have required respirators on the shop floor. What you call "super asbestos" (silica dust) has been killing people for centuries, as long as people have been stonemasons really. OSHA has strict standards regarding the PEL for silica dust, but there is a dangerous lack of awareness and enforcement of safety protocols. This is not some new horror of the culture of capitalism, this is ordinary and awful and age old neglect.

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rattleboons

ah! didnt see u there! u caught me indulging in one of my most fascinating interests as of late. its called a "dictionary". *turns page and softly chuckles* oh, this is clever...

[ID: A tag that says "#i see someone is about halfway through the c's." End ID]

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snommelp

“As a chemical engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh who uses a power wheelchair, I figured it wouldn’t be long before I met one of these bots in a frustrating face-off on a narrow sidewalk. What I didn’t realize was how dangerous, and dehumanizing, that scenario might be.

The robot was sitting motionless on the curb cut on the other side of Forbes Avenue. It wasn’t crossing with the rest of the pedestrians, and when I reached the curb, it didn’t move as the walk signal was ending. I found myself sitting in the street as the traffic light turned green, blocked by a non-sentient being incapable of understanding the consequences of its actions.”

-Emily Ackerman

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mosscrab

[ID: three screenshots. The first is a perspective article by CityLab. It’s headline reads “My fight with a sidewalk robot.” The paragraph below reads “A life threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.” Below the paragraph is a picture of a small rectangular sidewalk robot moving along a sidewalk.

The second screenshot is a tweeted picture by an unknown user of six sidewalk robots going down the side of the street, with a car trying to pull between two of them. There are two replies below it, the first reply is by Adrian Lopez @PaladinZilch and reads “Wow. Imagine being in a wheelchair and seeing that.” The second reply is by I [flaming heart emoji] You @IAm444x and reads “oh god the tech bros made car traffic for sidewalks [crying emoji].”

The third screenshot is a reply tweet by Will Jackson @geologywill that reads “A few weeks ago… it took 5 minutes for their sensors to figure out how to get out of the standoff… Enjoyed every second of it.” Below is a picture of three sidewalk robots caught in a circle at an outdoor bus stop, presumably stuck in their circle. End ID.]

@a-square-6-28-496 here's a reblog with image IDs

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fasjhghajf got a new firefox addon that lets you set themes to automatically switch to between specific times, set it to switch to Scary Red at 1am to scare me into going to bed and it works I got startled so bad when it suddenly changed to thsi fajgghasfj

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