I don't want to ask AI a question. I don't want AI to write my sentences for me, at all ever. I don't want AI search bars to be the default and I don't want them to be in such a way that I can't opt out. I don't want this kind of AI in my life and there is no such thing as AI art, there is only theft of art from human artists by AI scrappers. I don't want any of this, I hate it. Maybe in a world that isn't driven by tech bro capitalism we can see machines doing all the dangerous inane things so humans can be free to pursue life and creativity. But that's not what's happening right now and I hate it.

Merm designs that I made for unexpected collaboration with @mistystarshine :3 (and that's not all the designs *sigh*)

You can find the first fic in the series (yes, it's a series) here!

Another (can i tag it like “charlastor”?) sketch

So i'm working on a project that involves looking at people's opinions on public transportation, and something that keeps coming up is that a lot of people like the idea of public transportation but ridership is at the same time low, so I wanna figure out what stops people from riding.

If you could reblog this for bigger sample size that would be so so appreciated

reblogging since there's about a day left on this thing

I used to use the public transit in my city back when I was at my previous job. That job was 15 minutes away by car.

Public transit was available, and I took it regularly, but there were issues. For one, the nearest bus stop to my house took 20 minutes to walk to, and the bus came every 30 minutes. Second, I had the choice, once I reached the bus depot an HOUR later (because they used a very roundabout route instead of going directly down the road I would go by car) whether to walk the remaining 20 minutes to work or wait for the second bus that would drop me off closer (I always walked because I'd have to wait 20 minutes for the next bus anyways, which would, again, take about 20 minutes to get there. Walking was faster).

I found out that sometime after I left that job and therefore no longer needed the bus, they did change the roundabout route to a much faster one that takes about 30 minutes instead of an hour -- which is nice, but too late for me.

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

A thing from 2022

YES!

YEEEEESSSSS!

THEY TURNED MY BOY INTO A MARKETABLE FIGURINE!

There's something kinda sexy about a character that is willing to die to drag their opponent to hell with them idk its just mwah. Chef kiss. I will kill us both, I don't give a shit, as long as it means ending you. Perfect

After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than four-fold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access and healthcare costs.

Remember when everyone on earth started shitting on Martin Shkreli for cranking up the price of AIDS medicine? Time to do the same for Albert Bourla. Everyone needs to know his name, and everyone needs to virulently and vocally hate his goddamn guts.

When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

You know those "if this gets 50k notes I'll xyz"? I don't believe in those. Because I could say something crazy like: if this gets 20k notes, I'll write my next book. And then it'll get zero notes. I do not believe.