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The fun thing is that they were sounding the alarm about this in undergrad poli sci classes 20 years ago but people were like, naw, that won't happen. And then it did. Exactly how my professors said it would.

I'm just saying, "We created a computer to make decisions for us, but it assimilated all of the bias that was implicit in the dataset and now makes incredibly racist decisions that we don't question because computers are logical and don't make mistakes" literally sounds like a planet-of-the-week morality play on the original Star Trek.

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tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

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Some might say, how do you think they got so rich?

I dunno man, but I didn't know I was only $3.62 away from being comfortably wealthy.

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STARGATE UNIVERSE (2009–2011) ⤷ Deliverance

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Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you.

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Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you. Tom Baker as Rasputin can't hurt you.

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extremely fucked up that the only way out is through

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"haunting the narrative" is one of those phrases i wanna put up on a shelf. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that are dead haunt the narrative. not all characters that haunt the narrative are dead.

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Hmmmm hm. Okay. Worldbuilding/story idea.

One million years after humanity disappears, octopi and ravens have independently developed sapience. And one day an octopus child and an elder raven meet at the edge of the ocean.

Where is your mother and father? asks the raven. I have no mother or father, says the octopus, blushing pale. All octopi are children. Once we’re grown, we will mate and we will die. It is the first and the last thing our mothers tell us.

But that’s horrible, says the raven. It’s not all bad, says the octopus. We play, we hunt, we make games for ourselves in the deep. Yes, but who remembers your songs? the raven says. Who passes down your stories?

What is a story? the octopus asks.

And the raven thinks about this question. And finally it says: A story is how you remember things in the past. It is how you know where you come from, and what happened before you were born. A story can be a warning, or it can be advice, or it can be a silly joke told to make you feel good. Someone remembers the story and tells it to the next generation, who remember the story and tells it to the generation after them.

And the octopus thinks about this answer. And finally it says: Can you tell me a story?

And the raven tells the octopus a story. And it’s a good story. And the next day the octopus returns and asks for another. The next day it brings its octopus friends, and the raven brings its raven friends, and many stories are shared on the edge of the ocean.

Months later, the octopus returns to the raven. I am grown, it says. I am returning to the sea to find a mate and lay my brood. I will not be coming back. I’m sorry.

I will miss your company, says the raven.

I have one thing to ask you, says the octopus. In time my children will come to the edge of the ocean. I would like you to tell them a story I have made. And when they have stories of their own, I would like your children to remember them and pass them down to my children’s children.

Of course, says the raven. What is your story about?

And the octopus thinks, and says: It is about an octopus child and an elder raven who meet at the edge of the ocean.

And this story has been passed down to this day.

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guardian of the sewing kit

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gay people never flirt normally its always gotta be shit like this

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This is a hyper specific situation, but if you started tablet weaving and realized after you set up your warp you forgot to buy a shuttle, I recommend a toilet paper roll!

Just flatten that sucker out and cut a square out of each side. Mine is cut to make the middle portion 2.5 inches so I could measure out the weft easier.

Happy tablet weaving!

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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I wasn’t crazy about this piece so I wasn’t intending on publicly posting it again, but it keeps getting stolen every five minutes so I figured I’d put it here so people at least know who to attribute the original thing to lmao

[Digital illustration, Procreate App, 2020]