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this tweet has given me more motivation to stretch than any "it's good for you" post ever will

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i think abt the part in the golden compass where it was noted that if your daemon chose to assume the form of a fish or some kind of ocean dwelling creature you could never leave the water again. at best you could dock, maybe walk a bit away from the shore, but that's it. chained to the water because your physical soul form commands it.

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uh oh! one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

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An explainer for why I don't fuck with algorithmic social media

If you give a pigeon a little button to peck that releases pigeon food, it will push the button when it's hungry.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food every 5 pecks, it will peck it more often.

If you give a pigeon a button to peck that releases food at a randomly selected, always shifting number of pecks, the pigeon will peck that fucking button all day long.

Algorithm based social media is not set up to give you the best most fun stuff all the time, it is set up to give you a bunch of stress and nothingness with a randomized reward of something that actually makes you happy, because they want you pecking that button all damn day. It is a slot machine of content, meant to keep you putting in quarters made of your time and attention till you've nothing yet.

At least if I'm having a shit day on my own Tumblr feed it's because I've made a bad choice about who to follow and I can fix it.

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African wild dogs, or painted wolves, are the bulkiest of the African canids. Their fur is also unique in that they have no undercoat, and gradually shed their fur as they age, until adults are almost completely bare. ©Love Nature

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African wild dogs, or painted wolves, are the bulkiest of the African canids. Their fur is also unique in that they have no undercoat, and gradually shed their fur as they age, until adults are almost completely bare. ©Love Nature

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African wild dogs, or painted wolves, are the bulkiest of the African canids. Their fur is also unique in that they have no undercoat, and gradually shed their fur as they age, until adults are almost completely bare. ©Love Nature

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African wild dogs, or painted wolves, are the bulkiest of the African canids. Their fur is also unique in that they have no undercoat, and gradually shed their fur as they age, until adults are almost completely bare. ©Love Nature

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African wild dogs, or painted wolves, are the bulkiest of the African canids. Their fur is also unique in that they have no undercoat, and gradually shed their fur as they age, until adults are almost completely bare. ©Love Nature

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original thread by @pukicho and several other users

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why are time loops always only like 1 day long?

the real horror is a months or years long time loop. no speedrunning your torture here. you have to sit with the consequences of your actions for a loooong time before the release of knowing the consequences and actions have been erased.

but oh, all the actions and consequences are gone. those relationships you built? empty. you can never build them again without the constant guilt of knowing that it's not as real the second, third, thirtieth time when you already know all their secrets and they none of yours.

but you can't hide. you can't isolate yourself because what if this is the time the loop breaks and then what? years gone by of missed chances with people who have changed you a thousand times and now circumstances have changed. you can never build back what was washed away by your own inaction. they'll never be able to meet you like they did the first time if you don't choose to meet them the first time every time

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get crab’d

CRABBING ME BEFORE I GO DOWN FOR OLD MAN BINGO.....