#The Giant Gonzalez

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YOOOOOO!!!! What’s up Tumblr?!?!

I make art from time to time, feel free to dm me if we have the same interests!!!

[complaining-singularity]

keep thinking of that clip of danny saying "can we get some critical thinking here" whenever customers ask me stupid ass questions that could be easily answered by things such as Looking At The Packaging and Reading The Labels

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Story of The Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzalez | WrestleMania 9

RIP Giant Gonzalez.

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interest board !

literally me^

{Music}

- Peach Pit

- Twenty One Pilots

- Mumford and Sons

- Noah Kahan

- Declan McKenna

- Grouplove

- Peter McPoland

- Hozier

- Sublime

- Briston Mroney

- Dominic Fike

{Shows}

- Daredevil

- Sherlock

- Voltron

- Queer Eye

- Supernatural

- Over the Garden Wall

- Gravity Falls

- Moon Knight

- 21 Jumpstreet (1987)

- Blue Eyed Samurai

- That 70s Show

- Brooklyn 99

{YouTubers}

- Wilbur Soot

- Sam and Colby

- Watcher

- Buzzfeed Unsolved

- Kurtis Conner

- Danny Gonzalez

- Drew Gooden

- Brittany Broski

- Chad Chad

- Slimecicle

- JSchlatt

- Wendigoon

- Lucids

{Podcasts}

- The Magnus Archives

- The Green Tunnel

- Chuckle Sandwich

- Just Roll With It

- Dimension 20

- Welcome to Nightvale

- Mr. P Explores (<- my old teacher !)

- Ologies

- Malevolent

- The Old Gods of Appalachia

{Hobbies}

- reading

- hanging out with friends (ofc)

- going on walks/hikes

- shopping/thrifting

- sleeping

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{Apps}

- TikTok

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{Movies}

- The Princess Bride

- (Tom Holland) Spiderman

- LEGO Batman

- Pirates of the Caribbean

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- Top Gun: Maverick

- Tangled

- Indiana Jones

- The Iron Giant

- Baby Driver

- Fast and Furious

{Other Stuff}

- my cats

- ghost hunting (videos)

- Panera

- school

- wearing other people's clothes

- nature

- Halloween

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Photo Day con mucho flow. (x)

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Most Beloved WWE Wrestler Tournament

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The Undertaker makes his entrance for his match against Giant Gonzalez. WrestleMania IX April 4, 1993

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Benggwigwishingasuchus: The Fisher Crocodile

I once again come bearing news from the realm of Pseudosuchia. Yes, we got a new taxon. Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis ("Fisherman Croc's desert song") is a new basal member of the poposauroidea, a clade you might have heard about before.

But first some more key notes. Benggwigwishingasuchus has been recovered from the Anisian Fossil Hill Member of the Favret Formation, located in the US State of Nevada. It is known from a decently complete skeleton that preserves much of the neck and torso, a decent chunk of the limbs but only small pieces of the skull.

Left: Press release artwork of Benggwigwishingasuchus looking across the Panthalassan Ocean (Jorge A. Gonzalez) Right: Fossil material

As said already, Benggwigwishingasuchus is considered a member of the poposauroidea, one of the most enigmatic groups of early pseudosuchians. The reason for that is that we primarily know them from their most derived members, the bipedal Poposaurus, the sail-backed ctenosauriscids, Lotosaurus, the ornithomimosaur-mimics of the Shuvosauridae and Qianosuchus. As you can see many appear kind of like proto-dinosaurs and most have lost their osteoderm armor, requiring a whole different skeletal structure to support their erect posture. But until recent years we knew little and less about where they came from. This is thankfully starting to change now, since we now not only have Benggwigwishingasuchus, but also Schultzsuchus (formerly "Prestosuchus" loricatus) described earlier this year, Mambawakale from two years ago and recently assigned to the group as well as Mandasuchus (similar to Mambawakale originally described as something else and recently considered as a basal poposauroid). Thanks to these we are slowly starting to see a transition. Schultzsuchus still has pretty standard armour for example, but Qianosuchus shows clear signs of reduction, with Benggwigwishingasuchus kinda falling into the middle between them.

Assorted Poposauroids: clockwise from top right: Poposaurus (Skye McDavid), Arizonasaurus (Gabriel Ugueto), Lotosaurus (Gabriel Ugueto), Shuvosaurus (Joschua Knüppe)

What's also interesting about Benggwigwishingasuchus is its ecology, or what little we can infer based on the circumstances of its preseration. You see, the Favret Formation preserves marine sediments and was previously best known for its ichthyosaurs (including the giant Cymbospondylus). So its kind of weird seeing a rather lanky pseudosuchian there. What's weirder still is the fact that the preservation seems to suggest that it wasn't swept out. No, its still reasonably complete, partially articulated and in the classic death pose with its back bent backwards, this thing was moved little before being burried. BUT. It wasn't marine. The skeleton fits of a terrestrial animal and both limb proportions and histology show no evidence of it being a swimmer or diver. Instead its hypothesized that it might have been an animal that inhabited the coast, possibly drawing sustenance from the sea but not actively adapted to forage in it. In this sense Benggwigwishingasuchus could parallel Ticinosuchus from Switzerland and Qianosuchus from China, both of which were coastal animals yet not explicitly aquatic (in the case of Qianosuchus it was originally proposed given its specialised tail, but recent work seems to suggest it was never very fast nor enduring).

Top image: Benggwigwishingasuchus standing on the skull of Cymbospondylus (Joschua Knüppe) Bottom left: Ticinosuchus among a group of Tanystropheus (Zach Robinson) Bottom right: Qianosuchus holding a fish (Gabriel Ugueto)

All in all, Benggwigwishingasuchus is an interesting animal that does fill in some gaps in the fossil record, both phylogentically and ecologically and though the description is sparce on actually describing the skeleton, here's hoping that more research will come out eventually. Hell, they dropped a histology on it like a day after it was named.

Wikipedia:

Benggwigwishingasuchus - Wikipedia Papers: A new pseudosuchian from the Favret Formation of Nevada reveals that archosauriforms occupied coastal regions globally during the Middle Triassic | Biology Letters (royalsocietypublishing.org)

Diverse growth rates in Triassic archosaurs—insights from a small terrestrial Middle Triassic pseudosuchian | The Science of Nature (springer.com)

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stop saying taylor swift is "literally fantube". if anything is literally fantube its:

homestar runner

they might be giants

hot freaks

asapscience

papa louie games (especially hotdoggeria)

lego sets that make you stay up until 3 am building

horrible puns

those parody minion memes that say stuff like "omw to eat cement!!"

niche subreddits

the undertale soundtrack

danny gonzalez's ratatoing video

fiction podcasts

i couldve wrote more but im too lazy to.

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INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

A boy lays in his bed with headphones on listening to the same song he has been for hours. His eyes are sunken in and he is visibly tired.

The camera pans to the boys face. He sighs, looks directly into the camera, and closes his eyes.

Cut to black.

☆ Name - Ghost / Kurt / Matt

★ Pronouns - He/Him

☆ Sexuality - Queer

★ heyy!! this is mainly a place of whatever my current hyperfixation,, i talk a lot about a lot very incoherently so bear with me..

☆ my dms are open but if you make me uncomfortable ill just block you! i do enjoy talking to people, i just have a rough time starting conversations because i dont want to be annoying.. i also have a very hard time getting my thoughts into coherent sentences.. but dont hesitate to dm or send me an ask !! oh and close moots can ask for my insta <3

★ right now im really into they might be giants!!! im currently watching white collar !!

☆ i love tv show and movie recommendations,, i cant guarantee ill watch it 100% but i bet ill eventually get to it one day.. i plan on watching succession, the good place, and interview with the vampire sometime.. i also love talking about tv shows/movies with people so Pleaseee talk to me about ur interests or my interests or whatever, i luv listening to ppl infodump!!!

★ some other things im into areee - house md, its always sunny in philadelphia, breaking bad, bobs burgers, good omens, all of john mulaneys specials, velvet goldmine, brokeback mountain, rocky horror picture show, saw (2004), fight club, dead poets society, a quiet place (all three), deadpool (+ wolvie), the outsiders (book mostly), many more movies just ask, life is strange, i plan on beginning detroit become human, dan and phil, danny gonzalez, kurtis conner, drew gooden, markiplier, and a lot of other things i just.. havent written down

@faileddog ^ (mona, joel, and i watching american psycho)

☆ i love love love love music with my whole heart,, i listen to most genres but i go through phases of only listening to specific songs/genres/albums/etc

★ my favorite artist is vundabar!! they have been for years now i love them so much

☆ right now ive been in a slight music rut so ive been listening to the same songs over and over on my main playlist i have..

★ some artists i like include - they might be giants, pure sport, ween, the frights, stephen sanchez, my chemical romance, green day, david bowie, nirvana, system of a down, sign crushes motorist/birth day, lord huron, the magnetic fields, alex g, deftones, childish gambino, twist off!, etc etc

☆ if u wanna go listen to any of my playlists ☆

★ hmm what elsee,, im really into punk rock n i go to a lot of punk shows!! concerts are like my favorite thing and ive seen 20+ people live <3

☆ as i said i luv movies, i want to work on movies one day as a cinematographer or maybe even director.. my dream is to make my own movie. i would also like to be a concert photographer because i love photography and yeah!!!

★ ouhh i also love queer history, history in general but mostly queer history.. i love learning about the past and how life was for people.. im mainly intrigued by like the 70s-90s but honestly anything in the 20th century..

☆ i could talk about some of my favorite characters for hours,, i get Really invested in usually one show at a time though so its hard to invest myself in things that arent.. that fixation

★ i dont wanna write down all the guys i like but you'll definitely be able to tell because i wont shut up about them and my reblogs will mostly be them...

☆ credit- @hopelesshardrockfan for my banner

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Also i need you to know I ran another game of Automnijobs: Small Jobs for Unimportant People over the weekend and this time the crew was:

George Moreau (irritable robot scorpion) on their ship The Gonzalez and their AI Omikron

Jacobi (new and over enthusiastic giant sentient beetle)

Just Ken (incompetent Human)

Tim Stoker (exhausted half-wasp quarter-human quarter-cow)

Their mission was essentially to therapize The Acheron from Ulysses Dies at Dawn.

I did my Toy Soldier Voice drunk for a room full of brits.

I did NOT do an Ashes O'Reilly impression

Next time it will be OUaTiS,,,

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The Carbon Footprint of Amazon, Google, and Facebook Is Growing. (Sierra Club)

Excerpt from this story from Sierra Club:

IN MARCH The Information reported that Microsoft was in talks with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, about spending an eye-popping $100 billion on a gargantuan data center in Wisconsin dedicated to running artificial intelligence software. Code-named “Stargate,” the data center would, at full operation, consume five gigawatts of electricity, enough to power 3.7 million homes. For comparison purposes, that’s roughly the same amount of power produced by Plant Vogtle, the big nuclear power station in Georgia that cost $30 billion to build.

Stargate is in the earliest of planning stages, but the sheer scale of the proposal reflects a truth about artificial intelligence: AI is an energy hog. That’s an embarrassing about-face for the technology industry. For at least 20 years, American electricity consumption has hardly grown at all—owing in part, say computer scientists, to steady advances in energy efficiency that have percolated out of the tech industry into the larger economy. In 2023, according to the US Energy Information Administration, total electricity consumption fell slightly from 2022 levels.

But according to a report published last December by Grid Strategies, a consultancy that advises on energy policy, multiple electric utilities now predict that US energy demand will rise by up to 5 percent over the next five years. One of the chief culprits responsible for the surge, say the utilities, are new data centers designed to run AI. To meet the growing demand for power, those utilities want to build new fossil fuel power plants and to dismantle climate legislation that stands in their way.

For environmentalists, this represents a giant step backward. Artificial intelligence was supposed to help us solve problems. What good are ChatGPT and its ilk if using them worsens global warming?

This is a relatively new story—the AI gold rush is still in its infancy, ChatGPT only having debuted in fall 2022. But computing’s energy demands have been growing for decades, ever since the internet became an indispensable part of daily life. Every Zoom call, Netflix binge, Google search, YouTube video, and TikTok dance is processed in a windowless, warehouse-like building filled with thousands of pieces of computer hardware. These data centers are where the internet happens, the physical manifestation of the so-called cloud—perhaps as far away from ethereality as you can get.

In the popular mind, the cloud is often thought of in the simple sense of storage. This is where we back up our photos, our videos, our Google Docs. But that’s just a small slice of it: For the past 20 years, computation itself has increasingly been outsourced to data centers. Corporations, governments, research institutions, and others have discovered that it is cheaper and more efficient to rent computing services from Big Tech.

The crucial point, writes anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in his case study The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage, is that “heat is the waste product of computation.” Data centers consume so much energy because computer chips produce large amounts of heat. Roughly 40 percent of a data center’s electricity bill is the result of just keeping things cool. And the new generation of AI software is far more processor intensive and power hungry than just about anything—with the notable exception of cryptocurrency—that has come before.

The energy cost of AI and its perverse, climate-unfriendly incentives for electric utilities are a gut check for a tech industry that likes to think of itself as changing the world for the better. Michelle Solomon, an analyst at the nonprofit think tank Energy Innovation, calls the AI power crunch “a litmus test” for a society threatened by climate change.

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Randy Savage Mr Perfect vs Mr. Hughes Giant Gonzalez 8 17 93

Mmmm...that smile on the thumbnail already @84reedsy 🥵🥵🥵. I'm also liking the orange and black combo 😍😍😍!!

But.... who are these monsters he and Savage are going after??!!

Just something SO ABSOLUTELY LOVELY about hearing the crowd chanting PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT 😍😍😍And he hears it and LOVES IT ❤️❤️❤️

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✩ INTRO POST ✩

welcome to my blog!! you can call me Al (aha!) or Artie. whichever ya want. he/him trans guy AuDHD with a growing pile of interests. watch out

since I have a lot on interests, ill pop them under the cut. to put it simply, I like sitcoms, old media, and music.

I'm also an artist so I may post some art here and there if I wanna. whoopee!

asks are open!! if you wanna send any, please do!!

previous user: charlie-kellyyy

tags: #bonaventures thoughts #cymru posting

Music !!

these are categorised in a strange way but it's how I see fit

☆ Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Cream, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, George Harrison, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Oasis, Strawberry Alarm Clock ☆

☆ They Might Be Giants, Oingo Boingo, Will Wood, Blink-182, Gorillaz, Menswear, Tally Hall, L7, MFDOOM, Primus ☆

(favs highlighted.)

Shows/Movies !!

☆ Arrested Development, Friends, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Peep Show, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Red Dwarf, The Office US, The Monkees ☆

☆ Withnail & I, A Hard Day's Night, Hot Fuzz, Help!, Whiplash, Head, The Worlds End ☆

Extra !!

☆ Stardew Valley, Red Dead Redemption, Fields of Mistria, Hades, Dead Rising ☆

☆ Eddy Burback, Danny Gonzalez, Kurtis Conner, WillNE, Chuckle Sandwich, James Marriott, Dan and Phil ☆

That's about it I'd say, but I also have a lot of characters I won't get into. but they mean a lot to me lolz