#as blue as the sky itself

[massivementalitynut]

My Scrapbook Couple Comm from @mypillowpaper

[hhhhleb]

*i feel better around you

[synthaphone]

@pinkpalmingo @atapi wahhh thank you so much for the thoughtful asks; i really appreciate it!!! its really neat to hear an outside perspective on what makes my art distinctive- i often have trouble picking out what might stand out about it, myself

@rustedmoose

ITS BEEN 14 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!

[knittingwithhighlighters]

OK y'all, let's have a battle of the names.

so it's Rodney Copperbottom (robots) vs Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona). let's goooooooo!

[skitskatdacat63]

Cred

Also this video is a good representation:

[gaytobymeres]

Sandstone and sky: Edinburgh in September

[morlock-holmes]

What demonic marketer decided to use the term "hallucination" to describe when a large language model produces text that isn't true?

Because that's like saying that your magic 8 ball has a tendency to hallucinate.

[sunday-arch]

TAGS REDONE.

.　　. 　 ˚　. SOMETIMES IT TAKES MORE COURAGE NOT TO FIGHT ⸻ makino.

.　　. 　 ˚　. DUTY VERSUS FAMILY ̗ WHAT WILL BECOME OF JUSTICE ⸻ monkey d. garp.

.　　. 　 ˚　. I AM THE MAN WHO WILL BECOME KING OF THE PIRATES ⸻ monkey d. luffy.

.　　. 　 ˚　. TAKE ME OUT TO SEA WITH YOU ! A DESIRE TO LIVE ⸻ nico robin.

.　　. 　 ˚　. PRIMADONNA GIRL ̗ ALL I EVER WANTED WAS THE WORLD ⸻ perona.

.　　. 　 ˚　. I AM FIRE ITSELF. YOU CAN'T EVEN TOUCH ME ⸻ portgas d. ace.

.　　. 　 ˚　. A MAN WHO HAS COOKED ON EVERY SEA IN THE WORLD ⸻ red leg zeff.

.　　. 　 ˚　. LOOKS LIKE IT WAS A LITTLE TOO SPICY FOR YOU ! DEVIL OF THE BLUE SEA ⸻ sanji.

.　　. 　 ˚　. THEY CALL HIM THE DARK KING ̗ THE PIRATE KING'S FIRST MATE ⸻ silvers rayleigh.

.　　. 　 ˚　. I WILL BECOME A RELIABLE DOCTOR WHO WILL CURE ANY DISEASE ⸻ tony-tony chopper.

.　　. 　 ˚　. TO BECOME A BRAVE WARRIOR OF THE SEA ⸻ usopp.

.　　. 　 ˚　. PASSION BLEEDS RED ̗ I CAN SEE THE CORE OF YOU ⸻ riku viola.

.　　. 　 ˚　. I WAS BORN WITH A SWORD IN ONE HAND AND YOUR HEAD IN THE OTHER ⸻ clover d. iselda.

.　　. 　 ˚　. LIKE A RELENTLESS BLADE IN THE DARK ⸻ kazumi haru.

.　　. 　 ˚　. PURE LUCID EVIL ̗ I'D SLEEP ALL RIGHT WITH ALL THAT ON TOP OF ME ⸻ nina liu.

.　　. 　 ˚　. AND THE SEA HAS A BELOVED WHOSE NAME ALL NIGHTMARES KNOW ⸻ otorobashi akai.

.　　. 　 ˚　. BLUE LIKE THE SKY THAT HOLDS GROTESQUE DIVINITY ⸻ quetzal d. luna.

.　　. 　 ˚　. RIDING THE NORTHERN WIND INTO TOMORROW ⸻ zephyr.

.　　. 　 ˚　. LET ME GO MAD IN MY OWN WAY. LET ME LIVE WITHOUT ABANDON ⸻ zhi hua.

[abyssalpriest]

thinking about this art of Ahi again.

[dexaroth]

figuring out the pathing has been super annoying.. the brightness scale is still too limiting so you cant do subtle texturing very well and the pixels are noticeable, but for the game to blend the pixels into blobs they need a certain amount of contrast

the paths originally had a blue tint to go with the bridge but it looked off compared to other greyish items. so i made it full monochrome . but THEN the bridge has a blue tint anyways so fuck me in particular i guess

[woodnrust]

I almost woke myself up from laughing so hard cause I had a dream that Louis and Lestat were at this fancy dinner party and Lestat humiliated Louis so bad that Louis had to excuse himself from the table, but Lestat didn't care and just kept talking to the other guests before leading them outside to show them his ugly Porsche race car and bragged to them "I am, how do you say, like one of the playboys" followed by a hard cut to Louis throwing up blood in the bathroom

[struggling-to-find-home]

Sometimes I think that my trauma will never get better and everything is horrible but then the cursed winter period of not seeing the sun for a month and a half because it's constantly covered by clouds ends and suddenly the world has joy and meaning again

[a-commas-a-pause]

# also like # from a scientific standpoint # if your hypothesis is ''psychic powers arent real'' # (which is a bad hypothesis but thats beside the point) # then the next step is to try and prove that they are real # thats kinda how it works # like you dont try to prove your hypothesis right. you try to prove it wrong # so investing in research trying to prove the existence of them is a logical step # like # the only reason we can confidently say ''psychic powers arent real'' is because we cannot prove they are real # like unless you have other evidence to bring to the table? # and i know people will say like ''oh it's common sense'' # but common sense has been proven wrong many times over # and like this isnt to say that the CIA was following standard experimental protocol # i dont know if they did # but if you want to confidently state psychic powers arent real you need to try and prove they are real first

Peer reviewed (especially applicable in this context!) tags via @listen-to-the-inner-walrus.

And if you're wondering why it's a bad hypothesis - I don't know what Kai was thinking of, but what jumps out to me is that it's a negative! You can't prove a negative (a famous example is "God isn't real"), because there's no way to prove the absence of something - there's always the argument "but what if you didn't look hard enough" and no matter how hard you look, you could always have looked harder. So the burden of proof is always on the person asserting the presence of something, not the person asserting its absence. (See Russell's teapot for a very snarky atheist example. It's very debatable whether it's fair to apply the "burden of proof" argument to religion specifically - I'm not going to comment on that. We're talking about the scientific method specifically here. If you don't think it applies in the case of faith/belief (very valid, I agree) then don't invoke it!)

In this case, the appropriate way to come at the problem in a frequentist mindset (I'm not good enough at Bayesian statistics to even try to open that can of worms, but that's ok, almost no scientist is 😭) is to take "psychic powers don't exist" as our null hypothesises, H0, and "psychic powers do exist" as our alternative hypothesis, H1. And then we design experiments which allow us to try and prove H1, i.e. prove (to a statistically significant margin) that psychic powers do exist.

And at least so far, no one has been able to convincingly prove H1 in this case. Or, if they have, they haven't published it.

"You say that psychic powers aren't real. But then why did the CIA invest millions of dollars in parapsychological research during the Cold War?" I don't know how to tell you this, but the CIA are dumb.

[uncannine]

maybe hot take but if you're making a flag for a very general queer label or identity or term, like t4t, genderqueer, trans, etc, you kinda.... Have To avoid putting a DNI on it...........specially if it's to gatekeep specific types of queerness you yourself don't agree with.......................just saying

[antennatoheaven]

planning my route tomorrow somehow turned into looking at houses in germany lord help me