#gen. ↷ about.

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[dapper-lil-arts]

Last one I swear... Unless?

[jiiyawns]

that life was taken from me long ago

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[morganbritton132]

17 year old, CEO Tim Drake canceling a press conference and then putting out a statement like, “Sorry for canceling last min, Alfred said that he was going to run my laptop through the dishwasher if I didn’t clean my room. I think he’d do it :/. Also, wasn’t really in the mood. Cya -Tim.”

[blondie-drawings]

KISS! THAT! ANDROID!

[mipexch]

two themed map for design class :) they are very happy to be here

[starburstminibot]

Was supposed to be a quick sketch and then I got obsessive over the details :[

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[moredancesmyraptheart]

last week i was wearing a beatles shirt at the function and this old man came up to me and in a slightly shocked tone was like “are you a beatles fan??” and i was like “yeah!” and he was like “how did you become a beatles fan???” presumably due to the fact that i am but a youth, and i truly had no idea how to answer because the only two truthful answers were:

a) they are literally the fucking beatles, i know zero people who do not know/have not listened to any of their music

b) i saw one too many tumblr posts of people talking about wanting to impregnate paul mccartney and decided i finally had to listen to their whole discography

[0xycod0ne]

neil josten,, my muse,, my favourite blood soaked pathetic cat

[dapper-lil-arts]

So P-E-R-F-E-C-T, let me solve this mystery!!

[fluffydancer618]

"Stuck in the timeloop as a punishment" is cool and all, but stuck in the timeloop voluntarily though? Oh, brother. Stuck in the timeloop cause you just can't move on. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know that it's not real and whatever should've happen already did. Stuck in the timeloop even if doesn't makes you happy. You just can't bear the thought of not being able to see them ever again. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know you should move on. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know they would want you to move on.

But maybe just a little while longer.

[icestardragonhc]

THE TERALEAK JUST CONFIRMED A SUSPICION OR HEADCANON OR WHATEVER I HAD ABOUT GHETSIS FOR YEARS WTF ACTUALLY

While he gaslit N into believing him and his world view, turns out he's not really lying as much as he is genuinly thinking the world is evil. That's why he let N experience that evil evil world himself, thinking N would come to the same conclusion as him. It didn't occur to him that it would even be possible for N to have a change of heart.

Evil cannot comprehend good.

He cannot comprehend good. He's living in his own little reality. That he tries to change desperatly.

In the finished game the dialogue is different but he was designed and written with this in mind and it's still noticable.

[yourlocalsillybilly]

THIS IS A SERIOUS POST FOR ONCE.

MY FRIEND APOLLO IS BEING DISOWNED BY THEIR ADOPTIVE PARENTS JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE TRANS. PLEASE, DONATE TO THEIR PAYPAL AND GOFUNDME. SPREAD THIS AROUND IF YOU CAN, ANYTHING WORKS.