nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyeverythingfoxFollowBaby otter first time in the waterblackpyreflykitymite7524295,577119,149

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsymicro-usb-deactivated20230625spaghettioverdose-deactivated20As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in Chinagayweeddaddy69cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, pleasesenshibignaturalsHappy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals168198,590210,192

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsywuggenFollowHeard a car horn today that was tuned to a fifth. Fucked up, kinda delightfulwuggenI want people to understand how jarring this was. Most car horns are either a single tone or two tones somewhere in the neighborhood of a minor third apart:Pretty normal rush hour sounds, yeah? But this thing sounded something like this:Fucked up! Didn't even realize it was a car horn at first, I didn't know what the fuck it was! It was weird as hell!fictionvssleep20,64526,919

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nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsydoomtempartsFollowone of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.567,73512,217

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nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyelectronicsuperjoyFollowJust some Things(tm) that occurred to me, knowing that Grace taught in Middle School (as someone who works with middle schoolers):The students ABSOLUTELY gave him a nickname. If you are a well-liked teacher in a middle school, the students are giving you a dumb fucking nickname (I would come up with some examples, but the nicknames are 1. Never logical and 2. Almost never that related to your actual name. So I could say they called him Professor Tuna and yall would just have to believe me on this one)Additionally: if PHM takes place in the semi-present, a student DEFINITELY made one of those pink flags with Grace's face on it.I am absolutely sure Grace would be the kind of teacher who had classroom memes--ones that only the students in his class would know, and would confuse the other teachers in the building and annoy the students who hadn't had him in class yetHave you seen those tiktoks where teachers share how they ragebait their students with their lame jokes? That's Dr. Ryland Grace to a THowever I can also see Grace being the kind of teacher who demands to be in on the gossip whenever he overhears it, and gives the kids sappy advice to get them to make up with their friendsAs a young, single, childless teacher, he definitely got volun-told to chaperone all of the dances and events throughout the year. I am sure he would come dressed in something (appropriate, gotta keep that job) but also a little silly to make the kids cringe on purposeHe probably had a line form at the end of every school year of students waiting to have him sign their yearbook. It probably only ever became a line because he would write a personalized message to each kid.Grace was probably the kind of teacher who made sitting through staff meetings bearable OR the one who always made the staff meetings go over time with all of his questions I fully believe Grace did a Transition to Teaching program after being laughed out of academia for his dissertation, so I can just imagine him as a first year teacher being like "....a 5-0-what? What is a TOR?" (cut to frantically making flash cards to keep track of all the new terms)Just cuz I want to make myself sad: I bet, after being out in space for a while and getting some of his memories back, Grace remembers his last group of 8th graders, and realizing how much time has passed, makes himself cry thinking about the fact that they have probably graduated high school by now. He can't help but wonder what colleges they are applying to, and if they still have the same dreams for the future that they did when he knew them. He wonders if he can save the earth in time for them to see those futures.113471,101

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nekobazuReblogged theeniebeanquixoticclownFollowYes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it 3231,91935,847

nekobazuRebloggedhateusandseeifwemindFollowpineneCan anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speakertadeadshihamurderReddit - Please wait for verificationreddit.comsomeone on reddit explained 😭no-one-offical‎ desmolbean404That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.10421,73933,944

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyelbiotipoFollowwe don't hate J.J. Abrams enoughelbiotipoBranson Reese, whoever you are, I keep your words in my heart all the time.kaijuerotica"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's nameanarchistmemedistrowe should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend923,00230,797

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyvitariesocksFollowjust received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my momvitariesocks2 pics. no caption222,39635,684

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nekobazuRebloggedjust-a-carrotFollowOK by a little something I meant a 35-page guide to some scene direction stuff complete with video examples.It covers some basics for working with sprites, framing and balancing scenes, shifting focus, and translating actions.I hope it's OK!It's on my (free) Patreon here.11050

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nekobazuRebloggedfeefalFollowGold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉Now as sisters and with a complex sibling dynamic.feefaldid you know 24k gold is so soft you can scratch it with a fingernail? Because bronze knows 24811,91139,545

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsydredsinaFollowIve said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested. sweaterkittensahoyWhen we bought our car, I told Sean to let me handle it. I walked in and said "We have X for a down payment and cannot pay more than Y in monthly payments." My Y number had some leeway, but I didn't mention that.First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit.""Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?""Something I can't afford."He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite. He went back to talk to the manager again.It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.The trick to resisting high-stress sales tactics is doing the math at home, knowing exactly what you can afford, and then walking into the room and stating that number minus 15%. Then refusing to budge from that number. Never, ever, meet then where they want. Always meet them where you want. Because at the end of the day, you can walk away and go somewhere else and say "I told the people at Z what my terms were, and they refused to work with me. Here are my terms. Meet them, and you make a sale today." 13259,47568,225

nekobazuReblogged kurooyafuckthisshit-ughFollowplease read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.what i'm asking:if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.we can still save her. but only loudly.reblog. share. don't scroll past.standwithdaanesIndia's youth-led Cockroach movement vows to continue protest after police crackdownThe movement, which began as a satirical protest, has evolved into a nationwide challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. NPRSupporters of India's youth-led Cockroach movement said Tuesday they will continue their protest in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them as they tried to march toward Parliament. Hundreds of protesters camped at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, under heavy police presence, saying they would stay until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures in India's examination system. "We are going to continue our protest," said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which emerged just two months ago. The movement, drawing students, professionals and families, marks a rare public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's government in its third term, reviving criticism over its handling of dissent and its use of force to respond to protests. [...] Sona Bisht, a 20-year-old student who was part of the protest, said the confrontation strengthened her resolve. "If the government thinks that doing this with Gen Z, they can stop us, then that won't happen. We are here talking about education, talking about securing our future. And till the time our demands are not met, we will not move from here," she said."Definitions developed thus far about youth, like the Gen Z narrative, have largely been linked to roles attributed by the dominant system. The rulers have invented a whole range of terms — rebellious, irresponsible, apolitical, extremist, consumerist — not to understand youth, but to neutralize it. They know as well as we do that whoever wins over the youth wins over society. [...] Thus the question is not whether youth is powerful, but in whose interest this power is directed. Today’s uprisings — such as those in Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, and beyond — demonstrate that youth continues to emerge as a decisive actor. Young women like Deniz Ciya have proven this with their lives. These uprisings are not expressions of generational temperament. These „Gen Z uprisings“ are expressions of a social force confronting structural crisis inherent in the current system. [...] Recent youth uprisings — whether in the form of environmental justice protests, labor movements, or uprisings against authoritarian governments — are proof that youth worldwide are not only responding to a set of circumstances; they are consciously and collectively rejecting the narratives that seek to define them. Thus, it is crucial to analyze what transpired, and draw lessons from these uprisings, particularly in the context of building a global youth democratic confederalism. For the power of youth movements is interconnected, despite being geographically distant." — "Beyond "Gen Z": Defending Revolutionary Youth Spirit" by Lêgerîn"The youth in general, and especially the young women, are the spark of every revolution.We can’t look at the history and found a revolution without the youth. We are a fundamental factor. We should be aware of this reality, we should take conscience of our historical role. By doing this we will provide ourselves with a plan that will allow us the unity of action and objectives. The Youth should not be condemned to be a slave of the capitalist system. [...] If we reject the labels and mentalities imposed by the system, taking consciousness as Internationalist Youth in a global level and organizing ourselves, is there someone who can stop us?" — "The youth is the spark of every revolution" by Lêgerîn.19438,60336,566

nekobazuRebloggedbriarpatch-kidsFollowI love people who are cis+. The ones who took the time to think about gender and decided they liked the one they were given. They project good gender vibes even if they aren't trans. 336391,555

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyquietwingsintheskyFollowlook, i work at a morgue, i get to see every day how withered and small bodies can get when someone was sick. it’s awful. do you know how bone-thin a leg can get. or how a stomach really looks beneath the ribs when it’s wasted away. the way people’s eyes and cheeks press in to their skull like they’re clinging on for dear life. they died like that, and you want to try and sell me a lie, a pill, a miracle cure that’ll make me live in that state? that’ll make my friends look like that, my family, the people i love? to see corpses in them?this job makes me appreciate all the more bodies lived in and well-loved. please eat that second serving. please give yourself treats as much as you want. life is not long enough to suffer through it. you’ll be plenty skinny when you’re dead. 78711,935

nekobazuRebloggedjust-a-carrotFollowkeystone-67 asked:Have you ever heard of Winnie the PoohThe teddy bear of hundred acre woodsjust-a-carrot answered:yes i have heard of winnie the pool lol215

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsybeardedmrbeanFollowthey used to let kids have real funafriendofblahajThere's an xkcd for that :3Side note: polonium-210 is a very dangerous isotope, however it "does not pose a radiation hazard when kept outside the body", as the alpha particle it emits have very little penetration power and cannot pierce even the outer layers of dead skin. It has still killed countless people, though, not because of children's rings, but because of tobacco. Polonium latches onto and concentrates in tobacco leaves, leading to heavy smokers being exposed to more radiation than survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.It's always wild to me seeing comments about different toxins like this on information about random things in the past, but it's never discussed when it comes to cigarettes.9013,95020,848

nekobazuRebloggedfeefalFollowGold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉Now as sisters and with a complex sibling dynamic.24811,91139,545

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsysanguine-humorFollowphm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eyesanguine-humorView on TwitterView on Twitterhe keeps me sanesanguine-humorView on Twitterbtw, idk if this will be seen by any of the countless people who already have seen and reblogged this post, but heres the original guide posted on how to make the chibi-rocky! the OP also has a separate guide for a more accurate rocky, though obviously less simple of a guide than the little thingy shown offView on Twitter(im surprised this post gained any attention, haha, if i had known i would have just shared the guides, the more handmade pebbles in the world the better)3312,98922,300

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nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsyredstonedustFollowfor the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.ralfmaximusNeural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.And so on.The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately. If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.But they wouldn't understand any of it.That's ChatGPT.And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.I fucking hate it.11222,34928,452

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nekobazuRebloggedikimaruFollowmisc outfits for the version without hair I started before the other one was revealed :') (I'll be drawing either version!)391,8617,993

nekobazuReblogged chaotic-whimsypolarity-disturbedFollowRyland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.polarity-disturbedConversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.polarity-disturbedAnd together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.25,3669,007

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nekobazuReblogged kurooyamarithlizardFollow(via bsky) In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc. This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything. We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own. 6811,45110,750

nekobazuReblogged kurooyacheese24kFollowIs and continues to be my favorite dance video. Dude’s so unexpectedly fluid.> High score! What happened? Did i break it?> You don’t see too many YouTube videos from 2005..Weird to think that was almost a 10 years ago.weepycati think this is my favorite video of all time. ive been utterly enamored with it for years – i really believe it captures such a genuine, delightful aspect of humanity and culture from the 2000s, and its so fun to watch!!thenewborndeityI could tell instantly from the way he was positioned on the bar that this video was going to showcase some serious skill. I was nonetheless cometely unprepared for what happened.kaijunoThe DDR bros from the early 2000s will always have a soft spot in my heart223163,045164,985