babylemonade

[babylemonade]

I still don’t understand the choice to not even try to endear poppy to us at all. Like she had no dialogue. No scenes that showed emotional connection at all other than characters just telling us they cared about her. They could have easily added a scene where she draws the family and gives it to them like “daddy look!” or something else cute and childlike I feel like a child is the easiest kind of character to create emotional investment in how do you fuck up that bad. They could have replaced her with a potted plant the doctor particularly liked and nothing about the episode would have changed

[babylemonade]

Okay, Doctor Who—at this point, you have to bring Romana back. If for no other reason than to let her ruthlessly roast the Doctor’s recent regeneration choices.

“You gave me grief for reusing the face of a princess we met once, and but you have now reused a face and regenerated into the face of your ex? Are you joking????”

Let her bully them. She’s earned it.

[babylemonade]

the vaticans multicultural anime girls are wearing the racism rosary 💀

[babylemonade]

I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man I did not realize how dire the AI/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks:

I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us"

One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day."

I asked one of my TAs in a math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT"

A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When I asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He still insisted he was right when I pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages.

A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the "computational" version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often". He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams.

There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??

[babylemonade]

it's the greatest shame of my life that I became a beta-terf after trying to come out as a teen. Pathetically funny how the whole thought structure fell apart after talking to One (1) irl trans woman.

It's kinda crazy how much of a media bubble it takes to maintain that beta-terf state. It's only really possible bc of just how transphobic/misogynist default media spaces are. It's kinda hilarious how fast it crumbles once you meet one actual tgirl.

Low-key, I think a similar thing is gonna happen with many of the young men who are drowning in the post-Andrew-Tate social media landscape. I've seen it happen. Dudes realize they can just hang out with women and it instantly deflates a lot of that bullshit.

[babylemonade]

[babylemonade]

[babylemonade]

i like perusing fragrantica (perfume information website) as a pastime, but the number of people??? who wear perfume??? to bed?? wild

also have seen MULTIPLE variations of "good hiking perfume"/"good going to the gym perfume"?????

WHAT are other people's discretionary funds for fragrance looking like??? that you would have a "hiking" perfume?????

[babylemonade]

For weird dice wednesday, I present to you, the dUltimate die.For when you friend forgets their dice and asks to borrow a set.

[babylemonade]

the great thing about the wuxia genre is you can start a sect called the Evil Blood Cult in a place called Demon Mountain that’s a volcano full of poison and you all wear crazy gothic black and red hanfu and practice Sinister Backstabber Style kung fu and like. that’s not a deterrent to prospective disciples. do all that and a fuckton of bright eyed youngsters will still show up at your door and say hello i would like to join the demon mountain evil blood cult where do i sign up?

[babylemonade]

girlhood is touching your necklace whenever you feel nervous

[babylemonade]

as a kid i used to fantasize about breaking all of my bones so i could stay in bed all day and no one would get mad at me about it

[babylemonade]

Louis: so i got into the confessional booth and i said to the priest I LAID DOWN WITH A MAN!! I LAID DOWN WITH THE DEVIL!! AND HE HAS ROOTS IN ME, ALL HIS SPINDLY ROOTS IN ME! AND I CANT THINK NOTHING ANYMORE BUT HIS VOICE AND HIS WORDS! PLEASE! HELP ME! I AM WEAK! I WANNA DIE! but Lestat, he knew where I was and he found me, Mr. Molloy. He found me and punched clean through that priest’s-

Armand on that damn ipad:

[babylemonade]

original url http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/6163/

last modified 2008-06-02 10:37:53

[babylemonade]

Thought I would share this here. Image is a clickable link that will take you to the account that posted it! ID in alt text. If anyone wants to pop it out, feel free.

[babylemonade]

girl the feminist past was a fucking facade we did not backslide we never managed to bring the foot forward in the first place we're on black ice here please get fucking real one of the most major reasons for the stripping away of the facade of Real Feminism is that it was always already a fucking facade. every supposed lost advance you point to as an example of forward thinking progress in the fight against patriarchy lost because it was insufficiently advanced to not be recuperated, and at the very time of its supposed peak (haha) was already being cynically weaponized against transfeminized ppl from the fucking start. there is no real feminism to RETVRN to, the only feminist future with any promise to liberate those oppressed under cisheteropatriarchy is a hardline antiessentialist sexgender+casab abolitionist transfeminism, and by wistfully fixating on the ghosts of feminisms past or whatever you are in fact actively standing in the way of that. because all of those feminisms fucking sucked and would (and did) sell out my sisters for a moment of solipsistic catharsis. get with the fucking program i swear to fucking god if i see another post with someone with shining eyes describing how good feminism was in fucking 2010 or 2014 or whatever the fuck i am going to go postal

[babylemonade]

No fucking way I found my little rubber fetus