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I think on Father’s Day there should be a duel tradition called No Fathers Day where you take your friends with no dad/terrible dads to go do something someone’s dad would take them to do. Fishing, Colonial Williamsburg, maritime museum, car show, etc. Similar thing with Mother’s Day.

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mutual that blogs on a 1000 long queue is like sending letters in 1700 i put up a piccy of a nice garden and a month later their #ohh so prety reaches me

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whoa whoa whoa, are you enjoying yourself right now? rookie mistake. you're supposed to be afraid and angry... yeah no all the time. how else will you prove you care about all the problems?

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*eating god: eucharist, Kronos eating the gods, devouring your own god to become him, ect.

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A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

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Hi not that anyone cares but i just discovered the fanlore page for dracula, the fandom

and it's fucking awesome. it's fucking bizarre to see the people that i usually see on the tag and all the silly jokes that never get out of this weird community put in an wikipedia-esque article

like, here are some of the ones that made me giggle and kick my feet over seeing it mentioned

and last but not least

i just think it's so cool that out of nowhere such a beautiful community that centers around something like dracula. i mean that's what fandom is at its core but with dracula daily the concept and idea of it is so silly that makes that realization about fandom and fan communities on the internet as a whole so blatant that for a moment you forget the bad rep, the controversies and all the negative things associated with fandom (not neccesarily because dracula daily doesn't have that, but because of the sillyness of it all, as i said) and you realise how special and incredible and just beautiful is the fact that we can connect in this way and have fun and be silly and make jokes and be a community. like damn. fandom is the best thing that the internet has to offer, and for me dracula daily exemplifies that so well.

now, more than ever, with the way that corporations and greedy billionaires are making the internet worse, and hate becoming in many corners the main currency, and ai slop overtaking, we should celebrate and cheerish genuine things like these that are spontaneously born out of love and passion because they remind us that the internet is not dead because we are still alive.

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rolling around in the wild self-indulgence of this fic

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Mild spoiler for The Last Graduate ahead, but:

Having just reread the whole series, I love how at odds El and the Scholomance are. Like, El's pessimism is a great way of making your narrator unreliable, since El is sometimes right and sometimes wrong always expecting the worst response from everyone around her(a thought worthy of another entire post), but it becomes very funny once she realizes that part of the problem at school is that she can't do small spells? Like, she spends the whole first book being like 'this school is the devil tempting me to evil, it wants me to become a maleficier, I can't even ask for a simple cleaning spell without getting horrible spells for summoning mortal flames and enslaving an army of people, I hate it', and meanwhile the Scholomance is flipping frantically through its catalogue of spells gathered over thousands of years, desperately trying to find a spell in a language El knows that she can also cast with her affinity for working incredibly large and powerful spells. El's over here driving a bulldozer and saying, 'I would like to build a Jenga tower' and the Scholomance is looking at her with the weary despair of a preschool teacher knowing they're going to be suffering through a temper tantrum soon but unable to stop it.

El, a furious teenager who doesn't know as much as she thinks she does: I don't wanna summon a mortal flame! I want my room clean!

The Scholomance, a giant building that cleans its own hallways, floors, dishes and various and assorted other workings with mortal flame: Why is this child testing me

Also hilarious in retrospect is El's blithe statement in the first book about how no one would ever give her that much mana to do these high volume spells bc mana isn't free or easy to acquire and so the school is clearly telling her to turn maleficier and kill her fellow students all while Orion is humming to himself as he kills mals and dumps oodles and oodles of mana into the New York power sharers.

El "I'd rather die than ask for help" Higgins: I won't do these spells bc no one will give me mana

The Scholomance, as loudly as a building who may or may not be partially sentient and who can't speak human languages: Wow, those sure are some HIGH MANA VOLUME spells you got there! If only there was SOMEONE around who would be able to provide you with a NIGH LIMITLESS FLOW OF MANA so that you'd be able to cast them!

Orion: :)

El: *hisses like a feral cat*

Orion: :(

The Scholomance: oh my freaking god

Hilarious. Top tier humor.

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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More pashlecto because people seemed to like it (which surprised me!) and I do what I want. Also thanks to the person that reblogged my last post as #pashlecto I had no idea what to call the ship name and that's honestly perfect.

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Some mathematicians claim they can visualize R^4, or even higher-dimensional spaces. I think this is probably possible for the human mind to do, in principle; the human mind often proves surprisingly flexible. But I think it probably takes a lot of concerted practice, and because you are stretching your mind beyond its intended limits in a purely-internal, imaginative way with no external reference points to check against, I think it probably has some things in common with certain types of meditative practice.

It's also common to hear mathematicians say that if humans had visual intuition for dimensions higher than 3, higher-dimensional geometry may have advanced much farther, since visual intuition is so often crucial in thinking of proofs.

So, ok, I suspect that AI will obviate the utility of this before it could ever have the chance to get off the ground, but this all makes me imagine a world where techniques for learning to visualize higher dimensions are well-known and practiced, and have become a functional necessity for being a working geometer in higher-than-3-dimensions. And these techniques require a lot of persistent practice and training, which (by the nature of the thing) is hard to precisely communicate to students. So part of becoming a geometer involves training in what is basically a meditative practice, where, à la Zen, much of the process involves not directly teaching the student but giving them prompts and mental exercises that are meant to trigger internal, incommunicable revelation. But instead of enlightenment it's geometric intuition. And so if we're getting a math PhD in, say, differential equations or something, it's mostly like it is today. But if your PhD is in low-dimensional topology there's like a whole monastic apprenticeship style thing that just comes along with it. People sometimes drive themselves insane. People sometimes drive themselves insane.

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Woah mama we all go to hell

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I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usual ‘are they dead now?’ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just like ‘Yes, they’re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.’ and then one kid was like ‘Except for you’.

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Eric "Bitty" Bittle - Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

Wei Wuxian- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Neil Josten and Andrew Minyard- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon Nav- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir