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John Kitching’s ‘A Dangerous Idea’

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Barn cats wash themselves on a fence, New Jersey, 1982 - by Walter Chandoha (1920 - 2019), American

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yeah 🐧

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Yahaha! A Korok commission appear!

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The reason everyone in madoka magica has colorful anime hair and matching colorful anime eyes is because somewhere back in pre-history a magical girl with a lot of potential and not a lot of sense wished for more hair colors and permanently altered the human gene pool

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I have received an important email. It's kind of a big deal, especially in the sad world we live in today.

Here's the article pictured above with working links.

So yeah, that's a thing. Lets let him know this is something we'll take seriously.

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I know most people on here don't like to go to the gym because you're all gay nerds. I like to go to the gym. For the purpose of understanding this post please try to imagine that you, too, enjoy going to the gym so that you can empathize with my point here.

Anyway, so imagine you are going to the gym. You're pumped about the concept of getting some muscle on you. Plus, the gym has this "lift weights every day!" challenge with a feasible plan to slowly and safely increase the amount of weight you can lift by the end of the month. Cool!

So anyway you go there, and you're having a good time. But then you notice something. Some people are coming in with these guys in shirts that say LIFT FOR HIRE. You're curious, and you notice over time that some people are actually paying these guys to come in and do the lifting challenge for them.

"Huh," you say to your mega hot, muscled gym buddy. "That's so weird. What's in it for the people paying these guys?"

"Dunno," says your friend, mid bicep curl.

"Um, actually!" says the gym owner. "Some people are disabled, so the only way they can lift weights it to pay LIFT FOR HIRE, inc."

"But wait," you say. "They still aren't lifting the weights though? Paying someone else to lift for you doesn't mean you've lifted the weights."

The gym owner gasps. "How could you SAY that?"

"Because... it's true?" you say. "Uh, if you pay guys to lift your weights, that's probably really good for the guys you are paying. But it's not going to develop your ability to lift at all. Your muscles aren't going to grow, you're just going to lose money and get no results."

"That's ABLEIST," they say. "How DARE you! Some people are LITERALLY paralyzed, did you think of that?"

"Well, yeah, some people are, and that means definitionally they can't lift weights," you explain. "And paying someone else doesn't change that. Maybe if they wanted to like, move something in their house it would make total sense to hire these guys! But if you hire them to do your workout you get nothing, because the purpose of a workout is personal development. I'm not morally condemning people who do it, but it seems like a waste of money when this event is, again, about improving one's personal abilities."

"This is absolutely DISGUSTING, CLASSIST rhetoric!" the gym owner roars, and then turns to one of the LIFT FOR HIRE guys, "Pay no attention this disgusting person, dear sponsor, we support your business and we totally want you to keep funding our gym!"

"Sponsor?" says your hot muscled friend who was way too busy actually doing their workout and getting gains to engage in dumb discourse. "Oh, now it makes sense."

"Shut up, you don't understand our love!" says the gym owner, before sloppily making out with a LIFT FOR HIRE guy in front of you.

Anyway, that's what learning about the whole AI nanowrimo controversy was like for me.

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I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

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Hisuian Growlithe -- GIDORA

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Happy 21st of September!

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Cornelius McCarthy (1935-2009). British artist. gouache on panel.

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(twitter repost) Vocaloid x Touhou

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Hey head’s up- YouTube is officially putting ads on pause screens AND encouraging generative AI usage with new tools integrated into their platform

This may not be the biggest issue for some people, but for me personally I’ve already been growing exhausted with social media encouraging generative AI like this. Not to mention YouTube’s already oversaturated ad usage is now promised to only grow worse. I’m incredibly tempted now more than ever to just stop using the site- and certainly will for a while at least- but do with this information what you will