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doctor he wants to talk about his ocs but has nothing concrete to say about them. and yes it's fatal.

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Here's the actual study since it's not linked anywhere:

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu4dQyIN8Hi

werewolf for your viewing :D

OOOOGHH.. SO FUCKING COOL.... im not totally sure what film this is from but oh my god it looks AWESOME. the ripping skin/tendons/flesh is so well done. ty for sharing this is *_*

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The solution to this actually is to make your eggs medium-hard. There's still some yolk sauce but it doesn't get everywhere. It's still delicious and you don't get as messy.

The thing they don't tell you about fried egg runny yolk is that if you put it in a sandwich it will be the best most delicious thing and you can mop up the egg with the bread, but in exchange you Will get so so messy and covered in egg yolk

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I recently learned there's a huge nursery full of 90% native plants for sale - most of which I was buying on etsy before - just an hour away. They thankfully have an inventory available online and I have literally printed out a spreadsheet of what I need for my pond and I am excited to go and buy probably atleast 1k worth of plants some time this week! (As a side, very small update, I need to order 8 more yards of dirt again - making a total of 32 yards used. But I'm 99% sure this will be the last delivery necessary to finish the dirt off.)

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2025 pond update 4 - it's full!

Read last update here.

May 1st. The cardboard wasn't enough. I had to drain it all and redo it. I put down a bunch of old carpet I had when I originally bought the house and re laid the liner down. Then filled the pond's bottom with the garden hose again.

I started the foundation(? Base floor?) for the shed.

I finished it on 4 May. Then I left to go house sitting.

When I came back, the rain had added a whole foot to the bottom of the pond lol.

14 May, I put the faceplates on the skimmers (which involves cutting the pond liner). It didn't go well.

When we originally made the walls of the pond, I told my dad I really wanted some room between the corner and the skimmer, but he said it'd be easier to build if they were in the actual corners.

I should've held my ground and been a dick about it.

I had to cut off two of the wall corners because the faceplates wouldn't fit. And I also managed to strip one of the screws on one of the faceplates. I found out later that the pond has a leak. I still don't know where it is but it's a very slow leak and I'm assuming it's at this stripped screw (when I look behind the skimmer I don't see any water and I can't really investigate further without taking a substantial amount of the pond apart again).

15 May, the water truck arrived and filled up the rest of the pond with just under 2k gallons. They had a firehouse. It took about 10 minutes.

Once the pond was full, I realized that the walls must have shifted over winter, because it wasn't level anymore. The back half was higher than the front half.

This may actually work out in my favor though because the water needs to be lower in order for the front skimmers to actually skim, and the stripped screw is on one of the back skimmers. My plan was to allow it to leak until it stops. Then I'd know approximately where the leak is. The problem I've been running into is that it rains every week so I haven't gotten to a point where the leak stops before it rains again and refills lol.

28 May I made 2 more rock walls. At some point, I also finished (re)-assembling the bog, added boards on top of the liner to keep the liner pinned down, stained & sealed those boards, cut the excess liner, and added liner to the bog. I also finished attaching the liner to the waterfalls, bought some plants, and put in 2 pickerel rush plants in a raised container inside the pond in front of the waterfalls to help mask the wrinkles in the liner.

The next day, 8 more yards of dirt arrived (we're at 24 yards of added dirt now). I started filling in the left area with the rock wall.

30 May progress:

I also finished filling the bog with stone.

The bog has 2 different depths. The backside (which is closest to the camera, here) is very shallow except for one channel. This will house the shishi odoshi (rocking fountain)'s legs (I'll explain that later).

The 2nd area, which is closer to the front of the pond (but further from the camera in this photo) is about 2 feet deep. There is a pipe that runs into it - that's what's being covered by that random pile of round rocks on the right side - that goes in a loop and connects back to itself at the bottom of the bog. This pipe has several holes drilled into it and was then covered in a few layers of landscape fabric.

What happens is that the water runs through the pipe, out through the holes at the bottom of the bog, and up through the stones above, aerating the bog from below.

I had gone the extra mile for bog filtration in my last pond, added flush out valves etc, but ultimately it never worked properly and I was in over my head. This time I went super simple with a single circle. I might have cursed my future self with no flush outs but I did install a bypass so if the bog ever gets too clogged to function, the water from the skimmer that was originally going to the bog can be switched to go to the waterfalls instead.

Inside each bog section are 2 different types of rock. The deepest layer has many large rocks, followed by medium size rocks, and then finally only the top layer has the small pea gravel. Still, I used a lot more pea gravel than I expected. I think it was 10 bags? boo. I am too lazy to look at the receipts right now to find out - I will be going through everything at the end of the project though, as I do keep a record of how much money I spend on this sort of thing in a house binder.

Moving on.

2 June. My uncle came for a few hours to help me build the shed. He helped me get it started but I finished it myself. It took me/us 12 hours total. Started at 9am, didn't finish til 9pm. The shed is 8ft by 12ft.

I will paint the base black at some point.

4 June. I filled in the rest of the dirt inside the rock wall, added some more to the front, and got a decent part of the other side filled. The fake rocks all arrived but the back (with the waterfalls) doesn't have enough dirt to hold them up yet. Will definitely need another delivery of dirt. Maybe more.💀

I also bought a bunch of planters to hang over the sides in the pond and installed those. I don't know what I'm planting in those just yet but hopefully it will come to me soon.

Unfortunately, the location of this new pond does not get much sun. For that reason and also its depth, I do not think pond lilies will grow here.

Also, literally zero of the lilies I have saved from last year have come back from dormancy. I'm worried I may have killed all of my lilies, or that they have not received enough sun to grow.

I have yet to actually check each lily's bulb to feel their status, but my hopes aren't high. So, I bought planters for more bog plants and coverage of the pond. And instead of pond lilies being the main plant of interest in the pond, I will go with submerged plants like eel grass.

This is a new journey for me so we'll see what happens, I guess.

5 - 7 June. I don't have photos for this, but I put electricity inside the shed. I was keeping the power to pond off for two reasons - one to watch the leak (don't want to confuse a liner leak with a plumbing leak) and two because the circuit was technically open and just has a wire sticking out in one of the containers and I didn't want to risk a short or something.

Now that the shed is finally built, I was able to run wire & conduit from that container into the shed and give the shed a few outlets, thus completing the circuit. 🎉

At some point in the last month, I turned the waterfalls on to test them and tried to make a nice rock wall for the water to flow down. In short, it didn't work and had some leaks in the apparatus. I turned them back off, fixed the leaks, and set the chore aside for another day.

Today, 8 June, was that day. The leaks in the apparatus are proven fixed and I've completely redone the rocks. The waterfalls are now on.

However, the rock angles and liner positioning still has one tiny backflow problem:

This was as good as I could get the rocks, so I'm not sure how I can fix this yet. It's at least very slow, so I'm not too worried about leaving the waterfalls on while this particular leak persists.

I'm going to keep an eye on the water level though and how fast it goes down. Plus, it's set to rain tomorrow anyway. (At the moment, I think spraying some pond foam in there will probably do it, but we'll see.)

Additionally, one of the waterfalls is unfortunately tilted just slightly backward and I cannot fix it. This causes its waterfall output to be much lower than the other one. In the photo, you can see there's not much water coming out the left side.

I tried to disguise this by having the rocks lead more water toward the left. It helped but obviously didn't solve it. It will look better once there is more of a water flow. Right now, only one pump is feeding both waterfalls when there should be three.

I am also going to attempt to make the inflow in the right waterfall smaller to restrict that flow a bit more. But there's not much room to work inside of the container, so basically I just have to hope some reducing bushings will restrict it enough.

So, what does the future hold? Immediately, I need more dirt. It's supposed to rain the next few days so I'm hoping to get the dirt delivered on wednesday (11 june). I will use it add more dirt to the right side so it's actually where it should be for those plants, and also the backside of the pond to help support the waterfalls. I may need 2 more deliveries because the backside is really needing quite a lot of dirt.

If I have any dirt left over, I'll feather out the front of the pond so it's not quite so steep.

I ordered more plants - I have some set to fill in a few of the planters (but not all) and a bit more for each side of the pond, but not a lot. I'm taking it slow because of the dirt situation. Once I am 100% done with the dirt, I can start going crazy with the plants. Current planter plants purchased: Geum, watercress, caltha palutris Ground cover plans (so far): lenten roses (purchased), creeping phlox I want to use as many evergreens as possible, which I am finding quite difficult at the moment. Once I run out of ideas for evergreen or semi-evergreen plants, I'll probably put in a lot of hosta. I bought quite a few submerged plants. I have eel grass (Vallisneria Americana Jungle Val) in the pond already and some more plants on the way that have not been delivered yet.

Hopefully these live. It's hard to find accurate information for these plants because it's all about optimum aquarium stuff and not original wild habitat. I am pretty sure these will survive my pond and winter but if not, my next step is ...acquiring... some plants from other established wild water habitats in my area.

In the bog, I currently have planted louisana iris and variegated japanese iris. From my last pond, I saved Variegated sweet flag (acorus gramineus / ogon) which is doing AMAZING where I re-planted it. I do plan on dividing it and putting some in the new bog, but am waiting until the rocking fountain is installed.

And now to finally explain the shishi-odoshi (rocking fountain) in the bog!

This video is from my last pond (the one that destroyed my leach field so now no longer exists. 😔 - this is the version before I expanded it the final time in 2023. )

On the left you will see the rocking fountain, or shishi-odoshi, or deer scarer. I made it out of PVC pipe and painted it to look like bamboo. I liked it, and still have it, but it's quite torn up now from literal years of use knocking away every 5 minutes.

The sound was never the same as bamboo but with limited money and materials, what can you do? Well I've thrown budget caution to the wind this year, so I decided to remake the shishi-odoshi using actual bamboo. Unfortunately I haven't taken any WIP photos.

Did you know you can order single pieces of bamboo at custom diameters on etsy? Yeah, me neither. So I did that. I ordered the wrong size for the largest part (the actual rocker). I re-ordered a newer one on 18 June but they still haven't shipped it yet. Ugh!

In the meantime, I've finished all the other pieces, including staining them yellow & sealing them with marine spar. So I'm just waiting for that last piece to arrive so I can finish, put the tubing and pump in, and finish up the shallow part of the bog.

Hopefully the next update won't be an entire month from now!

We're really close to finishing this pond!

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It doesn't need to be 3 meals as long as you are getting the proper nutrition. But it's very hard to get everything you need, especially in the USA where our food is all shit, basically. But just being knowledgeable about that helps a lot when you're crafting your meal choices. If you have the money, check out some of those meal prep services that send you fresh ingredients and you cook the thing using a recipe. I used EveryPlate but there are many others. That will help you learn how to cook for yourself and give more balanced meals <3 (Then cancel it once you've amassed the recipes you've liked and/or gotten enough practice! lol)

I don't care what your perception of the female body has been warped into by the media and advertising prevalent in culture. eat some goddamn carbs

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I don't care what your perception of the female body has been warped into by the media and advertising prevalent in culture. eat some goddamn carbs

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Specualtive Andalite tail anatomy!

I made this a few months ago and the reddit seemed to like it! Full disclaimer: I am not a biologist!! I know this is likely highly inaccurate to how they would function! Please don't 'erm acksually' me, I'm beggin

THAT BEING SAID: I'm hoping to do their digestive systems next >:3

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Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.

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I used to do paragraph RP and this one time I had a whole thing about cleaning a gun. The time in my life where I had the knowledge of how to clean a gun was very short and I can't even label the inner parts of one now but yeah. I'm very happy with that passage lmao

I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.

I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face

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Just The Simple Things

Friendship is magic ✨

🎬 Chainsaw Man 🎵 Bowling for Soup - I Gotchoo Released: December 2024

(VPR in video and color strobing noted in chapters)

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Kingdom Sharts Trailer

This Kingdom Hearts trailer hits a bit... different.

(cw flashing and loud audio)

Collab With ‪@spuddstaaa‬ Released December 2024.

🎬🎵 Base Audio: Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix trailer    • Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix Launch Tr...  

Other Sources:

5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel Ancient Fuelweaver (Phase 2) - Don't Starve Together OST Batman: Arkham Knight Daft Punk - Giorgio Devil May Cry 4 Guilty Gear Strive Hikaru Utada - Simple and Clean; Sanctuary iCarly Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, 3, 4 Kingdom Hearts Piano Collection - The 13th Side kingdom hearts-move your body -    • kingdom hearts-move your body   Man Yelling Sex -    • ド派手に！セックスに！なってみた！   Marvel's The Punisher Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mortal Kombat 4 - Ending - Jax OMORI ReBoot Season 1 Seitokai Yakuindomo Sephiroth drip -    • Sephiproth drip   Shadow the Hedgehog So This is Basically Kingdom Hearts -    • So This is Basically Kingdom Hearts   Super Smash Bros. Ultimate The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker toad sings simple and clean -    • toad sings simple and clean   Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and every other story) | Unraveled -    • Understanding Kingdom Hearts (and eve...   + various sound effects

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2025 pond update 3 - liner is in

Immediately after my last update, I bought the pond liner, and it came in today. The neighbor with the skid steer helped me get it where it needed to be.

In preparation for the liner, I laid cardboard down at the bottom of the pond. I don't think I have a photo of the actual bottom, but it was full of rubble I was too lazy to deal with.

I had wanted to line the walls too, but nothing stuck to the wood. The liner is 60mil thick, so I decided everything was probably fine and if it wasn't, I'd shove some more cushion once the liner was actually in the pond so it wouldn't fall down.

The liner arrived via fedex freight on a skid (sort of a half pallet) and according to amazon, weighed 360 lbs. But according to fedex, weighed 500 lbs. After handling it, I think it was actually 360lbs so I'm not sure what happened there.

Anyway, after a lot of effort (because 360 lbs is still heavy lmao), we got the liner inside the pond.

Unfortunately, it's basically impossible to get everything perfect without at least some water to weigh down the liner and push into the corners.

So I connected two 100 ft garden hoses together and started the process... I just wanted it to fill the bottom so I could better handle the wall corners.

2 hours later, I finally filled the bottom... 😅

After fooling around with it some more, I determined it'd likely be impossible to actually position this how I wanted until the pond was at least half full.

So I called the water truck guy.

My pond is 8ft by 20ft and 3ft deep. Google says that will need 3600 gallons of water. The napkin math me and the water guy did over the phone was way over that, but thankfully I only ordered 2000 gallons (because you can't get refunded for gallons you don't use).

The problem? He is booked until 6 may.

The other problem? An out of state friend of mine really needs me to house sit - starting 6 may.

The next available date was the 15th, so I booked that, and I guess the pond will have to be on hold again until the 15th.

I get my water from a well and I'm really paranoid about over-stressing it. Until I leave, I think I'll fill the pond about an hour a day and hope for the best.

It's also supposed to rain a lot over the weekend, so maybe nature will help me with my predicament. lol.

In other news, I've pivoted to the shed I barely mentioned in my last update.

I picked out an 8x12ft plastic shed. It also won't arrive until I'm back from house sitting, but I need to build the foundation for it now, so I bought the materials today. Woof.

I also bought a lot of american pillar trees and made a privacy fence with them in my front yard. Maybe I'll post pics of that later.