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Suggested Title: Pounded in the butt by the physical manifestation of YouTube's age evaluating AI.

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when ppl act like leaving gifts for fairies is to get the fairies’ attention so they’ll be kind to you~~ when really leaving gifts for fairies is the supernatural equivalent of a mafia protection racket

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Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

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Language is universal

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Jonathan Frakes taking over the moderation of the Star Trek Picard panel with Peyton List, Ed Speleers and Michelle Hurd on FedCon 33.

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Joke RR Toldyou

They woke up feeling horrible and told themselves they would finally, really, 100% go to bed early that night.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for in defiance of all laws of man and god, another late bedtime was forged.

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but just imagine for a moment, the school is sitting in the great hall for a meal, when harry looks up and looks around cause he hears that hissing voice from somewhere, and then umbridge's dress/robes start to erect… one student yells, "Hah, I knew she wasn't a lady." Harry pales and goes, "Oh no, that's not what you think that is, it's hissing!" then umbridge notices and jumps off the chair revealing a pink snake with a little feather crest.

Harry starts cackling.

"Potter, I suppose you think this funny?" Snape yells.

"No, well yes, but no, I mean, I didn't do it, but remember I'm a parselmouth and that snake…" gasping and giggling. "The snake has a very very foul mouth, I think I learned a few new insults."

Bad HP idea time.

150. Dolores is so toad-like that some enterprising prankster students put one of Hagrid's chicken's eggs under her chair in the great hall… much to their astonishment it actually does hatch into a snake, just not a basilisk.

A ridiculous looking pink snake with pink feathers that goes, "hem hem" every couple minutes...

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Keep thinking about this one and how a modern unicorn herd would love the heck out of modern industrial sites like pit mines and anywhere industrial waste exists.

Random HP Fanfic idea

119. Unicorn Blood is actually mercury based; the "curse" for consuming it is magically induced mercury poisoning, (and the magic in the mercury prevents it from being filtered out by a bezoar or similar). How do they get mercury into their blood? they clean it from the environment... it's part of their purification effect on local ecosystems; their magic just sort of pulls it out of water and earth in miles wide radius around them.

Ironically, unicorns will sort of thrive in areas that have industrial mercury contamination as they absorb the pollutants purifying the land around them. Their natural habitat would of course be around natural geothermal hot-springs since those can be a source of natural mercury contamination.

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getting life advice from the elvis blog was not on my bingo card for the day.

hey Elvis is the glass half full or half empty to you?

Woah mama it depends on whether you're filling or emptying

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why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

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when people pop off with some ass take like "why should I have to put my pronouns in my profile or signature or whatever, my name is Tom and I have short hair and am wearing an oxford shirt in my profile pic, figure it out" I always think

so do you just not talk to people from other countries for your job, ever?

like, some people don't, and you can follow the flowchart to a different part of the argument about why pushing back about pronouns is stupid, but I e-mail people in Singapore and Dubai and Japan and India every day. A lot of those people have names that are probably their local equivalent of "Tom," but I have never seen them before and I have no idea if that's a girl's name or a boy's name. They usually have profile pics too. I don't know how common short hair is for women or long hair is for men in their country. I don't know if that style of shirt is more common for men or more common for women. I'm not writing this from some homogenous whitebread oasis, either, I live in New York City, it's just simply not possible for me to know the common names in every language of every country where the people I need to work with, live.

just put your stupid pronouns in your signature, some exasperated project manager in Mumbai will one day appreciate it

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What is it about stupid people that think they're smart believing that AI is more incredible than it is.

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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agreed

I need everyone right now to agree that the stargate tag will be for the fandom ONLY.

If anyone has to post about miserable A.I use "stargate ai" or "stargate a.i."

Our tags are already misused enough.

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imagine you're a mechanic in the Transformers universe and you have a car come in with engine trouble so you open it up and the engine is just full of some kind of weird fast-spreading rust. never seen anything like it before

so you're like. hmmm. and you call the Autobots like 'hi I know this number is supposed to be for reporting possible Decepticon activity but I've got some kind of alien bullshit going on and I don't know who to ask'. they hand you over to Ratchet and Rachet is like 'hm I think I know what that is but let me come run some tests'

SO Ratchet comes over and has a look at the engine and is like yeah as I thought. its crotch rust. and you're like 'crotch rust??' and he's like yeah its crotch rust. its a. well I think humans call them STIs? its like that.

so you're like '..........are you telling me a Transformer fucked this car' and he's like yeah. looks that way. and you're like 'what in the world' and he's like I don't know. people are freaks. anyway we don't want this stuff spreading so I'll be back tomorrow with the right nanites. keep it away from the other cars.

he comes back the next day like okay so I have good news and I have bad news. you're like 'well what's the good news' and he's like WELL I spent last night testing all the autobots for crotch rust and they're all clean. so you're like 'does that mean the car wasn't fucked' and he's like oh no the car was definitely fucked there's no other way this could have happened.

so you're like 'wait. are you saying a Decepticon fucked this car?' and he's like yes. we have a Decepticon fucking cars. and they are giving the cars STIs. thank you for bringing this to our attention here are the nanites goodbye.

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I was talking shop with an artist in the studio today and I shared this page from Andrew Loomis, which might be the single most valuable page I've ever encountered in a how-to-draw book. I can't BEGIN to say how many hours this "hanging figures on the horizon" technique has saved me.

(EDIT: Over on another site, someone said they didn’t understand how to read this pic, so maybe adding a second pic and some explanation will help?)

Let’s say I want to draw “Joe” standing further back. I need to know where to place him so he looks like he's the same height, even though he's further away. If I get it wrong, he’ll look giant or tiny.

I can do that by making sure that the horizon cuts thru Joe AT THE SAME HEIGHT, no matter how close or far away he is. In the original picture, it cuts thru the original Joe at the waist.

So let’s look at three different Joes.

A: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his knees. In this context, he’s a giant.

B: Correct. Horizon goes thru his waist, just like the original Joe!

C: Wrong. Horizon goes thru his head. In this context, he’s tiny.