#Data objects

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[blondie-drawings]

do NOT watch star trek. you'll get a disease where you see any post and think oooh i can make this about star trek :3 no you CANT!!!

[casually-eat-my-soul]

You’d know what be really fucking funny, okay so stick with me but you all know that general idea that stiles has a spark and his spark works on his belief / willpower yes? Yes? Good

Now imagine the saying of “kissing it better” + plus stiles spark.

It’s starts with his mother — whom stiles claimed was magic, but everyone truly believes that their mother is magic. Stiles doesn’t really take it super seriously until after Scott gets bitten and deaton calls stiles a spark — but that’s besides the point.

Anytime stiles got hurt via bump, bruises and cuts, as any rambunctious child would - his mother would help him dry his tears and clean the wound before “kissing it better”.

So stiles just grows up assuming that kissing a wound will make it heal faster. And for all intents and purposes it does, unbeknownst to him because of his and his mother’s magic. But he doesn’t really think to much about it because he’s 1. Not around a lot of injuries and 2. not going around kissing people to help heal them.

Well until Derek fucking hale drops half dead in front of his jeep from a gunshot.

Derek doesn’t know enough about humans to argue with stiles, but he’s still not a hundred percent sure. Especially after he got kissed by him and it healed a gunshot??? That was poisoned with wolfsbane??? He gets ever more confused after he overhears a mother in the grocery store consoling her child by telling them that mom will “kiss it better”.

Peter calls Derek an idiot but never actually confirms or denies anything. Scott isn’t any help because he grew up around stiles and just acclimated to it over time. Sheriff Stilinski just sips his coffee in silence.

[rohirric-hunter]

Genuinely amused when people who don't know anything about Christianity try to draw on it as a source for their fantasy -- "Oh this is my half-demon OC who takes damage from holy things and is stuck in a church, better hope that communion wine in the back doesn't spill anywhere!" You mean the regular. wine in the back? The very normal alcohol that is completely indistinguishable from any other alcohol to anyone at all until the actual communion ceremony? The Mogen David? That wine? Okay. Sure. *is imagining your OC screaming and running from a liquor store*

[molotovv0dk4]

VERY quick and rough data ..or perhaps lore.,. to see whether i could work out an animation app i got. i could not.

[anghraine]

One of the weirder parts of being formally tested for autism as an adult—apart from the hellscape of hours of math hell—was that they kept asking me for my conclusions or opinions about things I had very little knowledge of. These weren't basic facts you'd expect someone to pick up in the course of a standard US education, and I kept repeating that I would have to do actual research to form opinions on subjects I had no significant information about.

Obviously, "not opinionated" isn't a major problem for me when I do have a reasonable amount of information, but my eventual diagnosis specifically mentioned that I kept repeating that I would have to do more research to acquire the necessary baseline of data for forming opinions on [whatever], and that the phrasing of my various refusals tended to be identical or very similar (I didn't see any need to alter my wording when I was simply repeating the same position over and over).

*cough*

Anyway this is also about Star Trek. (Surprise.) I knew Spock would be relatable before we started the grand TOS watch, but did not expect him to be the most relatable character on television ever, and his continual refusals to deliver opinions without enough data for informed theories was actually a big part of this.

[we-love-lando-norris-over-here]

Let's do a little fact check:

Pisstri was 6.7 seconds ahead of MV1 and the gap was fluctuating with Pisstri’s pace. MV1 wasn’t hunting anyone down, he was biding his time (classic MV1 mid-race move).

Lando was leading, likely trying to maximize the McLaren-in-clean-air advantage. He was playing the long game (evidenced by his choice to start on Hard tyres).

Pisstri, sitting 2.3 seconds behind, started whining about dirty air. His engineer told him, "Lando will pit in a couple of laps. Don't use the tyres to catch him."

Pisstri didn’t chill. Kept pushing. With the gap closing, Lando was called in early—strategy, meet sabotage.

Takeaways? Lando had the plan. Pisstri ignored what he was instructed to do. And McLaren folded like a lawn chair. It wasn’t LH44 that cost Lando that podium, despite what ZB said. It was the fact that he has Pisstri as a teammate.

Thanks for attending my mildly bitter but entirely accurate presentation.

[ee2e29]

baseball

[urbandunsel]

jesus christ.

that conclusion to lore war was.......

i mean i don't know what i expected honestly

maybe i was being too hopeful

but this is just irritating

[craneboys]

silly little guys

[microknifeyuri]

heyyyy shadow it's meeee the devillllll i'm here to convince you to do sin-

wait wrong script uhm, anyway! i did a collab thing with my friends Lilac and Burgy :]

I did the sketch,

@burgycreeper405-blog (third artist) did the lineart,

and @lilacs-stash (first artist) did the coloring!

go check their blogs out to see the rest of the collab!

[slutforpringles]

"Lawson still hasn't beaten Tsunoda in Qualifying (normal, not Sprint) and he's not beating him in Grand Prix either." | Checo fans now accidentally doing Daniel prop in their effort to say Checo deserves to keep his seat over Lawson | via

[whatbigotspost]

Fun fact!!!! Treating employees well is almost always objectively “good for business”

IF

your indicators of “good for business” are basically any indicator OTHER than “the owner’s unfettered greed and unquenchable lust for more money.”

👍.

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Notes from a study on feline weather appreciation (1867 words) by gladdecease Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Data & Spot (Star Trek) Characters: Data (Star Trek), Spot (Star Trek), Star Trek: The Next Generation Ensemble Additional Tags: Star Trek Winter Gift Exchange 2025, POV Data (Star Trek), Science Experiments, Pets, Data Being Data (Star Trek), Holodecks & Holosuites (Star Trek)

After learning that some humans enjoy weather patterns that are outside recommended limits, Data began to wonder. He was unaffected by the elements, as an android, but what of his cat? By keeping Spot in ship’s standard atmospheric conditions, was he depriving her of her preferred environment? There was only one way to find out.

My @startrekwintergiftexchange fic for @plushiedata is up! They requested something cozy with Data and Spot; I hope this fic hits the spot! (...so to speak.)

[the-magnus-archives-wiki]

From a usability standpoint, what do y'all think would work best?

feel free to reblog for sample size, etc, etc

[itspileofgoodthings]

OKAY I have missed counseling 3 times in a row and I really need to process some stuff so this is me celebrating some TEACHING WINS as of late because things have been really hard!

—More writing is happening! More revisions of writing are happening. The gap between student writing being automatically boring, processed, disconnected from any actually thought and interesting, thoughtful writing—writing as a way OF thinking and sorting through thoughts in a logical way—is closing. Or at least narrowing.

—Classroom procedures are in place and I have to do very little to enforce them. There is (generally speaking) order in each classroom and the students’ habits, not my nagging, keep them in place.

—I am filling class time better and more effectively. There’s more variety in the structure of each class but also the time is just used better. They work bell to bell. In-between spaces are filled with review, oral work, discussions.

—Day to day work with the written text is becoming more specific. Tasks have been created in connection with a work that grew organically out of my teaching of them. There are more of these as a way to keep students paying attention to the reading/note taking. But the broad strokes, the chances to pause and discuss and see the bigger picture, are still happening. I’m starting to see the way the two layers and approaches work together to lift most of the students into an understanding of the story.

—There is still room for fun. Both in the specific sense—there are a few more games, review opportunities, creative exercises and chances to explore and engage with the text in a fun, non-academic way than there where before —but also in the very specific Maria way where I let my passion and knowledge for the work really show and carry them up on a wave, so to speak. This keeps the students interested, intrigued, and anxious not to miss one of the moments of fun.

—I feel like I’m reaching a more complete approach that tackles the basic skills of all my classes—reading, interpreting, discussing, writing—more evenly. Their opportunities to do all of those things is better balanced and woven together than it has been. The opportunity to practice each thing recurs and recurs again so that their sense of how to actually DO a thing—at least by my measurement of it—is improving.

—The specific qualities that I want to bring to each class are growing more distinct. My 8th graders vocabularies are expanding as is their grammar. My sophomores are establishing surer connections with outside scholarly voices on each of the texts we read which help them jumpstart actual independent thinking and interpreting. And my seniors are given the chance to connect the readings to their own lives and most importantly current concerns more than they used to.

I think that’s it :))))