araceil

doberbutts

"Well are you a [controversial identity] supporter???"

My friend I do not know what to tell you here. My rule is and remains "I don't care what you call yourself because your actions and who you are as a person is more valuable to me" and "as long as everyone in the situation is an adult and is giving enthusiastic consent I genuinely do not give a fuck what you do" and "words are stupid and people are complicated so it doesn't matter if The Words Are Wrong as long as it makes you happy"

I'm a longer tables not higher walls kind of guy. Have a seat. Break bread with me. Tell me a story over dinner. I think that'll be better for the both of us.

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akaluan

florealegiardini

Koi in a creek in Kanyoji temple, Yamaguchi, Japan ~ Masami Shirai

video fish

doggosource

officialfist:
“A proud farmer looks over their bountiful bean crop
”

You know you’re a university student when you’re sitting in the “kitchen” area eating bread and cheese with no clothes on at midnight in the dark

vroomian

leonardcohenfan69420

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

aerialsquid

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

findingfeather

….yeah me too.

lireavue

Me three.

star-anise

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

brawltogethernow

“hey he’s back did you study this”

funny

araceil

Anonymous asked:

“ooh garlic salt isn’t real” yeah well neither is your MARRIAGE after i’m done FUCKING YOUR HUSBAND and afterwards he eats my delicious cooking that i seasoned with GARLIC SALT. FUCK YOU

redstonedust answered:

i think. you sent this to the wrong person. but im enamoured with your energy. you can have my metaphorical husband you deserve her

sparklecryptid

hit-tab

sparklecryptid

nonbinarhys

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

nonbinarhys

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

nonbinarhys

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

nonbinarhys

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

charlottedabookworm

amtrak-official

My ideal street layout, wide sidewalk, wide bike lanes, and a 2 lane road that only allows streetcars on it. Yes I know this a bad drawing, I made it in a hurry

eaglehorn

Are those (black circles w/ small things) supposed to be eg cafe chairs?

If so, they’re posing an accessibility issue due to blocking the sidewalks. Recommend your street layout allow for outdoor seating without blocking sidewalks.

kithpendragon

Agreed. The foundation is sound, but there needs to be plenty of space to walk by seating without getting run over by a bike. Seating that hugs the walls of the nearby structure, and open storefronts that let people and services flow seamlessly between the commercial spaces and the sidewalks would be an improvement here.

amtrak-official

I actually shrunk the seating to make there be more space for pedestrians

rainybasketballpeachclod

If the tracked area is for trams/streetcars only, may I recommend that you make it green track?

Not only does it add much needed greenery to public spaces, but it also reduces heat at street level, reduces the running noise of trams and dramatically improves water drainage at street level. It even goes as far as reducing the damage to the tracks caused by the material expanding and buckling in high heat by simply keeping the rails cooler and better displacing heat.

It doesn't even have to be grass! Different species of plant, local species or hardier, low-maintenance species can be used, and furthermore, it tends to reduce maintenance costs of the tracks, as soil is easier to dig up than concrete or tarmac, and so the tracks can be accessed and worked on easier.

Obviously, if you want the street to be able to accept buses along with trams/streetcars, or other rubber-tyred vehicles, then a hard surface is necessary, but if it's light rail only, then green track gets my vote.

amtrak-official

Already made the edit, I hope you enjoy the green tracks and their flowers. This image is very green

amtrak-official

Redoing the color of the bike path to make the street less fucking green

adler11

I love the idea of green tracks, but in this case they are not a good choice:

You still need the possibility for rubber based vehicles like Fire Cars or Ambulances to pass the streets.

You can't just put them on tracks because they need to be as mobile as possible to allow maximum efficency.

amtrak-official

Okay removing the grass due to firecodes

aitotsakirimori

Urbanism pride flag lol

we still need green so maybe put flowerpots in the middle of the sidewalk? Like rectangular ones that only take up maybe a fifth of the sidewalk width, and their intermittent, maybe one between every other set of trees.

amtrak-official

The street planters have come in

ciceronian

Honestly if you want some good green space you should consider bioswales between the bike facilities and the "street", which would help replace some of the lost drainage/filtration function from de-greening the track

amtrak-official

The bios have been swaled

amtrak-official

A tumblr comment that reads "Once again, fewer tables for wheelchair access"

@puddlebrigade Okay the tables have been moved and reduced to be more accessible and some planters have been moved

amtrak-official

a tumblr comment that reads "bring the green bike path back if there's no green track"

@professionalchaoticdumbass Green is back in fashion

amtrak-official

a screenshot of tumblr tags that read: #love the flowerpots but I feel like actual trees for shade might be good #maybe off to the far right and left to provide shade without blocking sidewalks

The large dark green dots are trees

renitheraven

Is it too soon for this?

amtrak-official

Yes, you aren’t even on the current version

robotics5

Sidewalk seems a little tight tbh

amtrak-official

Sidewalk widened. Goal achieved

amtrak-official

Two Tumblr Comments One Reads "Idk if this had been said, but benches (without anti-homeless crap)" and the second one reads "put a dragon on the street (i think it would look cool)"

@i-use-oxford-comma The benches have been added and @prawnhubpremium The dragon is opening a shop

amtrak-official

a tumblr tag that reads #obsessed with whatever is going on here

We are making a good street

got-no-skill

maxli-catenby

I made a 3d render of our street

amtrak-official

Oh my god, that looks like a real place I could visit, I love this

lol

araceil

lesbenny

Second order of creamed honey from Ioway Bee Farm finally arrived and while the almond creamed honey was a little underwhelming the blueberry one was almost *too* decadent. Like mortals were not made for something that tastes this good. This honey could corrupt a man from the first spoonful. It helps me to avoid eating half the jar in one go, though.

lesbenny

I’m trying to be but getting testosterone without a family doctor is borderline impossible.

lesbenny

Why are you people talking about my post like stock market speculators.

armchair-factotum

It's a bear market

araceil

tmmyhug

I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day

tmmyhug

I take it all back everyone on this site is toxic

charlottedabookworm

joycrispy

Zepotha will never be Goncharov because when it comes down to it, tumblr culture is collaborative, while tiktok culture is merely iterative, and those are not the same thing.

bluejay-in-flight

Op I refuse to let your tags stay in the tags cause THIS!!!!!

foxtrony

seiphirai

A Surprise Pride and Prejudice Engagement

(Note: This isn’t me)

thestraggletag

See? This is a tailor-made proposal. Not some “big screen of basketball game nonsense. This person took into account his girlfriend’s pastimes and favourite things in the world, knew how close to the family she was and engineered the perfect engagement proposal, without a doubt managing to make sure this would please her (surely her mother and sisters would know).

This is how you do big gestures.