Jed (they/them)

followed this person for their nifty skateboard art and clicked through to their brother's dungeonsynth project on bandcamp with zero expectations and um it SLAPS??

@doogie2k.northsky.social how's this for a Too Online hobby that isn't doomscrolling lol

I just checked Sid's and he does have a "Style of play" section so at least the format exists. maybe this will be my next hyperfocus project

there should be a "playing style" section of athletes' Wikipedia pages, and for that matter of the team pages too. it's actually bonkers that the word "backhand" does not appear anywhere on Jordan Eberle's wiki page

my love of Ebs began when I got into hockey in 2012 and was solidified when I started playing a few years later and found that my backhand was my best shot. he was my pick for my first Kraken jersey long before he made captain (Daccord hadn't cracked the roster). I'm SO happy he's settled here <3

cropped, this chart becomes amazing

Photo of a few square inches of tree trunk. Growing on the tree trunk are several grey lichens (growing flat on tree), a lichen that looks like a bunch of tiny egg yolks, and a bright red fungus that looks like a half dozen or so round/oval red blobs.

A few square inches of tree trunk. At least 4 species of lichens (Parmelia, two Physcia species and Caloplaca) plus Red Tree Brain Fungus. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends.

thinking about getting a tramp stamp tattoo that reads "no admittance except on party business"

I think it’s beautiful that if you told a bunch of vegetables to imagine being at a water park, only the celery would imagine being the water slide

Every house needs a secret door that leads to a secret room, but well, there are secret rooms and then there are...

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

I do not like Shakespeare but that's a fantastic line

I have not yet allowed myself to get into a research spiral about it bc I know that when I do I will not be emerging for hours

I don't know who that is but I'm sorry!

SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED SWIMMING POOLS FILLED NOT SAME TRUCK

Appreciate the clarity

Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion | TechCrunch A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

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A screenshot from a TechCrunch article with a section of text highlighted. Gavalas’ case is being brought by lawyer Jay Edelson, who also represents the Raine family case against OpenAI after teenager Adam Raine died by suicide following months of prolonged conversations with ChatGPT. That case makes similar allegations, claiming ChatGPT coached Raine to his death. After several cases of AI-related delusions, psychosis, and suicides, OpenAI has taken steps to ensure it is delivering a safer product, including retiring GPT-4o, the model most associated with these cases. The Gavalas’ lawyers say [beginning of highlighted text] Google capitalized on the end of GPT-4o, despite safety concerns of excessive sycophancy, emotional mirroring, and delusion reinforcement. “Within days of the announcement, Google openly sought to secure its dominance of that lane: it unveiled promotional pricing and an ‘Import AI chats’ feature designed to lure ChatGPT users away from OpenAI, [end of highlighted text] along with their entire chat histories, which Google admits will be used to train its own models,” the complaint reads.

I'm having a hard time imagining any action a corporation could possibly take that would be more antithetical to the motto "don't be evil" than this

Attention Worldcon community—we just realized that the nominating period is open for this year's Hugo Awards. We have been finalists twice before (2016, 2017) and our 2025 album Dead Channel Sky—a dystopian cyberpunk rap rave—is eligible in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category

omg that's right you got the hot one! I never took a class from him but boy did I stare from afar

that's it I'm moving to the EU where they have some fucking data protection laws

A targeted ad including the text "you have written prescriptions for testosterone enanthate"

um excuse me what the F U C K ????????

A stoat in the deep woods, gathering snacks. The yellow mushrooms probably aren't edible but they do help balance the composition. I went wild with the scenery in this one. Digital (Photoshop CC), 2023.

Berry picking. 🍇

(commission)

A painting of a coyote, sitting and hunched over, covering one eye with a front leg and peering coyly at the viewer with the other.

Coy-ote 🫣

holy shit, that's FASCINATING. I've never actually worked in olfaction myself but I've researched taste physiology (the main academic conference is for chemical senses so I saw olfaction research there) and worked in a lab that also did olfaction, and it is *by far* the weirdest of the basic senses

Gina Rodriguez appeared on Brooklyn 99 as Stephanie Beatriz's crush because of me

I don't think I knew this, or if I did I forgot it (very possible). was that Craig? trying to remember any other male English teachers there, I think all mine were women aside from Spectrum

Greg Davies: Impress your mother? Seems like a nice wholesome task for a Channel 4 light entertainment show. Surely nobody did something that can never be taken back?

Alex Horne: Let’s see how Oedipus did

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

They never explained why scrubs are also known as a bus stop.

I don't actually know when exactly we met but it was sometime around then!