staff’s getting a little too silly for their own good. they think they’re our buddies. “oh look we put another silly thing on your dashboard teehee” get rid of the fucking bots
i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!”
buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is
Being on tumblr for years like:
this post is 2 years old and it’s only going to get funnier as it gets older
the ocean as a metaphor ALWAYS slaps. the ocean as a hungry force that wants to consume you? the ocean as something vast and unknowable, like a god itself? the ocean as freedom and liberation? the ocean as the mysteries of the self? the ocean as love? never fails to get me
like, if you’re a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you’ve given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm’s way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.
it also doesn’t help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).
anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it’s a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).
In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it’s demise was too inhumane.
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oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about
Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy
Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he’s five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge
The Terran Empire in fiction: Manifest Destiny in chrome pants! ZIG ZEON!
The Terran Empire in reality: We are searching for our lost son Voyager 1, have you seen them?
Captain Picard’s “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” is iconic. But Captain Janeway’s caffeine addiction is the most I’ve ever related to any of the Captains. Her guzzling down coffee during the Year of Hell as things slowly fall apart? Refusing to speak to Neelix until she’s had her first sip?
Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters
I’d love for a star trek where they meet a new alien and she joins the crew and they base all of their assumptions about her species on how she acts. And then they meet the rest of her people and they’re completely different and are like “yeah no she’s just fucking weird sorry bout that”
My dumb ass thinking I invented spock and worf
op blacked out and painted the mona lisa from memory
You’ve seen turtle lock, but now prepare for the true measure of a turtle!
I think if I had this I would use it as one of those riddles like “I have foor feet when I am beautiful but seven when I am useful. What am I?” And then I’d just whip this bad boy out.
It’d be particularly fun as a D&D mini I think: the question asked from the shadows and then this cool metal turtle comes out and absolutely beats your ass with its unnaturally huge reach and high AC.
[ID: three photos of a small brass turtle figurine, just an inch or two wide. Engraved on its back are the words, “Other turtles have four feet. I have seven.” The third photo reveals that the turtle’s head can be pulled out as the end of a measuring tape. End ID]
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