What A Nice Loaf

Aye y'all, so you know how flowers have all these meanings and shit, but what about mushrooms? Do they got fancy meanings like, this one means cycle of life, this one is mourning of the kid lost in the woods of the fairies on the mountain, etc.?

Sick of drawing flowers, I want mushies with my bones

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

Nothin better than two cryptids just vibin' in the forest.

Fail 😔 @gatored

Hi guys, Jo’Lee ( realbillygotti ) is a black woman farmer who has been being targeted. One of her goats was poisoned and one of her pigs was shot. She loves her animals and is also a mother, and she’s devastated by these attacks and is trying to install security to keep herself, her family, and her animals and home safe.

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Not to be a killjoy (though it is what I do best) but the unsafe and rough handling of a baby Pygmy hippo in a pretty substandard Thai zoo being meme-ed into something funny and cute really shows just how much groupthink plays into public perception of animal welfare.

Moo Deng shows avoidance, threat displays and stress around her keepers that are constantly man-handling her, blasting her with a hose and harassing her. The enclosure is mostly concrete, which is horrible for her soft feet. There looks to be some substrate but there doesn’t seem to be any areas for wallowing or deep water wading.

There’s also very easy access of this hippo to the public with no places to hide. I’d love if someone could shed more light on the enclosures but from what I’ve seen it’s not great.

Also the free contact and forcing into tubs that the keepers do is only going to create an avoidant and potentially aggressive and dangerous Pygmy hippo.

But the public happily overlook that because she’s cute. It’s a similar attitude with seals too.

Stop rewarding bad husbandry with clout. Baby animals deserve agency and respect and to grow up without getting harassed and feeling the need to defend themselves constantly.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

Who is your favorite transformer to turn into lobsters?

Soundwave. He was fun to draw

I gave him a shrimp Laserbeak

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