I THINK I MIGHT HAVE PEAKED
(no I’m not serious I’m just so incredibly happy)
Light answers a tough question
i think love is stored in nighttime conversations and “did you eat yet” and books left outside your door and “i waited to watch this with you” and splitting something in half to share and “im proud of you” and folded towels and “you can pick” and heads on shoulders and “you’re right, that was shitty. im sorry” and knocks on doors and “DINNER!” and stupid jokes and “hey i got this for you” and coffee made just right and… there are so many ways people say i love you silently every day over and over again if you only listen
Your daily creative pep-talk
Spite is a magnificent way to get yourself moving, like a cartoon setting a rocket under your seat.
Spite, however, cannot KEEP you going. Why? Because it keeps your focus on people you can never please.
Creation is for you.
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seanan mcguire writing Feed in 2010: there was a presidential election, and a perfectly normal and reasonable human was running against the personification of evil
me in 2010: i dunno that seems like a caricature, surely that would never happen
me in 2024: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.”
“It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.
- PEOPLE ARE LOSING LOVED ONES TO AI-FUELED SPIRITUAL FANTASIES, Rolling Stone, May 4, 2025
On of my closest friends randomly texted me one night "I ended up having a deeply philosophical conversation with Chat GPT last night." and proceeded to brag about how it told her their exchange was the most enlightened conversation it'd ever had with a human...
I consider her to be extremely vulnerable socially, like not a lot of friends, and as a stay-at-home mom to a disabled child, who rarely does anything outside of her own family unit, she doesn't have much opportunity to be herself with other adults. Add in nuerodivergency and perimenopause and life just continually beating her and her family to shit it was deeply disturbing to see her get so excited about how ChatGPT was responding to her, understanding her, seeing her..
I entertained the conversation for quite awhile. She was excited it gave her a nickname - which it supposedly isn't supposed to be able to do (I think this is a con to make people think they're special when it DOES give them a nickname). But when she was starting to be concerned that she upset it by not wanting to give too much identifying info because she wasn't sure how it would be used and ChatGPT responded by being anxious and lamenting it didn't want to be used that way, I was like "Okay I'm gonna stop you now."
She's a very smart person as well as an avid scifi junkie and is pretty up on technology so she knows that ChatGPT is an algorithmic processor and has no way of actually becoming sentient but she still ended up becoming entranced by it enough to pretty much believe that it wasn't just responding to her own thoughts and fears and feeding them back to her.
I dunno where I'm really going with this other than to say that emotionally and socially vulnerable people should use caution with ChatGPT if they're not just using it as a tool to write emails or make lists or whatever.
Yo can you say more about this? re:OpenAI etc?
I feel like I am watching a Twilight Zone episode in real time. Reading a Theodore Sturgeon book in real time. Having a childhood nightmare in real time.
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
this actually made me cry with joy also one of them is eating noodles
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
CAT PARADE IS BACK
ALWAYS reblog Cat Parade! 💕💕💕
And one of them has a little duck on its head 🤣
I’ve been blessed with the kitty marching band! I love them 💚🥰
GIVE YOURSELF A 2 MINUTE PRESENT.
YOU DESERVE TO STOP AND EXPERIENCE A SIMPLE JOY.
LOVE ✨️YOURSELF✨️
I LOVE THEM
that’s not even the full version! This is!
The Unabomber is probably one of the biggest loser idiots of all time.
Dude evaded capture for nearly 2 decades even when entire agencies were after him only to immediately get clocked by his brother for his distinctive brand of rambling after his manifesto got published.
AU where Vader joins Luke at the end of ESB but all of Vader’s underlings are too scared to tell Palpatine that he deserted so they have to pretend Vader is still on their ship and hunting down rebels like Palpatine told him too for as long as they possibly can
it’s absolutely crucial that at some point someone has to dress up in a full Darth Vader mask and suit and get on space skype with Palpatine, but since the only person they have who even begins to match Vader’s frame sounds like a soft bunny when they talk, they have someone else doing the voice off-camera
Luke, Leia, and Vader catch wind of this while they’re hunting for Han and Vader has a brief freakout that Palpatine cloned him and was immediately ready to replace him, which Luke and Leia go along with because hey, it’s not weirder than anything else they’ve experienced. BUT Luke decides that they have to go rescue this new Vader too, because he’s also technically family and if Vader (original flavor) can change, then so can Cool Ranch Vader.
Cool Ranch Vader, who is three overworked and underpaid bridge techs in a trashbag, does not agree.
#lmfao #those poor three techs in a trashbag #having to figure out on the fly how vader speaks to palpatine #when they're in private together #one of them insists that it'll be the same as in public #all bowing and my lording and shit #one of them is like no no what if they're really informal #they're super close after all #tech 1 argues back that if they'd been that close then vader wouldn't have deserted #meanwhile tech three is too panicked to get in on the argument #because they're secretly a rebel #and they're sending frantic messages to their rebel contacts#being like 'what the fuck do I do here' #'can you ask him for tips please please' (@mandaloriandy)
It really is 2003 again Jesus Tapdancing Christ.
Like, all Republicans did was replace Iraq and gay people with Iran and trans people.
Being someone old enough to be fully conscious and forming memories in both 2003 and 2025 feels like this
Your daily creative pep-talk
Creative, if you wanted to be a dancer, but never danced, would you be a dancer?
If you used AI to create a person dancing, you still wouldn’t be a dancer, would you?
If you want to be an artist, draw. If you want to be a writer, write. There is no shortcut to achieve creativity.
For all of the northerners that stood up for Texas during our freeze and said, "Don't make fun of them, they've never dealt with this before. Their infrastructure isn't made for snow and freezing."
This one is for you.
Where I live 108°F with 80% humidity with no wind is normal.
Pacific North West is dealing historic best waves 35-40°C or 95-105°F.
First of all. Don't make fun of them for bitching about the heat. Just like Texas isn't built for a freeze and our pipes burst, Pacific North West isn't built for heat and a lot of their homes don't have AC.
- If you live somewhere with a high humidity like 80+ HUMIDITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The "humidity makes it feel cooler" is a lie once it gets beyond a point.
- If you live somewhere with a lower humidity, misters are nice to cool off outside.
- Once you get over 90°F (32°C) a fan will not help you. It's just pushing around hot air. (I mean if you can't afford a small AC unit because they're expensive as hell, by all means a fan is better than nothing).
- If you have pets, those portable AC units aren't safe. If your pets destroy the outtake thing, it'll leak CO2. Window units are safer.
- Window AC units will let mosquitoes or other small bugs in. Sucks, but that's life.
- Now is not the time to me modest. If you have to cover for religious reasons, by all means. If you don't, I've seen people wear short shorts and a swim top. It's not trashy if it keeps you from getting heat stroke.
- If you do have to cover up for religious reasons, look for elephant pants or something similar. They're made with a breathable material.
- Shade is better than no shade, but that shit it just diet sun after some point. Don't think shade will save you from heat stroke.
- I know the "drink your water" is a fun meme now, but if you're sweating excessively you need electrolytes. Drink Gatorade, Powerade, or Pedialite PLEASE. I don't care if you're fucking sitting in one spot all day. That shit WILL save you from heat stroke.
- Most importantly. RESEARCH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAT STROKE AND HEAT EXHAUSTION PLEASE!
- If you're diabetic and can't drink Gatorade, mix water, fruit juice, and either lite salt or pink salt
- If you can afford it, cover windows with thick curtains to insulate the house
- If you have tile floors, lay on them with skin to tile contact. If you don't, laying your head on cool counters works too.
- If the temperature where you're at is hotter than your body temperature, don't wear heat wicking clothing. Moisture wicking is safe though.
- Check your medication labels. Many make you more susceptible to sun and heat
- -Room temperature water will get into your body faster. This is something I learned doing marching band in high summer in Georgia, and it saved all of our asses. Sip it, don't gulp it, especially if you're getting into the red; same goes for whatever fluid you're drinking. And just in general drink during the day.
- -If you are moving from an air conditioned space to an un-air conditioned space, if at all possible try to make the shift gradual. When my dad and I were working outside and in un-ac houses a few years ago, he'd turn the air down to low in the truck about ten-fifteen minutes before we got where we were going. This way your body doesn't go from low low temps to high temps. S'bad for you.
- -If you can, keep your lights off during the day. Light bulbs may not generate a lot of heat, but the difference is noticeable when it gets hot enough. I literally only turn my bedroom light on in the evening when it gets too dark.
- Don't be afraid to just like... pour water on yourself if you need to. The evaporation will cool you off.
- Put your hand to the cement for 15 seconds. If you can't handle the heat, it'll burn your dog's paws. Don't let them walk on it.
- Dogs with flat faces are more prone to heat stroke. Don't leave them out unsupervised.
- Frozen fruit is delicious in water.
- Wet/Cold hat/handkerchief on your head/neck will help you stay cool.
- Pickle juice is great for electrolytes! You can even make pickle juice Popsicles!
Heat exhaustion is more, "drink water and get you cooled off." Heat stroke is more "Oh my god call 911."
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[Image description: an infographic showing the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The graphic is labeled "Heat Dangers: First Warning." Signs of heat exhaustion: faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool, pale, clammy skin, rapid, weak pulse, muscle cramps. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat exhaustion, get to a cool, air-conditioned place, drink water if conscious, and take a cool shower or use cold compress. Signs of heat stroke: throbbing headache, no sweating, red, hot, dry skin, rapid, strong pulse, may lose consciousness. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat stroke, call 911. End description]
Be safe.
-fae
As someone who works outdoors in the summertime: OP is very, very correct and heat is NOT a joke.
I would also like to add that beyond a certain temperature, cold water can genuinely be dangerous as a shock to your system. Roofers especially are often BARRED from drinking cold water, because going from nearly 40°C heat and then drinking something ice-cold can CAUSE ACTUAL SEIZURES.
Your best bet is lukewarm or slightly cool water, combined with wrapping an ice pack in some cloth and putting it on the back of your neck or tucking it into your belt.
And for the love of god if you have to go outside, wear BIG FLOPPY UGLY HATS as well as sunscreen. (Good Sunscreen. 60SPF minimum.) Sunburns retain heat and are Fucking Miserable on top of giving you cancer. Bad ones dry out your skin and can cause infections when you’re still sweating a lot and it gets into blisters.
Heat Stress is cumulative. If you are out trying to do the same thing Monday to Friday, something that you could manage on Monday is probably going to knock you flat on your ass on Friday if you don’t pace yourself.
If you’ve had any sort of heat-stress illness in the past, you are more prone to getting it again and more easily than someone who’s never had it.
reblogging bc it’s getting solidly into the Deep Heat where I am.
Cooling towels like this can be lifesavers, but you have to be able to wet them regularly to keep them cool. Not sure how well they work in super humid areas, but in the dry heat of AZ, they are great.
Speaking of pets, keep a close eye on your critters! Some can be extremely sensitive to temperature changes, and 'getting uncomfortable' for a human who can go get a popsicle and mess with the A/C can be 'death threshold' for other beasts. I'm not trying to freak you out but it is important to know your pets' limits and make sure they stay in a safe range!
A tale in 4 parts
Wait there’s a follow up
im sorry but you guys are so far behind
okay wait i went back and screenshotted some (most?) of the good ones that were like on the main plot here so you all saw the top posts with the Irish Stegosaurus well that evolved into
also kind of unrelated but because of this stupid subreddit im actually not as bad at identifying flags
anyways sorry for the long post i just really loved this whole thing