I'm In This Photo And I Don't Like It

Sounds like a heck of a move.

Turning off reblogs for every post on the site is an unconventional move, but let's see where they're going with this.

Absolutely this! Shutting down art because people don't like it is a problem, period.

it's true and you should say it.

GOOD LORD NO DO NOT USE THESE

PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guidebooks!!

…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:

“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:

“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”

…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.

(ETA: Corrected egregious typo in the title. Apologies, as I was [a] in bed [b] typing hurriedly and one-handed on the iPad, and [c] I think its native keyboard may need recalibration, but also [d] I was upset about what I was having to post, because seriously, WTF?!!)

Heck, I'll reblog it, too, to get the word out!

A book crystallized in the ocean

As a boy, I'd enjoy learning all about animals As a child, I was wild for the fish in the sea And without any doubt you stood out as the champion And I knew it was true where I wanted to be

When they said you were dead they were showing their ignorance You're renowned, you're profound, you're alive and you're strong In my mind you're sublime, and I think that the world should know I attest you're the best so I made you a song

Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth There is no better than, I will take all I can Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth

Missing link's out of sync with the crazy world of today You were gone for so long, didn't know what to do Is it wrong there's a song that is called Barracuda? There is none, not a one, that is named after you—after you!

Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth There is no better than, I will take all I can Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth

Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth Coelacanth, coelacanth, coelacanth There is no better than, I will take coelacanth Coelacanth

--The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, "Coelocanthem"

reblog ifyou love her and she makes you smile the coelacanth

100% this.

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

Yes, but also: "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty!"

Humans are derived fishes. The skeleton of a human (A) compared with the skeleton of a derived tetrapodomorph fish (B), with the fish skeleton scaled to the size of the human’s and oriented in a humanlike pose (and with a humanlike skull). Red shading indicates dermal bone and, in fishes, the dermal fin rays. (From Long 2011 © John A. Long.)

– F. H. Pough & C. M. Janis, Vertebrate Life (10th ed., 2019; p. 165)

For some reason, this is feeling very relevant lately...

A Bug’s Life, 1998

I'll take anything I can get at this point.

Hey, don't forget Orson Scott Card for this, too.

It's weird that to this day a lot of people don't really get the difference between like. "this author is a bad person and the work is problematic" normal style and the much more intense "the author is an important figure in a hate group and actively uses her money and power and fame to take away people's rights, and is currently very successful at doing that"