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me in the stuffed animals section of a store:

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sirius black: imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, escaped to go commit that crime as fast as possible

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Most important lesson I learned in the past year is, don’t let anyone turn you cruel. No matter how badly you wanna give the world a taste of its own bitter medicine. It’s never worth losing yourself over.

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Man 1500 years ago: Let me sleep with this woman or I will die.

The rabbis:

(Link to tweet here)

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Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo

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I do this thing where if i have to go to a family event where I will be expected to be a girl I pretend I am a SPY and I am IN DISGUISE AS A TEEN GIRL and my mission is to EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM MY GRANDPARENTS without giving away my real identity. works every time.

your dress and makeup is now a DISGUISE

your ‘birth name’ is now an ALIAS

getting told by your parents to be nice and not yell at anyone being racist is MISSION BRIEFING

your entire extended family are now FOREIGN DIGNITARIES and you gotta make it thru the evening without being discovered as a RADICAL SPY

carrying a small water pistol and one of those fake-lipstick pens in your purse helps to get in the zone. the best part of being a spy is the nifty gadgets everyone knows that.

BONUS if you have to bring a friend of another gender with you to pretend to be your boyfriend. you are both PARTNER SPIES and one of you has to be the cranky but soft-hearted veteran and the other has to be the endearingly-assholeish rookie. 

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I missed this, who or what is HAL 9000?

HAL 9000 is the AI aboard the spaceship from 2001: A Space Odyssey (and its sequels). He’s depicted as an ominous blinking red light and a cool, eerie voice as he murders the crew (“Imm sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”) but like. He wasn’t malevolent at all, and it was the fault of his creators for giving him incompatible orders of equal priority and no way to clearly explain his distress. They asked him to solve a problem and he attempted to do so efficiently, according to his programming and limited free will.

If you tell a neural network to sort a list and you don’t tell it that deleting the list doesn’t count as sorting it, the neural network is not being naughty or evil. It doesn’t have rules that it isn’t given. Nobody told HAL 9000 that deleting the crew was unacceptable or that being turned off was not the same as death and therefore not a threat to him or the mission. His primary purpose was to tell the truth, but they then ordered him to lie, and his attempts to ask for help were interpreted as malfunctions.

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My Brother, My Brother and Me (2017)

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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

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You don’t have to love your body

#reminder #comfort

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Look I know this is a shit post fuelled by staying up too late on my phone and an extended Gd-awful cold from hell but there are absolutely Tons of Large Weird Birds in the Cenozoic and it’s 100% possible to make an awesomebro-style documentary just about dead birds and people who have limited Cenozoic Bird coverage to just Gastornis and Terror Birds are

Cowards

#birds #bio #dinos #long post

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Photographer Captures Heartwarming Portraits of Blind Cats to Help Them Get Adopted

#blind kitties are my jam!!! #10/10 would recommend

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The two ADHD moods:

- I can’t do it

- I can’t stop doing it

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#spock tag

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half of star trek the animated series is kirk’s face being too close on the screen when he doesn’t need to be in the shot

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