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Submitted Prompt #22

System A has to fight an eldritch horror. While all their singlet friends are running away or fainting, they look on with only a mild headache. Curious at this human's ability to withstand their incomprehensibility, the Horror asks, "How do you look at me without consequence?"

System A shrugs. "Dude, I dissociate all the time – and that makes the whole WORLD eldritch to me. You're just part of a typical Tuesday."

The leak in question, according to the Wikipedia page, was September 12th, 2023, the day after the cited article's cited article released. The latest was in July 2024.

your honour i understand that it is treason to release classified documents about military equipment but you saw what that guy on the forum said i couldn't just let someone be that wrong

I opened one. Thought it was a daily? And I tend to forget about those.

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

Hotel California on Guzheng by Moyun.

Red Wine, but you can totally substitute more broth for it.

Fuck it, post lamb stew slow cooker recipe

The fact Hi-Fi Rush has this song already makes it GOTY

Scientific American

Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability.

Recursion is a key feature of language. It enables us to build elaborate sentences from simple ones. Take the sentence “The mouse the cat chased ran.” Here the clause “the cat chased” is enclosed within the clause “the mouse ran.” For decades, psychologists thought that recursion was a trait of humans alone. Some considered it the key feature that set human language apart from other forms of communication between animals. But questions about that assumption persisted. “There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences,” says Diana Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of Andreas Nieder, a professor of animal physiology at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Super Smart Bird Brains

if you want to actually materially address child abuse, the single most important thing you can do to start is give children the legally enforceable right to leave any situation they no longer want to be in.

church, extracurriculars, summer camps, school classes, their biological family's houses. notably, these are the places that child abuse is enabled by the child's inability to just fucking leave if they need to. they can't walk out of church if their youth pastor touches them inappropriately; they'll get punished for leaving. if they walk out of their house because their dad hits them, the cops pick them up and give them right back to their dad.

children need the legal autonomy to leave abusive situations in order to even begin to usefully materially address child abuse.

original post by qweerhet because it's unrebloggable but very important

I'm pretty sure the Elder Scrolls one is the reason sunlight harms vampires... But that's also just normal.

>fantasy universes where celestial bodies look normal but the lore says they're actually just illusions / magic / otherwise not real