annie

(she/they? idk) writer by day, bringing weird cousin energy to TTRPGs by night. header art by @katriona_artist

[annie @cannetrip]

this, again, and this time also hitting 20k — I really appreciate it! thank you guys 💖

[annie @cannetrip]

(…….coming back from basically a hiatus, and making a bunch of videos that proceeded to hit 1000+ likes right away, feels really nice and validating 🥹)

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Respirator masks like N95s will prevent hantavirus infection.

Clean air will drastically reduce hantavirus spread.

We already have the tools, people just need to use them.

Public health requires everyone’s participation.

“You do you” gets people killed.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

I'm pretty sure if it had been an hantavirus outbreak on cargo vessel crewed by SE Asian merchant seamen (as most are) they would not have been allowed to disembark and fly all over the world. People who pay $17,000 for a cruise can't be told "no" apparently.

If you decide your 1% is above both law and regulation. That vaccines, masks, and quarantine are something their privileged access to top healthcare should let them opt out of, obviously the worst of the public health consequences are going to be borne by the 99% less fortunate.

The world's rich excluding themselves from public health measures because they can afford the best post infection medical treatment is biological warfare on the world's poor who cannot.

[turbomander @turbomander]

is anyone hiring for a castle guard position? im really good at walking a specific route for hours at a time and i like to go “is someone there?!…must have been the wind…” whenever i hear a suspicious noise

[Ibon 🎷🐛 @birdfrogdraws]

the amount of art the moon has inspired these past few days makes me cry, im glad im alive

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out.

These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own.

Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium.

That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock.

Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.

[ree 💫 @reesketching]

sketch for the night

[aj @adfreebrowsing]

FIRST MESSAGE BACK ON AND IT’S “WE WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE EARTH, WE WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE EACH OTHER”

[katie ❤️‍🔥 @Kaaaaatie_x]

i genuinely feel like this is one of the most beautiful moments of humanity i’ll ever witness in my life

[James @ScriptsByJames]

“give your spot to somebody who loves the work” 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[homoyuri @crosshairlvr]

i've noticed there is so much hate for films that are about finding hope and joy. project hail mary, superman, and everything, everywhere, all at once all have this loud crowd of people who try to make you feel like you're an idiot for enjoying a film that makes you feel happy.

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

OpenAI is shutting down Sora and dropping video features from ChatGPT.

Disney was previously said to be investing $1B, licensing 200+ characters across Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars & more for use in ChatGPT and Sora.

[chip! ☽☾🍉 @pzzatony]

They're literally hiding the fact that illnesses spread through aerosols. They're literally censoring the information needed for people to be willing to protect themselves.

By doing this, they weaponize misinformation, deny the truth, and contribute to ongoing harm.

[Ellipsus @ellipsus_writes]

If you’ve taken the time to explain why AI is bad (for the arts, for democracy, for education, for everything) by posting online, or just explaining these issues to someone in your life—thank you. The pushback is working. You have quite literally made a difference.

[Fifi @FifiChowd]

“Bob is a sunset foster and all future medical bills are covered by Cecil County Animal Services but we will add a $250 Chewy gift card for the lucky adopter”

I’M GOING TO CRY THEY’RE TRYING SO HARD. SOMEONE PLEASE ADOPT HIM ASAP

[River✨️✨️✨️ @BlokeMode]

by age 23, you should have identified a love for dungeons and dragons

[annie @cannetrip]

wait

[Actual Sex @Parthenogenics]

A common gift for newlyweds in the Early Modern period was the wedding-knife, sometimes worn in a girdle by the bride to symbolize her new role as matriarch.

Blades might be inscribed with love poems, as below:

[bella♡ @bellabrudda]

genuinely so sick of companies using gen ai & then being like "-but humans are still involved-" hey, i don't care! :D

ANY use of gen ai in creative spaces, educational, LITERALLY ANYTHING, & immediately i'm so uninterested in anything you're tryna sell or have to say. just stop

[charlotte @femaleuncle]

It is productive to engage with art

[ven @venbies]

the ai slop bores me website is living proof society craves human interaction btw