@EeveeEuphoria@social.translunar.academy im basically rarity mlp now

Do not worry, the key has been rotated (it no longer fits in the lock though)

where hast thou been since i saw thee? (i saw thee)

on ilkla moor baht'aaaaat

thou'st been a courtin' mary jane (pretends to take a drag off a joint)

thou'st been a courtin' mary jane (without thy trousers on)

on ilkla moor baht'at

on ilkla moor baht'at

on ilkla moor baht'aaaaat

hello internet i must ask for assistance with a bill - something i thought was coming in at a certain time might not be, and i want to make sure this is covered on time

$150 due Oct 26

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#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest

hansel and gretel stepped inside the parking garage and the ceiling was made of cotton candy

hurrah for mary! hurrah for the lamb
hurrah for the union boys who did not give a damn
and everywhere that mary went the lamb was sure to go,
shouting the battle cry of freee-dom!

He told me he used to do BMX and I said if he ever takes it up again we got a pump track in Allston

Road worker told me he liked my bike and I was so excited to be talking together about how much we love old bikes

not only would it do a better job of convincing kids who are on zhe fence whezher or not to bozher trying, it would also reduce harm in zhe cases where zhey sneak in anyway, because zhey'd understand zhe dangers better. and it would avoid zhe issue where kids get frustrated because adults refuse to explain zhings to zhem, demanding zhey defer to auzhority and give up wizhout so much as a reason why, which only furzher motivates zhem to break zhese kinds of rules.

just made a connection about age-gating.

zhe way folks try to keep minors out of adult spaces, at first by telling zhem "you're not allowed because i said so", and nowadays wizh zhe increasingly-pervasive id verification bullshit? it's just abstinence-only sex ed again. telling kids "you'll learn when your older" has never made anyone less curious. and wouldn't you know it, kids sneak into 18+ spaces all zhe time, regardless of zhe measures you put in place. i sure did when i was zhat age.

now imagine if instead of a big "go away" sign, sites provided information to curious minors about *why* zhey shouldn't go zhere. zhe ways in which it legally endangers *ozher innocent people*. what if you treated zhe kids like people and actually explained zhings to zhem?

i'll dunk your dognuts

# i have no idea what this means

More little guys >:3

#art | #merch | #valleypost

In 2015, Shannon Vallor wrote a paper about technology and moral de-skilling; it is even more relevant now than it was then. This is my take on her argument, extrapolated to 2026.

* Technological changes (as well as social ones) modify the way we spend our time and the types of activities we engage in
* This creates a process of upskilling and deskilling, where we (individually, and as a society) gain new sets of skills while others atrophy - this happens both intentionally, and as an inevitable effect of how we now spend our time
* Acting in accordance with our morals is a skill - it requires intention, practice at recognizing the "right" actions in ambiguous situations, experience to predict outcomes of our choices, and sometimes self-restraint to act against our immediate self-interest in service of outcomes that align with our morals
* The more we use machines and automation for tasks that have a moral dimension, the more we engage in a process of moral deskilling of ourselves

Evidence of many types of deskilling are all around us; skills that used to be common because of their necessity, like knitting, woodworking, hunting, food foraging, etc. are relegated to the margins, have become the realm of specialists, or are treated as hobbies, because we have mostly automated away the need for large segments of the population to engage in them.

Vallor uses examples of warfare (offloading decisions about killing to machines) and caregiving (offloading physical, mental, and emotional support to robots, chatbots, etc.) as cases where we are likely to morally deskill our society; these were somewhat hypothetical in 2015, but it seems clear that we're well along this path in 2026. I think the judicial system, law enforcement, employment decisions, and allocation of resources such as healthcare, education, and social services would also make good examples.The more we automate or outsource these activities, the less good we get at performing them in ways that align with our morals.

While it's easy to think of this in the context of actions that have a clear, classical connection to morality, it operates in much smaller, and more pervasive ways as well. The way we act towards each other - whether we respect each others' dignity, autonomy, time, and humanity. The way we use common, finite, and shared resources. The decisions, large and small, we make about our interactions with the natural environment. Every one of these, and more, has a moral dimension, and the more we put machines between us and the practices of deciding and acting, the more we erode our ability to make moral decisions and to act morally.

We consider people who are skilled at acting morally to be virtuous, and those who are not as having poor moral character. As individuals and as a society, our current technological choices are morally deskilling us, reducing our moral character.

Maybe we should re-consider our relationship with some of this technology, lest we end up in a future where moral reasoning is something that is just done as a hobby, idly, while sitting in a boring lecture, like knitting.

https://bhaven.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038663/vallor2015_article_moraldeskillingandupskillingin.pdf

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not just yoting but co-yoting

gwowwy gwowwy hawewuuuuuuuya

Cursed 🩸
Cult of the Lamb ink-tober 5
#furry #furryart #cultofthelamb #cotl #rabbit #inktober #cursed

I suppose I should be responsible and say that technically this constituted a drug offense so be careful. I'm talking about it awfully casually but I'm also insane and past the statute of limitations.

Remembering when a cis woman coworker was curious about my hormone regimen and I was like you wanna try one of my progesterone pills? You can have it