this meme is so niche

I have the kind of brain disease where my reaction to shrooms is “I have an idea for a Garfield comic”

link: https://bsky.app/profile/brainvsbook.bsky.social/post/3llc72lyhu22j

google translate defaulting to chinese at first

okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious

(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)

our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google

I love reading about these kind of translation decisions.

I've only ever seen 弊 used to refer to one's company: 弊社, as the article says.

I've been told 弊 is used to refer to one's own something, and it has a very humble nuance.

So 弊機 translates to something like "I, your humble machine" or "I, who am but a mere machine".

Japanese is great that it can say so much with simple pronouns.

Romance language translator: well we don’t have a gender neutral pronoun so I guess we’ll flip a coin for male or female

Japanese language translator, an intellectual: none of Japanese’s 30-something plus personal pronoun options have the perfect vibes so I’ll create a new one to bring that special somethin’

what a lovely translation!

The United States government is literally disappearing people to a gulag with no due process and yet it's the stock market crash that has finally pissed conservatives off.

the other 25% shouldn't be in mega-prison either, btw

Oh I think tomorrow is I Will Not Let The Rot Consume Me Saturday

Ah yes it is

some of my current favorite responses to weird/confusing sentences:

lets make music together 🫴

see him schmoove

totem of fundamentals

Has there ever been a better glow up than the Warhammer 40k Demon Primark figures?

Fulgrim, circa 1992 and 2024 repectively.

Angron, 1992 and 2022

Magnus the red (I guess he was called that for his red hair originally.) 1992 and 2014.

Mortarion 1992 and 2017

On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.

Happy Margaret Thatcher Death Day to all who celebrate!

Couples shirt idea

"Don't let fascism grow roots.

RIP the far-right out of our communities"

Posters put up around Dublin, Ireland against the ongoing fascist infiltration of working class communities.

Also idk if I need to state this publicly again but hello, Ai is my name and I'm an artist but I draw things with my hands. I'm not artificial intelligence; if anything, I'm organic stupidity.

I made a watermark 🌸

/squints

that's it, that's the organic stupidity part

eekljghgekjghekgkejh I'm pinning this

Unstated meanings conveyed through context! That’s my shit!

Adding this one