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Ahhhhh shoot. I googled this and got articles from Forbes, Financial Times, Rolling Stone, and a whole bunch of others. It’s a big problem and it’s serious.

Estimates vary but Chat GPT could consume as much as 500mL of water (almost 17 ounces) per 5 queries. (GPT-3 consumed that much in 10-50 queries and we don’t know what the current model does except that it’s almost certainly more).

I have to generate a LOT of social media content for my job and the last few weeks I started using AI to suggest ideas to keep me from getting burnt out. I’ve almost certainly been consuming more water through that than what I’ve been drinking. As if I didn’t feel bad enough about this job.

#ai #chatgpt #ai tools #climate change #environmentalism #thank god I’m quitting soon

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Via @danacea at Bluesky.

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An Ode to Aziraphale

Aziraphale, Yes, I adore you because you are an angel. A literal angel from Heaven and yet you are not perfect.

I love that you try and do the right thing even when you know your superiors will not like it, even when your plans go awry.

I adore your sassy ass.

I think you are odd and brave and entirely too wrapped in your own head sometimes.

I love the joy you find in Earthly, human things you don't need.

You are adorable when you get annoyed.

It's very, ahh, affecting.

Your silliness makes me giggle and persuades me to be more open and free and unashamed in my own rl.

Your huge heart and openness to learn and to consider others' experience and point of view are themselves a miracle.

Angel or not, you care for the humans you don't entirely understand.

I adore that you fell in love with a demon not because he's handsome, but because he's kind and considerate, and because he cares.

I adore how much you rankle each other and yet you are each others' worlds.

I love that you pay attention. To things that may seem as ephemeral as an actor's enjoyment in playing a role, or the playwright's success with it.

I adore you for trying to cheer up a friend who you knew was very likely doing things you should be wanting to punish him for.

I love that after 6000 years with humans, watching them murder each other in increasingly innovative ways you still melt at signs of love between them.

I adore that you are happy to do things imperfectly even though you could miracle everything to be impeccable every time.

This goes for your worn, loved clothes as well.

I adore that you implicitly trust a demon.

And that you taught him to trust more as well.

I adore that you pay attention to what others do and not what they say.

I adore you for not giving up.

I adore you for making the hardest decision to have a shot at the best possible future.

You deserve to be happy angel. And adored.

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Home is where I am with you 🏠🩵

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Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.

No one's gonna hurt you,

No one's gonna dare.

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Been working on this for a while and if I don't post it now I never will so here you go <3 enjoy the most self-indulgent thing I've ever spent time on - I just really needed them to hug...

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Angel of the Eastern Gate (and a certain snake)

#good omens #aziraphale #femme aziraphale

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Morning Light~

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Aziraphale caught a glimpse of relaxed Crowley in the morning light of the bookshop. ♥

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Watching the morning Light ✨

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A matching sketch illustration to my last sketch illustration of Crowley in the morning light~

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Actually no my cat just wandered over and gave me an IRL boop. This day is awesome again.

Man did I pick the wrong day to take a day off tumblr I guess 😆

#boop #cat

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Man did I pick the wrong day to take a day off tumblr I guess 😆

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For general meta context:

In the book, the “garden” the story ended on was Adam’s—he and Dog “escape” through the hedge to steal apples and have fun, and the future is a pair of trainers slouching through a field forever (very much paraphrased).

Season 1, with its shifted emphasis on Aziraphale and Crowley, instead ends with them leaving Berkeley Square and going for their dinner on the Ritz (returning again for a shot of the nightingale).

Mixed in with this (in both versions, but just with the order and pacing changed for the show) we see Shadwell and Tracy making plans to leave their current jobs, and Anathema burning Agnes’s second book. Each of these is our POV characters leaving their garden—choosing to leave behind the safety offered by structure and familiarity for something new and unknown but ultimately better. (Having Aziraphale and Crowley retire oh-so-dramatically in episode 6 really seals this parallel.)

I cannot predict season 3, obviously, and I certainly love the idea of their final “garden” being the one at the South Downs cottage. But I think regardless of what direction it goes in, if that parallel set up in season 1 is followed through, I don’t *think* a cemetery is the likely conclusion. Just from the perspective of that imagery, it seems a step in the wrong direction.

This isn’t to say no one will die or that there won’t be any cemeteries (heck we got a prominent appearance of a cemetery in both season 1 and 2 so why not 3?) but I don’t think this is what “it all started, as it will end, in a garden” is meant to foreshadow.

hi neil!

i haven’t been a good omens junkie nearly as long as my peers; however, over the past year and a half, not a day has gone by in which i do not think about them and/or look at them. it has become my entire existence, and i’m too attached to actually do anything about it.

that’s not the point. the reason why i am actually here is because i have a question (with backstory):

i came across a theory the other day in which someone quoted your iconic “it all started, as it will end, in a garden”…or something along the lines of that…and their interpretation almost gave me nightmares. the post stated that the idea of everything ending in a garden might not be what we assume it to be…hence, a garden in the south downs (something everyone is absolutely begging for). what was absolutely terrifying about this thought was the point that said garden might be a cemetery…a cemetery that shows up quite often in the beautiful intros. i’m afraid that there is fear that you might kill off aziraphale and/or crowley….and both seeing and seeing that in words does not sound right…BUT STILL anything is possible in the Gaiman-verse. we’ve been traumatized enough during season 2, and there might be casualties if there is more angst…

i’m genuinely curious about your opinion on this theory

I believe that being the author excuses me from theories.

#good omens #good omens meta #neil gaiman

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I visited the Acropolis more than 10 years ago but the museum was closed that day and I’ve always wondered if it was as passive-aggressive as everyone said.

“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver

#british museum #museum #art #art history #repatriation #elgin marbles

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The Disappearing Act. support me with tips, kofi, commissions

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“Crowley’s favorite place… is Aziraphale’s bookshop. But he would never admit it. Never admit that.” -David Tennant

this is my first official fanart for Good Omens and I’m feeling all the feels lol. this show inspired me to work on my art again and take it SERIOUSLY. I’ve always wanted to try digital art but would’ve never taken the leap on my own. this is definitely the first of many to come!

#good omens #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #ineffable fandom #aziraphale #crowley

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genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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Bonus:

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#good omens #ineffable husbands #ides of march