And it's never the vehemently anti-war message, or the rejection of rampant capitalism as it consumes the natural world, nor is it even the ways in which the grotesque and the beautiful can occupy the same space. It's always some twee bullshit misreading. All aesthetic, no form.

Wendy Xu@wendyxu.bsky.social · 6h ago

"studio ghibli meets-"

why are podcasts always advertising things like business solutions i could never want or afford. why dont you advertise things podcast listeners want but don't have. like a job

Considering making this a patch specifically for MCR 🤔

found it

tia@exclamatia.neocities.org · 4d ago

does anyone have that one tiktok onhand, of the band kids doing a xylophone jingle before unintelligible speaking through a drum

HAN SOLO: Hell, I never would have flown a spaceship if it wasn't for the daring exploits of Ben Quadinaros, famed podracer... He inspired all of us kids back on Corellia. LEIA (NODDING): Yes, I also know and love Ben Quadinaros. The boy, Han... let's name the boy after him

Oligarchs will keep burning our planet to build an AI god that will never come. Politicians will keep serving capital as the world burns. But I’m not pessimistic about humanity, only our institutions. We can still build beautiful communities rooted in care, solidarity, and lives worth living.

Spare me your lecture on voting blue and ask yourself what YOU are doing. Listen to minorities when they say "we are always under attack". Things don't magically get better under a liberal government. WE are the ones who make change, not the gov. Get it through your head already. Stand the fuck up.

Society: that boy pulled your hair because he likes you! That's so cute actually! Lucy Maud Montgomery: Concuss that boy. He will respect you for it.

I really thought that Disney would crack down on AI imaging bc of the gross copyright infringement but it turns out they care more about screwing over their staff than protecting their brand

at a minimum, a worldview has to be connected to reality before you can appease it

Oh, are AI haters becoming "unhinged" now? Does it seem like we're everywhere no matter what you do? Are we ruining being online for you? Are you feeling like you can't do anything without us making your experience worse? Is it like we can't be escaped even though you want nothing to do with us?

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼@pairofclaws.bsky.social · 3y ago

Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?" So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?

Having a creative practice is lowkey an important part of being alive

"I only use chatgpt in the ideas phase" haha that's so weird. I just have them

I have called for the SoA to facilitate whistleblowing from staffers and authors alike, in the absence of voluntary transparency. I would also like publishers to explain why, if they believe GenAI use is either ethical and valuable, they aren't prepared to say how they're using it.

How many more billions of dollars does Anthropic have to lose before hard drive prices get normal again

When I say "the modern fascist project is the politics of domestic abuse" this horrifying situation with Amy Acton is what I'm talking about

look if shit is so dire for the democrats that they NEED every vote from trans people, maybe they shouldn't run candidates who are transphobic or fold on even the slightest pushback to trans rights it's not our fault y'all's guys suck

anyways, I unironically think we need MORE confrontation in today’s political environment so that these people don’t think they’re the majority or that they’re right

Talk about conservatives they way they talk about everyone else.

many people i know well and love including in my family will be supporting and celebrating a man who went out of his way to be transphobic, and if he wins the pundits will spin that his transphobia is what finally turned texas purple and i don’t wanna know what that’s going to do to peoples minds

Christians conveniently forget that they have a biblical imperative to shepherd people toward God with their own faith and their own actions bc "they hate me cuz they ain't me" gets more clicks

Shivam Bhatt@shivambhatt.bsky.social · last wk.

Every time i read some conservative christian write "ooh, those lefties hate me for my faith" I have to laugh. Like, I am openly and visibly and loudly religious and even the most turbo anti-theists are largely fine with me. They don't hate you for your faith, they hate you cause you're an asshole.

It seems to be working, keep it up everyone! Cut the nasty MAGA shits out of your life and go no contact. There has to be a price paid. I've done it to friends and family, at the very least it's fucking freeing on an individual level, and great for your mental health.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

So many girls I had crushes on in my twenties are suffering the same fate: having ugly babies with mediocre men

democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus

It's not "calling for mass violence" to say that an appropriate response to "I'm going to kill you and your loved ones" is "you can try, fucker."