Count Avi Henriques 🩸

@legalizegoblins.bsky.social

He/him gay trans guy, lead editor at Paizo (Pathfinder and Starfinder), vampire enthusiast, union member, zinemaker, animal artist. May contain bears. Hostile to AI. Views are my own. #aviarts for my art. https://legalizegoblins.carrd.co/

Now spinning. This might be sacrilege but I vastly prefer this album over Floodland. I treated myself to a first-edition gatefold pressing and I'm astounded by how pristine it sounds. I'm realizing I've never heard this album un-remastered, and the remaster significantly muddied it. #MusicSky

The Sisters of Mercy's First and Last and Always playing on my turntable. The gatefold sleeve is standing on top of the turntable.

Last night I made flan with my mom, and I was so anxious that the caramel was too dark. The flan had to sit in the fridge for at least 12 hours so I've just been despairing that I fucked up the caramel. But we just ate it and damn I have never cooked something so delicious in my life.

Hey this "photo" is an AI manipulation of a bear cam snap. It's 308 and her spring cub from this summer, not Holly and Backpack. This year the internet is full of AI-ified bear cam shots for clicks. It's gross and strips every bit of personality and distinctive characteristics from the bear.

A young mama brown bear stands in a river, her small cub riding on her back.
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

The reason I love acrylic markers so much is there's no prep and no cleanup. I LOVE painting with regular acrylics but the amount of time you spend getting set up and then cleaning up makes my highly ADHD brain see it as a "task" and therefore it's harder to get executive function working for it.

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

Very grateful to see these publishers getting named and shamed. If this stuff is going to happen, and we all know it is, I'd rather see it happen with bright shining klieg lights instead of in darkness and secrecy. We should know that it's happening, and act accordingly.

Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 2d ago

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...