Florence Wilder ✒️

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🖋 Writer 🎥 Actor 🎮 Videogame designer ⚔️ Dungeon Master President of @queervox.org They, them 🏳️‍⚧️💛🤍💜🖤 Visually-impaired Synaesthete florencewilder.com

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly. Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now. Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate? Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

Love has never needed permission from labels 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
My emptiness of gender lets me see that clearly.
Anxiety tightens around transgender lives right now.
Why must their chosen bonds still pass through someone else’s gate?
Why is the soul they claim treated as a request instead of a right?

You should stay informed, you should keep yourself safe, but you are under no obligation to scream into a void about politics. Doubly true for BIPOC and queer people who tend to be Cassandras anyway. It's just not healthy. Take a page from Hari Seldon and make actionable plans for the inevitable.

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Uh, yeah, no shit. I do dislike some of the answer choices being so reductive, but this landed me where I expected to be. I want a world that protects artists, is free of corporate black boxes, and compensates people who make things, especially if tech displaces them in certain capacities.

The quiz results of Your AI Compass, resulting in The Union Organizer. "AI is a real tool being used to extract real labor value from real people without paying them. You don't care about the singularity – you care about the artists, writers, and workers getting strip-mined by capital. You're not anti-technology. You're anti-theft."
Kayleigh McKee 🟡 🔜Animate! ORLANDO@ghaspey.bsky.social · last mo.

I dislike LLMs so much they didn't even have selectable OPTIONS for some of my well reasoned and imo obvious angles against it for a few questions. They still put me in the most bottom left group despite it LOL bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

Y'know, there's something about waking up early. Sure, it takes adjustment to be up at 4:45am. But it's so refreshing to be in bed and open your eyes at 6:15am. I feel so refreshed when I try to stand then wake up at 8am. Everyone should try it! *This joke is sponsored by Exhaustion™️*

If you quantify your success by booking %: you're likely to make yourself miserable. Most of the work is auditioning…so have fun. For as long as a given audition's going: you're that character/that character's you. You get to hang out! There's nothing to prove—just a reality to let them live in.

Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey artists, let's share some helpful things in the community :) 🎨 What's one tip or trick you would give a new artist in your chosen medium? (Or just in general!)

So many AI dorks calling themselves “prompt engineers” thinking they’re the best at asking a computer the right question for shitty art, yet would be befuddled by two brothers standing at a fork in the road claiming that one only lies while the other only tells the truth.

I’m really sad that we have a generation of people who think identity is something you buy at the store. That it’s pronoun pins and Pride flags and whatever media is pandering for the month of June. You are real outside the artifice. Your essence is not a commodity.

Be mindful of corporations who only show up in June. Be patient in conversations so allies remain allied. Be caring in the face of suppression. Be kind even when safety is stripped from you. Be careful in actions affecting our community. And, most of all: Be unapologetic in who you are.

“Normal” is an illusion born of fear🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 You are exactly who you were meant to be. One day, we won’t need pride flags or categories, for every love and identity will simply be accepted as human. Until then, I’ll keep sending this: Your heart is precious. Your soul is beautiful beyond any label

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Harris County runoff voting is today, so a handy reminder that WE'RE the boss of our elected officials. We pay their salaries and we tell them the interests they're supposed to carry out. And we've gotten way too comfortable just letting them not do their jobs and answer to money instead of us.