Princess Mononoke #ghibli #miyazaki

So apparently, not enough people are taught growing up that, "I honestly did not realize at the time what I said/did would hurt you, and I am so very sorry that it did," is an apology. "I'm sorry you chose to be hurt by that," is not. Mocking someone for being hurt is doubling down, and bullying.

Misogynists will do anything to condemn transgender women to a life of being monstrous and downtrodden, because they know in their fearful, foetid souls that we could become goddesses otherwise.

"Today is August 5th, 2026." Ray Bradbury's gripping science fiction short story "And There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950), read by Burgess Meredith. youtu.be/fhYISIc4ERM

Ray Bradbury - "There Will Come Soft Rains". Read by Burgess Meredith, 1962

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Mononykus. Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, approximately 150 × 100 mm. From 2022.

By the way: My friends do really cool stuff.

Gregory Z@wickedelf-neolis.bsky.social · yesterday

We don't need no water, let the heretic burn Ok I am quite pleased how the add on and paint came out. #warhammerpainting #imperialknights40k ##horusheresy

How beautiful are these handmade creatures by kinetic artist and paper sculptor Lucy Jean Green! #beautifulbizarre #papersculpture #art

Blocking accounts that post Ai slop is getting easier and easier, I tell you hwut.

Came *that close* to changing my bio to, "I used to be a minor somebody in a niche industry. Now I'm just a collection of traumas in a trenchcoat." (Still would probably make for a bangin' song lyric somewhere, though)

Being an ally can be hard sometimes. You get yelled at by a LOT of shitheads just for speaking up. But not giving money to hateful people/organizations actively making the lives of those you claim to care most about worse? That's the easiest fucking part of allyship. If you can't give up that...🤷

It’s not your fault you’re disabled. It’s not your fault you’re chronically ill. It’s not your fault you’re living in poverty, lacking health insurance, homeless or unemployed. The billionaire class wants us to believe these are moral failings so they don’t have to help people. We should help.

Much move to the folks who made these…

It's hard to articulate the change in the trans community over the last few years. Before it was like "Man, this is hard, there's so much ignorance out there, but we're making it work, we're making it better, it won't be like this forever. Now it's like "Oh, they want us dead."

Anthropic, I hope you go under, I hope you go under so much that you can never see the light of what it means to be free of your burden. I hope you burn as Nero did declaring how bright Rome was. You deserve nothing in this life for what you have done. Alexandria burned twice because of you.

Today, August 2nd, is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, a memorial day that commemorates the victims of the Sinti and Romani Holocaust. An estimated 220,000–500,000 Sinti and Romani people were murdered by Nazis and their collaborators.

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

Tried to look something up on the internet today, and folks, I cannot even begin to tell you how much corporate greed and "generative Ai" LLMs have completely banjaxed our access to factual information. It's as if 10,000,000 reference librarians cried out in pain, then were suddenly silent.

I gotta give a tiny bit of credit to Social Conservatives, GCs, and TERFs - They've made such an utter dumpster fire clown show of societal gender roles, it's making it much easier to embrace being nonbinary. Unintended consequences, and all that.

I work in tech, and I can tell you now - the powers that be don't care if you're mocking it or sharing ironically, or what. Sharing GenAI lop is proof of engagement for them. And they are DESPERATE for that because it keeps the money flowing. You're just ensuring it gets more investments.

Jessalyn Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️@hulkied.myatproto.social · 4d ago

No. I am not boosting the Peanuts AI slop, not even for a quote dunk. Charles M. Schulz’s work is the pinnacle of *human* creativity. It is an insult to human art in general if you ask the machine to plagiarize it. It’s as bad as a slur, IMO.

i’m obsessed with this very specific genre of photo

I'm digging through some paleolithic and neolithic art and I came across something I had never seen before: The world's oldest puppet/articulated figure! archive.org/details/TheO... Humans have apparently been making furries and had puppeteers since the Upper Paleolithic at least!

The Oldest Puppet Or Doll An Articulated Figure Made Of Mammoth Ivory ( 28 000 Years Ago)

Earliest discovered example of a puppet or dollMale ivory statuette found in an upper Palaeolithic (Pavlovian) burial at Brno near Dolni Vestonic,  Moravia in the Czech Republic. Around  28 000 years ...

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Look, all I'm saying is now is the time for Dr Woof

Unsurprising, but even so.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

Oh! Oh, no... This would explain a bit of why I'm currently the way I am (managed to catch COVID right at the beginning, before there were any vaccines/treatments. It was not pretty or fun).

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5d ago

The COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Don't let the Ai discourse discourage you aspiring writers out there. Art is valued by its rarity, and the rarest thing in the world is the talent of a single individual. What can be mass produced for cheap has little value. You are an original. A one of a kind. A bespoke wonder. Never forget that.

What do you mean July is over? We haven't even resolved the Mitch McConnell plotline. Who the fuck is even writing this show?

Warning: Even Advisory System Level: Severe.

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry