bsky.app/profile/afli... quote tweeting an ancient post of my own just to say this is a thing i think about a lot, art that is the idea of a piece can be so cool all on its own and i wish people would get a little more curious about art history or just play around and reinvent wheels, either way!

hot karl rove@aflightybroad.bsky.social · last yr.

yoko ono made quite a bit of work that was basically “here’s the concept for an art piece, imagine it” and that was the art and it’s like. guys you can just do that. just post “picture a beautiful woman standing alone in the rain on a brick-paved street” and let people imagine her number of fingers

thing ive noticed about ai: any prompt you (or anyone) comes up with is inherrently more interesting and artistic than what that prompt spits out for you. You end up with the equivalent of, like, an improv scene with a really interesting premise that has nothing to do other than restating its bit

been ruminating on the way that, if you are autistic but also attractive, people will often ignore how strange and off putting you are, especially if you are femme

we dont talk enough about redfoo's abysmal "party rock mansion" period from 2015-6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGiB...

Redfoo - New Thang (Official Video)

YouTube video by Redfoo

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this cover is in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QoY...

Like A Prayer

YouTube video by Marc Almond - Topic

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So a masculinist understanding of notetaking would think a transcription app is the same as taking notes. That’s why they think an AI transcript is a time-saver. They think the notes are the thinking because when a human takes the notes, it is.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 5d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

anyone else have stims you can only do by yourself because they come up autonomously (i.e., i cant do it on command and wouldnt know how other than via acting) and they only happen to come up when youre alone / think youre not being watched

The Simpsons is a show that started in the 1980s based on the creators own childhood in the 1950s that continues into the 2020s; fortunately future cultural historians will be able to refer to it simply as taking place in the 'late Washington dynasty'

On This Day in Simpsons History@dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

online christian forums about whether dogs would go to heaven or not are filled with laypeople essentially saying "well they must, because otherwise id be sad :(" and, like, no scripture lmao (h/t @oniondip420.cat )

It's confusing because police unions use the same words and phrases as labor unions. They've got acronyms and numbers and logos and negotiating lead and all that. Police unions should not be accorded the same level of respect and validity as labor unions. There's no mutual interest there. 4/?

It’s wild how we treat the fact that republicans keep stumping for sex criminals like an open secret that we just don’t talk about, like how Jerry Seinfeld was dating a 17 year old at the peak of his career.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6d ago

Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.

Meanwhile, the market has - Dozens of confirmed early cases (the lab has zero) - Clusters within the market near animal stalls - traces of virus found in animal cages Leakers often cite "bayesian likelihood" but animal spillover is common while a novel virus leaking from a lab has never happened.

Look I know Bubsy means well and it’s coming from a good place, but it’s weird to have more than one shirt saying you’re an Ally, much less three separate ones

vaz@capitolcritter.bsky.social · last wk.

bubsy is always sending me IG comedy reels and clips from the less-funny Dropout shows, i give em a heart react and say “haha good stuff man :)”

bubsy is always sending me IG comedy reels and clips from the less-funny Dropout shows, i give em a heart react and say “haha good stuff man :)”

Ken is known for his artwork depicting furry feline women and star trek characters. He also assisted in the creation of the Confurence Zero artbook in 1989! Ken is also one of the founders of the macrophile genre! During the 1980s Ken created a large number of species designs with insect traits!

Today we would like to recognize Ken Sample aka Ken Cougar. A Black man who is credited with creating and coining the term "Fursona". While drawing one of his "Exotics" Ken drew a Cougar character that looked strikingly like himself. Attendees of this conference also wanted their own characters!

An It Harm None, Do What Ye Will!

sitcom about Barabbas' life as a newly free, single man in his early 30s after being freed by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus, set in the hustle and bustle of c.35 CE Jerusalem

I just call them pants

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts

the fight/don't fight axis remains the most important fault line in democratic politics, and that the moderates have mostly failed to find any way to take the 'fight' side is why they are getting their asses handed to them in primaries right now

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last wk.

This is why DSA candidates are really taking off now instead of eg in 2020 or 2018 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-07...

I’m chair of a city committee to review the city’s committees, and I’ve been thinking a -lot- about the root causes behind the fact that our tree and bicycle committees are incredibly high functioning while our commissions for women and persons with disabilities struggle to get traction. 1/?

Stacy Kess: the revolution will be accessible.@stacykess.bsky.social · last wk.

And if you wonder why I'm pissed this Disability Pride Month — in addition to rights being rolled back — a raccoon with a spinal condition has gotten more attention than any of those issues or Disability Pride Month.

we built a whole custom tag/theme ("simcity disaster watch") around how bad the last simcity was, something i dont remember doing for any other major game launch. not even cyberpunk.

Your Complete Guide To The SimCity Disaster - Kotaku

Misinformation. Server errors. Fan backlash. Since EA launched SimCity two weeks ago, the online city-builder has been nothing short of a catastrophe for

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woke stifler@yelix.bsky.social · last wk.

i fear that history has been rewritten so that the death of SimCity was as simple as “Cities: Skylines came out and was better and that was that.” let me tell you it was a lot more stupid than that

I'm turkey hungry, I'm chicken free! Album cover comm of me, @capitolcritter.bsky.social, @weague.indieanthro.com, and @solaster.bsky.social! Done by @jankapnoc.bsky.social !

Remember during Covid when they relaxed open container laws so you could grab a cocktail and walk around and it was completely fine and the world did not end

Sometimes I think it’s too reductive to say that a car is a uniquely deranging object to own, but then I see people who claim left politics compare the people trying to turn a carpark into a children’s home to Netanyahu and I think “no, the car has made you crazy”

Claire McNab@2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

@kayfourbee.bsky.social Local authority decision would exacerbate local reource shortage. But instead of seeing a better decision which doesn't create a resources crisis, your preferred solution is to tell people to eff off. That sounds liks the Netanyahu approach to urban planning […]