Laurentide

@laurentide.bsky.social

Fox collective She/It 🏳️‍⚧️ ΘΔ& Old and full of vulpix tf yearning. Usually SFW but 🔞 for kink and similar topics. genAI = BLOCK Zoo = BLOCK

When I started building my dwarven society, I snagged a mycologist to talk for a while about what kind of fungal crops might be possible, and in particular what food and textiles might be derived from them.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

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(A) means an entity -
(i) that is an interactive computer service;
(ii) that-
(I) is engaged in interstate or foreign commerce;
or
(Il) purposefully avails itself of the United States
market or a portion thereof; and
(iïi) for which it is in the regular course of the trade or
business of the entity to create, host, or make available content that meets the definition of harmful to minors under paragraph (4) and that is provided by the entity, a user, or other intration conten provider, with

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Pastblast: A watercolor piece from 2010, titled "Morning Kit". This one was an ACEO-sized painting, 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" - a very popular size and art movement at the time.

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