every time i talk to someone who's in college i'm like, oh, it's less of a "literacy crisis" than it is a "literally every online system required for getting a higher education is garbage bloatware designed only to collect a fat paycheck from universities, protect copyright, and steal data" crisis

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For the love of God, no more star wars

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Cosmic Marvel@dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 15h ago

Jon Watts will officially direct the next ‘STAR WARS’ film. • Written by Simon Kinberg and is intended to be the beginning of a new trilogy in the Skywalker Saga. • Daisy Ridley’s Rey will appear in some capacity. (via www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...)

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 3d ago

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

As an artist you can literally never ever ever plan which one of your drawings resonates with people on the internet. Never. I'm always wrong. It's fascinating.

Two things are true at the same time about the iced coffee thing: 1.) Any interviewer who gets pissy about you bringing a drink to an interview is a control freak and you shouldn't work for them. 2.) Some of you all are clearly addicted to caffeine and you need to moderate your intake more.

Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.

Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests

People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...

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it's happened again

Woke up from a job-related stress dream, then got a reminder that people who I thought were stupid growing up are having a better life than my responsible ass. This day is already fucked.

Whenever AI CEOs say anything this is all I can think about

Somehow, a random background cameo by M'Ress from Star Trek the Animated Series

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UK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade halls

UK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games.

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Mike Mignola, “The Repentant Cannibal” (2026), watercolour on illustration board, 36.2 x 47.6 cm.

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Status@status.news · 4d ago

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

Welp, they're gonna do it again. This is one one of the reasons why I think we're irreparably fucked. One party is allowed to do whatever it wants, and the other party doesn't want to do anything about it. Goddamn useless fucking cowards.

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 4d ago

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

dude telegram has sticker packs. fluxer is federated and self hosted. revolt is now stoat, stoat is just discord but with free nitro features. teamspeak. you can use matrix but it needs a client. bleepy has 10 alternate clients. plumdy is free. you can find me on poob. get on poob. get on poob.

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

With the dragon game discourse I'm reminded of someone saying that the furry community isnt actually sex positive, its sex casual. Which are two very different things. In this case if someone isnt a viable sex partner then they arent a viable person to socialize with, talk to, or be acknowledged.

Shaaloani Roadhead 🔜 Claws Out@hyenablood.yeen.world · 5d ago

you cannot go through life as a marginalized person damaging people with oppressor mentality. acting as if people are only worthy of personhood if they have sexual utility to you is fucking freak behavior like straight up evil shit. you can be attracted to masculinity without the toxic parts.

We've released a few big free updates for Kala Paint these past weeks: Per-Layer Symmetry tool, Major fixes for non-Wacom tablets like Huions, Select Colour Range, better Gradient Maps tooling, Non-Destructible Layer Noises, optimisations and more!

I used to have a more libertarian stance on gambling, but the past few years have been an object lesson on how quickly moral rot spreads when there isn't a tight leash on gambling. Organized gambling should be banned, period.

Semafor@semafor.com · 5d ago

Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Value Capture as described by C. Thi Nguyen. The expert loses their expertise and thus the institution loses its ability to see AI as slop

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

Japanese Talk@japanesetalk.bsky.social · last wk.

It really irks me when people share their 300, 600, 1000 day Duolingo streaks but still don't know how to use Japanese. Here's an explanation for why apps like Duolingo don't work for learning to any fluency. jtalkonline.com/why-apps-lik...

fred fucking rogers polling at the same level as bernie imma go fukkin feral 11% of these undeveloped turnips never heard of him burn this trash dump of a party to the ground.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 6d ago

remember that all Hasan discourse, both pro and anti, is about a guy who mostly polls at "who?" amongst actual voters Republicans are extremely desperate to paint this goober as the face and future of the Democratic Party and for some reason people are indulging it

I want to meet Mamdami. I know he's a politician and I know it's just a bit, but he seems to just make people, no matter who, feel good about themselves and I would like to know that. He's like a real life Shevik from Star Trek V.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump says Zohran Mamdani is "off to a start" on the way to becoming a "great mayor"

Speaking as someone who thought the finale was a trainwreck, behavior like this looks less like criticism and more like jealousy. You're mad Goose made it to the big screen and even has the nerve to have a healthy relationship with their (her?) success. Just let it go. Mid art isn't a crime.

Ana Valens || 🔞@acvalens.net · 6d ago

Starting to think the anti-Goose part of the TADC fandom might just be the quirked up chungus zillennial version of lolcow stalking.

Ooo, this'll piss some people off.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6d ago

holding this up like a mirror so that some folks on here can see themselves

Imagine first contact with an alien species that has a bird's sense of procreation, and so they think the colorful queers are the males while the drab-looking "manly men" are the females.

Hi, with Native American Heritage Month on the horizon, I would like to remind people to not ask Indigenous people to talk about colonial violence. If you're lucky to be friends with an Indigenous person, then don't use your friend as free emotional and educational labor. Thank you.

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

I feel one thing that separates me from other artists is that I do not say most of what's bothering me at any given time because I feel that is unprofessional and also a weird thing to do in public.