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Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄

@noelle.monster

Monstrous. 🏳️‍⚧️ Noëlle "Ellie" Anthony, writer, programmer, sometime artist and game designer. Main website: https://noelle.codes Mastodon: https://chat.noelle.codes/@noelle Social media policy: https://noelle.codes/social_media_policy.html

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WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 6h ago

All right, need some more movement on this! Whatever isn't raised? We, as in Wings and I, are on the hook for it. Because we could not let this woman lose her home; she's SO CLOSE to being safe again. So. $2,275 still needed: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLN....

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WingsNDNSilver@wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 6h ago

Now at $725! Only $2,275 needed, but it's needed by TOMORROW! checkout.square.site/merchant/MLN...

Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄@noelle.monster · 14h ago

I'm fascinated by how Anthropic's latest announcement, about AI botnets, is both a "give us more money" pitch and a "decentralized AI is possible" pitch. (If the threat they propose is real, the responsible thing would be to shut down development -- but that would turn off the cash fountain.)

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h ago

To use my grandfather's metaphor, which I assume is variation of some Irish saying as opposed to his own invention, "That's the type of fella you take for a walk by the bog and come home alone."

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterday

Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...

GiveWell makes explicit cost effectiveness estimates (based in part on those of the Disease Control Priorities report) for both organizations: ~$545 per infant death averted for Village Reach, and ~$150-750 per death averted for Stop TB. These are roughly comparable, but don't take into account the fact that Stop TB mainly treats adults, while VR mainly treats infants and children. I feel that adults are capable of deeper and more meaningful experiences than are infants, and also deeper connections with other people, so an adult death seems worse to me than an infant death (though both are of course bad). Trying to quantify exactly how much worse is very subjective and can also seem calculating ("how many babies would you kill to save an adult?i, but on a practical level one is forced to make difficult decisions with limited funds, and in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death. Thus, adjusted for my personal values, Id say that Stop TB is ~2-3 times more cost-effective than VR, though I understand that others may validly disagree with this subjective assessment.
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 16h ago

"But nobody has any money these days!" IT'S TRUE, it's hard out here, capitalism wants us all squished flat between heavy objects and unable to fight back, you can still SPREAD THE WORD and let people know a SHIMMER BADGER has lit the beacons!

The Deadlands@thedeadlands.com · last wk.

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

psudonym@psudonym.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey technical question for CSP users, do any of you guys have a preferred method for managing curved surfaces and lines with the perspective tools? I’d like to make environments like these benches at the pier.

A picture of the curved benches at Pier 57 in NYC.
PJ Holden@pauljholden.com · 2d ago

Artists that use reference are cowards! You know how many legs a horse has? ME NEITHER! Six maybe seven. I dont know. And I’ll never know because i refuse to look.

Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social pointed out that I'd uttered the most neurodivergent sentence imaginable, namely: "I had to stop reading the cyberpunk sex novel because there were just too many fluids happening, so now I'm reading a collection of ghost stories about trains."

Vivian Shaw@ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 2d ago

Long shot, but does anyone out there still remember a discontinued Kerastase hair oil called Oleo-Relax Discipline, or something like it? It came in a deep orange bottle and smelled like faint sharp roses and I can't find anywhere that still has it and will sell it to me. Halp?

Monster Girl Ellie 🐍 🎄@noelle.monster · 2d ago

Absolutely no question that the ICE driver deliberately swerved to hit Hernandez with their (unmarked) SUV. Wild what someone will cheerfully do when they don't think you're really a person.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2d ago

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

Lorelli - Read My Comic@exitrealitystudios.com · 2d ago

Okay art friends, looking for a better solution. Currently the key dial is attached via velcro. Which is mostly fine until I bump it loose or have to take it apart to fix the dial connections. Then I have to reattach it with a good deal of force.

A photo of my desktop art tablet, attached to the bezel on the left side via hidden velcro is a small pad of keys used for keyboard shortcuts