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skarme · they/it · 21+, labelled nsfw, light gore/horror · ffxiv, beastieball, digimon, pokemon, misc fandom xiv art/fic: #confiteart xiv oc tag: #confitelore pfp 🎨: @neunian.bsky.social
Oh hey! Saw a tweet long ago begging a journo to look into why trying to buy quality video game merch sucks shit. So I did that.
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 36m agoIt sucks trying to buy official merch and genAI is only making it worse. https://kotaku.com/why-does-trying-to-buy-a-video-game-t-shirt-suck-so-much-2000730574
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this. We were once mutuals on Twitter. I always remember how she gently but effectively got Helen Lewis to show her whole racist arse on Channel 4 news. bsky.app/profile/kd-s...
KD Smith@kd-smith.bsky.social · last yr.Lewis has been committed to trans hostility since at least 2013. Too few also remember her habit of stoking pile ones of trans inclusive WOC on Twitter back then, too. Check this March 2014 clip (esp. from 4.30 min) as she barely hides her contempt for feminists of colour. youtu.be/c68gjm5QjE4
Bonnie Greer famously sat with her back to the BNP’s Nick Griffin when he appeared on Question Time in 2009. There was much criticism of the BBC platforming the far right, Now every episode of Question Time is wall to wall far right talking points with open arms and a seat kept warmfor Reform
99% of social media users give up right before they would have found the post that relieved all their anxieties
Root Beer has gotten ridiculously impatient to be let out of the pen after eating lolll, he scream
what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem
Daniel Kay Hertz@danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 13h agoYour 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral)
#pigeonsky me: the breeze keeps blowing my door open… if only there were something i could use to keep it shut the ever reliable doorstopper:
since it's going around on twitter/x i was a cultural and narrative consultant on wolverine for the tokyo segment of the game. it was cool to work on such a beloved IP w/ a character like wolverine and brainstorm around established beats and set-pieces. super thankful for the opportunity.
Even Weizenbaum, after watching people use ELIZA was like "Boy, they all treat this bot like a person and that's weird and probably bad." It is very literally the first thing any critic notices.
My Password is Louvre@bmceuen.bsky.social · 13h agoUhh the critique of anthropomorphizing AI in order to deflect responsibility away from the owners of these models was literally one of the first criticisms after LLMs were released
i like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.
Brother green and sister red 🫶 The last two wyrms for my keychain! Hopefully I can get a physical prototype soon, and then I can get to putting it on my shop! Maybe individual stickers too 💭... #ffxiv
There’s Beoga withdrawing as Ed Sheerans band on his US tour. Fair play.
Rupert Murdoch should be sent to the Hague
The Policy Institute@policyatkings.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW: London has among the lowest violent crime rates in England & Wales, tops a ranking of best cities, and pays more in tax than it gets back – but the public overestimate crime risk, underestimate its standing, and don't know it's a net fiscal contributor. Our latest Mistaken Britain study ⬇️
Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."
Animal #18: Joe-219 has a lot of voice lines, where it lists a bunch of vitamins and nutrients that it has a deficiency in. it's not a text to speech voice, but me speaking whilst breathing in and then pitching it down and making the quality bad.
at some point i wanted Fandroid to be a fully voice acted character pretty much entirely on a whim. i only got as far as recording one line before i gave up since it'd make it harder to rewrite dialogue, and also i thought it would be more fun for people to voice the characters themselves
These ones are all restocked on my store! You can find all these in my ‘palaeo collection’ tab on my Etsy blacksmoke1033.etsy.com They all come with a matching sticker (or two if you’re lucky) - I’m still shipping worldwide and paying the fees for you
Miles 🩻@blacksmoke1033.bsky.social · 2d agoI sold out of a lot of my lens cloths at dinocon so if you missed out, they’re coming back!
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And just in case some cis people still don't get it: HRT (and trans surgeries) fundamentally change our bodies in ways that lumping trans women in with cis men (or indeed trans men in with cis women) actively and intentionally ignores to achieve a decidedly unscientific (and bigoted) agenda.
Trans women aren't biological men (or biologically male) anymore than adults are biological babies
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3d agoNo candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.
