zircon

@zirconstone.bsky.social

Trans man and service dog handler, dad joke menace. Pfp and banner by GalaxyAfterDark!

Artists do you ever get a commission that you go overboard with because it just speaks to you but you're taking a million years to finish it BECAUSE you're going overboard and feel bad that it's like a month past when you said you'd deliver it? What do you do about it? Asking for a friend #art

We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨

Lucille Bridges poses next to a portrait of her daughter, Ruby, walking into a school to become the first Black child in the South to integrate an all-white school

One of the frustrating things about yet another crackdown on "sexual media" is that you can't even tap your nails against a microphone anymore but if I open up TikTok, Reels, Shorts, I can, with extremely little effort, find AI Generated Fruit Love Island porn fully monetized by the platform

🌈 2010. 🎶 Erasure's Always plays as you mash Z, chasing that high score 🏆 and your best sparkly unicorn life 🦄 ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK still runs thanks to preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash is gone 👋, but your favorite games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it now! archive.org/details/robo...

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

It's impossible to scream at artists on the internet loud enough to make them answer accurately if a huge project involved AI or not You're not Batman. Most of them are just individuals doing their jobs. Fuck AI, but don't let it rob you of your humanity towards human artists.

Stephan Krosecz@stephank.bsky.social · last wk.

Gonna be real: it's deeply shitty to aggressively demand that artists who worked on a large project guarantee to you that nobody who touched the project used AI. They can't know that and they're not responsible for that. They can only know things within the scope of their own job.

If you’re watching Fauci’s testimony remember that science isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t lie. It evolves. COVID-19 was a once-in-a-century pandemic caused by a brand-new virus, recommendations changed because the evidence changed. That’s not deception. That’s how it works.

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

The guy that they want you to be terrified of (Mamdani) is making sure kids in NYC are fed all summer and people have access to cheaper groceries, all while they take food away from kids getting SNAP. Just sayin, feeding kids should make you the good guy.

Reminder for everyone - the CEO of ModRetro is Palmer Luckey, who is a war profiteer (1), AI weapons manufacturer (2), fascist surveillance state supporter (3), genocide enthusiast (4), and pedophilia supporter (5). Supporting ModRetro means you're supporting fascism. Sorry, that's just the truth.

oh fugg if you spend 18 dollars on my stream you get a gay unicorn now you gotta now you gotta give me your money do it for them (gay unicorn)

FINAL FANTASY XIV@en.finalfantasyxiv.com · last wk.

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The Final Fantasy 14 Online logo placed above the Twitch logo on a white and purple banner. Cut out from the solid colors on the right is a screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 of a player riding a white unicorn mount with a flowing rainbow-colored mane.