So that's what the back of a throat feels like.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Journeyed up strawberry hill to trip on shrooms today and now I have a hatchling.

We see talk about Gen AI use in art, but I don't see it enough for writing. If you're not a writer, hire a ghost writer. Hire an editor to proofread your work. Just as much as you would hire an artist when designing visual media. Selling AI-written books and passing them off as your own? Ick.

BART train intercoms sound like Charlie Brown's teacher and you can't convince me otherwise.

SOME OF YOUS NEED REMINDING.

it's destroying communities. not in the abstract "it's bad for the environment" sense, in the literally observable immediate sense. usage of it is tantamount to violence against your own neighbors, and it should be treated as the antisocial behavior that it actually is

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

“the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.”

Bless Pope Leo For Declaring War On AI

“We are so freaking back.”

thegodshow.com

Bread and circuses became Ramen and doom scroll.

Strong like bitch that fight bears in the forest

moby dickgirl@eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 3mo ago

I have come not to bring peace, but a sword.

"A secret network of rich child traffickers wanted to avoid accountability for their sex crimes, so they stoked baseless hatred against innocent minorities" simultaneously sounds like an outlandish conspiracy theory and the most obvious possible thing in the world.

Raping then murdering children was/is sport for Trump and Epstein pedophiles …

Fascist pedophiles have masked thugs that can murder you and laugh and never even get charged. But Green Day and Bad Bunny are performing at the Super Bowl so I guess we got that going for us.

Straight men will never not be hilarious to me.

So... I'll get into it a bit later. But found out a commission I got of my fox being a stripper is being used for an AI chatbot site. As an FYI: I don't use AI. AI is the tool of fascists. And the people that utilize my characters, my art, or art of my peers are thieves. Absolute fuckwits.

if you're about to " Actually gen AI is good for menial jobs" Stop right there. it means you don't know the skill and hard work that goes into it. Shut the fuck up and take a moment to learn what those jobs actually require. And don't ever defend GenAI

just to add: GenAI users are, in fact, absolute disgusting thieves. They have no value for the things that give them joy, or value for the people that painstakingly make the things they love. They are absolute, utter, garbage.

If you set not one, but multiple alarms in the morning, and don't wake up to any of them before they've been going off for an hour, I would like to sincerely like to wish you a very go fuck yourself.

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

While we’re talking moderation lists, we also have an Anti-AI mod service here. It filters AI content out of the feeds for you, is human run to minimize false flags AND you can report any AI content you find to the team to make the bluesky experience better for everyone 🧡 >> @aimod.social

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · 2y ago

First you must subscribe to the labeler by following their account @aimod.social Afterwards, on a post containing AI, click the (…) and report the post as usual, you can then select who you want to report it to. A human moderator will check the post, so adding a description of the tells helps.

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this #bskycensorship

My voice is bound to be hoarse as hell tomorrow and my paws are killing me, but I just got the best early birthday gift ever and got to see Iniko on stage in the Regency Ballroom! Thank you @completesquare.bsky.social for the wonderful gift! Couldn't have asked for a better first concert experience!

Got my first piece of leather gear (a cuff wallet) yesterday and HOLY SMOKES I LOVE IT! I got 3 compliments in the span of an hour from it, well worth the money spent!

Fuck JK Rowling. Pass it on.

American Scruffy 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️@scruffygaydc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Fuck JK Rowling. Pass it on.

So much about our current national situation is explained by the fact that a substantial proportion of Americans truly believe that “feeling somewhat uncomfortable” is the same as being the victim of an actual crime

I'm SO sick of some of us STILL pretending the president isn't a criminal, rapist, lying, piece of shit who would rather make TV drama than help everyday Americans live better lives. Just stop. It's so old. Grow up. #trump #resist #maga #VoteBlue

It is almost as though the two party system was just a bunch of white suprematist oligarchs and neither have any intention of sustaining the illusion of a mediocre democracy.

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last yr.

"Illinois’ Dick Durbin, California’s Adam Schiff, and Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse spent more of their allotted time lauding Federalist Society judges for sometimes ruling against Trump than they did asking questions of Whitney Hermandorfer, the pending nominee to the 6th Circuit."