To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

“AI is ok as long as it’s not taking anyone’s job” and whose work is it trained on. Did you forget that it’s a bunch of stolen fucking shit? Are we moving the goalposts already? “it’s sticking around so you have to get used to it, be realistic” no I don’t. Eat my shit and hair

I swore I would never work retail again because of terrible customers. I work at my current job because it’s one of the few exceptions. Our customers are freaking _fantastic_. I wish everywhere was more like it. I’ve only really had one negative experience with a cranky dude in the past year.

Also applies to authors, as Oisín mentions downthread.

grandma possum knitting some gifts 🧶

“let trans kids suffer and die or go to jail for ten years” is state-enforced murder CALL YOUR REPS TRANS KIDS DESERVE TO LIVE THEY NEED YOU 🩷

To the voice actors out there right now giving their time and effort to an IP that actively harms people y’all have personally worked with on other projects: don’t be surprised if we stop contacting you

Rainbow x Lionfish

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

When you become a weird candy connoisseur because your brain likes the stimulation. Meh. The Franks Red Hot gummy bears were better.

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

If your article about parental estrangement interviews a bunch of estranged parents saying "actually I was a great parent and my child is a crazy brat" and just takes their word for it, you are a hack. I'm not saying this NEVER happens, but it is SO RARE.

My mom can keep right on being estranged. I haven’t needed her bigoted, manipulative bullshit for the past decade and I’m not gonna start now. Short of harassing me, there’s nothing she can do. Ever stop to ask yourselves WHY we stopped talking to our parents? Also I’m 42. Not precisely a child, lol

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

Rock Friends for day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar! At one point I was out of everything but granite clay, and then I knocked over a box of rocks in the craft room, so I took it as a sign that I should make use of them. Since then, I've probably made about 300 of them.

lol. Shout-out to all y'all claiming you use this thing as a therapist.

Waking up every morning like TODAY IS THE DAY I SHALL RELAX AND REGENERATE, remember you have ADHD, and do 600 things instead because boredom is the devil.

Speaking of pretty quilts, I just got this pride flag done!

#SaveSpeech Netchoice won their legal battle against Age verification in louisiana! This follows similar rulings in AK and OH! This is huge! These laws can be stopped, they can be overturned. Do not give in to dooming! Keep calling your reps and support orgs that fight these laws in court!

KOSA has been defeated several times already and they keep trying over and over until the one time it goes through, at which point it becomes everyone's problem. It will be an unmitigated disaster if this passes and they say, well, sorry, now it's the law. Make sure your creature votes No on this.

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

Creation requires a brain and a willingness to be uncomfortable, which is why rich people love to talk about it and not practice it at all unless they’re creatively fucking people over. And even then they’re usually copying some dystopian novel they misunderstood the point of 😑

i clapped my hands like a seal

Sky has been a mental refuge for me most evenings for the past few years. It’s chill, it’s pretty, I choose how much to engage with other players, quests and new content keep me coming back without overwhelming me. #skychildrenofthelight

can we all agree to take it easy on ourselves tomorrow? we are humans with hearts and souls and it's unnatural to soldier on as if we're unaffected

Commissioning artists was cheaper. :)

"The work that client firms are settling for is not better when it’s produced by AI, but it’s cheaper, and deemed 'good enough.'” This is exactly what I feared. Not that AI would replace good writing (it can't), but that good writing would cease to be valued

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

For today only (Dec 14) All Systems Red (1st book in The Murderbot Diaries) is on sale across all US ebook retailers for $2.99 (published by Tordotcom, edited by @leeharris.net cover art by Jaime Jones) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

It's here! The pack you've been waiting for. Popstar hunter and demon poses. 175 poses total, including silly stuff and some bathrobe poses (couch couch couch). Just $12+ Get it here: ko-fi.com/s/b0ff3df661 #Pose #PoseRef

GenAI is for guys who don't know how to think or learn and are gonna make it everyone else's problem. Which is why it appeals so very much to the exact people who have *always* done this: billionaires and executives

As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans. Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 13! Just a couple of quick plein air sky studies in gouache

Hey, y'all, I hate to burst your bubbles, but that "hooded crow snowboarding with green plate" video is generative AI Here's the _REAL_ video of a snowboarding crow from 13+ years ago the fake is stealing from www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBM...

Good morning! Shop's open.🎄🎅☃️ #dollhouseminiatures #miniatures #mpminis #myminitown #myminiatureworld #etsyminiatures

Free advice for my neurospicy girlies and fellas and other: volunteer interest in what others are doing! You might not actually care but it will MAKE THEIR DAY. This is a tool of forging connections. You do not have to acquire someone else's hyperfixation to indulge it. Just let them yap about it

Sorry I think using AI for placeholders is also bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know you only care about finished art but placeholder art also needs to be made by a human being who also needs to be paid for that But placeholder midjourney slop cuts that artist out

If you follow me, and I check your profile, and the first thing I see is you're an AI enthusiast? You're getting blocked. AI isn't and never was art. It will never, ever be welcome in my sphere.

BILL BURR: “If someone’s working 160 hours a month and can’t make their rent, you’re not paying them enough. Maybe you should just be worth $900,000,000… How does a CEO take a f*cking 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?”

This!

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

Entering my Luddite era. Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.

Reminder for the winter disease season: DO NOT PUT TAP OR EVEN BOTTLED WATER UP YOUR NOSE You need to use distilled water or thoroughly boiled water in a neti pot or sinus cleaner. You do not want to give yourself brain-eating amoebas

These labels/stamps aren't a magic seal that scares AI away. Even if you use them as a watermark. For an active defense measure use something like Glaze and NightShade. The stamps are meant as a statement from the artists to the public in a non-intrusive manner 😉 I needed them for my own art!

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

This is a very divided vote. It means we've been encouraging dissent. It now goes to the full committee. Please keep calling and urging your reps to reject it