I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

does anyone else experience a sort of thing around new stories/games/film/etc where, the more repeatedly it's recommended to you during a period of popularity, the less you want to engage with it?

Woke Ginger sounds like a MGS boss from an alternate universe where the games are all set in the British Isles

Mel is 5ft 11. 🟪 I'm 6 foot. You are not. Rith is a size shifter but in its natural state, around 15-20ft long. Relic is 5ft 7 and cute with it. Balance is 6ft and change. 🟪 Balance is not taller than me. Look, she had better food than you when she was growing up, deal with it.

I'm feeling immensely vindicated as a GenAI/LLM luddite.

Interesting article on GadgetBond explores the emerging "flattening of thought" that's occurring as a result of mass-adoption of allowing AI Large Language Models like ChatGPT to think for us, and considers what it might mean for the future.

I see this every once in a while and tonight OP gets to be the effigy I light on fire for this: AI is the best way to make your ADHD symptoms worse. You are getting quietly addicted to the dopamine high of feeling like you got something accomplished and you didn't. OP is ableist/giving shit advice

The dystopia wants to make a sexless world, and it is thus imperative that you have sex. Have weird sex. Have asexual sex. Have taboo sex. Have sex with your friends. Have pathetic sex. Have angry vent sex. Have e-sex. Have self-sex. Intimacy is a power that can’t be taken from you, only forfeited.

It’s gonna be a hot one ⛱️

You know how a solemn speech was prepared for Nixon in case the Apollo 11 astronauts didn't make it back? I wonder if there was also an alternate banner ready to go for GWB in case shit hit the fan earlier and more visibly than anticipated. Like "Whoopsie, my bad" instead of "Mission accomplished"

Who could really say no to this?

Remember when people used to be all “hard times creates great art” because no actually it’s just this.

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

"Monastery Hidden on the River" for @saiotter.com

In another world... Red is still an avid reader :)

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

This is 100% correct. No notes

the literacy crisis affects art, too, because there's so much meaning in every word here. "vulnerable" implies the advice may not be trustworthy. the fact he's been turning it over means he's been trying to determine additional meaning from it throughout his life. compressing it loses meaning!!!!!!!

Former timpani kid checking in!

Can't have a nonhuman knee orientation if you don't have knees *taps forehead*

so I was saying about how you have to stand up for the art that makes you uncomfortable when it gets banned? and how there's a slippery slope on this stuff and we're all in this together? so, sites are now out there banning "the wrong kind of knees" so I think I can safely rest my case.

Did you know that tomorrow, March 10th marks the National Day of Rest for Black Women, a day created to center rest, reflection, and renewal? It's also the anniversary of Harriet Tubman’s passing, honoring her powerful legacy of courage, resistance, and liberation.

I think it'd be cool for there to be like, a werewolfess butcher who runs a meat shop specializing in game animals who hunts for the meat she sells at night with her pack. She has a discount meat section with a sign labeled "WARNING: DISCOUNT PRODUCT MAY INDUCE LYCANTHROPY. CONSUME AT OWN RISK."

If you make your game easy and fun to mod, you create an environment for the next generation of game devs to learn how to make games. If you deliberately remove modding from your game, or vibecode your game into it being incredibly frustrating to mod, you are eating the seed corn.

when it works it works

happy international women's day!

No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job. They have these “news” items though

I'm setting out on watching Star Trek Voyager from the start, having only watched individual episodes here and there before, and after half of the pilot I gotta ask - does Tom Paris ever get the punches in the face he deserves?

If you're stuck on (esp.) composition or pose, put that fine line down and draw with the fattest pen you got, it'll force you to stop sweating the details and deal with the basic shapes and movement ;)

Mel, the sergal with the explosive temper! Don't worry, ROSE is there to help keep a lid on their ire so that they don't take the heroes' lids clean off their shoulders. Of course, when the after-party comes, the clothes may come off, but the chain definitely stays on. They proudly wear the Helix!

This March, become ungovernable by the square-cube law

Some kinda AU #maleficent #disney

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Got this picture from @roxannarachnid.bsky.social, who knocks it out of the park every time, of a new character of mine! This is Lani, a novice nature guardian on a quest to prove she's up to the job.

trump may be the worst president in history, but he knows how to fire people in the funniest way possible. I'm pretty sure one of the 1st term cabinet members learned he was fired while taking a shit

We don't want AI-generated stories. We want stories that are beautiful and weird. Mistakes and obsessions. Labyrinthine worlds; love poems that break us. We want the wild stroke of chance, the stray detail. We don't want soulless slop. We want work *written* by HUMANS.

OH MY GOD I DID NOT THINK I COULD HATE AI ANY MORE BUT EVERY DAY IT PROVES ME WRONG SCREW THAT, UNFOLLOW BUZZFEED. OH MY GOOD LORD I HATE THIS.

BREAKING: In response to public outcry, Microsoft is rolling back on Q1 promises for a more agentic operating system and beginning initial investor speculation on Windows 14. Sources say that it will have critically acclaimed features and will include a free trial with no restrictions on playtime.

When Terry Pratchett died it struck me that our door to the world inside his mind was forever closed. Other people could write Discworld books of course, but they would be their own interpretation - not bad but inherently different. I realised each human mind is a unique, limited resource

i can't tell you how nice it is to hear ANY politician saying things like this with their whole chest in this atmosphere. american, UK, canadian, wherever. I'm so used to either hearing how we're the spawn of satan, or how we need to be thrown under the bus to win, or at best, delicately ignored

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

Red XIII: "Shinra had me complete all kinds of tests... logic, reasoning, combat, Harkness, navigation..." Cloud: "Wait, what did you just say?" Red XIII: "Yes, even navigation..."

Today I'm thinking about serpopards. I just think they're neat! www.artstation.com/artwork/4bOv8l

This seems serendipidous

Today I'm thinking about serpopards. I just think they're neat! www.artstation.com/artwork/4bOv8l

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

UK chums, this is a full five-alarm fire. Write your MP, call them, whatever. The government’s own survey showed 97% of us wanted copyright strengthened, and those abject fucks are weakening it anyway to appease snake-oil grifters and thieves

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