Hey fellow authors! File your claim now to punish this AI company from stealing your work without compensation. If we punish them hard enough maybe "theft-as-business model" will stop. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

LOL my older, white, and male coworker asked me to 'nag [him] tomorrow to make sure [he] does at thing before a certain time'.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

SUNDAY SAME SANRI TIME SAME SANRI PLACE FEATURING @littlewolfbird.bsky.social

I just think people who aren't multimillionaires shouldn't be volunteering their time to help subsidize the salaries of multimillionaires.

Instagram is rolling out a new feature where anyone can see your location at any time. Disable this by going into your DMs and clicking on the map at the top, then selecting “no one” when it asks you who can see you (or via the gear icon). So yeah this is fun.

I have a very important question for @virginie.bsky.social: how do I say George in French?

NEW: Spain cancels plans to buy US-made F-35 fighters, a day after India paused all US military orders. They join Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Switzerland & Germany in shunning US defense deals. Swiss leader, Balthasar Glättli: “Those who hurl rocks at us in trade shouldn’t expect gifts in return.”

I promise you that everything I make is 0% generative ai.

The person who named them woofers and tweeters should have named more stuff.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Please understand that if you air even a single ICE ad on your program, on your podcast, on your stream, you will never, for the rest of your mortal life, receive another dollar or another second of attention from me, or from millions of others. I promise you, it is financial suicide.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Did you know that today is a good day to support the Kickstarter for Plot Twist Cafe? It's the book store @bailswrites.bsky.social is looking to open in NWMissouri, aka the New York City of Corn. Give some books a place to live and queer folk a place to read them www.kickstarter.com/projects/bai...

Stivkun

Bonus episode 9 is out (and about, rolling down the river and up the bank, up the mountain and also up your alley, probably) We finish the Fellowship of the Ring (and Dad breaks it so it's not going to come back sigh therefore Book 2 has been acquired to keep reading) www.patreon.com/posts/lotr-9...

When you strip away humanity

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

I found that calling this Visa number didn't work, as the people here can only handle complaints regarding cards and accounts from what I can tell (unless I'm doing something wrong?) I did however find what appears to be the number for Visa's headquarters. Do with that what you will

Here's a good additional resource of contact details for various payment processors: yellat.money

Also, Stripe can be contacted at: [email protected] bsky.app/profile/daff...

Maybe we could find out. Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

The queer creators disenfranchised by the Mastercard fiasco still have Kofi, many still have Patreon, and some can even be directly commissioned. Others have websites and Etsy stores. Now is the time to support them with our dollars as much as with our phone calls to payment processors.

The Wall, built in Minecraft #minecraft #asoiaf

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

The Trans Pride earrings! 😍 cvkvlv.com/products/spe...

Once more. This is both absurd and true.

Some of you when you watch this, will have a lightbulb pop www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfJ7...

Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.

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Free ebook alert! Go grab @aptshadow.bsky.social's The Heart of the Reproach: subterraneanpress.com/newsread-the...

Finishing up the next @ragmanspod.bsky.social and as I’m listening back to make sure I didn’t do an oopsie, I’m processing *what* they’re talking about and fuck man, the United Statesian brainwashing is so fucking real. Like I feel myself getting defensive and immediately wondering WHY because…

490000 more reasons not to use GenAi for your art needs

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Today @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com spells out what we all know to be true but too few will actually say

If you’re a Canadian like myself who grew up watching PBS cross-border style, then you likely remember that their fund-raising events frequently got a lot of calls from north of the border. We can still do this online. Check this link for Canadian sign-up & usage : help.pbs.org/support/solu...

OK here you go I made my own contribution to the Hugh Jackman male gaze/female gaze discourse 😄 (and yes as you can tell, it's hideous BUT completely AI-free)

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

The only way to prevent AI-produced slop from becoming the default is to refuse to watch, play, read, or listen to stuff like this.

Who the FUCK has health insurance that is only $60/mo? With this percentage, my health insurance will be $700/mo.

“Elon Musk is repeatedly insisting, no, no, there’s a difference between what I’m doing and being a Nazi. And what the model keeps telling him is, statistically, that’s not the case,” anti-woke means Nazi, we have proved it with math

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

None of this should be misconstrued to downplay any of the atrocities committed against transfems. All of this is to say that while violence against transfems is loud - a warning, violence against transmascs is often quiet - handling an embarrassment privately. Invisibility is not safety.

@unicef.org spokesperson, James Elder says if electricity was allowed to Gaza desalination plants, problem of lethal lack of water would be changed within 24 hours, “what possible reason can there be for denying of a legitimate amount of water that a family needs?” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Not exactly this era of Carmen but I wanted to be her so badly.