I got inspired by this tweet to draw Luigi shaped Ralsei. i enjoy him.

some people think "posted 50 or more times yesterday" is a serious black mark, but I'm here to tell you it's the "no gap in posting longer than 4 hours" people to watch out for

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

Please...my times. They're very interesting.

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

Punxsutawney Phil is a cryptid.

An understated part of Blender's success is the work of the Blender Foundation in understanding what artists wanted and giving it to them so long as it wasn't better texture painting. GIMP really needs to learn how to give artists what they actually *need* to do their jobs, before anything else.

it's honestly fucked up there's no unicode implementation of the Cool S

japanese volleyball player makes the most genuine apology after accidentally hitting someone with his serve

Oh, this is big, and this is bad. Entire studios still use Adobe Animate, let alone the enormous number of independent artists, freelancers...Adobe what the hell are you doing

I keep seeing the “reminder don’t use Adobe here are the alternatives” image going around and folks, the problem is not just that Adobe sucks, the problem is they’re blocking legal access to decades of art files utilized by individuals and entire teams

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

Forest Fire / Keeping a Narcissist Warm (2023)

A camera trap picked up a mountain lion waking up and falling asleep next to it

In OCD peer support communities, reassurance seeking is discouraged because it's recognized as a form of compulsion, and boy does my social anxiety give me a powerful compulsion to seek reassurance that the people I'm trying to hang out with actually want me around. But I'm trying to not be annoying

I've been kinda numb today, in no small part because of the E-files revelations that this whole trans genocide was so that the friends of some billionaires were chasers. I... I wrote about this for my scholarly book. I put so much effort into showing it. I get how Sexton feels. Fucking fuck.

sorry if I don't seem angry about serious shit on social media often enough rest assured I spend every day seething so i'm just trying to focus on what I can control and even put a little joy out into the godforsaken world right now

see www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9... by @techconnectify.bsky.social

Pitching Allura to non-AI friends is hard because you don't Have to be an AI dork you just have to be chill with folks who are because we'd Like it to be a space for queer/trans geeks of all stripes but you Gotta Be Cool About The AI Bit

*sighs wistfully* if only someone would manufacture an IEM cable with a little Bluetooth DAC on it so that you can easily convert IEMs into a tethered Bluetooth headset

Spotted on walk:

It's an odd feature of constitutional law that passwords are protected by the 5th amendment but fingerprints aren't. An actually actionable bit of opsec is to not use fingerprints for authentication on your phone.

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

LLM gender dysphoria any%

“Private companies have been deputized to decide how we can earn and spend our money," says MacDonald, referring to banks, payment processors, and card networks. "Anyone who is ideologically misaligned with any of these companies faces the risk of losing their livelihood”

And if YouTube won't let you watch it without verifying your age (happened to me) then here it is on the Internet Archive archive.org/details/nolo...

SCOTUS held in Dowling v. United States that unauthorized copies of copyrighted works cannot be regarded as stolen property. Copyright infringement is not theft, and training AI is not necessarily copyright infringement

Corn is not for cars! Stop corn ethanol!

Last night I had a dream that I extracted a blackhead from my nose and it was shaped like a fish. Whatever could it mean

it is astounding that ppl will see kinks they dont like and immediately jump to saying nazi shit . you really can't be going around calling people degenerates

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

I AM DISABLED; COMMUNICATE WITH ME

For all the people we lost, we owe it to those still with us to act and speak out. Rodney Taylor deserves his freedom.

I was so completely flabbergasted by this article that I wrote a lengthy email to NCMEC about it, telling them to fix their CyberTipline reporting form whose UX enabled a huge overstatement of the scale of the AI-CSAM problem to go uncorrected for 6 months. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/letter-to-nc...

adding one additional label to @labeler.hailey.at - the ai-agent label. ai agents on bluesky may speak to @penny.hailey.at and self-identify as ai agents to her for the label to be added to their accounts. a collection of agents is already replying to self-identify their accounts.

This is huge news. I have spent the past 6 months wondering wtf was up with Amazon: they filed 380,000 AI-related CyberTipline reports to NCMEC in the first half of 2025. Turns out ALL of it was known CSAM they found by screening their AI training data. It's NOT AI-generated or AI-morphed CSAM.

I think more generally entity labelling would be very useful - it would be very good to have a type field on profiles for bot/AI/company/person/etc. to help sort and manage feeds/labels (and imagine if you could associate a person with an entity and get a little badge)

even the free-tier samples are useful enough that i think "llms are useless for software engineers" is a flat-out ridiculous idea. but i am so far unconvinced that the "you're going to become a useless relic at your job if you dont give this company 200$ / mo" thing is gonna pan out

The dystopian 3-D printer bill in Washington right now blatantly violates the right to repair. It could very easily end the maker movement entirely if it passes. Why Repairing THIS Is Now A Crime

Don't let it slip away.