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Use AI for stuff like this! More cancer research and unpacking old SETI data and less replacing artists, writers and workers.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

"Then I'll follow you into the dark."

This reminds me of how I got disillusioned with atheism. Communities that align around being against a thing without clearly expressing what they are _for_ are a vacuum that bad things inevitably rush in to fill.

Strapping couple 💖 (2022)

It took me 40 years to figure out why I constantly say “I’m sorry” in social situations unlike others. Had it explained to me the other day that what I’ve been saying is “I hope I’m safe” and it’s just another reminder of how long it takes to overcome childhood trauma. Love yourself! ❤️

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

He’s deep in the mines

Always and forever grateful to my friends and supporters and people for leaving comments. 💜💜💜

I love how every artist has a different style that's wholly and uniquely them. even if ppl draw in the same general style, there's still just ✨something✨ about it that has the fingerprints of its creator and I think that's part of what makes art so beautiful

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

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Viktor Orban is currently having a coronary.

every machine is connected to the other not only by physical means, through cables and pipes, but also through non-material means thal lie outside of human perception. if one builds a node mechanism sufficient in size and fuels it right, it is possible to create a path wide enough for a human.

Oh how i love Lal Soong <3 #starttek #tng #startrekfanart #tngfanart #lalstartrek #laltng I may or may not have made this in a cold induced madness goodnight

I haven't seen a post like this going around yet, so I'll make it myself! EU-based artists, tell us what you sell and drop a link to your shop in the replies ❤️ Everyone else: please spread the thread and check out the artists if you want to support human made art this holiday season 🌟 #shopsmall

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

“Poor people have a right to art!” They sure do. So get to it.

Key takeaway of 2025: Bluesky is an enormous activism force that punches above its weight. The paypros censorship stuff? This site is the one that’s getting us to the 20 yard line. The initial interest in the summer hasn’t returned to Twitter, whereas Bluesky is now the de facto source on this issue

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

made this to get back into drawing #harrowhark #thelockedtomb #digitalart

Evergreen

Ich habe dm übrigens auch meine Meinung gesagt. cs.dm.de/csp?id=dm_co...

Ruft mal bitte bei der Roßmann-Hotline an und lasst Support und Lob da. Die Dame an der Hotline meinte eben, dass sie heute viel Hass für die Entscheidung bekommen haben. Oder schreibt Emails. Überlasst den vermeintlichen "Diskurs" nicht den blaubraunen. www.rossmann.de/cms/service-...

Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein: Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Entrapta Character Sheet, Part 2 [ #characterart #bskyartist #entrapta #fanart #illustration ]

Poker Night at Sandrine's Janeway: slaps royal flush Paris: devastated, forfeited his and B'Elanna's monthly rations B'Elanna: mad as fuck at Paris Chakotay: bamboozled EMH: at least he has nothing to lose Tuvok: just being Tuvok Kim: just there, kinda

Die @bpb.de hat ihren Account auf X geschlossen. Dafür werden sie dort extrem beschimpft, was natürlich auch ein Zeichen dafür ist, wie wichtig die Präsenz staatlicher Institutionen, Orgas etc. für das Image von X ist. Den Abgang aus dem Höllenpfuhl kann man hier mit nem Folllow würdigen.

all your points in this thread are great. what drives me so nuts about this is the assumption not just that hobbyists have to put up with criticism, but that any and all randos are entitled to give it and have people care what they think. i don’t think they’re actually interested in giving “concrit”

seeing discussion AGAIN about how fanfic writers (that is: HOBBYISTS) need to just shut up and put up with unsolicited "concrit" and I'm very tempted to post the guidelines I was given for doing critique from the last writing class I did.

Who was first to brew an espresso in space? #NationalEspressoDay☕ Astronaut, pilot & engineer Samantha Cristoforetti. First Italian woman in space, she holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight of a European astronaut. Pic: 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 #coffee break in history! #WomenInSTEM #Italy

Denise Crosby's birthday is here! 🥹✨❤️ ~ #StarTrek #TNG #art #DeniseCrosby

First time drawing them! I like the concept of Hordak having a massive crush on Entrapta while she’s totally oblivious about it and minding her own business PS: (Repost cause I used the wrong # 🫩) #Shera #sheraandtheprincessesofpower #spop #entraptaxhordak #entrapdak #entrapta #hordak #art

Which one? 1 or 2? (Entrapdak) #entrapdak #she_ra_and_the_princesses_of_power

Sure someone else already did the monsterfucker meme with them, but I just had to #Entrapdak #Entrapta #Hordak #SheRa #Spop

Happy birthday to Denise Crosby, Tasha Yar in the first season of #StarTrekTNG, "Yesterday's Enterprise," and the series finale, "All Good Things..." She also played her own descendant, Sela. ##Trekkies #StarTrek

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps. When the sales drop, please remember that!

Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.

The page for the #transhet jam is up! It'll run from Jan. 1st to March 9th, 2026! Start your new year off right with a sexy new project. JOIN HERE: itch.io/jam/the-tran...

Maid flirts with her fellow, cat steals the dinner, housewife escapes boring party upstairs to enjoy the disorder of her own household. Great scene from 1657 by Nicolas Maes, whose day is today.

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

A complete piece I found sitting in my wips folder. #StarTrekLowerDecks but in a specific type of 2000's TV animated series- ish style 🥹 This is just a bunch of nostalgia wrapped up into a scrappy lower-decker bundle. #StarTrek #lowerdecks

In einer sich ständig verändernen Welt wo gefühlt alles zerbricht und overwhelming ist, fühlen sich Spam Mails für Potenzmittel mit ihren absurden Betreffzeilen merkwürdig vertraut und nostalgisch an. (Geht gleich wieder, mir kam grad nur Gedanke).

data wears the historical regalia of his people #startrekthenextgeneration #datasoong #ltcommanderdata #startrekdata #hatsunemiku #mikuhatsune

Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.

Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...