The UK government’s new tech adviser has endorsed changing copyright law to give AI companies free access to copyrighted work, with no opt-out for creators. Labour is the party of big tech.

Honestly, the best way to make an artist’s day is by being very specific about what you like about a piece. Geek out a lil. Gush over how they use line, color, texture. Every mark is layed down by the artist, so if you can connect with those little moments, it helps the artist feel seen.

People are still making me tap the sign when it comes to Trial Vaults youtube.com/shorts/V5wNt...

Oho what's this

a question: is OC art welcome on @squidge.org if you want to host it there to archive it on ao3? (iirc ao3 considers all works to be fannish activity and don't distinguish between fanworks and stuff in the original works tag so im just. curious mostly rn if squidge operates similarly)

In light of the new TOS news, I want to remind anyone posting fandom NSFW that squidge.org has an image hosting service that explicitly allows NSFW and makes it super easy to grab html for ao3 embedding. Archive your NSFW as much as you can!

i have a lot of frames that simply will not fit any of my purchased art prints so i fear i am going to be digging through my art inspo folder and just. printing shit out at the correct size for those frames to fill the wall.

sobbing

i wish inprnt's prints were actually the size sold. i wish a 8x10 print was actually 8x10 of art instead of the border counting to it, especially because the borders on my prints aren't even consistent. sometimes they're 1", sometimes they're 3cm, sometimes they're almost 3.5 cm, its so iuhkjhkh

trying to frame art prints when a good amount of them are not standard sizes but also all the frames you have are charity shop finds and also also very not standard sizes....

Reminder: You don’t need to report your activism on social media. Some accounts are being highly critical of what they see/don’t see happening. You don’t owe them anything. Focus on what you can do and let them yell into the void.

we're actually VERY GOOD at this as a species. a vast, VAST majority of people posting tentacle porn do not want people NOT into tentacle porn to have to see it. but if you make it illegal to tag something as tentacle porn...? congratulations on making it harder to fucking avoid tentacle porn buddy

tbh imo "tag your shit properly" is a way better system than anything else social media has tried. you tagged it bad? okay now there's trouble. otherwise? nobody's gonna stumble across it accidentally. hate that people (and platforms, and payment processors) are weaponizing it against creators

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

my favourite thing about all the anti immigration twats who are putting st georges flags on lamp posts is that they only put them as high as their ladders will let them, meaning they all look like they're flying at half mast. how fitting for an embarrassing little movement.

im going through ebay listings trying to be responsible and not drop silly money on yoi art books i couldn't afford the first time around and im crying at the rediscovery of this yurio

duckduckgo is inexplicably a victuurio shipper and is shoving headcanons into wikipedia previews????

yall have got to stop berating people for coming over to your side "too late". yeah it'd be great if everyone was perfect and locked in on every issue in the world and reacted perfectly all the time, but punishing people who wake tf up with "too little too late" mentalities helps no body

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Farage wants the UK to quit the ECHR. It is exactly what Putin wants, for the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR. It would be a huge victory for Putin in his war against human rights and the international rule of law. Farage is a traitor.

wild seeing ppl reply/quote this with sentiments about how scary/wild/infuriating it is that people would fold so quickly/be manipulated so easily............... chat. it's a fucking ai bot. it's not a real person and you need to look at how easily you can be manipulated if you cannot see that

free use mfers when they hear the saying "your body is a temple" (they will now imagine it getting ransacked by multiple people over and over and pass out with the biggest boner imaginable)

weird people by little mix has such strong high school musical energy that for a solid moment i had to wonder when the hell i added the hsm soundtracks to my ipod (i also dont remember when i added little mix to it either but that's besides the point)

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

i open bluesky and its full of posts about how useless jumping ship is. what have i missed?

Hulu and Disney plus are now offering 70% off subscriptions, and in response I am offering Hulu and Disney plus 70% off deez nuts.

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

systematically destroying and cannibalizing every useful thing because infinite wealth is not coming out of it no matter how much i bang it with a hammer

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I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Hello all! My cat needs a bunch of tests and realistically probably treatment and i do not currently have a job. please help us out and get some cool art in the process!

How would your TTRPG wizards learn spells if they lived in a society that didn't usually write things down? I said I'd answer this question on Monday, but then Chronic Illness Happened & here we are. If you played a wizard in a TTRPG set in late 7th century Pictland, what would your spellbook be?

This one sparked some debate, so I wanted to ask: do you think she’s good or evil?

this is the dumbest fucking shit

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

Young Lophēlē at Thýlf Thalas #oc #illustration

🍩 #weddingcakecookie #blackforestcookie #cookierun

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

"Get hype, real-time interpretation through wearables is almost here," Those Types yammer, oblivious to the fact that probability and statistics will not, in fact, make a number of Japanese conversations any more decipherable by machine when the language is littered with homonyms up the wazoo.

I added this Halloween special drawing to my shop for cards、mini prints etc。。check them out！🦇 #oc #halloween #illustration

Good time to be a mean bitch to Nazis.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

tbh the fit & painted texture of the short sleeved button up is pretty awful and looks like the para's wearing a shirt that's far too small. an interesting storytelling choice, but i hope we will also see one that looks like it fits properly or is a little looser, too. everythin else tho <3 <3 <3

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Every field that involves visual reference is plagued by this, too. Hair. Sewing. Knitting. Crochet. People come in with a photo of an AI generated hair style and color that is impossible to replicate and then turn around and complain that the stylist wouldn’t do what they wanted in their reviews.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

yoifandom hows it goin these days

“Meanwhile, the UK will foot the bill for the colossal amounts of power the giants need—meaning sky-rocketing prices for households—as well as the water needed to keep them cool.”