Donate to your local food bank instead.

Finally an ethical use for ai - ICE can stop kidnapping people for real and just make videos instead.

90% of quackery is just fulfilling the desire of "I would like someone to pay complicated attention to me for an hour"

don't reskeet book excerpts from terrible people, even to dunk on them or to hate-read. You give prestige magazines clicks, and you encourage them to do this crap more. Encourage terrible people to go to What Ever Happened To?? land

AHHH! CAT! Trying to capture the pure unbridled crazy of a Cat? On canvas? A foolhardy quest. “ !! “ Acrylic on 12” x 12” polyester of violently bright colours, wrapped over canvas stretcher. #cat #zoomies #crazycat #funnyfeline #art

She was called the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan. Through her career, she heavily influenced the development of forensic pathology, solved numerous unsolved crimes and became a legendary figure in the history of the RCMP. This is the story of Frances Gertrude McGill. 🧵 1/12

Hello, French post office made shipping to the US possible again. Also, new tariffs don't apply to art (for now). So I made purchase from the US available on my shop again.

@fallenlights.net was kind enough to share this with me, and thus, I spread the wealth.

Just for my own edification, if you are BIPOC and living in Canada and write gothic horror do you mind saying hi to me on this thread? Off the bat respectfully I know of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Premee, Nalo Hopkinson, I love all of their work and have their books.

Oh look! It's a million arguments I've had online and in person www.youtube.com/watch?v=op7I...

Y'all need to have the same kind of smoke for AI Music as you have for AI Art. Okay? Music is an extremely important part of artistic human expression, and we must not allow it to rot away because 'it sounds just like the real thing' or whatever. Musicians are going through it too. Fuck AI.

Hey, since apparently we’re getting ice rain here in #Ottawa today maybe (boo) how about a queer romance where ice rain features prominently in helping two dudes connect (yay)? Link: books2read.com/u/3RzMMj #BookSky 🏳️‍🌈📚

Prehistoric Art Prints: All 9 Prints featuring scenes from the Cambrian Period all the way to the Cretaceous! Grab all 9 art prints in my shop here: www.etsy.com/listing/4405... #prehistoric #iceage #fossiladdict #evolution #fossil #sciart

The local New Orleans group who recycle fabrics and fiber, and teach sewing classes, RickRack, had a message on Instagram today I thought I'd pass along here, too....

Hey Toronto: Mask up! Get your vaccines (Covid, Flu, RSV). Big jump in waste water values and that data is 2 weeks old. Source: @young.me (thanks!) wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I just sent this to my parents, who are a week away from going to Texas for the winter. To (mis)quote Diane Duane, I await what is sure to be an echoing silence.

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

Everybody says "use your indie bookstore!" but I still haven't been notified about the book I preordered two copies of, that released in July. I marked as pay on pickup, so I'm guessing they just sold them to someone else. Or just didn't bother to order them.

Spent yesterday at the Royal petting lots of goats, sheep, and giant horses and tasting delicious food. Came home with cheese and crabapple cider and Turkish Delight. I am completely wiped.

Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!

This video about accessible makeup is really great. Cheekbone Beauty are doing amazing work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPfu...

Better Instant Hot Chocolate cheryls-newsletter-11f8c7.beehiiv.com/p/better-ins...

I know a lot of people have been looking for a black head strap respirator…. And BreatheTeq has delivered! These masks will be available in Canada too via @canadastrong.bsky.social

It's a marshmallow world in the winter, When the snow comes to cover the ground

The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:

The sign outside my Local Yarn Store (LYS) this afternoon.

4 am is for the book title and cover design you've been agonizing over for days popping fully-formed and harmonious into your head.

Looking to catch some games and support a great cause? We're live all weekend on www.twitch.tv/dorktales raising money for Extra Life! Come watch and donate to change our games and the lives of sick kids! www.extra-life.org/team/dorktales #extralife #dnd #twitch #charity #fundraiser

Today's featured item is the "Here Fishy" beaded box. Its pattern is a little different, but still fun and neat. Available on Ko-Fi. buff.ly/I784N03 #BlueSkyNightMarket #handmade #shopsmall #kofi

A reminder: AI is a bad translator--it will give you in a pinch the meaning (if it doesn't get hopelessly confused) , but i will not create something that reads like a book. That's why we have professionals. (And everyone who's reread ai translations knows that it's faster going to rewrite them)

I'm gonna need folks to understand that just because the worst people in America are obsessed with GLP-1s exclusively because of weight loss does not mean they are not LIFE SAVING for a lot of people. There's a reason they're studying their impact on Long Covid right now.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Meh. It's just blunt pallette knife

@dorktales.bsky.social I'm rewatching Strixhaven and I swear Christa said this about Kai 😆

I'm curious how many Canadians who wholeheartedly support US Dems not caving to Repubs in their government shutdown, are simultaneously demanding NDP and Bloc MP's cave to the Liberals to keep our government from shutting down.

Bike-riding knitter friends: a project for you www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

"An Effort to Release It" Available later today through Strangerfactory.com

Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds

The Liberation of Ralphie

New awareness campaign

The mask sale you've been waiting for is here! Save 15% on the ultra breathable BreatheTeq KN95's. These are the most breathable and comfortable respirator masks on the Canadian market. A great time to stock up!

Disposable cheap N95 respirators are one of the greatest inventions in medical history. We *accidentally* drove one of the circulating flu strains *EXTINCT* in the wild early in COVID!

Reminder that if you are a straight trans woman who feels isolated, you can feel free to reach out to me :)

An alternative version of my crow piece

The name of this 1948 Dior gown is flamant rose which sounds much more romantic than its English translation which is flamingo pink. All of the fullness at the back, layered over a bustle style tournure pad adds energy to the movement of the skirt, in darker shades #MoMuAntwerp #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡