Art was attacked by AI because the higher ups didn't want marginalized people to be in control of how they see themselves. Art disrupts narratives that the powerful use in order to justify the use of force and spending on force.

I was approached by older men way more than stoners or drug dealers. Maybe there should’ve been a program for that in school.

Midnight laugh

Big news... WE'RE MOVING! Our landlord raised the rent by 50%, so we're moving 4 blocks down the street. We’re sad to leave this space, but there are a few big things we’re pumped about in the new spot including:

#poem #poetry #book Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life are three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. A collection of #haiku written between the years 2022-2024. buy it - www.blurb.com/b/1242...#poem

2025 10 sketchbook 05 my #art on stuff in my #redbubble store www.redbubble.com/sh...

*everything* is in fact not *terrible*

It needs to be said more often that the world is a better, more beautiful and more enriching place BECAUSE trans people are a part of it.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

the Sartre play of our times, just writing itself in the all-chat

Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is a key argument of my book coming out May 2026 with @versobooks.bsky.social

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

This feature can be disabled by going to Invoicing -> Feedback and toggling 'Collect feedback' off there (on a business account, at least)

The real alchemy isn't turning lead into gold, but likes into subscribes

Une Bonnedame de Neige 😁 Belle journée❄️✨️

Our latest Radical Read is a really important book to us at WCH: Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor. A look at labour unrest around the world since 1870 and capitalist strategies in response, it's essential reading for all radicals. Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e113-r...

What PISSES ME OFF relentlessly about all this is the gaslighting: tech industry: "AI will make everything faster/easier" Reality: AI creates an incredible amount of work for me trying to uninstall, escape, move to whole new platforms/tech to get away from it

If Paypal asks for your opinion, you do NOT say it was NSFW or a commission! Spread the word, because we need to innoculate ourselves to this paypro bullshit.

News! We are launching a 404 Ink Bursary to pay it forward to small presses. We will also run a crowdfunder to give away more. We are ALSO releasing one last book. Royalties from this are pledged to match-fund more small press support. You can pre-order now: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...

The co-founders of 404 Ink will release a final title under their tenure, titled Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption, 404 Ink 2016-2026 👇 #BookSky

What are your favorite New Year's Eve episodes of TV shows?

#poem #poetry #book Minor Transient Documents of Everyday Life are three line recipes, short stories, jokes, riddles, science projects, love notes, horrors, confessions, and memories. A collection of #haiku written between the years 2022-2024. buy it - www.blurb.com/b/1242...#poem

and indie artists and sex workers are getting crucified for existing

You know, I want to read more utopian fiction. Something has changed in me. What are some of your favourite reads imagining a future where we all survive this, and build something together?

My dad, 79 years old, has decided to get into wood carving. Here is a koala on a book.

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excruciating lmao

You need to understand that when studio heads and executives talk about how AI is going to streamline the process and make things cheaper, this is the process that they've been normalizing up until now.

Most people, even very smart people, truly do not understand the extent to which car dependency was manufactured in the United States, and how decisions made 100 years ago are why cities and towns look the way they do today.

The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT genuinely changed my life. I learned a ton, witnessed how science is done firsthand, and took my writing career in a new direction. If you write about science/tech, you should apply!! ksj.mit.edu/fellowships/...

I want art thats made by people, because i want to connect with people. I don't care if that art is made for personal reasons or for a coca cola commercial, i want to see art and think about the person who made it. How they got here. why they became an artist. What inspires them. idk.

This Christmas, join Dumpster Raccoon as it celebrates the reason for the season: the return of the COMET that killed the dinosaurs and has turned all the adults into ZOMBIES, leaving the VALLEY GIRLS to inherit the earth! AT LAST....we present NIGHT OF THE COMET!!!! revuecinema.ca/films/night-...

Bought an immersion blender for the first time at age 43 and I can finally relate to this tweet

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

"You should hire me because I sort of remember how to use Excel, I'm a self-starter, and I am the living embodiment of Santa Teresa de Avila, reformer of the Carmelites and patron saint of Spain."

Hey, I'm looking for comics and graphic novels *by* Indigenous writers and/or illustrators, especially in the Americas. Doesn't have to be a recent book. Any genre! Any topic, any themes, does not have to be a memoir or history, though that is welcome too!

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

If you disabled NSFW filters on here but still can't see people's posts, remember to dig further into Advanced > Bluesky Moderation Service and set this specific "cartoon" NSFW filter to Off as well because why make things easy when they can be convoluted

Janine Antoni, Saddle, 2000 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137538

One of the ways the archons of capitalism are trying to undermine everyone's understanding of how value works (and thus devalue labour) is to put all the emphasis on GENIUS and BIG IDEAS over the actual work of making those things real, or productive in any way. AI is the culmination of this

I recommend donating if you can. The transformation Blender has seen in the past few years has been incredible. I'm donating because, as someone who uses expensive Autodesk tools, it's been great for me too - 3DS Max is in much better shape since Autodesk has had to worry about a "free" competitor.

“you must do Something so you can get a good performance review and this UI change is Something” is the bane of many software companies

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.