i feel so bad for artists who now have to deal with accusations that their work is ai Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own. If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.

The boycott of America begins. Finally.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Starting to think the government that caused the housing crisis, and did everything they could to ensure it worsened year after year, aren't all that interested in fixing the problem 🤔

Once again, the government is willing to do anything to fix the housing crisis, except for anything that will actually fix the housing crisis

It’s a great plan. It reaffirms the commitments made when the former minister affirmed his intention to reaffirm the Govts overwhelming affirmative affirmation to a deep commitment of reaffirmament.

Please help the Nashwan family, donations have really slowed down for them. chuffed.org/project/1377...

This is why Audible is evil. For those still using it, I question your morals.

the purpose of the democratic party is to redirect revolutionary energy into stupid bullshit that doesn't work

Sketches of Svend Hylli, a water genasi cleric/rogue npc from the norse DnD campaign run by @littleamb.bsky.social 🌊 🏹 ✨

Please share & donate to help Mohammed's son Karim recover from severe malnutrition as Israel's genocidal famine continues. Donations are slow since the 'ceasefire' & Israel is still starving little children with their siege:

This sounds like Terry Pratchett writing a villain. #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

I've never seen the point. Search algorithms already spew out a lot of nonsense, translation software is already really bad, I've known the kind of people who worked in developing this stuff and they're consistently self important gobshites who don't understand things like bias and interpretation

ngl I've never once found a topic that I wanted to ask it about- either I'm interested in the thing and want to read up on it properly or I'm not in which case why waste time on it at all

Transphobes absolutely know who “pregnant people” was for and you’ve gotta stop helping them get away with it with your “haha! they still don’t know trans men exist!” - they want you to say that!

They're still going on with that "ceasefire" bullshit.

Longshot, but: @kenwhite.bsky.social, do you have any legal resource suggestions for a trans immigrant to Canada who is dealing with a crippling, nightmarish series of spreading facial abcessed caused by heinously incompetent dental work done there?

Jesus christ

lady aranessa royce 🦋 #art ⟡ #criticalrole ⟡ #criticalrolefanart

Zohran Mamdani refused to compromise on his values – and was rewarded for it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ah the deep ocean, answering the question (this time) of: What if shark but ALSO pig? Let's meet the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina), found across the eastern Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean. They're 'hairy', they grunt & they look like this 👇

hey! buy my poetry! or download it for free either is cool though i could use the money neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...

Bandcamp is more fun

As an American abroad I’d love for my international friends to have a glimpse of things like gerrymandering, and the electoral college when talking about the USA. This brittle, unnatural conservative chokehold is neither as strong nor as representative of the people as the administration says.

The Ivan Yates debacle doesn’t mean that journalists are too close to politicians. And everyone on the Pol Corr-Govt WhatsApp group agrees with me. So ha!

hey its friday! why not spend part of your weekend reading some poetry about surviving and raging under the yoke of fascism? my first chapbook is now available as a 40 page name-your-own-price (including free!) drm-free pdf! neurosismancer.itch.io/hymns-of-sur...

The LLM thing is remarkable because if anyone was like "I never went to medical school anyway here's my magic anti disease device pls give 100 billion" they'd be laughed out the room or beaten with sticks but we're supposed to let guys who never read a book hand us an app claiming it'll write them

Inside of you are two wolves:

Back in 2004 a lot of us were already talking about how ugly Rowling's politics and the politics of her books were and getting dogpiled for it because HP fans were nasty, cultish bullies. Willing to bet this happened to Mamdani too. Glad he gave his mother such excellent advice.

Nasser has a new fundraiser so even little donations help ❤️

This joy and hope carries movements and it is OURS. Any article or post that doesn’t pass the sabotage test can simply suck it!!

All three of those candidates support trans rights, too. Just pointing that out for all the "protectors of women" out there.

I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Qamar. Qamar has three children Elias, 5 and twins Abdul and Muhammad who are two and a half. Elias was born with cerebral palsy and has a variety of health issues, including lung problems for the smoke from the wood stove in their tent.

I think about this panel from Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe a lot these days. The desire for an underclass never went away. Personage is inherent; citizenship is a privilege. You may be a person, but you are not necessarily THE PEOPLE. And TPTB yearn for when citizenship was VIP-only.

Hey y'all, if you've ever checked out Azrai's content before (best human!!) please see if you're able to help. This could really make an impact on his case, and in general about the medical injustice no human should experience.

If you're an author and think you might be able to register a claim as part of the lawsuit against #Anthropic for feeding its genAI with your books, Conor Kostick of the Irish Writers Union has an article that talks you through the process. irishwritersunion.org/irish-writer...

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

Every time YouTube brings up so-called community standards and acts like the arbiter of trust & safety, feel free to remember it’s a platform where Nazis are allowed to say what they please and mentioning the Holocaust by name is considered inappropriate.

The UK government is a terrorist organization

I’ve realized!! If you care about medical justice and want to make a direct material difference in my case for totally free, here’s something quick that anyone can do: Send a brief impact statement to [email protected] For both general audiences and fellow creators.

What can I even say about this? There are no words for how grossly, how brutally, you have been failed. My artist peers, friends, and everyone who reads this, please read this post and consider sharing/donating/helping out if you can

Yes! Such good news! Please keep the support coming for this amazing artist & share this post if you can!

HOLY SHIT. What the actual fuck. That's insane. That's beyond words levels of insane. What a bullshit healthcare system. What bullshit doctors and scummy dentists. I'm beyond the ability to fathom this, and they've had to LIVE this. Boosting this forward. What a horrifying ordeal.

Here’s my note tracking Az’ fever one evening after his doctor, dentist, & pharmacist refused to update his script to the correct antibiotics. He had a fever of 38c & rising. The dr’s office ignored us, the pharmacist refused to act without the dr. We couldn’t afford ER intake fees. Great stuff.

I think people like Paul Givan help betray the panto that NI politics plays in terms of how the murders committed during the Troubles must be held over everyone's heads and then the same people who do that will use their position to go "nyer nyer I'm mates with the genocide crew r u mad lol".

I just don't think that our economy should be managed by an organisation who paid Ivan Yates for advice.

I’m affected by the SNAP situation, but if I’m being honest things are a lot more dire for me than I’ve even been able to vocalize on here. But intend to when I have the spoons and clarity. #mutualaid #SNAP #SOS Paypal: [email protected] cashapp: $BrooklynRousseau76 Venmo: @djmythadrall

Bullshit, pure bullshit. FF & FG looking someone, anyone to blame for thier failures. Plenty of other EU countries have tenants rights, long term leases, State owned social housing and rent control. #speirgorm #supergluedpockets