GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

What I want to know is, why isn't anyone working on a way to turn kudzu (or any other invasive plant, i.e. blackberries in the PNW) into plastic? It wouldn't have to last more than a use or two, and then the trash would biodegrade. Wins all around!

Hey, cisgender friends! Please read this. In the coming days, you're going to see a lot of people speaking about and for trans people. They will, in all likelihood, be cisgender people, not transgender. The term below will help you understand what's really happening there, and why it's a bad thing.

I fucking hate TERFs and they aren't welcome in my spaces. Repost if you also hate TERFs.

I don’t want to be one of those creators accused of inserting a thinly veiled fetish into their work. I would like to be known for my obvious, observable, unveiled fetishes.

Quick note about resistance that I really needed to hear

What does this mean? That the medical privacy of trans youth has no protections. That ideologues in hospitals can play politics with kids personal medical data and there will be no consequences. That trans Americans are second class citizens.

Get up and seize the means of seratonin production, comrade!

Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

This is a beautiful tribute.

Adulthood a poem by Steph Stark The time has come Once again To wash the clothes To wash the dishes Why are there always dishes? Why is there always laundry?

them: wow ur a linguist i better watch my grammar linguists:

Just want to point out what great science communication happens on Watch Duty, the writer using jargon and defining it as he goes. Using the jargon communicates full detail to the more expert audience, and defining it assists newcomers. This kind of multilevel writing is essential to good #scicomm.

Dear video game devs We’re not interested in games looking “hyper-realistic” We’re interested in them being fun to play, cheap enough to actually buy on a regular salary, and not so large that the console can only store 7 at a time Thanks Gamers

Leagues. Under the sea.

Douglas Adams warned you about Genuine People Personalities 45 years ago you bozos

Mount Hood, Oregon 🌫️

Universal Basic Income will likely significantly reduce suicide rates according to this huge study: "Those receiving [the cash] had a 61% lower risk of being a suicide victim than non-beneficiaries. The results were more pronounced among women and young individuals." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Big win! The Fish & Wildlife Service will expand Okefenokee Refuge by up to 22,000 acres, protecting it from a proposed titanium mine. Nearly 30,000 public comments showed how special Okefenokee is to people everywhere. Thank you to everyone who spoke up!

Its truly insane how many journalists writing about these anti trans laws don't point this out.

It has occurred to me that, for most species on this planet, an individual being held in human captivity is likely to have a longer, healthier life than one running free. The only species of which this is consistently not true is… humans.

My best DSOs taken in 2024. #astrophotography #astronomy

the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain

Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of morphing me into a dromedary so I could finally fulfill my potential as "Mar🐫". 🙏 ❤️ 👍

My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?

Music just makes shit better.

Obligatory: (And as noted, spot on)

Reject tradition. Embrace futurism.

A friend described the current Democratic response to the political moment “bringing a strongly worded letter to a knife fight” and I can tell that’s one of those phrases that’s going to be sticking

A DISCWORLD PRIMER* *or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about? Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help. (1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)

It's only a Mohawk if it's from the Mohawk region of Turtle Island. Otherwise it's just a spiking hairstyle.