Procrastinated by rearranging my manga shelves. I used to a strictly organize alphabetically, but I threw caution to the wind and did it by vibes. Sorta alphabetical at the top, then a Splatoon goodies shelf, then all my Natsuki Takaya books, Madoka, Original, Spiral, and Orange b/c they fit well--

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Arrested Development ass administration.

Yet another reason why I am zero tolerance on AI.

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

Some thoughts on writing in AI times countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

capitalism as a whole is just this massive roiling scam that rewards people who sell their peers out without any trouble. The less community and trust you have, the easier that is, the more you're rewarded it's why white supremacy and capitalism are inextricable

will never not be crazy to me that anita sarkeesian made critiques that were mild for 2012 feminism and Gamers still haven't gotten over it 14 fucking years later

This is all about this (publisher created) embarrassment of a book cover 👇 What? You don't remember how "Pretty Space Cat Sorceress Nyan-Chama" changed the world?

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

Freelance translators (because they're almost always freelance and never in-house) don't have the luxury of being able to defend themselves and stop these decisions to use slop instead of humans. They need people on the inside to step up and say "this won't actually benefit the game or sales."

More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.

On this International Workers' Day, stand against executives pushing LLM usage (aka AI--we all know it's not actually artificial intelligence) while laying off workers and eliminating jobs.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

This is one of many reasons why I'm so against people relying on LLMs to make things for them. *YOU* need the practice of finishing projects on your own. They don't have to be perfect. Done is better than some weird aspirational view of delivering something utterly perfect.

Literally translating the way the Japanese language uses quotation brackets makes everything sound sarcastic in English.

“GlobalComix’s AI translation copilot delivers 85–90% cost savings compared to industry-standard manual translation.” These AI tools will always rely on underpaid freelancers doing three jobs for a fraction of the wage of one. They’re merely a justification for not paying people.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

A bunch of artists will lose work, the flow and immersion for the reader is ruined, the mangaka's vision is butchered...and they'll probably raise the price on consumers anyway. but at least a corporation made more money 😀

We now have a Carrd with FAQs about DAS and some linked information on why Gen AI is so harmful! duckaislop.carrd.co -E

My cats love to help me with my work.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

So the AI company who stole all of of books and now has to pay us what is really a small amount of money went about ti by AI coding the backend of their claim system, which scraped up data in clumps and spits out new numbers all the time because...it is AI coded. Anthropic: Nailing It.

Website for Settlement www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

It was a wild experience editing this one with the whole *arms gesture wildly* pandemic that has continued to affect our lives

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

I finished the first print volume of Magical Girl Dandelion, and I'm liking it so far! Eager to see which places the story takes us. It feels inspired by and in conversation with other magical girl series and tropes.

I become increasingly concerned about the normalization of LLMs. Certainly, the branding of them as "AI" has made them feel cooler, but that's not all. There's a very smart person I know who's a talented writer who's turned to this technology for blogging. And it just boggles my mind.

As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it. You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result. Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

I am going to have an aneurysm one day with the amount of Republicans misusing Orwell's writing.

if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell

Manga companies, please pay us $8/page! The small and new publishers can do it, surely the big companies with owners who make $3 million+ per year can afford it too!! x.com/MangaAlerts/...

I really dislike "Journal with Witch" being the translation for 違国日記 (Ikoku Nikki)

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

When the call comes for a truce with Venefic, it falls to Inglis and her friends to set off into enemy territory! But while they’re negotiating, she comes face-to-face with someone from her past in "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀" Volume 13! bit.ly/4a6z7nd

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Because of wider usage of the slang "no cap," I can't write "Cap?" or "No cap?" in margin notes for suggested revisions

Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

My spouse got me a copy of Orwell's 1984 that I've been eyeing for a while. The book that propelled me deep into journalism and history studies. The book that I guess people could say "radicalized" me. And the book that people on the right constantly misunderstand!!!!!

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.