he's never found him more attractive #chiscara

So I'm not big on platform-jumping panics, but given that Discord is also where I do some of my work: What large-scale alternatives, if any, are there that *won't* be hit by age verification laws? (Problem: might be none.)

Fantastic video. Among other things, goes in depth as to how young white men are ultimately victims of the capitalist and patriarchal apparatus they'll literally die defending to uphold and protect. Not even someone as wealthy and powerful as Kirk was immune to it- meat for the grinder.

Show me how you draw/paint snow ❄️

...using what energy you have left after a workday to put a bit into art, which is often not a lot, or that you're already financially secure enough that you don't need a job to devote your time to drawing. So AI at industry level is, in fact, risking making art something only 'the elite' can enjoy.

A problem with the 'if you're a good artist, AI won't replace you' is that you aren't born a good artist. You learn. If entry level art jobs are taken over, then the only way to practice, learn and improve and still pay your bills is outside of a proffessional environment. Which means either... 1/2

8. There is one promising sign for LGBTQ+ people in all this: Democrats, by refusing to cave to Republican demands on both the full-year appropriations bills and the continuing resolution, have shown a degree of backbone critics often accuse them of lacking.

hey if youre in florida and calling your reps, this is something worth bringing up! Tell your reps you think this online ID verification shit is fucking stupid!!!!

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Not ONE of them mentions the WAR on Antinatalism & Antinatalists by fascist Putin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_childlessness In Russia, the movement Childfree Russia has been equated with extremism. Individuals like its founder, Edward Lisovskii, have also been persecuted by the government.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental. I am in contact with NATO Secretary General Rutte and Poland FM Sikorski. The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland. (1/2)

BREAKING: Poland just invoked NATO’s Article 4. Putin has brought his barbaric war beyond the borders of Ukraine, now to Poland. The first images of damages from the nightly Russian drone attack are coming in. A total of 19 Russian attack drones were launched into Poland from Russia

I think I follow too many too online people bc I see more talk about the consequences of someone murking a youtuber than Poland invoking article 4 or Israel shooting Qatar.

hold the fucking phone, I’m hearing that this all occurred under a banner reading PROVE ME WRONG

there's a video out there of Charlie Kirk calling for trans women to be "[taken] care of" "the way things used to be taken care of in the 1950s or 60s" btw now i don't know if people connected the dots, but he's referring to lynching! or perhaps just the ordinary rape & murder of trans women

Where are all the fervently pro-Newsom liberals now? They got quiet all of a sudden. Newsom wants to continue the work of a fucking Nazi. They're already rehabilitating Kirk and pretending he wasn't an absolute monster.

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

I get the impulse to say things like this, I do. But Kirk was in the middle of laying the ground work for the human rights of trans and non binary people to be violated. Let's not water down his "work" by pretending the goal was anything else.

A point I made about Mike Lee's more grievous response on Xitter today. This is not a time to both-sides things but it is, IMO, a time to call out when people like Erick Erickson fails to mention Paul Pelosi's attack, which Kirk celebrated.

I’ve noticed there are a lot of comments about how people should and shouldn’t feel about this. - How should minorities targeted and terrorized by Charlie Kirk and his listeners feel about today’s events? The communities he was targeting merely minutes before?

He said children being murdered was worth his second amendment. Excuse me if I give zero fucks about his death being worth it

The House GOP’s anti-trans HHS appropriations bill would feature considerable harm to trans adults and their access to gender-affirming care services, as federal funding would be barred for non-surgical reasons as well. www.erininthemorning.com/p/house-hhs-...

I need you to call your reps and tell them to oppose the HHS appropriations bill. They are trying to sneak a nationwide total trans healthcare ban in it regardless of age.

7. The funding ban would cover all forms of care, including “social” or “psychological” interventions. That language sweeps far beyond medical treatment and could place adult psychological counseling directly in the crosshairs, along with any federally funded effort deemed “social” in nature.

4. This new language would prohibit federal dollars from being used for transgender healthcare at any age, extending even to “social, psychological, behavioral, or medical interventions.” Read broadly, the provision could shutter entire hospital programs serving trans patients.

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe. Don’t forget to complete your dailies!! stop-paypros.neocities.org

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

@monsterfucker.bsky.social Do you have any tips for getting started with Krita? I just switched from Autodesk Sketch and it's a bit of a rough transition.

The ethical implications of AI and NFTs are dire and have been greatly damaging The environmental impact is JUST as bad. I am a professional in the energy industry, and I have seen this FIRST HAND. I know your excuses backward and forward and I find them WANTING. Asshole LOS rant complete.

ASSHOLE LOS ACTIVATED: Since the AI bros are coming out of the woodworks I do not, and will not ever support generative AI in any form. Not visual media, not text generation. I will never support NFTs Feel free to come into my mentions, it will make it easier to block you to protect my community

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Seeing more and more unsavory types trying to set up here, figured it would be good to post The Image

already tired of the whiny threads from young men about how society forced them to become monsters because they put woke in the video games or whatever. back in my day you applied some guyliner, wrote some emo lyrics in a journal, and handled it

In a world seemingly devoid of love, love is a radical act. Fight with love for what’s important and dear in your life.

Keep making art. Keep writing your stories. Even if they must exist in secret for a time, they are important - each of them a little act of rebellion. Most of all, keep on living. If you can muster no other motivation on some days, then do it out of righteous spite for those who want you gone.

for like the umpteenth time

if you're lgbt, if you're black or hispanic or muslim, if you're a woman, if you're part of any sort of marginalized group it's the most unfair thing that you have to keep fighting but I beg you please be brave please be safe please try to survive

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Question to US based nsfw artists: What's the plan going forward? The conservatives want to ban porn. Will they prosecute artists in their new puritan world? Should I be backing up and taking down my art blog?

I’ve been seeing a lot of unrest today, and a bunch of people switching from twitter to Bsky. And all I wanna say is I’m sorry. I’m sorry there isn’t more I can do to help, to ease the worry. But you’re here right now and you’re safe with us. I’m not great with words, but it’s gonna be ok. 💛💚💙🧡❤️

Reposting this-- Bluesky hides NSFW posts from you by default so you'll miss my work if you don't turn it on: SETTINGS > MODERATION> Set toggle to Enabled ✨ Also be sure to turn on "sexually suggestive (cartoon)" setting: SETTINGS > MODERATION > Bluesky Moderation Service > Set to "off"

#LoSNNN2023 I wonder if she lets up on him when they are going to bed. Something tells me... no. Day 21:

Any other small time artists on blogger getting flooded with views from bots from Hong Kong? Are they scraping/art theft?

if you're wondering how to tag your art then heres a quick guide. only works with images.