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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

“I was born to fight your brand of order.” Spruced it up a little.

Oh yeah I've been a bit busy #Railroader

Hello Bluesky, it is 8 in the morning and while looking for photos of the New York, Susquehanna & Western's GE B40-8s, I stumbled across James E. Kranefield's beautiful artwork developed for the company throughout the early 1990s and thought I would share these with the fine folks of this website.

It's #BlackHistoryMonth! We honor the contributions of Black leaders who shape our transit system. Carmen E. Turner, former Metro GM (1983-1990), was the first Black woman to lead a major transit system. She expanded Metro from 42 miles & 47 stations to 73 miles & 63 stations.

Also love this sign on the railing of Progressive Rail #36: "Hello Highway Man, thanks for stopping. Oh, by the way, I'm more efficient than you."

Among the railroad media I’ve stumbled across, it’s surreal to hear the A3 smoke deflectors identified as “Witte” or Boxpok drivers said with the original “Box Spoke” pronunciation

a deltic is a kind of animal

My favorite pastime is to imagine a cool and awesome music video of my fictional railroads set to my favorite songs

I cannot thank @bishoparrow.bsky.social enough for this!!! She KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!! THIS ROCKS

Someone sold you the wrong kinda Toaster

At what point does this much voter suppression prevent a fair election? How many times have I seen people called doomers about “no more elections,” because…this is damn close. Just spread this, and make a call if you can.

The “High Speed” variant of PhIII looks hot on anything

Motive power of the Alta California Railway in the late 1940s, commissioned by @interurbanera.bsky.social .

Friendly reminder that the worst Superman actor isn’t Henry Cavil or David Cornswet, Christopher Reeves, or anyone else. The worst Superman actor is and always will be Dean Cain cause he’s a C List celebrity who joined ICE cause he has nothing better to do with his life Fuck Dean Cain and fuck ICE

James!

So. My headphones just snapped out of the blue. I don't have another alternative and my monitor doesn't have speakers. This is disheartening, i was working so hard for my streams and was getting the ball rolling... I'm sorry yall... If you wanna help i'll put a link below 🔗

I should talk about my fictional more on here…

They're lying!

I had better see a record number of reposts on this.

Today was a wild day to be a foamer. Seeing trains covered in ice and snow was metal as fuck

Oh look it’s an T4-ACe

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we honour all victims of the Nazis, including Roma and Sinti. The Romani saying “dikh he na bister”, look and do not forget, is especially apt right now as DHS rampages through US cities on a mission of terror and ethnic cleansing. Look and do not forget.

Now notice, for you people in the back (or should I say front), that most of these names appear to be people with brown skin. The two most of us know happen to have white skin, and I know a third here happens to have black skin. See, DHS and ICE has been been fascism for a while now.

The more I learn about Amtrak (and Conrail) the more skeptical I become of a nationalized rail network. Don’t get me wrong, the Class I’s can’t keep going on as they are, but would government regulation *actually* fix the problem when the root of their solutions was profit?

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 & KNUCKLES #SonictheHedgehog #Sonic

Regarding the lock screen I showed earlier, here's the full piece by @tomcoletti.bsky.social. Just a tiger borrowing some power to bounce signals off one of the remaining satellites. Can't believe it's been 7 years since I commissioned this.

The Canso Causeway was built as part of the Trans-Canada Highway construction in Nova Scotia. This 1.5 kilometre long rock-filled causeway cost $23 million and connected the Nova Scotia Peninsula with Cape Breton Island. This is its story. 🧵 1/12

James is one of the people who helps maintain/protect the memorial. He's been out here every day for the past 2 weeks and 2 days, from 10am til midnight. He lives in the house behind him.

i thought those were supposed to be subtle… If this is a dogwhistle a cybertruck is aerodynamic. They’re too comfortable pulling this shit.

Correcting myself, original T4 EMD’s actually use THREE turbos (do cars even do this???) but equivalent GEVO’s still use one I say equivalent because they’re V12’s. Only GEVO-16’s have twin-turbos and the closest thing EMD had was reworked into what became the triple-turbo

Sharks of the Central 🦈🦈 gift for @thesmolboi.bsky.social #art

Idiots

such a good photo

ICE and the fascist pigs that are currently running the US currently should be put on trial for their crimes against humanity like Nuremberg.

"I used AI to-" Then you aren't an artist. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Ancient Artifacts

OO SUPER ED

in short; fuck ICE and have a beautiful day