Considering a MA in Medieval Studies. Lol.

Every day this month, I’ll be posting a photo from my collection of cross dressing photos from the First World War. I don’t know if any of these people thought of themselves as queer, but they all had fun playing with gender, so #HappyPride 🏳️‍🌈

i'm constantly thinking about how techbro AI is entangled with misogyny. from early observations of Alexa and Siri as women secretaries to the claim from gutierrez that "AI art is like having sex and then they hand you the baby," AI serves the function of women while erasing them from public life

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

A lot of journalism in the tech space is basically free advertising. If some CEO makes a wild claim that is transparently designed to boost their market valuation you don't have to report it. This is how scams like Theranos happened. How many times have we heard that AGI is 1-2 years away? It's hype

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Cleaning my office means finding things I meant to get framed. Like this delightful J.C. Leyendecker cover:

I'm autistic and chronically tired/ill. I refuse to use LLMs just because I don't have the energy to write. There is no justification for plagiarism. Poorer and ill writers are actually the ones that have less resources and can't sue and defend themselves from plagiarism.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell.

Happy World Goth Day!

If you love classic literature, get to know Project G!

Tyr 🧡

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GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Questi sfigati hanno cercato di ottimizzare la pizza, mannaggia a loro mannaggia

Shake it, baby! 🐢

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Testosterone is what's holding both my mental health and my joints together, but because some cis people can't mind their business, I can now be excluded from both the men's and the women's facilities, making me essentially unemployable. Care to write a sympathetic article about that, Guardian?

And it’s a really good idea for teachers to be students of something. I learn languages I don’t already know partially so I can remember what it’s like to feel overwhelmed with how new & different everything is. And to feel the joy when something “clicks”. We forget.

Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...

Painted in 2017: the artist's parents are depicted. Now, the father is in ICE custody, after 30 years of work & family in the U.S. GoFundMe to cover legal fees & living expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/27wnkd-hel... Here's an article about the situation: www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

If you don't know about it already, Standard Ebooks is a great site for downloading free ebooks of public domain works. What sets them apart from Project Gutenberg is that Standard puts in the extra effort to make sure they're formatted and typeset properly. They also give their books cover art!

A 9th-century manuscript held in Rome has revealed the earliest known Old English poem, Caedmon’s Hymn, hidden within a copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/Uv0X

"I am obscene to you, but to myself I simply am." #transrights #smallbusiness #lgbtqart #queerart

if anyone uses an LLM at my funeral, you all have my blessing to fistfight them in the parking lot

I'm reading a book and really enjoying it. I already knew almost all the words but they're arranged in an order I've never seen before.

Jousting is hard work 💋⚔️ #art #illustration #knight

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

As one of these I remember when the internet was a marvel of freedom and learning and connecting. And then capitalism ruined it

Yup. We got this. Gonna be a bad time, but better days will eventually come over the horizon. Until then, keep making art

🤌💦 #thelockedtomb #gideontheninth #digitalart

made a gideon model to deal with the emotional distress of gtn and a harrow to pre-emptively deal with the emotional distress of htn #harrowtheninth #gideontheninth #thelockedtomb #lowpoly

some harrows and not harrow study of sorts #thelockedtomb #tlt #art

Still one of the best explorations of ability, self-reliance and social rejection from a disabled character we have in popular fiction today and it's almost 30 years old but at least it's Clair Wendling character design heck yes

An autistic woman longing for human contact has had her hopes repeatedly dashed by the troublesome existence of other humans, it has been revealed.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

Why am I surrounded by people who use it then. I'm so tired lol.

Editors are the proletariat of the publishing industry. We are being pushed out by machines because our labor is seen as replaceable. We get paid dogshit by most companies. But w/o us, machines homogenize and fail to detect critical context and sensitivity problems. W/o us, your book looks bad.

There are two many types of animal and we should consolidate. You're telling me that breeds as vastly different as a chihuahua and an alsatian are dogs, but a "wolf" or a "coyote" isn't? Nonsense! It's all dog.

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

happy tdov again #palamedes #pyrrhadve

Have you given a trans person money today? If you can, I think you should.

Cocktails are rimmed with a circle of salt in order to keep the spirits trapped inside