Some really interesting comments here: www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/... We often forget that so many things have changed, and changed radically, in just the span of a few decades. We have the world at our fingertips, but at the price of losing what it felt like to be unplugged. #life

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is a day set aside on the 20th of November every year to honor those lost due to anti-transgender violence. This is a day for mourning our loses, and a day to rededicate ourselves to the fight against anti-trans hatred. #TDoR2025 🧵

The story of Immersivism, the underground art of the internet. #art #fineart #vr #xr #immersivism

Yesterday I watched, horrified, as a Computer Science grad student proceeded to repeatedly copy + paste a fairly short script into ChatGPT, asking the LLM what the code was doing and how to modify it for an assignment. Not once did the student try to examine or figure out the code themself. 🤨🫠😑

I haven't been to Chipotle in ages, but apparently they still have my number. 📲 ⬇️ I feel like their #marketing team just wanted to see how many emojis they could fit in a single message. 😯🤯 Either that, or someone ate all of the #Halloween candy before hitting send.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I wonder which way the world goes when the wild whispers weaken, wondrous wishes left wanting and withdrawn, wasted in worries that warn and wound and wither, as the wise wear winter on their minds. #poetry #micropoetry

If you're at BLFC, come check out this screening curated by @poryout.bsky.social and I, with films by @flausch.bsky.social @sparklecats2009.bsky.social @mayabendavid.bsky.social @averycutedog.bsky.social @rainstormsky.com @dozzy.bsky.social @sournoodl.bsky.social @emowolf.bsky.social - Q+A after!

Been thinking lately about the "grand romantic gesture" trope of a character declaring their love to someone in a public place, surrounded by strangers. Pretty much all the examples that come to mind are cishet, though. 🤔 A public declaration of love hits different when it's #lgbtq. #filmsky #cinema

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

A gorgeous sunrise over Black Rock City this morning at #BurningMan 2025, featuring the PlayAlchemist camp's 71-foot-tall Grand Pyramid: www.playalchemist.com Taken from the live webcast at 6:36 am PDT: burningman.org/live-webcast/ #BMwebcast

Still trying to figure out what it means to be a #writer and an #artist (in various media) when someone can push a button and churn out far more "content" in a day than I could hope to create in a lifetime. #NoAI

From flexi hair to mesh bodies and all the weirdness in between, it’s my rezday: 18 years in @secondlife.bsky.social Life and still in love with it all. 🥳🎂🥂 👉 caitlintobias.com/2025/08/04/e... #secondlife #rezday #slblog

Mister Fox(aka Erik Mondrian) always provides us with wonderful creations and presentations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3PY...

I wanted to be the one you would always call, share it all, no walls, and shelter with me in the storm, each other warm, keep hope alive and survive while the world around us falls, and be the reason to try, we'll get by, sleep side by side, so close that the darkness itself won't even dare. #poetry

Exploring some of my interests in morphing LEGO builds

A big thanks to @maxwellgraf.secondlife.bio for reminding me that I never posted about my #SL22B exhibit! It's a 3D terrain model of Sansara and Heterocera, SL's oldest mainland continents: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/S... SLB will be open till July 20, so there's still time to visit. #SecondLife

I cling to the weight of old accomplishments, like an anchor that traps me in the past, the buoyancy of bygone pride now tethered to self-doubt. I look toward a horizon where my dreams appear increasingly out of reach, obscured by a feeling that they deserve a different dreamer to pursue them. #life

If you're still in Pittsburgh for #Anthrocon this weekend, don't forget to check out Room Party: www.room-party.com I'm honored to be one of the participating artists. I unfortunately couldn't make it to the con in person, but I'm there in spirit and really happy to see the exhibition doing so well.

I fought hard as his words slammed into my chest, catching me by the throat and piercing skin, like a thousand poison-tipped needles, threatening to unmake me from the inside. Anyone else would have surrendered, but I had been born of the nightmare too. And the pain felt like home. #microfiction

Finally building a forest in #SecondLife with all the trees and plants I've been making - something I've wanted to do for years now. There is a particular kind of feel, a gloom or light that happens under a canopy of very dense, tall trees and I could never quite find what I was looking for.

See a photo. Read his profile. Send a like. Maybe write a message, if feeling courageous. Later see that he looked at your profile too, maybe even read your message, but didn't reply or acknowledge your interest in any way. Rinse. Repeat ad infinitum. Die inside. Happy f***ing #pride. 🏳️‍🌈🫥 #dating

(1/3) @secondlife.bsky.social These really long wait times on support tickets for more than the past half a year are completely unacceptable. I'm concierge level support, and it took over 10 days for anyone to even acknowledge mine. I hate to think what normal residents endure. #SL #SecondLife

Days later: The coffee-table #GTAV print is done. I wonder where I should buy a backing for this? A DIY shop or an art shop? I want to put this in a frame after it's cleaned up and painted. #3dprinting

And another little experiment with the default cube in @blender.org. Not a perfect render (I could have done more), but still rather hypnotic to watch. #b3d

A meeting of the minds, made with @blender.org. Whether in #SecondLife or elsewhere, "it all starts with a cube." #b3d

Did some personal "art therapy" today with @blender.org and its #Python API, repositioning the vertices of a mesh grid using trigonometric functions like sine and cosine. The results are quite abstract, but I like how they turned out. They work pretty well as desktop backgrounds too. #b3d #VisualArt

Did some personal "art therapy" today with @blender.org and its #Python API, repositioning the vertices of a mesh grid using trigonometric functions like sine and cosine. The results are quite abstract, but I like how they turned out. They work pretty well as desktop backgrounds too. #b3d #VisualArt

I am not okay, he thought. Not in the slightest. I think I can almost imagine what "okay" might someday look like, but I don't know how to get there or if I can even reach it on my own. Maybe that's the problem. In the end, it's still just me. And that doesn't really feel like enough. #life

I normally do not ask these things, but desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose. I am needing about 23 dollars to pay my outstanding bill to Duke Energy. I also am, albeit less importantly, needing to pay the full 45 or so for my SL Premium. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... #MutualAid

The best part is when you come across a guy who you'd give your heart to in an instant if he asked, but he lives 6000 miles away and so he probably won't. Understandable, though still discouraging. #LGBT

Trying to use a #dating app to find someone special is like speedrunning rejection, over and over. 🏳️‍🌈

that's all

What he wanted most was a man who would be there, be near and with him, would take the time and consider it the best part of his day, would share words and smiles and tears and hugs and laughter, or moments of nothing at all, just to know that his favorite person was a touch away. #micropoetry #love

The Socialite sought sorrow in crowded spaces / Sharp-eyed, attuned to the affectation of joy / Sparing a private smile in passing / To provoke sincerity from pretense. #poetry #micropoetry

FABULOUS turnout for the HOTEL VICTORIA preview screening. Thank you so much to everyone who turned up! If you want to watch the event (interview plus episode), the live stream will be available until the end of the Fantasy Faire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsM8... #SecondLife #machinima

I had the privilege of attending a sold-out talk by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social at the Arlington Theatre last night, organized by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social's Arts & Lectures. Pete was eloquent and inspiring, acknowledging the challenges we face but also offering reasons for hope. ❤️ #UCSB #MayorPete

Watch episode one of my brand new machinima series, HOTEL VICTORIA, at an exclusive preview event at the Fantasy Faire on Thursday 24 April (2pm - 3pm SLT). Details: huckleberryhax.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/h... SLURL: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/T... #SecondLife #machinima #FantasyFaire

One of my best friends is frontwoman for a #band called AOEC (All Our Energies Combined), and they released an awesome cover this year of Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker": music.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK-... For more info about AOEC, their #music, and future plans: mattyfliptv.com/2025/03/15/a... 🎧 💔 🎶

When I was a kid, I often dreamed that we'd one day have #technology that let us "paint" with #imagination alone, visualizing worlds in our mind's eye and then seeing those mental images appear on a screen. Instead, we got GenAI, which is a societal clusterf**k and not what I was hoping for at all.

Sometimes I think I'm just one good hug away from going to pieces and crying until there's nothing left. #stress

She gazed up at the night sky, each "star" a different world that she might one day be able to visit. That those worlds were virtual didn't make the thought of going there any less exciting. After all, she was virtual too. #microfiction #dreams

She lost herself in the book, wondering now and then if she would be able to find her way out of it but not really minding if she stayed forever, trapped within pages that brought her closer to the world than she could have dreamed of reaching on her own. #reading #imagination

Self-expression is self-discovery is self-making. #Art is a process as much as (or more than) it is a result.

Is my beloved em dash really just seen as a sign these days that something was written by an LLM? I've heard some people say that, but I refuse to surrender such a useful #punctuation mark so quickly. I was using em dashes — and the en dash too — before it was cool. #writing

I have so many #writing projects that I've dreamed about for years but not yet committed to the page. Faced with the unchecked proliferation of AI, I'm almost feeling like I might have missed my chance.

Those futile moments in the middle of the night when there are so many things that you feel you need to do, knowing that the only sensible strategy is to just get some sleep and deal with it all tomorrow but letting it keep you awake nonetheless. #insomnia

I still find it strange that Linden Lab doesn't look more often to other platforms for inspiration, especially when it comes to #UI. #SecondLife is unique in many respects, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from (and borrow) features that work well elsewhere in order to improve the SL experience.

I still find it strange that Linden Lab doesn't look more often to other platforms for inspiration, especially when it comes to #UI. #SecondLife is unique in many respects, but that doesn't mean we can't learn from (and borrow) features that work well elsewhere in order to improve the SL experience.

We are far more alike than we are different. We are stronger together than we are apart. Sadly, we are also all too easily misled by those who would profit from having us fight amongst ourselves, capturing our attention and turning it toward an "enemy" that exists only in our minds.