It's my birthday! As a gift, can I ask you to share my art?🙏 I love drawing vibrant fantasy illustrations, especially in the field of TTRPGs. And speaking of TTRPGs, check out the post below for more fantasy goodness ⬇️✨

Just woke up from a dream where Danny Trejo and Jackie Chan were playing in a buddy adventure movie where they're long-time platonic life partners doing hijinks, but the real arc is they slowly realize no they're gay gay for each other and have been fr pretty normie married the whole entire time.

So, I really want this song I'm writing to be a real thing, so I'm trying my hand at a free DAW program to see if I can do anything with it and surprisingly, I think I'm coming around to something workable. At least something I could then hire someone with better tools to finish production on.

People who think they have the right to destroy anything they don't like take it as an existential threat when anyone else doesn't like them. It's absurd, but consistent and telling.

LOL wow, they've just outright deleted the entire community post on the matter. Guess it got too annoying constantly deleting individual commentors asking them WTF they were thinking. Which I know for a fact they were doing because I was still getting email updates on the topic.

I'm generally squicked by spiders (who have every right to live, I just don't want them visibly near me) but the teeniest tiniest little bebe spider just came floating by like a serene little speck of dust and it was kind of enchanting. I caught it by its silk and helped it land somewhere safe.

Anyone know a good way to connect lyracist/melody writers with accompaniment/production composers?

Not sure if I'll get more or fewer responses to this if I say it's for a Knights of Guinevere fansong 😅

Not sure if I'll get more or fewer responses to this if I say it's for a Knights of Guinevere fansong 😅

Anyone know a good way to connect lyracist/melody writers with accompaniment/production composers?

was going to make a joke about the rapture but it just isn't happening.

LOL the friction this is going to add for anyone who was considering forgiving them is gonna keep people deciding they're better off without

Well we had to drive into Maryland to get it done without other hurdles but we are all vaccinated!

I just did. guard.io/labs/scamlex... IS what scares me. As AI can't tell the diff between data and commands so a malicious page can command your AI browser and you won't know. If your pwd manager is set to autofill you might buy something without knowing it happened.

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Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

Related question, anyone got good suggestions for a secure alternative? That isn't Proton?

1password just announced a partnership with a shitty AI browser, in case anyone else wants to go grumble sense at them. Maybe if they see enough whoa-theres they'll think again. www.1password.community/discussions/...

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

Less recently, the Dark Crystal series. It was so good, the puppet artistry was amazing. The creative team deserved so many more seasons to shine.

As of last week, Pantheon. First season was strongest. Second had some cool things but felt like it wasn't given the same time to let them breathe. Overall though, some very good speculative-philosophical sci-fi that pokes hard at the question of what parts of us make us us.

the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators please feel free to use it

Dang, the kiddos are having a rough time. Big adjustment and being the only maskers is hard. 😞

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

If y’all have anything to give, my friend @quiara.net is disabled, nonbinary, and living in the Deep South - trying to raise funds to get out and go live somewhere safe. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

My favorite BlueSky thing is brands trying to exist here and getting chased away by everyone airing out every piece of dirty laundry they've ever had and throwing it in their face.

Not news to anyone who's paid attention to thebstudies on it, but man do we make teenagers wake up too early.

It's amazing how little it takes for liberals to abandon civil rights. Conservatives poured money into making trans people a culture war fixation and transphobia still isn't actually an electoral winner, but liberals are ecstatic to "make a tough sacrifice" and mulch us to run right and lose again.

Had a very successful snake-handling session this morning. It's a lot of fun just standing in front of a mirror and watching her explore all over my arms and shoulders. Finally got a good non-blurry photo of the cool pattern on her head, too. She really is a sweetheart little snake.

Nap won

Now is the critical hour. I must decide. To nap, or not to nap.

Can't fool me, that's a nebrie swamp. Big ol' manatee-hippo thing is about to rear out and chase you off from where its babies are. Good to see the population bouncing back since the Skeksis rule though.

Well, the bad news is we've had our first back to school crying jag. The good news is it wasn't me. Big change is hard for ND kiddos.

I've got a $300 phone bill I'd love to be able to knock out today, if enough people are able to help. I think more financial stability is on the horizon for me, but I'm not there yet.

First day of back to in-person school and the grumpus cat already misses the kids. He milled around the front door meowing for nearly an hour after I came home without them and has now planted himself firmly on my lap--a bit of a rarity--as if to keep me from disappearing too.

At my sister-in-law's bday where everyone is doing a 3-5 powerpoint on whatever they fancy. Was super fun and everything was great until the last guy gets on about using chatGPT. 😖 Now I'm just trying not to actually groan out loud.

Feel like we should really hammer it home that this is the shit they're trying to protect from any regulation whatsoever for the next ten years. CN for gross actual groomer language in the cited image if you decide to click through

Just look at this lovely creature 😁

Got some sad news a couple of days ago and I'm really wishing that emotional stuff didn't cause physical flares. Been a rough couple of days.

Looking at bento lunchboxes for the kids and kept feeling tempted to get one for myself too. But then I realized what I actually want is for someone *else* to pack me a cute little lunch.

Getting some milks and diapers to babies while it’s in the market seems like a good idea

Anxiety is when the past week has gone more smoothly than you could have ever anticipated in your wildest dreams, but your brain keeps telling you you're over a cliff and just haven't looked down yet. Shut up brain. Let things be good for a minute.

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good. Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil! “Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!

@ebthen.bsky.social Could I ask you to remind me of the mask brands you like these days? I'm actively looking for some more options rn.

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong... this thread is for you. First: prompt questions to get you started.

*some* Trekkie: “But Mr. O’Brien … doesn’t it bother you that the Transporter kills every time it’s used?” Chief O'Brien: “Look … I met the 8000 ppl … happy kids … who were my descendants after a 200 year time loop that … blinked out of existence … you’re Ship of Theseus holds no horrors for me.”

I will certainly say though, the supportive response I'm getting from the schools we're working with now is encouraging. My own school experience was pretty sink-or-swim in very conservative areas. And I've heard some serious horror stories from elsewhere. I'm feeling fortunate in this moment.

Been homeschooling for four years because of covid. Getting two ND kids to take on the burden of risk mitigation (masking perfectly) for their family was too much. They're older now, and it sucks that that's still a burden they have to carry in order to go to in-person school.

trying to work with AI tools so far has felt exactly the same to me as trying to include an executive’s fake job failson in a project even though they have no useful skill, so that tracks