People who confidently declare that all cats are "mean" really have no idea that they're telling on themselves for having boundary and consent issues.

Get Voidscarred if you want hot space elves having classic pirate adventures in space and be gay.* *This includes one of the hottest seduction scenes imaginable while still technically being PG-13. (You don't even need to know or be into Warhammer either, it's that strong as a standalone work.)

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

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noooooooo he was also just one of the nicest kindest people to ever work in the arts. Gutted, what a massive loss not just for film but for humanity. RIP Sir Rupert, best man in British TV to the end

I haven't had a token straight in decades. I thought for a while one of my newest minor OCs might be straight but turns out he's bi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Reminder that if you block someone on bsky, it doesn’t unfollow them for you. Your friends may not be truly following him (and you may not have spared yourself the wrath of people unfollowing anyone who appears to follow him). Unblock, unfollow, block. He’s a weasel.

as someone who worked on bg3, I fully agree - it's so utterly hypocritical how these platforms treat sex and eroticism - they want to make bank off big releases (and payment processors conveniently look the other way when this happens!) but strangle entire swathes of content from indies

I am still (unreasonably perhaps) genuinely angry about this, I feel like it really went against the game's general message.

I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night

Look at my smug-ass* aeldari motherfucker. @viscera.bsky.social is great to work with, you should go get your own motherfuckers immortalised by her. *only ass he got

Happy Star Wars day! Remember that this is, at its core, a story about resisting fascism. Empires always fall. Let's help that along wherever possible 💜

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An amazing commission of my aeldari corsair prince and one of his lovely toys. Thank you @viscera.bsky.social ! (Commission her, she's really great!)

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

my cats as crossing animals

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

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I WILL always remember you big ass rolling egg from 2016's hatching tide

Oh, is there discourse about "apolitical" science fiction again? Humans are political animals. There's no apolitical art. There's art that supports/confirms your default assumptions about how the world ought to work - to such a degree that it's invisible - or art that challenges those assumptions.

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I care more about the lives of trans people than about the feelings of cis people and if you're upset about me calling you a bad person for this, I don't give a shit

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

Did I suffer through finding 150 Wheathearts purely for Warhammer cosplay? Maybe, you can't prove it.

A kind reminder of my audience for this my Blue Sky

One of my favourite things about this podcast is that Adam gives the characters voice filters when appropriate (or asked for I presume). It makes for such an immersive experience! And it also feels like an act of kindness and care, to give players the voice they imagine for their characters.

i hate this stupid fucking system more than anything in the world. a system that benefits nobody, actively harms everybody, could be changed at literally any point in time, YET WE STILL KEEP DOING THIS MADNESS ANYWAY. YEAR AFTER YEAR WE DO THIS STUPID SONG AND DANCE FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON

9 Games I played and enjoyed in the last 12 months my9games.com

disliking the term "human art". the word art doesn't need that qualifier and adding it weirdly validates AI regurgitations

Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

Ferbruary #oldknees

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If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

These guys are making a highly entertaining podcast that has informed many of my own TTRPG habits and preferences, and they are all excellent kind people besides. If you're craving the experience of a genuine relatable table, and want stories that are both heartfelt and very funny, give them a go.

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

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