This is infuriating. For those who just want the donation link, it's here secure.everyaction.com/gLkKHzevhku4...

one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes

When the next truscum/transmed rebranding happens and they claim "we were never mean to nonbinary people/we never claimed nonbinary people weren't trans/we never talked shit about people who don't/can't transition/etc".

i dont understand why so many of these guys wanna live forever when it's clear they don't actually enjoy being alive

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Using moderator powers to delete posts calling out your moderator power abuse and favouritism, WITH EVIDENCE, is not a good look Aaron… especially if you’re trying to be snarky about it… We came here to escape Elon musk, not to see this sites owner and moderation team becoming Elon musk 2.0!

What. The fuck. This technically doesn't violate ToS. Okay. Fine. Who. THE FUCK. Being the head of something called trust and safety. Does something. Like this. We've got the best community I've ever seen come from a platform, and the most tone deaf arrogant bigot ghouls running it. Disgraceful.

very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona

pals you gotta quit spotify

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

That much money financing games by actual game developers would have financed 150+ of the highest budget AAA games, and the several orders of magnitude more jobs to produce them. Instead it was burned failing to produce advertiser-safe Second Life.

Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon

There's a thin line between appreciating things from the past, and the trap that is nostalgia. You can enjoy retro aesthetics, devices, architecture and so on without falling into blind longing for an idealized past that will almost ALWAYS be exploited by malignant actors to manipulate others.

There's no freedom in a world that doesn't include solidarity with pornographers and sex workers.

A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.

As a pornographer myself, I feel... weird about creators who make distinctions between porn and other adult/sexual content. If you defend porn, your work will ALSO be defended. Don't be afraid to get down in the mud with us. You're gonna end up here anyway.

Van Epps held a reliably R+>30 House district by mid-single digits. Somehow, I think this would have been framed as "Dems in chaotic disarray after special election spanking" if positions were reversed. Tell me I'm wrong. I dare you.

There’s no such thing as the ideal disabled person and the insistence on only catering to the ideal disabled person creates compounding structures that actively harm the disabled community and these structures get repurposed pretty quickly for isolating and harming other marginalized groups

Social media is full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped results — while Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. As long as Spotify is willing to take money from ICE, they don’t need (and don’t deserve) free advertising on our social feeds.

Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here. Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women. I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.

If we are understanding and kind when orgs abandon us, that makes it even easier for the next org to make that same decision. If, instead, abandoning us means your reputation gets trashed, other orgs sever ties with you, and you get protests at yr places - that raises the costs of that decision.

because as one institution after another makes the decision that it's too costly to fight for trans lives, as each domino falls, it DOES get easier for the next institution to abandon us. it becomes the status quo. it becomes "just the way things are." so we and our allies gotta fight like hell.

Weaponizing/demonizing addiction doesn't help anyone.

THIS! The civil rights movement played every move as one small step in the longest game because instant gratification was - and remains - bougie white nonsense black folks NEVER get to indulge in. They knew the adversary and the prize they could never take their eyes off. Learn from them.

I wish Palestine were free, completely returned to the people. I wish we could help them rebuild. I wish we could see them happy and safe and given reparations for all the hell they've been through for generations.

Black people organized RIDESHARES – with nothing but pens, pads, and landlines – more than half a century before Uber. A boycott used to mean making an unjust institution IRRELEVANT, forcing them to either radically change or die. Caving at the first superficial walkback means they'll never learn.

#MayorBrandonJohnson: We don’t have illegal aliens Reporter: that’s the legal term MBJ: The legal term for my people was slaves. The last thing that I’m going to do is accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.

Remember, the big argument for AI in the arts is that these “artists” have ideas, hundreds of ideas, thousands, all that was stopping them was the hoards of gatekeeping musicians, writers, illustrators… and not that they were lazy and didn’t want to put in the work.

It’s 2040. The New Warriors movie is about to release. It’s made entirely with generative AI. If you don’t pay $700 to see it and clap whenever Speedball does something amusing, ICE agents denaturalize you on the spot and send you to an Argentinian city-sized megaprison

Hey guys I really wanna help my fam out so I'm boosting my kof for a bit; anything is appreciated, even boosting. Everything I make here for a little while will go to them. Full alt text in second screenshot. ko-fi.com/zodori/gallery

Damn, sure does suck what's happening to the country that we enabled with our obsequious coverage of an existential threat to our nation, but you have to give us your clicks so we can do hard investigative stories about the crisis we hand a hand in creating - corporate media right now

“This is better...this is progress...” they whisper to their reflections whose eyes they cannot even meet…

Sometimes at night when the forest calls they still wake, cheeks wet from tears. They sometimes find themselves standing at the tree line not knowing how they have gotten there. In the pale grey of morning they button stiff collars and try to tame once free manes.

All the Animals have undertaken the Crossing. They awkwardly straighten their postures, put on nooselike ties and cover their glorious pelts with dull fabrics. They take jobs, claws trying to grasp phones, paws doggedly adapting to gardening tools.

The CIA recruited him into a death squad when he was 15. This was a terror wrought by our homeland

“When coping becomes the only mechanism to defend one’s sanity, some parts of one’s ability to empathize may be affected. However, they never vanish.”

This is an admission that their goal is explicit ethnic cleansing of America and genocide, and it should be seen as a direct threat to millions of American lives and billions of lives worldwide.

30 years ago, all the key creatives from Cowboy Bebop made a film about two boys reconciling their love for each other. All while dealing with the negative tangible outcomes of training AI? I’ve made it my charge in life to get everyone to watch this movie, so if you’re able… this movie rips. 💜

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Cosign but disagree with one thing: I'm also old. Who cares if you're old. Do the thing anyways. Just hit 79 years old? perfect time to pick up a new hobby. After all, you have all the time in the world to master it ♥ Make good shit. No matter your age.

I think people's interest in this DC-journo train wreck is understandable (and so is the desire to unsee it); I hope folks understand that it's not a soap opera and, in fact, the reason it's so grotesque is that the people involved are treating it like one.

Meanwhile as reported from Australia, vaccines and science are getting on with saving lives…

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

It’s abundantly clear many powerful men believe it should be illegal for women to reject their sexual advances.

Never close your heart to the possibility of mercy, especially when you are in a position that holds influence or may determine the fate of others. It is better to pardon the misdemeanors of a hundred misguided but regretful men, than to wrongfully punish a singular innocent one.

Catholic schools are used as legal conversion therapy because you have to wear a gendered uniform cut your hair a certain way etc etc and you are expelled if you don’t. Do you understand this. do you understand how many kids at each school are there for that reason

I keep these words close to my heart. Whenever I see someone behaving very strangely, I remind myself that everyone I’ve ever met has been hideously injured in ways too deep for any doctor to ever take comprehensive note.

Go support your local coffee shops! I guarantee their coffee is tastier and their pastries delightful. And if you’re lucky, there will be a dog or cat to adore