Without the internet id be in an abusive relationship, health deteriorating with no medical care. If it were to be taken away from me now? Id be stuck indoors, disabled, lonely, and unable to make it to a bunch of medical appointments. I have one friend in the area, and they're also my landlord.

I may never have found autistic and queer brethren where I'm at IRL. Without the internet, I would be completely alone in the world. I understand that we need to have a healthy relationship with online activity, I do. But this is nusanced and you cannot be reductive and just say phone bad

Which is exactly why the folks in charge are doing their best to shrink queer spaces, as well as make all communications for things like Social Security digital only. 🎯 Please read. This disabled Transgender man would appreciate folks gaining some more perspective. 🧵

I mean this in the most literal way, without access to the internet and the people on there, I would not be of this world.

just cause of some of the replies, I want to be a little less ambiguous. I said "should," which might allow the sentence read as "could possibly" and I meant "should" as in "must" it's the hardliners i take issue with. u can go ahead and make a game with a silent protagonist

one of the biggest errors in video games was when a bunch of people decided, apropos of nothing, that protagonists should be silent so the player can view themselves as the player character.

Btw, this is how the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40K functions. They got no skills at any level of the social strata because they let AI do everything in the golden age and after they just couldn't rebuild the skill base because the things they depend on were built by the AIs.

The anthrocon/furry episode of The Pitt has spoken. Santos would absolutely have a dragon fursona

the whole "tortured wording that conveys no information" thing is my most reliable tell of AI text beyond any individual turn of phrase

I think the ChatGPT use of “it’s not ___, it’s ___” is more distinct from human use of that phrase than people make it out to be. Because ChatGPT is always making some stupid metaphor that communicates zero information. “It’s not a drizzle, it’s a flood”

The crappy advertising was deliberate. They advertise remakes extensively and never put much into marketing originals to “prove” that remakes are better by forcing remakes to make more money and originals to make less.

Holy shit please go see Hoppers. Pixar really redeemed themselves with this one. The advertising campaign did this movies ZERO justice.

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Grasping at Credentialism always looks bad. It looks even worse when the Credentialism is for posting

"I have kitchen equipment older than you" is my usual reply to younger colleagues giving me ageist abuse 😂

If it's any silver lining older gen z is starting to get hit with this, I had to stop and stare off into space when I realized my childhood Wii is only two years away from being old enough to drink alcohol and buy weed.

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As a young person myself, I will never gripe about older people being on the internet. The people here before me built this shit and I can only hope that social media doesn't implode on itself and stay around long enough for me to get into my middle aged and older years.

love this. I know the sound of a 300 baud handshake, heard through a literal handset to physical modem connection. I remember the sound of cassette drive storage. I used a hole puncher to make DS/DD floppies. My first email address was through a VAX system. I was too old for ICQ! I PROGRAMMED A MOO

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Unbelievable that we have to watch for things like this now.

"PETG is stronger than PLA" Yeah sure it is buddy. Anyway I had to fix this one up with some fiberglass and resin, good as new now. But oh boy, that sucked.

Thats all the more reason you call! then they know that people in their district puts their position in jeopardy. You don't call because your singular call is going to argue them out of a position. You're not that special. sorry! You do because a LOT of calls actually scares them :)

I didn't want to scare people. I hate that I have to do this but freedom dies in silence, and now now than ever, y'all need to find your outside voices. Y'all need to find that fire inside you. Cause it's we don't, everything will be lost and years of progress will be gone.

You want this? Make your fucking calls. I don't care how awkward you are. You won't be able to express anything to anyone in a public forum. There will be nothing left for us. Only suffering.

•No more art. •No more expression of one's self. •No more income from your regulars. •No more online publishings •No more community. Just you handing your information over to a large surveillance network who will find you, arrest you, and possibly kill you. This is the thought police they want.

On the bright side, it has to go through rules committee first because of the controversial stuff it has in it. So we have one more committee before it goes through house floor. Still though, we have to keep calling

You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD. You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it. I've made my calls today. You need to.

So the ICO potentially think it is not OK for people to use Meta Glasses when looking at ID cards and CCs because of potential security risks; Yet are perfectly fine with handing that same data over to Age-Verification companies to store possibly on the very same servers? Make it make sense please?

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Neptune's Dumplings Two of my favorite concept art pages from the Garland Publication

Alien Earth, the story of a girl who undergoes a transition to save her life and as a result becomes both more powerful than anyone imagined and immediately dehumanized, and so she rejects her humanity and finds home amongst the monsters. I dunno, if you're a tgirl maybe check it out if you haven't

Drew a pause screen icon for Copy X. Not really for any reason I just wanna have fun

Working on the 30MMF Rosen fighter These things are super posable without the armor

I kinda get it. The return on investment for porting three games essentially is a hard ask for a $40 sticker price even though their partners already do psx emulation But the megaman legends fanatic in me is shocked that this isn't even being discussed internally

bluesky is not the people running it; its the community that uses it. and that pisses them off

Every single day, just by posting here, you have the ability to make these losers hate their job that much more, and I think that's beautiful

It actually kicks ass how much the people who run this site hate the people who use it. Just constant seething meltdowns over having to put up with a bunch of artists, furries, and trans people instead of crypto-hustlers and AI guys making Linkedin-tier posts. I'm glad they're miserable, frankly

I love these loud things

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Despite "I only read it for the articles" being a joke, it's actually had some serious journalism in its early days (they had interviews with Black Panther folks, MLK Jr., and Gore Vidal) So this isn't too weird

Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive

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