An example of why predictive text doesn’t work for me: me: Look at this adorable little… predictive text: girl | boy | baby me: …spork!

Great post.

Addendum: By "free images" I mean they are marked as free to use, sometimes with or without attribution (though you should always attribute when you can). Not "if it's on the internet, it's free". And there are still TOO MANY people on Substack. Doing great writing/journalism, but for a Nazi bar. 😑

And I know, you were fooled. We were ALL fooled into thinking that our blogs have to have pictures and a certain length and keywords. You know who did that? Google. You know why? To make search worse for everyone. And now their Gemini "AI" used all that "SEO best practices" to steal your work.

Ooh, yay, you moved (or never started) your newsletter from Substack. Oh, boo, you're using generative AI images for your header and article images. The bar is in hell, y'all, it's so easy to rise above it, and people still don't. And it's disheartening. There are so many free images out there.

Shoutout to all the game devs that include Content Warnings with their Press Kits when they send over game keys. 🥰 Thank you for helping us share your games with everyone safely.

Wallpapers are now LIVE for the Lab Goblin tier and higher on Patreon and Ko-fi! I'll have the process post for this piece up for y'all tomorrow!

Why yes, I have watched this 10 times in a row 😄 www.youtube.com/shorts/CsITP...

Stream is live. In search of...water crystal in #BravelyDefault. Open up a new tab, and come on in. Twitch YouTube

Oooh, DC gamers, library's got something fun happening this weekend! dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16207044

Hey. Somehow it's Monday again so lets hang out for some chill chats and hot games Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames

"Copyrighted content has been detected in your video…" Dear devs and PR outlets representing devs, please check the usage rights of the music you use in your game so streamers know if they'll get flagged for it, or if their videos can't be monetized for it. It'd be good to know. Thanks. 💖

New episode of #TechFriday is up. Space rules! youtu.be/KIsbjn-rFg4

Train of thought: bad pain days > moving gingerly > cats are graceful > are gingers different from the rest? > youtube rabbit hole of hilarious orange-cat videos youtube.com/shorts/lJ4dN...

What. the. heck. is this accent Hardy’s trying to do? #AEW2020

Henceforth, waking up in pain and/or moving gingerly shall be known as having rebooted in safe mode. Thanks, Xero!

Not me thinking this was a con for trans taytos like me.

Ransom E. Olds* is an amazing name. *yes, as in -mobile.

me: frickin’ socials. ruining our vocabulary. shortening words. making up stuff. since when is invite a frickin’ noun‽ oxford dictionary: the earliest known use of the noun invite is in the early 1600s. me: downright engrumbling, that is.

Eeeeeee did y’all see the splooshdown daily bunny its so good bsky.app/profile/will...

Spider has been coaxed into descending from the ceiling and escorted outside. Spider is now touching grass.

Spending the day at UT Austin for the #Alienware Collegiate Clash 2026! Eight teams from across the country competing in a @marvelrivalsglobal.bsky.social tournament & I get to help hype the crowd! There’s gonna be @teamliquid.com jersey giveaways too, so if you’re around, stop by!

For #selfpromosaturday: I'll have wallpapers and a process post up for supporters for this new illustration over on my Ko-fi and Patreon soon! patreon.com/artificerind ko-fi.com/artificerind

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

There is a spider on my ceiling. Halp.

This piece is now available for sale in my shop! ko-fi.com/cozykathryn/...

I’m a firm believer that the best camera to use is the camera you have. I was at a local park recently and just used iPhone 13 and a clip-on macro lens to take some abstract shots of the tree bark. Work with what you have and make beautiful things.

Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!!! I'm so excited to play with this amazing crew again. I will never get over how much love, care, and pep Dax has put into this campaign. 🤩 Let's go on an adventure in a galaxy far, far away! 🪐

100% this. Anytime someone says it hallucinates we need to say the software made an error, it output an incorrect response from a list of responses, etc. Just like how those articles about AI being dangerous are marketing for AI, saying it hallucinates (even as a criticism) is helping AI companies.

Had a lot of fun with the demo, highly recommend checking it out 😊

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!! HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨ 🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

OTHERSIDE'S ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! if you're a queer writer or poet, please submit your original fiction and/or poetry to us 👀 AND if you are sci-fi writing inclined? do give me some cool gay fucky space stories. epic or strange stories of planets, moons, spaceships etc. thank youuu ✨

Wish list for all games: a "Delete Save" or multiple save slots option. I test games out first before streaming to see if they'll run, and if that opening intro or cutscene isn't replayable each time, then I gotta dig around to find out how to delete save files on my PC like... 🥺

Folks are contorting themselves to use normal channels, wishful thinking & minimization as praxis to address/ ignore the escalating threat of the fallen & overtaken US government makes me feel like I'm having an episode. The dedication to acting normal will kill us all. youtu.be/NAYEYCbOvW8?... 1/3

Something I did for my last #TTRPG charity one-shot, and that I'd like to see others do going forward - a thank you e-mail plus stats and links. I sent my players a thank you email, included how much the game made, links to the YT video, and links to art and some comments. 🧵[1/4]

It's so ridiculous. It feels like you're in a constant war with the platforms just to get people to see the things from you they *signed up* to see. The math simply isn't math'ing. And that's not even talking about trying to get someone on one platform to convert to another platform. Futile. 🥺

Patrons now get early access to buy my original art! The works will go on sale to the public at the end of this week, if they have not already sold. www.patreon.com/posts/154933...

I was feeling ambitious, so the slightly edited version of "The Meal of Many Parts" is up on my YouTube youtu.be/vBUoW_i48gw Cast: @cypheroftyr.bsky.social @artificer-ind.bsky.social @urbanbohemian.com and @paintingpirate.bsky.social DM/Producer: @dclasair.bsky.social

Looking for a colour-by-number mobile app. The two most popular are Happy Color and Zen Color. Over the past year or two, both have started using genAI images. Do you know of such an app that uses only real art, drawn by artists? (iOS) Thanks!

Climb Time! Woo! 🥳 Stream is live, tea is brewing. Cya soon! ----> twitch.tv/stephenjoys

There's a The Division mobile game? Well I gotta try to take a look at it, huh? Gonna take a peek at Tom Clancy's The Division: Resurgence (what a mouthful) for a fun little Friday afternoon stream! (Assuming I can get this emu working.) 💖

Time for #TechFriday. BSky controversy, Windows 11 updates, and get CoPilot out of your Github. Open up a new tab, and come on in. Twitch YouTube

In 2018, the Air and Space Museum hosted an installation, recreation of the hotel room from the film. It was so cool to see. airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/exh...

Reigniting Imagination, Creativity, and Joy as Liberatory Trauma Work! www.eventbrite.com/e/reigniting... This training will explore how we can use exploration and activities of imagination, creativity, pleasure, and joy to heal from trauma #BlueskyTherapists #SocialWorkSky

HI YES I have a story in Lightspeed's April issue ✨ "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" will be free to read on April 9—but if you'd like to check out my tragic sapphic space knights before then, as well as all these other amazing stories, go pick up the issue!! 👀

HOWEVER… if your only source for an image starts (and often ends) at Twitter/X? COME ON, MAN. A Google Lens (ugh, that name) search doesn't show it on any other site? Adding a date to the search brings back nothing? Nah, don't share, don't repost, just keep scrolling. 💖

Me: The Division on iPad is such a suboptimal experience. Who even asked for this? Also me: [plays The Division on iPad all night] Apparently I takes my The Division where I gets my The Division.

Slightly shorter stream tonight so we don't miss the rocket launch. Gonna start off with Grunn again, to see what endings we can find, and then we'll check out Peaks of Yore. Stream is live, tea is brewing. Cya soon! ----> twitch.tv/stephenjoys

Stream is live. Craft Day - Updating my #commonplace book. Open up a new tab, and come on in. Twitch YouTube