Bookworms! For anyone who needs reminding that charity shops are full of books for £2 or less! Today was a good day. #Books #Reading

"What do you have against disabled artists who can only use AI to express themselves?" a) I don't think you know what artist means b) AI literally steals the work of disabled artists AND has stolen potential gigs from countless disabled artists struggling to survive.

Publishers: “Short stories don’t sell and are impossible to market so we are not going to take the risk of publishing them.” Also publishers: “What can we publish to fit this era of reduced attention spans when people are reading fewer novels?”

I think Mumsnet should be blocked in the UK for radicalising and grooming parents into being transphobes.

Likewise, many companies have discovered in the last couple of months AI is going to cost them more to do a worse job than the people they laid off to bring in AI. That’s why we’re now getting celebs paid a fortune to hawk it at every opportunity. Remember when every celebrity started selling NFTs?

I think their real priority is to be superior -- masculine is just a synonym for that. Some with that goal might strive to actually make themselves seem better than others, but I think they've gone with trying to hold everyone else back so they come out ahead by default.

"To Rich To Have Her Time Wasted" This originally started out as a little test for some new brushes I downloaded and boy did it get away from me. I had a lot of fun doing it nonetheless and I hope you guys like it as well! #art #oc #ocsky #vamily #ventrue #vampirethemasquerade #comic

Is anyone else mad that they don't have time to be a nerd about all the topics they want to be a nerd about?

I'd bought a couple of Penguin books this week. The little guy on the spine made me smile. Then I started torturing my beloved Womble with "interesting" information about all the amazing impacts Penguin has had on publishing, education, graphic design FONTS! He begged me to stop. So, I came here.

Slop is rising. Powerful rich c*nts want to undermine reality. My comfort thought today: A company named after a cute bird, and focused unflinchingly on making both fiction and credible knowledge accessible to everyone, is now the biggest Publisher in the world. And they're still book nerds.

Be still my geeky heart. A gift, from myself. 😁 #books #words #geek

“Wait a minute, gentlemen. … Here’s the ‘on’ switch over here.”

Fucking hell! How can something be so simultaneously horrifying and still refreshing at the same time? Fucking hell!

amazing this is not a skit

I cannot believe that we have gone so long without base level journalism that this feels somehow radical, and the guy being interviewed literally cannot conceive of being asked basic questions

Using genAI is the least punk thing a person can do.

It has always been clear how many folk think artwork doesn't involve actual work. They think it's a magic wand with which artists are, uunnffaaiirrllyy, born. So, now, in real time, we're seeing AI douche-buckets have a collective tantrum that no one is giving their lazy slop an atom of respect.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Human artists! Use one piece only to convince people to follow you.

This. But it's more nefarious. They act like this, put the person on blast on twitter (over a million views, comments homophobically abusing him, doxxing of him, where he lives etc) - it deters others for doing the same. Then the next person thinks twice about standing up for us.

I wrote a short article about the garish colour palette used by teletext, the ZX Spectrum, Windows 3.1, the World Wide Web, the Linux command line, etc. notebook.zoeblade.com/Boolean_colo...

I have a number of my watercolors available at my shop. You can get them here: www.etsy.com/shop/rikkisimons! Yay!

HUMAN ARTIST, use only one piece to convince people to follow you. #Art #DigitalArt #SciFi #SciFiArt

HUMAN ARTIST, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

I feel like this is about as good a representation of me as possible. As my loving husband Womble describes my vibe. "Bleak, but cheerful."

Human artists! Use one piece only to convince people to follow you.

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

Positively Sisyphean task.

Have the massively hot data centres calculated how to solve climate change yet or are they too busy answering idiots requests to write an email, generate a picture or vibe some code for a stupid app?

Everybody thinks when he's rich he'll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there's only one kind of rich person, and he's it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.

"...but you are limited to strictly 10 years." Well I guess my vote is invalid then! Flips table on my way out.

This kind of thing baffles me. I'm not much of a reader of Classic Literature (in caps) but the stuff I have read on that list is mostly pretty good. But so many people think that anyone who doesn't share their precise (lack of) taste is just lying to try to impress people.

Not that I wouldn't recommend Consider Phlebas. It's got one of the best pieces of momentum driven writing, in a specific scene, that I've ever read. But that happens at the end of a book spends every page daring you to give up and walk away.

Conversation with my brother, an English Teacher: Him: Have you read Ulysses? Me: Not yet. I know I should. Him: You should, it's a masterpiece, but don't. Me, having just finished reading Consider Phlebas: Ah! I totally get what you're saying. #books www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Jennifer, Alison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too

Wes Streeting should be held accountable for the deaths of children he caused by removing their medical treatment on ideological grounds, despite warnings from experts. His resignation is not enough, he should be prosecuted for the deaths he's responsible for.

At 6 years old I was handing out Labour stickers. My Grandad, union rep for his mine, was all in & vocal about what Labour meant to him. It imprinted on me hard with a belief in Socialism & human rights. Not blind loyalty to a brand. When Irn Bru starts selling anthrax, I'll drink something else.

What pretty much everyone deeply involved in politics fails to see is that while *they* have party loyalty as part of their identity, the vast majority of people who care at all just have a vague idea of what kind of world they'd like, and will happily vote for whoever will give it to them.

The ability for creators of all kinds to hone their craft on the dole instead of needing to come from money to get anywhere

True Story: My beloved Womble bought me a special toaster with a built-in egg cooker, which had a timed, auto-shut-off safety mechanism. Second True Story: If *a person* boils an egg in a pot, then gets distracted for multiple hours, the noise of the egg exploding is VERY loud, every time. #adhd

The type of exhausted that comes from 100 year old reminders of modern fucking problems. Source : publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Elon Musk threatened civil war in the UK and has sponsored the far-right operating here and rather than doing anything about it you still use it as your primary communication platform. Never mind the child sexual abuse images that the platform itself created and you also did nothing about.

Reupping my video showing that conversion therapy in the UK is mainly caused by about 40 people who simply will not piss off and are ruining the NHS for the rest of us youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

I'm not procrastinating. Why would you think I'm procrastinating? That's ridiculous! Ignore the Fan-Cover for my favourite Banks novel. That's not relevant to this conversation!

“I dont think my art is good enough to make this comic/webtoon/visual novel/game” You should make it, because even if your art isnt where you want it to be, the constant practice you gain while working on a project will rapidly improve your skills as oppose to just waiting

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Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character(s). Wrong answers only,

Is it good that police officers who break the rules are investigated and brought to justice? Yes. Is it good to use fascist tech to achieve that, helping to embed it even further into the UK state? No.