Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

this may not look interesting at first, but you are witnessing entire planetary systems being born, just like our own solar system. somewhere out there, could be another planet with life.

I'm in awe of the bravery of the protestors here. The coordinated effort to support and protect people is so beautiful. Here's a doc with a bunch of ways you can help:

URGENT AID REQUEST A sublet is being held for me(!) but i dont yet have funds to cover rent for it + my storage unit (still applying for jobs) if folks could help & share, it’d go a long way to keeping me housed thru winter! There is an immediate goal (by Saturday) and overall goal (before Feb)💚

Hello~ Me and @wolfieworld.bsky.social have been living together for almost a year now (and got married!) and need to raise some money to cover fees required for a partner visa so we can keep living together. Coquette Dragoon is 25% off for the next few months <3 itch.io/s/178665/bb-...

BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI

now this is how you do an unapologetic pride jersey

Seeing a lot of false postings out there. Despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's recent closure, PBS and NPR are still VERY MUCH ALIVE and active. They're just more dependent than ever upon the generosity of Viewers Like You! Please support your local station! pbs.org/donate

We're in the final month of this fundraiser and desperately need more donations! Please donate, please share! This is a terrifying and horrible situation that's unfortunately not uncommon. Trans people deserve families! People who do sex work or have done sex work in the past deserve families!

You know, 11 years ago. Same shit

Hi everyone. The first game in this series is one of my favorite games of all time. The Kickstarter for the sequel is in a rough situation. If you can afford to do so, please consider pledging. If not, please share widely. I want to see them succeed.

I am once again recommending you read the Nausicaa manga. It is a comprehensive execution of the ideas present in the Nausicaa-Laputa-Mononoke pseudo-trilogy of films as well as a thoughtful response to the Lord of the Rings and Dune.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Not the first, second, or 10,000th concern today, but as a person who runs an educational org specializing in international outreach, I sure do get tired of having a government that actively causes the rest of the world to hate America on a daily basis.

my favorite jwst images from 2025 🌌

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

"it's not about individual behavior" is a successful industry psyop to keep selling climate harm. we need regulation and system changes AND they won't happen so long as normalized consumer behavior keeps profitable demand for pretty lawns, SUVs, plastic, meat industry, car joyriding, routine flights

Like, the good luck charms many baseball fans practice are absolutely a form of ritual magic from an anthropological standpoint, but imagine what American baseball would look like if Protestants didn't have hangups about ritual magic being Satanic and didn't need to maintain plausible deniability.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

living is really expensive. help a struggling grad student out if you’re able ❤️

thank you for resurfacing this ancient lore www.sbnation.com/2014/12/30/7...

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Anyway have you guys seen this video that has, several times, made me pull my hair out when I remember it is not actually filmed practically with puppets/clay but made in fucking Blender?

hey man you don't need to talk about my business this doesn't need to go in the paper

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Every time I read this I find a new part of it to love and lately I’m really into (walking ashore)

if I could nail everything I was thinking of first try, the work wouldn’t ever find its own identity and voice. getting bored or frustrated or intimidated are things that get people to stop sometimes but they‘re also crossroads to find the path to the end. you don’t just make art, art makes you

maybe the greatest pitch frame in baseball history

Your regularly scheduled reminder is that Slay The Princess was Black Tabby's short-form side-project. A showcase in how much reactivity they can cram into a single sitting. Scarlet Hollow is their BIG visual novel and plays the long game on all of your decisions. They WILL matter.

This is a very apt summary of a discomfort I've long felt but lacked the words to describe. Obviously the dissolution of shared realities runs much deeper than just genAI, but the ability to replicate the artifice of social participation without society makes it a horrifyingly powerful accelerator.

@jonbois.bsky.social watching hockey

They keep getting away with this shit cause they have a grip on our heartstrings and our childhoods, and use that to empty our wallets. Absolute scum behavior I'm tired of it!!!!!

If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

The only way we could do that is by treating education like a public good, not a fucking business aimed at producing a product, and that would require the wholesale liquidation (perhaps at swordpoint) of the current crop of folks responsible for the organization of American education.

Gray Fox in the Shoreline ink and digital color

9. The win on the NDAA trans care coverage ban is big - it applies not just to servicemembers, but their dependents, and companies that contract with the military - it could have had much larger impacts than many realize. It going down is worth celebrating for transgender people tonight.

A close-up of a Tufted Titmouse with his/her tuft blowing in the wind. I love their black eyelashes. The thin black feathers around the break are rictal bristles, which are common in many birds but their size and placement differs between species.

I've been through the desert on a

Retro-style fishing mystery game About Fishing announced for PS5, PC Publisher Playstack and Arctic Eggs developer The Water Museum have announced About Fishing, a fishing mystery game "made out of love for Shenmue and SEGA Bass Fishing." It will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. A…

It's hard to even talk about the crushing losses in arts funding this year while the broader context of the world is so horrifically violent. But if you look at all of this as a struggle — either FOR or AGAINST hope and humanity — it becomes clear that the arts are in fact a key part of that story.

I had to write about Horses for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/horses-indie...