BARAD DÛR

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This photo of Zdzisław Beksiński is so adorable.

what if we just went on like viking raiding parties of sillicon valley? feels like it'd be easy pickins

🖌️WELCOME BACK HARDEEP AJULA!🎨 Hardeep will have new illustrations in this year's issues. Go here to see more cool art and gaze upon mighty crowdfund exclusives before it's too late! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

I'ma start a new unhinged zine Who's in

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. This is Meta's *director of AI safety* 🤣

I'm not looking for nuance on the use of the plagiarism machine that impairs cognitive ability in students and wrecks the environment, nor do I think there's a need for debate.

getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...

Imagine saying you're part of "Superintelligence" and getting your shit rocked by something that can't spell strawberry. I bang this drum too much but internally they've replacing engineers at Google with 'engineers' willing to let AI ruin their lives/projects as some sort of weird brand loyalty

Genesis of the Eloi? A supine race that knows nothing and does nothing.

Some close-ups of a side-on map I drew - a simple house that, unsurprisingly, contains more than meets the eye below the surface.... #ttrpgs #fantasymap

#tdih 1943, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, & Christoph Probst -- members of the White Rose -- were executed 💔 for their role in urging students to rise up & overthrow the Nazi government. #Resist In face of evil, "why do you not rouse yourselves?" they implored. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wh...

Delighted to take part for a second year to help raise money for the charity Magic Breakfast 👇 Goths for Breakfast: Charity Teach-a-thon Date: 28 feb • 09:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goths-for-...

don said eff those jealous prompting losers lol

U r my star

5 authors/5 books: Ursula Le Guin Iain M Banks Mark Lawrence Glen Cook Richard Kadrey

If, like me, you're a European concerned about being reliant on US companies for much of what you do online, check out european-alternatives.eu Also, watch for the launch of Eurosky soon, allowing your atproto (including Bluesky) data to be stored subject to EU laws, not American ones.

We do! And we capture when sales have been canceled due to community resistance. 🔴 = Bought by ICE 🟢 = Canceled by community 🟡 = Still for sale 🟣 = Reopoening detention facility 🔵 = Potential admin office leases tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I don't know if I could respect someone once I found out they didn't know what a jackalope was.

'The man who seeks to arouse prejudice among workingmen is not their friend. He who advises the white wage-worker to look down upon the black wage-worker is the enemy of both.' Eugene Debs

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Our last panel of the day is currently running but before we wrap up the first day of The Big Indie Weekend, we want to say a massive thanks to all our guests and mods today - @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com @nils.readindiefantasy.com @fanfiaddict.bsky.social @eleni-argyro.bsky.social

Please help us continue to grow - and build something that is filled with joy and love. It is an endless pleasure and privilege to work with this team and everyone involved. They are sunshine in a world that desperately needs things to be a little less bleak and s**ty right now.

ok had to draw this too

Some Friday wisdom from our Great Viking Survey dataset:

Reposting now that I actually have some followers on here

happy for yall

The homie Conan

Some people get a cake or a pie for their birthday. Andy Windsor got arrested www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

And now for something completely different.

I love Polish

Every AI company

Ciri HD on ptreon

Book#19 Future Mumbai under the mesh, gods mixing with tech, and one very pragmatic inspector trying to deal with things getting bigger and stranger very fast. Dares to be different without explaining everything. 💙📚🪐 #FantasyFaction #SFFbookRecommenfation

Also, it’s not an error, it’s a bias. They just “turned it up” too high and so they got caught too quick. If an “error” is only happening to a certain group of people then it is a targeted bias.

February trading card day 18. #spidergwen #ghostspider #tradingcards