We’ve been freaking out about this over here. Not least because HOW they figured it out is so cool.

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

You need a society that can support the weirdo dirtbag lifestyle. The ability for people to live on a part-time job if necessary and still have time and resources to fuck around bsky.app/profile/troy...

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

That the first thing she cited is talent tells me all I need to know ANY.TYPE.OF.ART.IS.ROOTED.IN.PRACTICE Your choices are drawing it "badly" or using AI? THEN DRAW.IT.BADLY. Do it until you get better! It's proving me right when I wrote this mercureaartcom.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/a...

Absolutely. My favourite artists ‘cant draw’ but they have to and it shows much clearer than someone who is basically a photocopier with oil paints (no offence to those guys it just boring)

i think my favorite implication of "you can't do art if you're poor, AI helps it from being gatekept" is in their optimistic scenario, artists are a rare class of well paid laborers that they can't wait to impoverish by never paying again lol

You're framing it as if poor folks don't have the luxury of time to practice, or infantilizing them by suggesting they can't take criticism in the early stages of their growth as artists. And trying to frame AI as a tool for the disabled community ignores the fact that many artists are disabled.

A majority of artists are poor themselves, struggling to make ends meet through their medium, often as a form of supplemental income where capitalism has failed them. You're framing artists as "the privileged elite" when they're the very people you proclaim to speak for & defend in that thread.

It was the person in this screencap, AnnoyedGynoid. Essentially, she tried justifying use of AI while ignoring the fact that its operating needs negatively impact the poor communities she claimed benefited from it. Needless to say, she got schooled & deleted her account. bsky.app/profile/yrpa...

This pisses me off because I grew up poor, remained poor, drew during breaks at shit jobs, eventually became a Moderately Successful Illustrator and we basically get by. There isn’t enough borrowed therapy words to justify using genAi you just don’t fuckin have it in you to try harder

(which in my opinion is not ideal or the solution at all, but the other points of the law include that the owners of those platforms will be the ones charged/prosecuted/fined for the contents or manipulations of the algorithm to promote hate/fake content in those apps)

Finding the "Yeah, that's extreme wealth, rising in status, and that is wealth as well" extremely funny of Rigel + Alpheratz when I already "shine" with Regulus or whatever all ✨ Time you got me that wealth as well then I think; tyvm. I'm ready for my wealth-up, Mr DeMille. 😏

This isnt about jealousy or hating them. Its the system you should hate cause meritocracy is a lie

Insane logic… I wonder if the members of the Vatican will be burning in hell since they used astrologers in the Middle Ages to calculate the dates of religious holidays and they’re hoarding ancient astrology texts to this day

wild how many people dont get that the files are being released in a specific way for a specific end.

Ready to receive a love letter! 💌❣️ #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #valentinesday #cozy

I contain mountainous volumes of unfathomable existential anxiety & also whimsy

🐰 🎀 #art #bunny #oc

To a degree, yes. But the connections formed before the disaster impact how severe its impacts are on us, how we respond, and how we recover compared to other communities. We can't rely on the assumption that people come together alone. Lacking strong connections beforehand DOES hurt us.

I was just doing a bit of astro-nerding and I cannot find one example of Venus, Mars and the Sun together in this part of Capricorn, in such a tight conjunction… like, ever before?!

action, an unavoidable confrontation because there's no way around it, or, as you stated earlier, a tipping point We might still be dealing with material that came up during the Pluto Eris square. Which includes the Saturn Pluto conjunction

Pluto brings up dark, hidden stuff in power dynamics, in societies, from the collective unconscious, depends how you look at it. Eris, as I'm trying to understand Eris in Aries, fiercely calls out injustices, wrongdoings that have to be confronted. Pluto brings it to the surface, Eris is a call to

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less important point but just consider how many times this one clip has been viewed since last night (4 million on Instagram alone) and then contrast that with tech billionaires saying it’s “not profitable” to make these kinds of shows anymore. it quickly becomes very clear what’s really going on

i vant. , to suck. > .yout blood

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Honestly also had the 1st beats of the Eye of the Tiger spontaneously start playing in my mind after seeing that. Getting a letter about decisions always taking longer so not arrived yet, w/ mail every other day on top, or w/ever it is these days. WDY mean starting to think ♉ Uranus not suiting me?

matt "gimme a caaffee" damon is playing odysseyus and john leguizamo is playing eumaeus and that fine no the real problem is a black woman playing a demigod half swan born from an egg that fell out of her mother's twat

It might not be my FAVORITE, but it rules

Been on an early Matt Damon kick ... Wowza is Talented Mr. Ripley unbelievably good. If I'd seen it back when I didn't understand it or appreciate it at all.

Today planetary scientists announced they've discovered 128 more moons orbiting Saturn. Bringing its total to 274. Almost twice as many as those of all other planets combined. Here's a cartoon from some years back. When Saturn had only 27 moons! By Nick Seluk. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system." via @theguardian.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/03/12/a...

Finally got around to tweaking my settings so I don't get a notification when someone likes something I reposted. Way too noisy and I also don't need or want that. I only want to know when people reply to me or like a post I have made. Other stuff doesn't belong to me!

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

I know what movie you’re talking about. Anyone ever notice that the more manic and wild and (supposedly) funny a male protagonist is, the flatter and duller his love interest will be? (See also: Big Fish.)

Lights #oilpainting #art

Loved The Muppet Show revival on D+, even if the jokes could have been 10% more adult. Please watch so we can get a full season. Drops tomorrow! Watch!

Feeling very John Wick with this typo.

Revolving... Today's Uranus station to go direct fills us with a need for independence, freedom, and change. Mix it up, do your own thing - but remember that other folks will be doing their thing, too, so cooperation may be hard to come by. Keep an eye on changes in the collective.

Uranus is digging in to uproot all things stubbornly resistant to change after more than 8 years in stable, preserving ♉!

Mercury will be first to square Uranus, beginning to turn direct. Saturn is in the last degrees of ♓ in the buildup to the eclipse and Saturn Neptune conjunction. Uranus loathes anything stagnant, tension is building. Give the universe an opening by actively working on changes you want to happen

Expect clarity around values, shifts in earning or spending, deeper body awareness & bold moves you once hesitated to make. This is your green light to build a new kind of stability that is authentic, sustainable & aligned. Uranus rewards honesty. #Astrology #Astrosky

Individually, Uranus in Taurus has been rewriting our relationships with money, comfort, routine & pleasure. During its retrograde, we were asked to redefine stability & release what no longer fits. Now Uranus turns direct & insight becomes action. #Astrology #Astrosky

ALT.

He attended the Mamdani inauguration and libbed out a bit there