the first time i flew to the US in 2007 I took a bottle of aftershave my wife had bought my for xmas. a border guy at LAX took it out of my bag, looked at it and just straight pocketed it. extrapolating that out into what ICE are gonna do is like a line going straight to hell

You know what tho

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

so uh. this is literal fascist behavior lol

Remember that with this administration you're probably going to get more traction if you couch it in terms like "I don't want big government deciding what I can spend my money on!" and "my First Amendment rights!" and "it's against the free market for banks to do this."

Contact your fucking MP. Now.

Keep saying "slop" in reference to AI. At every opportunity. The techbros are listening, and this word makes them so sad on the inside that they'll hoist themselves on their own Streisand Effect petard.

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this page on drawing FISTS by the talented @miyuliart! That BREAK in the PATTERN achieved by pushing the INDEX FINGER out of ALIGNMENT adds SO MUCH! #anime #manga #drawing #2danimation #characterdesign #visdev #comicart

Something I didn't realise until I tried using FB and Instagram adverts: Content is very much a term that has migrated over from the Marketing space. When you refer to your work as "content", what you're doing is referring to your work - your art, your story, your creativity - as little more than

A collection of bills are heading to the House for markup this thursday Demand your representatives -oppose KOSA -oppose the App Store Accountability Act -oppose The SCREEN Act -oppose section 230 reform/sunsetting -oppose/repeal online age verification and ID laws punchbowl.news/article/tech...

trans women are women ! #mlp #trans

Our Anti-Censorship Comix Anthology is live today! Check out this collection of protest comics centering taboo topics. Available online or as a downloadable PDF. Co-op Members are invited to our launch party tonight at 5 PM ET! VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. cartoonist.coop/acj2026

It’s an ICE staging center that told its queer and Black customers to go fuck themselves.

the bad news is that the only real way you find out whether or not you can trust someone is to treat them as if you already trust them and risk getting hurt, because some people will betray that trust. the good news is that if you keep trying, you will find a lot of love and it will be worth it all

If you want a comic by a black creator trying to make headway out in the world, you can do no better than to support Lorenzo who is out here doing his best to tell good tales and put them out into the world. A good man who does good work 👍🏾

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

I think too many people are too comfortable with demanding that others monitor and cater to their own discomfort. Your unhealed trauma and personal discomfort, especially regarding others' bodies, is for you to sit with and unpack, not for others to censor themselves and their own personhoods for.

so as it turns out AI has ruined preservation too because guess what all of those servers need that's unaffordable now that's right, storage!

We went in another direction. And we've got plenty of company. 🎨 @hearthfox.bsky.social

Poses of the best pretty fluffy boy💖✨️ - #silverthehedgehog #sonicartist #fanart #hiremesegalmaooo

Sorry Discord, Rocko said I shouldn't.

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Q-Workshop, known for their dice products, has released 17 Harry Potter products seemingly overnight and no prior announcement DO NOT PURCHASE PRODUCTS FROM Q-WORKSHOP Don’t support those who support megalomaniac transphobes by any means necessary 🎲✂️

I wish I could put my sonadow drawings in my portfolio... They heal my soul... sometimes. I saw @prismaticfangz.bsky.social 's DTIYS, I was like... why not? #shadonic #sonadow

Chapter 2 of "The Burn of Stardust" Pirate Shadow x Fallen Star Sonic. archiveofourown.org/works/790376... Shadow’s wish came true 🌟 #Sonadownsfw ##Shadonicnsfw

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

Booooo... don't settle for sad candy. 🥜🍫 Make your own! Even if they look messy, they'll taste like a masterpiece. These have crushed peanut brittle and bourbon, but you can swap in chopped roasted peanuts or skip it if you want a smooth peanut butter cup, and skip the booze if you don't imbibe! 🍽️

Hey so this is important. Amazon is removing ALL erotica and new queer books from its Amazon associates program, which seems to be a first step towards delisting these books a la itchio. This includes my book, your books, and the books you like to buy. This is bad news, and we can expect worse

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

"X has its problems, but" It's run by a white supremacist who sent college kids to steal all our personal data when Trump took office and now he's building a child porn machine and his platform is nothing but Nazis and pedos. Nick here works for the WSJ. Curious indeed.

This happens after Elon Musk and his DOGE scam stole the entire Social Security database. Just a coincidence I’m sure.

They can try to suppress historical fact and waste our money on it, but they will never succeed in erasing us.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Love (and cum) is in the air💕 little practice to test some things in clip

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Big Tech's claims that AI can help fix the climate crisis are "greenwashing"

You gotta be vocal about it

i know if they ever release a native linux client for clip studio paint like 80% of the artists i know are going to leave windows immediately

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

Common misconception: "The midterms are not until November" No no no, the midterms are RIGHT NOW and continue until November.

1/3 Anointing is when hedgehogs find a smell they like, lick it & create a saliva foam and cover their spines with it. Scientists dont 100% understand it but it might have a role in removing parasites, mating behavior or something to do with predators. Its my AU so now mobians do it too (read below)

A lot of you need to learn the difference between "I'm not interested in this story" and "no human being could possibly want to create or read/watch this story and its existence is a personal insult against me."

Gang. GANG. LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS. STOP USING THEM.

This year's spending was hiring and spinning up real estate, the next fiscal will be about building out capacity and expanding the scope of operations, would be my assumption

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

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you know, if 'grow a thicker skin' is just a lesson creators have to learn, I feel like the opposite, learn to be kinder, should be just as important for the other side :)