papashan always keeping it real

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

post heavensward is so funny. Aymeric: They think I did patricide! the wol: You kind of did. Estinien: You definitely did.

eating crispies sippin juice

AI Data centers are polluting Black and Brown neighborhoods, killing the environment, helping promote misinfo and graphic hate speech, deteriorating the entertainment industry AND destroying the economy, all simultaneously. We don’t need a White liberal solution, we need those centers gone. Period.

Even if I feel like this novel I’m writing isn’t going well or how I’d like it to be, at least I can say I didn’t use AI because I enjoy using my own fucking brain and imagination and thoughts and emotions.

So after this fucking AI bubble bursts, can y’all give proofreaders our jobs back, please?

this is incredible

Too bad for the ghosts haunting my apartment, you get to hear me yap about my OCs and typography and neurosis. I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.

A Snake Sculpture 6th-11th Century AD, from U Thong Thailand.

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

It’s my birthday today so if you need me I’ll be drinking coffee, writing, hugging my cat, eating ice cream, and being amazed I’ve lived this long. Not all at once, of course.

that student? herman melville

Frog House (Kamienica Pod Żabami) located in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Designed by architect Emanuel Rost junior and built in 1903. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Ho...

What the US is doing to Cuba is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a genocide as defined by the United Nations. www.un.org/en/genocide-...

Speaking of that AI poster debacle on the TL, if you want to place text on an image, just ask me. Seriously. I know how to use InDesign and I’ve classified friends’ OCs as fonts, AND I’ve designed ads that went to print. Fonts are beautiful and created by people, so don’t use AI.

Fuck the US.

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

My birthday is on Monday and honestly it’s a beautiful feeling to see my face with more wrinkles, pewter-colored strands in my hair, to know that I never expected to live past a young age and have done so and thrived. I’ll spend the day making art and giving back to others. ❤️

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Boycott Barnes and Noble. Loudly. Right fucking now. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Google docs is shoving more GenAI features in automatically to prompt you to have Gemini write for you. So a reminder that @ellipsus.com exists and has no GenAI features, and is proudly anti-GenAI. It's the author's online writing tool. www.theverge.com/tech/930108/...

I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.

catholic imagery of the horny variety

to create is to love

GREAT essay

Villanelle is a benevolent “let me tend your wounds” healer. Unfortunately, she messes up a few parts and accidentally kills the person instead.

The next college speaker that has praise for AI written into their prepared speech:

monday again is it

I will continue to call “mcdf” files “mcdonalds” files while images of fries float in my mind, conjured by memory. No I will not change. This is a promise.

We gotta normalize telling friends how much you appreciate them and care about them on the regular. I've been grieving the loss of multiple friends this year back to back. As tough as it's been the biggest learning lesson is just to do your best to reach out. ❤️

This is the money paragraph for me.

Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop

My heart breaks for Cuba and everything the fucking US has put them through.

A lot of y’all need diaries.

Seen in Logan Square

Kirby

i think to bluntly ask the quesiton 'WHY would anyone want to read this? why would i want to MAKE this? WHAT IS THE GIFT?' can be arresting. but it only triggers imposter syndrome if you conclude 'i must have no gift then'. WE ALL HAVE A GIFT TO GIVE. dont stop at 'oh i have no gift,' GO FIND IT

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Hi everyone, my dad was detained by ICE on Monday 5/11. I would very much appreciate it if you considered donating below to help support my family with legal fees as we fight to bring him home. Please share if you arent in a position to donate! 🙏❤️‍🩹 gofund.me/d2069ad17

We can be better. Now.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

And heavens know I'm miserable now 🎵 #art #cuteart #comic #cat

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

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