A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Tumblr is down right when I woke up and I had to immediately check the news to see if it happened

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

You should be ✨actively✨ quitting Twitter, not just pausing your posts. Here’s what I wrote about leaving X/Twitter in November 2024, as an artist, power user, Community manager and communicator:

So true. 😂

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government

*whining like a dog denied chocolate*

AI has so quickly sucked the joy out of everything I encounter online. I completely resent it, and it’s going to make everyone stupid and drain our lives of art and beautiful things

I do not use Windows but if you do, here's how to make your computer better

Love this so much. 💜

grinned broadly thru the opening sequence of Predator: Badlands, where they just introduce a bunch of cool props and creatures on a videogame planet. then the next 90 mins consists of EVEN MORE props and creatures, concluding with a predator makeover. dan trachtenberg has cracked the code.

Life is short. Watch Sam Neill in a comfy cardigan

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Finally watched Le Vourdalak thanks to @gavia.bsky.social's overinvested podcast and holy shit. I knew there would be a puppet, I wasn't ready for what a difference having a physical carriable interactable Thing be the vampire over CGI or even a guy in prosthetics has on the narrative a week later

#BREAKING 🚨 Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani has been elected New York City mayor, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ Mamdani defeats Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa with around 51% of the vote, with 36% counted so far

omg congrats nyc

"They should have just made today a public holiday" chaser.com.au/general-news...

RADIO SILENCE??? THEY GOT *RADIO SILENCE* TO DO THE MUMMY REVIVAL?? DONE. IN. NO QUESTIONS.

There was a concerted effort to ensure no one was held accountable in any way for the Iraq War and torture. That’s the reason most young people don’t know who Cheney is.

The systematic dismantling of journalism as a profession by corporate interests is one of the most important political trends in the past couple of decades.

From down under, a remastered release of Acquisitions Incorporated: Pirate Borg! Thanks to @limithron.bsky.social and starring @ifycomedy.com , @robbotron.bsky.social , Violet Wilkin of Good Games Morley, @krisstraub.com , and @tychobrahe.bsky.social ! This Friday @ Noon on www.youtube.com/@acq...

Please read, comment and appreciate this fic and the new dent in my car it caused archiveofourown.org/works/69420461

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

Fact-checking should be legally required for all nonfiction books and publishers should pay for it

Another cuttlefish vessel in the works. Oh I just realized I forgot his siphon! Better add it.

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Imagine sucking so bad that millions of people take to the streets to say how much they hate you

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

First test of the v2.0 articulated core for a new tentacle strapon. Eventually the core will be covered with a silicone tentacle sheath. You see her coming at you with this; you dig it (Y/n)? #MadScience

Everyone should play tingus goose. And Huedini. And Chronosphere, pax Aus indie scene blowing it out of the water again

I think people who have never worked in moderation or community management on a large platform shouldn’t start or run them because they don’t get the fundamental rule: When you decide to host a party, you don’t get to enjoy the party the way that a guest does.

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Miss Ritchi, we meet again 💙 #Megamind #MegaRox #fanart

Doomerism is fed shit. Hope and action terrify them.

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Happy 50 years of decriminalising homosexuality south Australia! #queerrights

I'm so tired of this puritanical bullshit. Sex is healthy, sex fantasies are healthy, fiction is healthy. I wish people would stop conflating BDSM and fiction with assault. People have fantasies about power. That's normal! Exploring feeling via stories is what humans do!

the best part is how all the guinea pigs get to ride to work together in a wheelbarrow

Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE

Trans rignts are human rights. Gay rights are human rights. Women's rights are human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable. Once you decide a group doesn't deserve human rights and the protection of law, your own rights get put on the platter of "potentially disposable."

my inner 'muscular alien women' blood level was dropping

every right-winger calling for all-out war on "The Left," warning that political enemies are about to face their ultimate wrath, said the exact same shit in November and have been enacting that fantasy ever since. unclear why this language should frighten anyone more today