COMIC: What Artists Do

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Jesus Christ almighty. This is right out of Putin's playbook. This is Ukraine 2022, except we're Russia. Appalled is too mild a word. #venezuela

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

Say it again. SPEECH IS NOT SENTIENT. AI isn't sentient just because it can speak, and nonverbal disabled people are both sentient and sapient even if they can't speak.

This is such a minor thing, but I have to say, if you call yourself a historian of the Crusades and you can't even pronounce "Acre," I'm going to be giving you a LOT of side-eye. #history #medieval

I'm not going to mince words: most of this year sucked ass. I'm very grateful for the parts that didn't.

Woke up with burning pain in my left index finger knuckles, to the point I can barely touch it, but it's not swollen and I can move the finger. WTF, body.

It's been a good, if insane, Christmas. But having a good time with my family, and feeling loved, appreciated, and SEEN, always leaves me feeling so convoluted. "The only thing you ever had to do to make me happy was come home at the end of the day."

The good: I got a book I'd been wanting to read as a Christmas/late Chanukah present. It's about the deposition of the Shah in Iran. Me, a history nerd: Cool! The bad: Turns out it's a heavily slanted work clearly written for the eyes of the Queen-Empress, who is still with us. Sigh. #history

*to the tune of Kiss The Girl* 🎶 Fa la la la la la eat a dick 🎶

Who has two thumbs, is on a train, and is trying not to have a meltdown because I didn't get one of the single seats and now I'll have to sit next to someone else, which is profoundly upsetting because I'm fat and wind up touching their leg with mine the entire time? 👍

I could have written this. The metaphor I use is that I'm Japanese, born into that culture and speaking fluent Japanese, when I'm unceremoniously tossed into France, denied French lessons, and subject to every foreigners' prejudice about my culture, right or wrong.

Congress’s three favorite lines: 1. Sorry we can’t do anything, we’re in the minority 2. Sorry we can’t do anything, we need a supermajority 3. Sorry we can’t do anything, our party’s in the White House and we have to support the president

I go see my (still predominantly Protestant) family every year around Christmas time, and some years I've dreaded it. But this year, I noticed something different: I'm dreading the logistics of the trip, rather than the social interactions. The difference is subtle, but important.

I truly hate this time of year. Consumerism obsessed, pretending there's peace on earth, goodwill towards men, when it's a foul lie. It's all so fake.

"But we just hate Zionists!" 🙃 I don't know what's worse, the violence or the gaslighting. May the memory of those murdered be for a blessing. But that doesn't feel like enough to say, somehow.

If we have elections again, I automatically refuse to vote for anyone who talks about "trying to win Trump voters." I don't give one single shit about Trump voters. They're either lazy, ignorant, brainwashed, psychopathic, or all four. Why would you WANT to sell your soul for their votes!?

No shit we all have CPTSD. We've been violently depersonalized our whole lives, completely disconnected from who and what we are until we finally figure it out, and when we do and talk about it there's a chance some redditors will appear out of thin air to tell us we're delusional.

I know this is satire, but I feel it strongly. I've fought for too long to have one single shred of self-esteem. No one gets to steal it from me. #autistic

Goddamn. My KINGDOM (no pun intended) for a biography of Margaret d'Anjou without one single sexist microaggression. She didn't understand her people well enough to rule them, but if she'd been a man, no one would have ever called her "unnatural" or "greedy." Rrgh. #history

The band is apparently not good, something to do with NFTs, but this is still one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Al's always been a fuckin' mensch.

It's my sister's birthday, and in the family chat, my nephew just wished her happy birthday with AI. 🤦‍♂️

This is one of the reasons Judaism spoke to me so much. I was raised Presbyterian, but my mother's family is Jewish and it was like night and day. So much of Protestantism starts from the position of guilt and shame. Jews don't believe in original sin.

Nothing annoys me more than some smug foreigner. "I'm English and we have chairs older than your country!" You also have institutionalized transphobia, predatory media, and beans on toast; do you want a cookie?

My Spotify Wrapped was pretty respectable, but my hometown needs a damn talking to - apparently our top artist was Drake?! I know at this point alleged sex offenders seem like a dime a dozen in this timeline but maybe let's have some self respect, lol.

Trying to focus on other things than the world being on fire. Reading. I know that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was basically an ethnostate, but damn, do I wish we knew more about Queen Melisende, esp. compared to Empress Matilda. The tidbits we have are so interesting. #history #biography

I am so fucking sick and tired of every foreigner I encounter immediately being smug about the US. We aren't all the same, only about 34% of us voted for Trump, and some of us are learned in political science/history and can see the writing on the wall. And your shitty attitude makes it all worse.

Can I just say, the phrase "parents of autistic children" is kind of starting to piss me off? We grow up. I'm a grown woman. I'm not a child. Refer to me as such. In a situation where you're discussing autistic people as a whole, saying "parents of autistic PEOPLE" is so much more appropriate.

It’s not vaccines It’s not Tylenol It’s not circumcisions It’s not Tylenol It’s not vaccines & it’s also not a fucking problem to be eradicated! Autism is a natural way of being We don’t need a cure The only “cure” is love Unconditional Accommodation Acceptance Autism is not a problem to solve

Marjorie Taylor Greene is an antisemitic, unhinged, greedy, delusional piece of shit who protected predators until it bit her in the ass. I'm still glad she's resigning, because it will let her piss off Trump more - and while she isn't on our side, pissing Trump off is a good thing.

I hate how accurate this is. "Mild autism" doesn't mean it affects me mildly; it affects NTs mildly. But that's fine with them.

It's way too cold to get up. youtu.be/Yv6shy_9KVM?...

What kind of Kafkaesque fucking insanity. I'm so tired.

I'm autistic. A loud ass finance bro or other scary person can really fuck up my sense of equilibrium. Don't defend thoughtless assholes. Just put your damn headphones on.

I cannot stand people who put their Christmas tree up right after Halloween. 1) if you're American, there's another major holiday between then and Christmas; and 2) the Christmas season is really hard for a lot of us and while people can y'know, enjoy things, I hate feeling forced to join in.

Lmao. Whether real or bot, anyone in an army jacket is getting a swift block unless they're a loud progressive. Js.

youre asking chatgpt. im asking my discord full of autistic people that i keep in my back pocket. we are not the same.

"High-functioning” just means you hid it well enough to survive. It doesn’t mean life was easy. It doesn’t mean school made sense. And it definitely doesn’t mean you thrived. We’re only now finding the words for what we lived through. 6/7

I didn't know Alice, only interacted a few times online, but even when I disagreed with her views I respected her honesty and determination. This is such a shame to hear. May her memory be for a blessing.

At the doc for the shortness of breath that's bothered me lately. Trying not to worry by doing my best to remember the lyrics to #TheyMightBeGiants ' "Dinner Bell." Middling success so far.

I am going to call every one of them and tell them they are complicit in my potential homelessness. Without my medication, I can't work, and if I can't work, there is a real chance I'll end up in the streets.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Fuck my government. All of it. Burn it all down.

DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"

Playing #ClairObscur in short bursts (it's really good, but intense!). The more I play, though, the more I DESPERATELY want a québécois parody. 😂 Imagine Sciel or Verso shouting "TABARNAK!" every time they get hit.

My stepfather's brother passed away earlier this year (I still called him uncle). was a Catholic priest. He was a member of a missionary order, and in the 70s in Chile, he (according to family lore), came within a phone call of being "disappeared" under the Pinochet regime.

I grew up Presbyterian, but now consider myself Jewish (family history). While I have my issues with the Christian church, I understand that faith is the cornerstone of a lot of people's lives, for good or ill. This is evil.