BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

TMI cold stuff / / me @ the phlegm at the back of my throat that I can FEEL that I KNOW is causing my coughing fits that just is not getting coughed out

been sick a week, everythin hurts, can't draw, saved over a slot in a game losing at least 40 hours of 100%ing, can't go home for Thanksgiving, weather sucks, it's close to a time of year w/ bad associations for me personally- hey can everything just chill for two seconds??? 8^)

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Oh dear, and every single question is a 1000 character textbox... Time to break out the thesaurus and english-french dictionary for maximum variations on the words "stop" "Don't" and "no"

Oh yeah uhhh hey all! I've been pretty bad about posting here lately. Part of that was busy busy / forgetting but another part of that was seeing things about how the site is being run/moderated and uhhhh man can we just have a normal social media site for five minutes <:')

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

EXTRA LIFE 2025 IS LIVE! Your donations to our children’s hospital forces us to play anything from the N64, GCN, Wii, or Wii U libraries. Or put your donations toward the roulette to let chaos unfold! (Spread the word!) 🔴 twitch.tv/stephengeorg

I watch this guy's newer stuff but he has some older videos on wrist mobility and strengthening. The first video is pretty short! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvPk... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AEJ... (this one is longer and more in-depth, but goes over additional flexion patterns)

September's comics continue with Mario Party 3! Here's the thread for this month for its comics starting wiiiith I accidentally misread "Millennium" as "Millennial" once and it was too good a mental image to not bring to life #MarioParty3

Hilarious. My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you. What you do with this information is between you and God.

Make a ruckus people, they are trying to saturate people to exhaust us, but we can't relent. Now it's to "Fight against additive feeds" But we know damn well this is just the excuse for censorious movements. Do not let this pass without political cost.

A couple of people in the comments section on ProZD Plays have said Yutaro Namigaki is like a Yu Gi Oh character😆, so I sketched this. SungWon also voices him perfectly. #art #Paranormasight #ProZDPlaysGames

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

UPDATE: Some people allegedly looked into the actual ToS for the paypros and the "Fantasy" part seems to be missing, so the statement might be a thing from this particular company despite what they told the original poster. I'm waiting to see some more sleuthing, but please take that into account.

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

Now that No Light has had some time in the pinned spotlight, I'll be making my September comic thread! If you haven't read No Light yet, here it is (HEAVY XB3 SPOILERS): bsky.app/profile/sono... Rest of the comics to come! A bunch will have SPOILERS!

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Nelvana, one of Canada’s most biggest animation studios has reportedly shut down after 54 years. (1974-2025). Workers are saying the studio has closed down its doors last Friday.

Big enough spoilers for today's post I'm gonna make a buffer one XENOBLADE CHRONICLES 3 SPOILERS in the posts below this!!

Today's comic for XB3 is a comic paired with a lyrical song Song: youtu.be/29XGlYUlqfA Please heed the warning: this moment of the game is excellent in my opinion and should be experienced the way it was intended. #XenobladeChronicles3

I have been laughing at this joke all day. 🦉

this survey took less than two minutes yes, it's inane. do it anyway

worth knowing about Visa. Try explicitly asking for complaint numbers if you can!

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

Discounted prices until September! For examples please visit my sites: colorgeist.carrd.co youtu.be/-RLEEcN9adU?...

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

"For selected products only, there's Mastercard."

The Pokémon cast wants to help raise funds for Mike McFarland’s recovery. For every $10 you donate at www.gofundme.com/f/support-mike-mcfarlands-road-to-recovery Aug 18-25 you will get 1 entry to win this comic signed by 16 originalvoice actors. Fwd your email receipt to [email protected]

#MutualAid Howdy folks. I need help - I live in an abusive household. The amount of money being owed every month doesn't allow myself to save and leave. I feel constantly unsafe. I'm saving up for a car for transportation/apartment fees to get out. Shares and likes go a long way. Thank you.

lrt took the survey and very much let them know in the comment boxes how disappointed and betrayed I am at their seeming pro-AI stance I def encourage anyone with a Patreon account to do the same

It really is up to all of us little guys to stand up against AI generated slop. Support performative works. Support fan artists and cover artists. Support the artists that are putting their full heart into their work.

lrt I'm definitely going to look into trying to see what alternatives there are to Patreon ( =-=) bc I get the feeling they're going to do AI regardless to the backlash regardless lmao so I ain't sticking around for that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just did this survey. They want to start incorporating AI, and they’re trying to “just ask questions” their way into it. I hate this.

Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

lrt I'm gonna SCREAM I feel like that Shrek meme "could we not force AI shit into ppl's lives for 5 MINUTES?!" 8^)

I don't know if it's being sent at random, but I got an email survey from Patreon. And I never miss an opportunity to yell. It's all about AI. They very much want to use AI. They very much want to use your art to train AI. They could not broadcast more clearly how much they want a piece of that AI

I'm opening up full body sketches/emotes/stickers again! Because of being out more two weeks from work & ended up going to urgent care, I don't have enough money for my rent this month. So if anyone wants a commission that'd be rad! Or if you wanna just donate: ko-fi.com/lonelydays17 Thanks~!

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

If anyone ever asks you if this game is worth it, show them this clip.

VISA CAN'T HANG UP ON YOU UNTIL YOU STOP TALKING. YAPPERS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE. Talk in circles! Loop back to the same points! Take a minute to "remember" a word! Your goal isn't to change their minds, it's to keep talking for as long as possible to waste their money and clog call centers.

Happy 25th Anniversary, Paper Mario !

Horrified that they have to face consequences for their theft? You bet! "If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"

Reminder, Twitch (and other platforms) don't allow creators to control what ads are run on their streams, videos/VODs, podcasts, etc. PLEASE don't instantly assume we want this. We're very likely just as pissed off (if not more) than you are about this. Help us yell at the platform instead.