Crawling Chaos

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

no! NO!!

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

ari aster thinks he’s Andrzej Żuławski; Andrzej Żuławski thinks he’s dario argento; dario argento thinks he’s the hamburglar

getting sucked into silent hill but the greatest pain at the center of my psyche is not ordering french fries at lunch so the whole thing starts to become very potato-focused

Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old African American girl and on of the Little Rock Nine, calmly walks to Little Rock Central High School, surrounded by a crowd of jeering white people.

68 years ago, the Little Rock Nine—facing angry mobs of classmates and neighbors—stood strong with the 101st Airborne Division and integrated Central High. Their bravery and perseverance serve as a guide for us all as we continue to fight discrimination and hate in all forms.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

[WALTON GOGGINS as VEGETA]: kakarot

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"

(via @Variety)

Pen drawing of a stylized, thin, feminine figure with a face that is just a black void with three white orbs sitting cross-legged in tattered black gown floating under an arch surrounded by runes and vegetation. They are floating amoung ruins flanked by a winged figures with bodies made of starry sky with smaller beings with animal skull type heads in black robes in the foreground of the floating figure. The wings of the crouching figures are in front of organiseh-yellow portals in the blue and purple sky while a feline humanoid figure slinks in from the right in the foreground.

Pen drawing with the main element being a serpentine figure with vaguely feminine human features and a spiral shell like structure on the head, leaning from the right with large black eyes and a body covered with various bony growths like armor down it's back, kneeling on an uneven stone floor. One arm with a couple of large claws is slightly pointed at another figure is visible just below a large obsidian stylized skull pendant. The other figure is standing, holding a flowing robe at the waist, but has a smooth stone face but is otherwise human. In the background, lounging on the ground or on a pillar amount he strange organic shapes while in the background are stone structures that appear to be a temple like complex with a large circular structure that looks to be plugged into the large stylized skulls below it.

Pen drawing a slight framed young woman with her head encased in a metal face mask with strange markings on it with greasy hair spread out over it with devices and wires coming off the helmet. Her arms are bound to her sides by a metal band as she sits cross-legged in a long, old and tattered white dress that flows over her legs. She is separate but a part of the strange devices and technologies surrounding her with two spines emerging from her shoulders almost like distorted wings, seeming to be more of the controlled than the controller of the environment.

Pen drawing of a large smooth face feminine face that is embedded in a mix of high and industrial age technologies under a hood. The pipes and wires span across the background flowing into columns of stone and into a grant grimdark staircase and cathedral like stone shrines.

Big congrats Silvi 🥂😎🥂

I'm just a Dan with pens, paper, some extra time in a day, not much of a life and a spring of inspiration from a stranger corners of the universe

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A picture of Snoopy wearing Charlie Brown's face as a mask.

It's the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Charlie Brown

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

Hades 2 fanart showing Melinoe, looking fierce, holding her blades, with her headmistress Hecate standing behind her as a protective figure

Hecate & Melinoe 💜💚

(a repost to celebrate Hades 2 final release)

Explorers We
2021

Every Apple event

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Morris Hirshfield, Angora Cat, 1937-39 (dated on painting 1937) #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135678

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]

Video shows a blanket knitted by Irish activists as a tribute to Palestinian children killed in Gaza.

Each square of the blanket represents 10 of the nearly 19,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the besieged enclave.

I just posted another one. Hahahah I was sapphically inspired today

This is basically an American version of the Al Qaeda monkey bars videos.

"The Eye"
Illustration I did for the cover of Augur Magazine✨️

Yeah and it was fuckin awesome.

Super Mario Sunshine