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A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Holding a lot of power over someone and offering them the choice of No job or Job and we pay you a bit less because we will clone your voice (to pay you less), isn’t exactly the definition of gaining consent.

"Doesn't he have anything better to do than talk about trans people?" is the funniest fucking reaction Singal could have had

In 2018 Jesse Singal's story about how scary it is that trans kids exist dominated the front page of the Atlantic while stories about the lethal effects of white supremacy and our lack of pandemic preparedness sat up in the corner.

Andy Richter tweet "Look at those pussy nerds dressing in costume to see Star Wars" - guy wearing his fave NFL team's jersey to sit in a bar & watch a game

Happy 10th anniversary, @andyrichter.co

ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water

A trans woman, forced to compete against men, swims topless in protest Anne Isabella Coombes stood up to Swim England's gender policies in an innovative way.

Mostly seeing it in the UK these days, here's a recent example - not seeing too many specific uses of "free the nipple" as a specific phrase, moreso toplessness as a deliberate political statement.
www.out.com/gay-athletes...

Screen shot of Garfield smiling and pointing at a projector screen. Text has been added to the screen reading All engagement is good engagement for the companies that profit from it and that includes hate-watching, quote-dunking, and ironic use and circulation of generative AI.

Whoa he’s right

Thread:

“Women don’t belong in the workplace” is a delusion of the nineteenth century, and particularly of the upper classes.

In preindustrial Europe, the home was commonly the workplace, and everyone worked. Until very recently, the workplace has always been everyone’s.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Nothing means anything. He has infinite money and demands more. He’s like Smaug but deeply unsexy.

the cards bouncing all over the place after winning solitaire

this must've been so annoying before computers

the collapse is coming. the infinite tech money loop might be ending soon

Thread ..

watercolor paintings of a shark holding a rose out to a second shark who is blushing and surrounded by anime roses

Two little sharks in love!

I started with the green shark offering the rose to their sweetheart, then decided what the heck let's add the sweetheart

#watercolor #art #sharks

I wrote about the Blue Jays, and how I'm grateful to have been open to the possibility of something hurting this much, because it means I was ready for the joy, too. ruheedewji.com/2025/11/06/f...

Everyone, write. Call. And, sure, post. This was me expressing frustration—I doubt Patty’s people even monitor pings here.

Guys Want Money

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

An illustration of a snowy clearing lined with snowy pine trees. In the sky above is the green and pink aurora borealis, and in the foreground are two anthropomorphic lynxes in formline style. They are both sitting, and one's paw is raised towards the northern lights.

Formline commission for @tealo.bsky.social of their and @patches-the-lynx.bsky.social's character!! Thank you so much for your patience and for commissioning me!! ❄️🫧

#formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

A screenshot of a Reddit post of a Bloomberg article. The post is titled "A new cohort is racing to build colossal monuments celebrating Western power" and the article is titled "America's tech right is obsessed with building giant statues".

In CK3 there's an event you can get when you reach Stress Level 3 where you freak out and demand that a bunch of massive statues be made to earn you respect and celebrate your power

It costs massive amounts of money, the statues are ugly and only half-finished, and you lose prestige because of it

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

I don't use spotify to begin with tbh, but if you do: #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/Vq8ckJ0A

A digital ink drawing of a smiling raven sitting a top a neglected gravestone that reads, "Piss on their grave." On the grave is an hourglass with wings, with a wet pee stain running down the surface of the stone.

Just a little vent art.
#pissontheirgraves #art

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