Seth “Machete” Demeter ✨ 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

The BDS movement is calling for people to pressure Microsoft with divestment and exclusion from contracts, whenever feasible. We also call for boycotting Microsoft’s gaming products, with the following options as tiers of engagement: Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription. Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft. Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

Hey guys. Don't ever give up. Take a break if you need to.. but get back up and keep going. I know you have it hard, I know things keep piling up.. But I believe in you. I know you will come out on top in the end if you just keep pushing forward.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

I think it needs to be pointed out as well that Visa is clearly losing money off these calls clogging their systems and still thought it was worth the money to re-train their employees/contractors. They're not scared enough to drop the issue altogether, people need to keep calling and snail-mailing.

“yeah that sucks. have you considered making entirely new art that *doesnt* make payment processors mad?”

From the bottom of my heart: no. I’m not going to waste my time tailoring my creativity and perspective and precious little energy to someone else’s definition of acceptability

haha this rules.

folks don't know that AIs scraping websites accounts for like half of all internet bandwidth usage right now. Sites get scraped- ie, all the contents downloaded- over and over again, destroying/wasting their bandwidth, often maxing it out. It's like being continually DDOS'd

I’ve spent my life fighting bullies. I still believe there’s hope for America | Robert Reich As a child, an activist, and secretary of labor, I’ve seen the harm bullies cause. Yet I can see what led to Trump’s ris

I’ve spent my life fighting bullies. I still believe there’s hope for America

My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/america-trump-bully-hope

All new Universal films will include a disclaimer in the credits that their films ‘may not be used to train AI’

They’re going to be more aggressive with suing companies using their movies to train AI

(via THR)

This is why physical records and items must always exist.

Anything digital can be altered or removed and you’ll be gaslit when you point it out

Unfriendly reminder:

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

Visa is now actively shutting down calls regarding their censorship and prohibition of the sale of legal product.

They clearly retrained their staff on how to deal with our calls. That doesn't happen unless there's critical mass.

KEEP IT UP. They are trying to turf the calls as fast as they can.

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

A white banned says FEED GAZA in front of a digital drawing of red poppies with black and white details and green leaves in front of a blue sky with clouds

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

Based on the webcomic of the same name, this spooky graphic novel mystery from the creator of Misfit Mansion follows a kid detective whose search for her missing father leads her into eerily enchanted woods full of strange, otherworldly creatures. Available to add to your shelves today ✨

#KidLit

A drawing of the main characters of Oddity Woods, a graphic novel

Oddity Woods is out TODAY!!! When I started working on this series 10+ years ago, I always dreamed of it being published. Hope you check it out!! 🥹

I’d say it doesn’t matter what country, economy, race or religion - don’t travel to the US right now. It’s an unsafe dumpster fire and it’s not worth the risk of being extorted or deported. Go visit our kinder and saner cousins up in Canada instead and get some tim bits

First 4 attacks/revenges for the #Artfight season! From left to right:

artfight.net/~DivineTwins
artfight.net/~bobcatdreams
artfight.net/~Flakes-Of-Ash
artfight.net/~maxdowt

Anyone up for more #artfight ?! Here's another batch of attacks made for:

artfight.net/~Hecatlene
artfight.net/~SunnyBunnyXIX
artfight.net/~Trashess
artfight.net/~astrochroma...

#illustration #TeamFossils #artfight2025

Extra, extra, read all about it! Another batch of #artfight attacks has been released.

artfight.net/~springpuff
artfight.net/~TaffyCatLuvr
artfight.net/~Miiyawa
artfight.net/~st4rryshy

#teamfossils #teamfossils2025
#illustration #ocart

WOA when did it become August?! Artfight season went by in a breeze. While I don't want to post all the attacks I did for the season, I am going to leave you with the mass attacks that finished up the season for me!

#artfight #artfight2025 #illustration #characterart

AND here is the last LAST mass attack artfight attack. Finished in the last 3 hours before the event was over. Anyone that was watching me on twitch saw the chaos.

#villainversed #illustration #ocart
#characterart #artfight #artfight2025

Image of a horned demon with fanciful jewelry and wings in the background with text overlaid which reads “artshare”.

🎉Art Share for 3k!🎉

Share some of your works below that you feel proud of, even if it’s just a WIP~🖤

✒️ Repost so that others can join
✒️ Engage with others!
✒️ Absolutely no A/I or N/F/T
✒️ Please keep it SFW
✒️ Utilize alt text!

#artshare #artistsupport

Remember! Use this to find and call your reps!

CALLING MATTERS!!!
www.congress.gov/members/find...

National parks are cool and worth protecting

Whenever I hear people use chatgpt, for simple tasks especially, a fairy loses its wings💔
It baffles me how people are so quick to literally shut off their brains and then wonder why they struggle when they're asked to form a thought.

on the left: angeles, holding a sunflower! on the right: gloria, holding lavender!

i’m not sure what to post on here first :v so take some protags i guess
#ocart #originalcharacter

YEAAAHHHHH SO FREAKING EXCITED, CONGRATS!!!!!!!

I mean I was already out of Tron: Ares when they hired a talentless rapist but using AI on top of that steaming pile of shit? I hope this movie bombs so hard it creates its own gravitational orbit

Happy birthday!!