who’s asking?

I cannot wait for y'all to see the rest of this 👀

-is a spineless turncoat) and of course it's still about the White Male Protagonist who Gets the Girl, but it's still a snapshot of 2010s tech-wonder (with a commendable if insufficient dose of pessimism), for better or worse

also don't watch Ares lmao the trailer is a celebration of technofascism

can't speak for Tron (because I haven't watched it), but grew up on Tron: Legacy and it really did capture the wonder of technology and the dangers of escapism and passivity. also everyone in it is really fucking hot, GOD

it's dated in its own ways (ofc the gay ass nightclub owner-

I apologize but I have a silly request. Could I sell 2 art books? Im attempting to leave the house by going to st augustine with mom and I'd love to get some jerky and popcorn. It's not a necessity, I will survive without them! But it's tradition to get them there. Thank you!

"Not to beg... BUT" "My household is $1000 from losing our place to live. My part time job cut my hours to only 7hrs a week. My art is cheap but my queue is overwhelmed. There is an 8 month old baby in my household. We are anxious on our future. If you don't mind a long wait.... I can be paid to: -Draw Something -Voice Something -Make Refs / S*x Work Customs DM for Info. Deadline 10/15 Graphic on the side of a girl with bangs covering her face. says "Need work to live" above her head

If you need an artist, a voice, or a body ref/custom content: I am available and need major help making ends meet.

Inquire only if you have the means to do so.
Boosts are always helpful everyday, all day.

TYSM in advance
#mutualaid #artistforhire #artist #commission #comms

why does autocorrect correct Criticised to Criticiseed...

(also suppose it should be dice.camp/@warblade .) not a particularly compelling instance though, I wonder if there are better TTRPG ones...

a labeller shutting down because The Mods Must Not be Criticiseed is really bsky's death knell I think. it won't die, certainly, but it'll probably speedrun into modern Tumblr at best

time to take the move to Mastodon seriously. currently @warblade@dice.camp, may hop instances again...

I would love for there to be *one day* wherein there is not an enormous shitshow around Bluesky staff and their orbits

can there not just be A Website That Is Normal

wild to find out that the labeller is being shut down because someone noticed something that 1) is public info 2) isn't highlighted by the labeller regardless

timing is particularly unpleasant, 'compostable moderation' falling apart just as bsky imposes its draconian new guidelines

Skeletal knight before a wall of spirits

#daily 33: dual topics – spirits | skeletal knight

you follow one starter pack and you follow another starter pack and you follow a cool artist who does art shares and suddenly you're at 2.7k follows

bluesky: community moderation! we're all about community moderation! we want you to moderate yourselves! we are giving you the tools to do it yourself!

one of the biggest and longest running community mod lists:

racism in the trans community is extremely real and extremely dangerous.

unfortunately, a lot of white trans people haven't done the work to be anti-racist and don't notice how they mistreat and dehumanize Black and brown trans women.

you gotta put the work in. bring POC into your social circles.

anyway please read my extremely queer Portland magical girl novel. it's chock full o' lesbians, both trans and cis (plus a really cool bisexual), and a lot of very gay emotions about women loving women

and there's a sequel coming your way very soon with even *more* gay shit in it

Things Blusky moderation is worried about:

Paypros are still throwing their weight around. Now's a good time to pick up yelling at them again!

whenever you see a post like "it is impossible to have a reasonable discussion on this web site, the hateful masses only want to destroy" on the timeline, you know it's because they said something so atomically stupid even their parents logged on to flame their bullshit

Perfect blue
#ffxiv #ffxivart

tonight's AI discourse lightning round:

1. LLMs are not people and do not have rights; many real people's rights are being violated in the development and deployment of LLMs

2. if you're really attached to using fake slurs for robots you might want to examine why that is

Pictured here is a young woman laid up at the headboard of a bed, nestled amongst cushions in a pale blue and brown striped bra and skirt stylized after the 18th century stay. Her name is Arora Hagen, a character in the unpublished story entitled Riptide (by myself and Dottea). Little pink ribbons tie her stay together and another of orange is fastening his wrist to the rungs on the headboard. She looked excited. Anticipation high as she is left to cradle a red candle in her bound hand, fingernails of robins egg blue framing the illuminated candle as it drips gradually upon her shoulder. Not pictured, there is a speech bubble that reads "good girl". She is a good girl :3

#kinktober - Wax

#riptidecomic #ocsky #oc #pinup #waxplay

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Digital Illustration of a golden eagle with glowing green eyes tearing apart at a glitching corruption resembling a prey's flesh.

TEARING OUT THE CORRUPTION

My take on “anti-AI bigotry” is that

1) coded bigotry against actual people, “aimed at” fictional/nonexistent personae as a plausible mask over the actual target, is a real thing that happens, and you could use basically anything as the mask if you were so inclined

2) “anti-AI bigotry” isn’t real

Legendary Trans Activist Miss Major Has Been Hospitalized With Sepsis. Here’s How to Help She was also diagnosed with a blood clot.

Legendary Trans Activist Miss Major Has Been Hospitalized With Sepsis. Here’s How to Help

had to look in the quotes to figure out y'all are seeing a lot of TikTok racism cosplaying as Luddism

with context, yes. I love that we're caught between the AI-hype dogwhistles (do bits have feelings) and the racism-by-robot-allegory dogwhistles (a segregation sketch, really?). can we be normal

In this fascist times with people being put in concentration camps, fascism winning in many countries, bigotry being blatant : anyone talking about “anti ai bigotry“ while their profile is not WILDLY militant about basically every bigotry ?
I’m just assuming is a fascist dogwhistle & blocking.

"Hey doll, you're living in a slaughterhouse"