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Tasneem's three children.

Gaza in ruins.

The situation on the ground for Gazans is horrific. They rely entirely on our direct donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her family and raise funds to escape Gaza and rebuild their lives. And find and help others if you can. ❤️

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Absolutely have to play Skyrim with mods if you enjoy using magic unfortunately... But god once you just add in the old magic from Oblivion it becomes so peak

Watching Mama Mia 2

#pokemonfanart

It's all "AI is the future" and "you can't get the genie back in the bottle" until the public don't like it and then it's "nooo this was handmade by real humans, it has a heart" and you try to fabricate a process that was never there.
My dudes, if AI was so great you wouldn't need to lie about it.

アマルルガ

I'm sorry I just don't like when grown adults make jokes about having sex with pokemon!! Like I get it, it's a popular meme with a popular pokemon but... That's it. You joked about fanciful beastiality. Congrats man, you've become disappointing and weird, hilarious

What do you think has been on Earth longer - sharks or trees?

You might think trees have been around for a long time, but sharks have been here even longer!

See how sharks have survived and thrived through all five of Earth’s mass extinction events in this week’s Surprising Science.

I have thousands of photos. Trace them. Mash them together like Frankenstein. Collage. Experiment with mixed media. This is why I make and share stock photos for artists. You can learn from what's REAL and make it YOUR OWN instead of having something done for you that isn't your own vision.

writing suicide note with the zohran sign maker

All my PVZ drawings so far!

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

8 panel comic P1: A title panel; borderless. We see a highly stylised --and decidedly grompy looking-- frog sitting atop a lily pad. The overly exuberant title above them reads "Hello! FREG!" P2: A close up on Freg, as their mouth opens slightly, a look of realisation on their face. The text reads: "Oh! Freg has something to say!" P3 & 4: Back to the POV form the first panel, as Freg gradually hinges open their jaw impossibly wide, almost 180 degrees. P4: We dolly back, as an absolute ream of text spews forth from the open mouth. "Jumping no longer elicits the feeling of sheer joy in me like it did, once upon a time. However, jump I MUST, because what else can I do? You ask my, why, then, would I continue to jump? Dear reader, you may as well ask me the same of breathing." "To not jump is to admit defeat. To give up entirely." P6: We switch to a dramatic low angle, with a fish lens effect, as Freg stares up at the sky, which is filled with cotton candy clouds. P7: Freg --saying "I must away"-- "jumps" off the pad. I say "jumps" because Freg looks like they are simply being dragged by a computer mouse into the air. P8: We end on a borderless panel, far back from the lily pad. The only sign Freg existed are a few ripples in the water around the pad.

hello! freg!

ah ok, love that our govt is so evil the courts have to play to make sure people will get fed asap -- except asap is not actually asap bc our evil govt doesn't want it to happen at all

A set of various photos of architectures with text overlaying them reading: Sambeawesome's Stock Photos, Buildings, Architecture, Cities

A set of various photos of different type and color blankets from the stock photo pack with text overlaying them reading: Sambeawesome's Stock Photos, Fabric Folds 1

A collage of three example photos, all of a human skull. The text reads: Sambeawesome's Stock Photos, Skull Pack

A set of various photos of hands in different poses with text overlaying them reading: Sambeawesome's Stock Photos, Hands #4 (Wild & Impractical)

With the rise of AI, it can be hard to find legitimate stock photos to use as references for your art. But us stock providers are still around! Use real photos taken by real people for real artists 😎

ko-fi.com/sambeawesome...

Share this post to help artists discover these resources! ❤️

Someone asked for the date and time of my lynching but I’m not supposed to talk about how conservatives have a white supremacy problem

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

Another obvious and important thing many authors neglect to do is provide alt text for their images.

Alt text makes images easier to search, understand, and makes them accessible for people who use screen readers.

Disabled people also read! And buy books!

Show us you care.

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it fully pay 42 million Americans' SNAP benefits for November.

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Trainer wearing a white blouse and black skirt standing next to mega absol, green background with sparkles

My ZA trainer and mega Absol

Does the Speaker of the House know what's going on in the country?

It's not clear that he does, as Mike Johnson's communication strategy seems to rely heavily on being unaware.

When faced with questions he should be able to answer, he has a reliable response: "I don't know."

bsky.app/profile/moth...

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

a stylized 3d render of the pokemon shuppet, duskull, and diglett in a graveyard

happy halloween...!