Void Cat

Reminder:

You will focus on what you can control and release the rest.

Your fear is understandable, but constantly worrying about the worst-case scenario isnt helpful.

You will try to be kind and gentle with yourself.

I'm proud of you

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

it’s pretty funny to make a world where everything is based on computer. and then fuck that part up specifically

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

"It builds character!"
No, it builds scar tissue. Suffering trauma isn't noble.

A screenshot of an unsent Bluesky post, showing an image and the alt-text prompt.

As to how to add alt text, when you add an image, on the upper left corner there's a small box that says "+ALT". Click there, and you'll be taken to a window where you can add text. Also, in Settings, Accessibility, there's a toggle that will remind you to add alt text before posting.

Here's a good resource for alt text! bsky.app/profile/a11y... A good tip I've also heard is to describe the image like you're trying to get the point across to a friend over the phone. Something like "a b&w photo of a muscular man posing in front of X background, wearing nothing but a strap".

You share wonderful photos! Would you consider adding alt text to the images so they can be more widely shared here on BSky? Thank you!

A dark, dull night—the world is a slate-green color. A figure wearing a hat and coat stands over a perfectly round, cylindrical hole in the ground, illuminated only by the yellow glow of a lantern. A ladder protrudes from the hole. In the immediate background is the blurry suggestion of bushes; in the far background loom two tall cooling towers reminiscent of a nuclear power plant. The towers have small, glowing red lights on them. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

#notesArt

Mt. Fuji Landscape Kimono by Itchiku Kubota This extraordinary kimono is a masterpiece by the celebrated artist Itchiku Kubota, who revitalized the lost 16th-century tsujigahana dyeing technique. The garment serves as a panoramic canvas, depicting a monumental view of Mt. Fuji. The snow-capped peak is rendered in brilliant gold and pale yellow at the top, transitioning into lush greens and deep forest teals along the mountain's slopes. Below the mountain, the landscape transforms into a vibrant, ethereal sea of clouds and foothills bathed in a sunset palette of violet, fiery orange, and deep indigo. The entire piece is characterized by its rich, crinkled texture and complex tie-dyeing, which creates a "shimmering," almost holographic effect across the silk.

This extraordinary kimono is a masterpiece by the celebrated artist Itchiku Kubota, who revitalized the lost 16th-century tsujigahana dyeing technique. The garment serves as a panoramic canvas, depicting a monumental view of Mt. Fuji.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting in the car, with Blue driving. Both of them look equally annoyed and displeased. Blue: Finally, a chance to pass this brainfree highway hero who almost made us crash. Green: Requesting permission to glare in judgement? Blue: Granted. As Blue passes the other car, Green sticks his head out of the window, maintaining a firm, uninterrupted angry glare towards the other driver, who begins to look anxious as they somehow sense Green's immense dismay aimed at their general direction.

Yeah I'm into BDSM. If you mean the Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats

Physicists sent a stream of electrons down a “de Laval” nozzle — a sleek shape that rocket engines use to accelerate their exhaust. A shock wave appeared — a surefire sign that electrons were flowing like a fluid. www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-m...

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…

“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”

Way to devalue my experience.

If you walk into a man’s apartment and you don’t see ANY books, pick up your pussy and LEAVE!!! Go back outside!!!

Being an adult is cool because you’re exhausted all the time but you also get the satisfaction of not really accomplishing anything

Just saw @ovaettr.gay say “shut the fuck up prompter” to an AI asshole and oh my god the absolute perfect new moniker for people who claim to be creatives that are making nothing.

The thread really highlights for me that there are definitely gacha game dopamine hit dynamics going on here.

"I want to see what surprise loot I get from my over-hyped advanced predictive text algorithm and optimize it so I get better predictive text loot next time!"

Digital painting of a fairy with giant blue morpho butterfly wings and a faint halo, holding a lantern that attracts butterflies.

Digital painting of a deer centaur. He has long snow white hair that drapes over his chest, goatee, and a pair of velvety black antlers with a blue-ish sheen. His centaur body is of a black stag with a white belly. and white spots sprayed across its back. On its back is also a pair of medium sized butterfly wings with blue markings and coloration. He is wielding a staff that's seemingly made of gnarled organic material, perhaps wood, and on its end is a pair of reptilian hands, holding a white crystal ball. There is a flurry of black and blue butterflies swirling around him.

Digital painting of a centaur with unicorn horn on his forehead, and big butterfly wings. He has elegant hair and tail that is flowing in the wind.

fairies 🦋

Painting of a red-headed woman and a black dress something yellow chair and a dark room there appears to be a polar bear rug then let her feet she's giving us a surly and decadent look . To me she looks vest like a junkie than a generic decadent like the painter is trying to show us an image of fashionable depravity but without having spent much time with such unfortunate people

La Morphinomane — Vittorio Matteo Corcos, ca. 1900

it’s hot if you alt text your art

teenage coyote with a grayish head and light auburn muzzle with black nose looking right at the camera. Nice perky ears.

last year at powell butte, i got my best coyote photo of all time

I know it comes from 'Verified', but this time I read 'Jerrified' as "terrified (by Jerry)".

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Early stage dystopia is a slog

Meteorological (mists, clouds, wind, rain, storm, tempest, smoke, darkness, shadows, gloom). Topographical (impenetrable forests, inaccessible mountains, chasms, gorges, deserts, blasted heaths, icefields, the boundless ocean). Architectural (towers, prisons, castles covered in gargoyles and crenellations, abbeys and priories, tombs, crypts, dungeons, ruins, graveyards, mazes, secret passages, locked doors). Material (masks, veils, disguises, billowing curtains, suits of armour, tapestries). Textual (riddles, rumours, folklore, unreadable manuscripts and inscriptions, ellipses, broken texts, fragments, clotted language, polysyllabism, obscure dialect, inserted narratives, stories-within-stories). Spiritual (religious mystery, allegory and symbolism, Roman Catholic ritual, mysticism, freemasonry, magic and the occult, Satanism, witchcraft, summonings, damnation). Psychological (dreams, visions, hallucinations, drugs, sleep-walking, madness, split personalities, mistaken identities, doubles, derangement, ghostly presences, forgetfulness, death, hauntings).

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

the little homunculus has since become her crucial assistant

Whether you're the moss covered forest horror, or the townsfolk running from the moss covered forest horror, I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.
Carry on.