Fermi Paradox Solution

The Sinfestification of JK Rowling.

if it seems like affirmative action for abusers, losers, and hacks who can’t compete on merit, that’s b/c it is

never ever ever ever ever EVER let anyone tell you that we can't afford expansive and universal public welfare programs ever again

a fraction of a fraction of the money burned on AI bullshit in just a single day could fund life-changing social welfare for millions of people. now imagine if we didn't accept a fraction of a fraction, but demanded the whole fucking pie.

that should be the compromise position.

Did you pray to our lord and savior Bob during the entirety of January as mandated by the non-existing Bob Book of Butt, Belly, Balls and Benis?

Trans rights is human rights and that’s that.

"Censorship is good, that way I won't have to see people making the icky stuff I don't like. Only my kinks are morally okay and sanitized."

It's because of people like you that we are where we are. You forget they are also coming for you, you're just too self centered and stupid to see it.

[ vore ]

fun fact this was the final time meow was drawn as a cat <3

It doesn't help now, today, but: these networks are functionally already irrelevant, and the billionaires will eventually be very angry when their tidy empire fails to drive culture in any meaningful sense, because of, well

this? It's the same thing that made Fox News into bullshit show for cranks.

sometimes i wanna draw
a thick foreskin, cuz it's cute

An orange robotic corgi girl brandishes her large equine penis at the viewer, while inviting them to celebrate the Year of the Horse. The Simplified Chinese character for "horse" is stamped above her crotch.

新年快乐 ! Happy Lunar New Year! 🧧

Looks like Freya needs a little help celebrating the Year of the Horse! Wanna give her a hand? 🐴

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They just want you to perfume the sewers. They need artists to bring perfume to the terrible stench of their death. It isn’t doing the artist any good. There is no place to go except to the struggle of the people today. — Meridel Le Sueur, “They Want You to Perfume the Sewers” (1988) i have a theorem rotating in my mind; perhaps you will agree with it, perhaps not. this theorem is roughly as follows: that high culture—the world of art mediated by the gallery, the curator, the art dealer, the buyer—is the antithesis, co-optation, and ultimate death of “furry art.” that to ever play on this terrain as a furry is (and would be) definitionally a capitulation to polite society, and an irreversible step toward the further class stratification of furry subculture. it is hard for me to explain why exactly i believe this, but i feel it is necessary to attempt such a thing given that the separation between furry art and my concocted definition of high culture is no longer complete. what i suspect is that the artistic qualia of furry art—its aura (as Walter Benjamin might put it) and the manner in which it acts a reflection of the unique, intrinsic qualities that constitute the furry subculture and our shared understanding of it—is wholly unable to survive contact with the social ideology of high culture. likewise the ‘outsider’ status of those who make such art. in being constituted high culture, furry art is separated and alienated from the very context which made it. the qualia are lost and so is the aura; the artists are brought from the ‘disrepute’ of outsiderness to the ‘respectability’ of the gallery-form. in this respect one might go so far as to say “furry art” elevated by, or created for, high culture is not really furry art at all, nor can it be.

maybe such an assertion is an overstatement. but i am reminded here of the words of László Moholy-Nagy, the ‘relentless experimental,’ that “No society can exist without expressing its ideas, and no culture and no ethics can survive without participation of the artist who cannot be bribed.”[1] in our life these words invite the question: in a subculture congealed through social stigmatization and radical (sexual) inclusion, would the inherent conservatism of high culture not act as the very mechanism of the bribery—the very thing that would rob furry artistry of its ability to authentically reflect the qualia and aura of the subculture? and the (monied) interests of high culture and its agents especially: how could these not politically and ideologically subvert furry artistry—preclude it from achieving a “secured existence” that is “uncompromising and incorruptible” as implored by Moholy-Nagy? indeed, we must recognize that high culture is definitionally the culture of the ruling class—an expression and extension of cultural hegemony. and what this high culture asks of its subjects, consciously or otherwise, is to ‘perfume the sewers’—to cover up each desiccating bit of the old with a gloss of the new.[2] the essence of high culture is amorphous, co-opting as necessary to maintain itself, cherry-picking from even the most culturally-challenging movements external to itself and rendering them agents of the very hegemony they wish to challenge. to be sure, we might concur with Walter Benjamin that “the [already] conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion”—furry is certainly met with recoil by many—but there is no innate quality of furry art, no level of aversion it can inspire, which prevents its co-optation when it and high culture meet.[3] for high culture is the mechanism through which the ‘truly new’ is stripped of its distinguishing qualia and rendered the conventional.

as Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter note, “The value of a good,”—and the degree to which it constitutes high culture—“comes from the sense of superiority associated with membership in the club, along with the recognition accorded by fellow members.” [see: Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed (2004), chapter 4] the question is this: can there be a sort of ‘long march through the institutions’ under which furry art can retain its qualia and aura, by which furry art can challenge the perfuming of the sewers, and through which it can ultimately contest cultural hegemony? i am inclined to think no, certainly not with the absence of politicization and organization that currently characterizes furry subculture. the conundrum of the furry artist and what ought be their relationship with the agents of high culture—gallerist and curator, art dealer and appraiser—is that, in the words of Kyle Chayka, “art becomes retail surprisingly quickly.” [see: Kyle Chayka, The Longing for Less (2020), chapter 2] that which challenges is seldom harder to convert into a commodity; and when art is not merely a product of one's labor but a commodity, class hierarchy and inequality are inexorably bound to follow. but perhaps this is the inevitable course of things in this subculture, so wrought already by the spectre of class division if only you know around which corners to look. [for note [1], see László Moholy-Nagy, Vision in motion (1947); for note [2] see Meridel Le Sueur, “They Want You to Perfume the Sewers” (1988); for note [3] see Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)]

on the tension of furry artistry and high culture; or, the trap of ‘high culture’ and the desert of the future.

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If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

alma wants something

"⚠️POINT OF NO RETURN⚠️" printed on a necklace nestled above some deep, deep cleavage

The police in the US have killed more people in 2026 alone than every single trans mass shooter in history

My sense is that these guys, who often talk about regular people as 'NPCs' imagine that by seizing control of media outlets they can *create* such an audience. After all, that's what they think the 'Cathedral' did in the other direction.

They can't imagine liberalism as an organic ideology.

It's not just Germany. Imposed identification as a member of an identity group classed as both lesser and a security threat is a strong predictor of genocide internationally. See Rwanda.

There are not many knowns in the social sciences, but we KNOW this one.

Please, Americans, make it stop.

Because many (most) trans people in Kansas aren't going to move, please also look for ways to support those staying and fighting the current regime there.

Sadly when a draconian anti-trans measure hits in a "red state," wider support pushes tend to forget those who aren't leaving.

"Just move."

I am in a GOOD position to move just locally and it still cost me nearly $5000, scans of a valid ID, tons of financial paperwork, etc.

It is not that easy, especially if you are a member of a marginalized group the state wants dead.

anti-trans bigots do not only focus on trans women. Stop saying that they do.

Bugs Bunny Tuxedo meme: i wish all digital artists a very correct layer

My hunch about public opinion on trans people has always been that, left to their own devices, people largely don't care, in a vaguely positive way.

"Sure, let 'em do whatever, I have bills to pay."

They dislike having to parse complex gender theory concepts, but they HATE cruelty.

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Culture has to turn away from this shit to survive. We have to make our own stuff and maybe it’ll look like dogshit but we can call it ours and love the process

SESAME STREET is a show about a group of cheerful ageless monsters who live their best lives while the humans around them age and eventually fade away and I think that's beautiful.

someone stop her

Resources for Kansas trans people whose rights are being stripped and who need our help!

As a red state Midwesterner I can attest there are both plenty of hidden nuggets of LGBT resources and tons of queer and trans people here who will be affected, so please share!!!

"distressed human assets" is one of the most cursed phrases I've ever read

A (presumably) practice drawing of two tiger skinned girls, showing off a type of skin patterning that I like quite a bit

On this weeks episode of "The Artist's Barely Disguised Practice"