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ZeepZ @itsazack.bsky.social · 10d

A lot of people need to hear this

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 14d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · 26d

I like this new meme.

Done for one friend who doesn't have bluesky and @slak.bsky.social of an average conversation on what to watch

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · 28d

You mind if I do my own take on something like this? Really like this and have personally grappled with 'idea vs execution'

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 29

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

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🌻Lu🌻 @lueduar.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Diana E @bluedee.bsky.social · Aug 23

www.earth.com/news/the-ret...

The return of wolves revives trees that had not grown for 80 years

A new study reveals that Yellowstone's quaking aspens are growing back thanks to the return of wolves in 1995.

www.earth.com

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Animals R Us… 🐾 @animalsrus.bsky.social · Aug 21

Someone wants to say Hello Bluesky… 🦭

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · Aug 12

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · Aug 11

Convenience IS natural.

Animals typically choose paths of least resistance for safe food, water, shelter, etc.

It IS generally better to get what you need faster and easier.

Convenience isn't inherently bad. But consider when it becomes more costly, less sustainable than the less-so alternative.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · Aug 10

wfh

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Aug 10

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading

A happy book says:
I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you!

A smiling drink says:
And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read!

A gleeful phone adds:
Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!!

Hours later...

The drink and book lie untouched.

The phone is out of view but a bubble reads:
Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll

The book says
“I hate that guy.”

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · Aug 5

Tfw even early in practicing drawing you've always tried to draw hands so actually drawing them in pockets for once is harder

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · Aug 1

KEEP THE CALLS UP

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Jul 31

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · Aug 1

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · Jul 21

Once Upon a Forest
Susan van den Munckhof
Trail Camera Wildlife Photography

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Iraq War Vet @corgwynmom.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Ncs_artist @artistncs.bsky.social · Jul 16

To sleepy to write it down…

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · Jul 14

Working on a big flashy bone bike boss attack animation for today's #NightmareKart dev thread!

This attack will be one of those classic "they shoot a bunch of bullet hell bullets in every direction" attacks. Here is how it looks in blender atm!

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Plive 🐊 @plive.bsky.social · Jul 9

im gona hide in your laundry

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Bahlo @bahlokmul.spacechicken.gay · Jul 8

I don't think I've posted my ref sheet here. It was made by the amazing @s0lchaser.seeks.quest !!

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Stretch Sebe @stretchsebe.bsky.social · Jul 6

If I ever suddenly commit suicide, it's because:

A) The government did it.

B) The government did it.

C) My society pushed me to (their government or another, external government did it).

D) The government forced me to do it (so they still did it).