Zannah
@alopexstudios.bsky.social
Art and tiny things! Enby cat-parent who enjoys making and sharing stuff || They/Them || No AI/NFTs Linktree: https://linktr.ee/alopexstudios
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If you’re near the Chicago area and looking to shop small/independently employee owned for gifts and great white elephant stuff this year, please consider American Science and Surplus out near Geneva, IL! It’s near and dear to my heart and can use the boost! m.facebook.com/GenSc...
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you’re near the Chicago area and looking to shop small/independently employee owned for gifts and great white elephant stuff this year, please consider American Science and Surplus out near Geneva, IL! It’s near and dear to my heart and can use the boost! m.facebook.com/GenSc...
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Huion is offering additional discounts when you use the code: COMICLAB
Kamvas 22 Plus — A luxurious large-screen, high-resolution digital pen display with an etched glass surface that simulates the texture of paper while it protects your eyes from harmful glare. store.huion.com/products/kam...
Kamvas 22 Plus — A luxurious large-screen, high-resolution digital pen display with an etched glass surface that simulates the texture of paper while it protects your eyes from harmful glare. store.huion.com/products/kam...
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Huion is offering additional discounts when you use the code: COMICLAB
Kamvas 22 Plus — A luxurious large-screen, high-resolution digital pen display with an etched glass surface that simulates the texture of paper while it protects your eyes from harmful glare. store.huion.com/products/kam...
Kamvas 22 Plus — A luxurious large-screen, high-resolution digital pen display with an etched glass surface that simulates the texture of paper while it protects your eyes from harmful glare. store.huion.com/products/kam...
Pretty much exactly what I’m doing now except I would make my boss stop paying me so she can invest more in the store (I love my work).
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pretty much exactly what I’m doing now except I would make my boss stop paying me so she can invest more in the store (I love my work).
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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If you have characters speaking a language the majority of the audience doesn't speak and they turn on native subtitles and the subtitles are [Speaking in Foreign Language], we have permission to sell your children to a witch.
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
If you have characters speaking a language the majority of the audience doesn't speak and they turn on native subtitles and the subtitles are [Speaking in Foreign Language], we have permission to sell your children to a witch.
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Already, we're seeing students in creative fields who don't distinguish between *thinking* about an idea and *generating a prompt* to ask a machine to think for them, because they had a moment of indecision and wanted an instant solution. They can't see how the generated idea *isn't their own*
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Already, we're seeing students in creative fields who don't distinguish between *thinking* about an idea and *generating a prompt* to ask a machine to think for them, because they had a moment of indecision and wanted an instant solution. They can't see how the generated idea *isn't their own*
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If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.
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Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder: you don't have to engage with AI as an instructor. You can talk about AI--even build AI literacy, if you want to call it that--and still not engage directly with a brutal, unethical, ecologically disastrous bundle of technologies. Regardless of institutional pressure, you can refuse.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Yes! Visuals are part of the communication. Treating them as ignorable decoration completely misses the point and it’s not how they’re received by an audience
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
this is part of a discussion about using AI art in your presentation slides, but also feels like it captures where this all goes wrong.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
people who don't see the visuals as communication can't respect the skill & thought of the artists whose work got fed into these models to begin with.
Please go buy Devin’s books. They’re amazing and Amazon stinks.
Amazon removed all my books for "multiple accounts" which I do not and never did have.
If you'd like to support a trans queer indie author, please buy my books at other retailers.
Itchio: devinharnois.itch.io
Apple: books.apple.com/us/author/de...
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Devin%2...
If you'd like to support a trans queer indie author, please buy my books at other retailers.
Itchio: devinharnois.itch.io
Apple: books.apple.com/us/author/de...
B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Devin%2...
DevinHarnois
devinharnois.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Please go buy Devin’s books. They’re amazing and Amazon stinks.
If you’re near the Chicago area and looking to shop small/independently employee owned for gifts and great white elephant stuff this year, please consider American Science and Surplus out near Geneva, IL! It’s near and dear to my heart and can use the boost! m.facebook.com/GenSc...
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you’re near the Chicago area and looking to shop small/independently employee owned for gifts and great white elephant stuff this year, please consider American Science and Surplus out near Geneva, IL! It’s near and dear to my heart and can use the boost! m.facebook.com/GenSc...
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
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every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
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Possibly my most complicated miniature painting so far. It reminded me that I have an opticians appointment on Friday 🧐🤭
March 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Possibly my most complicated miniature painting so far. It reminded me that I have an opticians appointment on Friday 🧐🤭
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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It wasn’t until I spent a few thanksgivings with folks other than my relatives that I realized not everyone had a zillion pies like this. This is closer to my normal, lol.
I think this is a record. We have twenty-two pies for eighteen people.
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It wasn’t until I spent a few thanksgivings with folks other than my relatives that I realized not everyone had a zillion pies like this. This is closer to my normal, lol.
My contribution this year was two pumpkin pies (and a baked custard of the extra filling), a depression cake (1930s recipe) and a pan of emergency dark chocolate brownies to replace an attempt that didn’t turn out earlier in the day.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
My contribution this year was two pumpkin pies (and a baked custard of the extra filling), a depression cake (1930s recipe) and a pan of emergency dark chocolate brownies to replace an attempt that didn’t turn out earlier in the day.
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!
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OpenAI confirms major security breach, with user names, emails, and more exposed.
Here's what you need to know: buff.ly/B5vTUPy 👇
Here's what you need to know: buff.ly/B5vTUPy 👇
OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more
Users are waking up to discover OpenAI leaked their data this morning via a faulty third-party plugin. Here's what you need to know.
www.windowscentral.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
OpenAI confirms major security breach, with user names, emails, and more exposed.
Here's what you need to know: buff.ly/B5vTUPy 👇
Here's what you need to know: buff.ly/B5vTUPy 👇
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Repeat after me:
You don't owe anything to family that impedes your peace and well-being for the sake of "holidays."
"Blood is thicker than water" doesn't mean shit if the blood is poisonous while the water nourishes, sustains life, and promotes growth.
Your chosen family is more than enough.
You don't owe anything to family that impedes your peace and well-being for the sake of "holidays."
"Blood is thicker than water" doesn't mean shit if the blood is poisonous while the water nourishes, sustains life, and promotes growth.
Your chosen family is more than enough.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Repeat after me:
You don't owe anything to family that impedes your peace and well-being for the sake of "holidays."
"Blood is thicker than water" doesn't mean shit if the blood is poisonous while the water nourishes, sustains life, and promotes growth.
Your chosen family is more than enough.
You don't owe anything to family that impedes your peace and well-being for the sake of "holidays."
"Blood is thicker than water" doesn't mean shit if the blood is poisonous while the water nourishes, sustains life, and promotes growth.
Your chosen family is more than enough.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.