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Misha Zahradník

@mishazgreen.bsky.social

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Early 30s, He/Him, Cis, Bi Furry, and gamer of many varieties. End colonial violence. Do not follow this page if you are under 18. Discord: mishazgreen PFP by HoneyFoxCafe

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · Oct 16

Good morning, now is as good a time as any to say, give what you can where you can. Whether that direct material aid or through charity. Locally or globally.

www.healpalestine.org

www.wfp.org/who-we-are

www.directrelief.org

sdnrlf.com

unitedhelpukraine.org

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 7h

TURN THAT SHIT UP.

Another illustration for SHIRTLESS ON A ROOFTOP by @eldjester.bsky.social!

eldjester.itch.io/soar-shirtle...

A woman on rollerblades and a DJ's mixtable rolls around. Glo-sticks can be seen on her neck like a necklace, and on her back she holds a comical number of massive speakers and amplifiers.

Time to turn up the fuckin' sound.

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Velvet (Starlight) @onedumbmouse.bsky.social · 1h

commando maid

artwork of an anthro female mouse standing in a maid dress holding a tray with a teacup, teapot, and bottle of honey on it. she is squeaking and looking happy. a inlet to the side shows off her cock, balls, and ass where she is not wearing any panties underneath the maid dress

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 1h

The underlying point of capitalism is upholding a social hierarchy that benefits a specific group of people at the top. Once you see that, the things that make less money but provide more control over others really start making sense.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 1h

This. It really cannot be stressed how much capitalists and authoritarians cannot stand the fact sex work isn't easily monopolized and can give marginalized people social and financial mobility in a way that defies their usual societal constraints.

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Royal Poodle @royalpoodle.bsky.social · 6h

Erotica and pornography is one of the few ways people with little means can gain some financial independence in the system, they want to end that so it's not a viable career for anyone but them. Theyll generate the smut, you can go work at the Amazon warehouse.

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 1h

Hating musicals is often a toxic masculinity thing rooted ultimately in homophobia. It used to be fairly common, and there's still traces of it leftover in the culture.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine owning a sidearm that's practical to conceal.

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 2h

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Chirs @aesungaia.neocities.org · 4h

Becoming Unscared 101

Myrrh pointing to the 'spiraling over nothing' drawing I posted earlier and exclaiming 'HEY!!! Too many of you are relating to this and it's bumming me out!!! We have to do something about this!'

Looking altogether too proud of themself, Myrrh continues: 'Fortunately for us, I'm basically an expert at getting so so scared. So here are my 3 awesome tips for when I'm freaking out and need to trick myself into being unscared'

The next panel shows a doodle of Myrrh breathing cartoonishly deeply. The narration reads: 'Tip #1: You can take a deep breath or two. Everybody knows this one and I can feel you all rolling your eyes at me so I won't explain this one but it really does help ok'

The next panel shows a doodle of furniture in a bedroom, each labeled with a material it's made of (e.g. metal, wood, paper, fabric). The narration reads: 'Tip #2: You can look around at all the stuff in the room, and mentally list what everything is made of. I don't remember where I learned this one, but it's a great way to distract yourself for just long enough to calm down.'

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not firing on all cylinders and didn't realize this post was about actual dog collars until the second sentence. But yeah, unambiguously agree, that shit causes so much suffering and behavioral problems.

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Trash Discourse @trashxdiscourse.bsky.social · 2h

it's that image that says "a computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer should never make decisions" but the "held accountable" and "decisions" part have been marked out and replaced so now it reads:
A computer can never be horny
therefore a computer must never make art

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 8d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 8d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · 9h

apparently I need to tap this again...

bird 🔞 \(⁠☉⁠д⁠⊙⁠)/ ! @emrynbird.bsky.social · Dec 15

( more writers should just be following artists in general because the distance some writers put between them and visual artists is one of the reasons why there's a big issue with AI in indie/self-pub spaces...just no solidarity )

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AnotherMeekOne @anothermeekone.bsky.social · 10h

Destroying the lives of pornographers while freely allowing ChatGPT to create adult content isn't hypocrisy--it's intentional malice. Companies want to be the sole purveyors in our ancient trillion-dollar industry that is porn, but they can only do that by outlawing anyone make it besides themselves

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SteamedOllie @steamedollie.bsky.social · 2h

Plants / Tentacles - Skunkmage
#nsfw #anthro #yiff #furry #steamedollie #steamedvegetables #kinktober #kink #livingplant #tentacles #sexpollen #hypno #latex #rubber #skunk #shiny #sexplant #plant #tentacle #scent #musk #goo #slime

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 2h

But this isn't unique to fandom; every skill field that AI can badly immitate is under a constant assault aimed at replacing workers and community with consumers and distilled exploitation. That front stretches from the writing rooms of Hollywood to awkward RP discord servers.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 2h

And a big part of what makes fandom functional is that it serves as a sort of specialized community. AI replacing the artists and creativity will create an alienation that causes those communities to collapse. Reduced from inspired creative collaboration and sharing to endless consumption.

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

...and an effort to reduce the number of people who develop creative skills. Because such people are then dependent on AI and don't compete with it.

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

Which is even more insidious when you consider many original stories start out as fan works that evolve beyond their original inspiration. The marketing of AI towards fandom is both attempting to go where there is high demand for creative work and displace artists from that space...

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

With fanworks, the goal is to replace paid fan artists and convince people to pay for fanart that they would otherwise create for themselves. If you can convince someone who doesn't know better that they can just let the machine write their fanfic for them; they never start writing.

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

I also need people to understand that there is no creative outlet AI does not seek to commodify. Whether it's fan content or original works, the goal is to replace independent creativity with automated trashed: and to charge people for the privilege.

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Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

But some of us do remember the last time the pendulum swung towards cringe culture and irony, and the associated harm it caused.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

All time and energy that could spent on the stories and work you actually enjoy if you just allowed yourself to have a preference.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

So you start looking for and inventing any moral failing in the people who don't validate your preferences. Often with a lot of weaponized social justice language, false accusations, and cherry picking along the way.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

But it all comes down to not being able to enjoy or dislike something without other people validating that preference. Not being able to truly give yourself permission to like and dislike things without justifying it.

Misha Zahradník @mishazgreen.bsky.social · 3h

The fan protects this insecurity by attacking critique, evangelizing, and in some cases attacking other fandoms.

The anti-fan does this by elevating their own niche preferences and denigrating fandom. Establishing a sense of superiority, and a purity culture within their smaller social circles.