“Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”

Bitey

A mari and stars or snowflakes

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The Phantom of the Paradise

circa. 2022

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Oh no, I love the creepy ones.

@criticalrole.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social @laurabaileyvo.bsky.social #criticalrole #ageofumbra #daggerheart #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart

"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Cursed Objects

Collage, 2025

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

You can't be pro-unions and also pro-AI. AI is the ULTIMATE scab.

Using AI is basically crossing a digital picket line, and treating authors who use it like scabs feels appropriate.
If you care about your rights and the rights of other creatives, you don't use generative AI under any circumstances (marketing, editing, drafting, outlining, artwork, narration, etc.)