Dwuff 🇿🇦✨

I've drawn a fancy whale and a person chewing gum! The interface isn't great but it is fun hehe

Youraislopbores.me

That’s not where my dead grandma is but I appreciate this 100% real and not human AI’s optimism 🥺🫶🏻

ahh

Oh, it looks like there are no requests currently, that's probably why

How does one draw for this 🤔 Am I missing something

Abbas Amanat IRAN AMODERN HISTORY

If you’re looking for a good “oh no I need to know more about Iran” book, I’m really enjoying Abbas Amanat’s “Iran: A Modern History” thus far.

When the sun gets too high in Crystal Desert, find a nice shade to share and forget inter-legion bickering for a while.

A piece for Ahmsiram long time in the making.

𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 (...somehow) 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘕𝘦𝘵

And do your part by refraining from "smell-this activism."

"Did you see this awful thing this awful man said? Here, look. Isn't it awful? Isn't he awful?"

...Why are you doing that?

Why are you the free street team for the worst people online? Why are you signal-boosting misery?

Don't do that.

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:

If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

genAI is theft and it’s awful for the environment

and ALSO

it’s heavily associated with spam, propaganda, made-up info, disregard for research/fact-checking.

Do not use AI to create anything you want to be taken seriously. It will have the opposite effect.

A thread on the harms of AI in its current form, and the lack of legislative control over its implementations.

Whenever I repost this, it's because another post has been added. The thread is long.

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Personal commission that I created recently.

The client requested I make it a freebie so 8x10 prints are available via my free downloads archive!

Three days to make this happen. Fighting every month to keep us housed. There is no fallback besides living in the car. So please consider a book purchase or a Ko-Fi thank you thank you thank you.

You better wake the fuck up now. If we don't make their lives ABSOLUTELY FUCKING MISERABLE, we're going be the ones who get shafted. And HARD.

You best believe that everything about the Internet we know is going to die and everything we know and love with it.

I've made my calls today. You need to.

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

Wisconsin liberals have a chance next month to go up 5-2 on the state supreme court for the first time in modern history. If they succeed, they'll also block conservatives from earning a court majority through the next presidential election and until at least 2030.

New preview in @boltsmag.org:

I wish you the best of luck. What a frustrating situation to be allergic to the tools of your trade. 😩

Account's looking scary after the hellmonths that were Jen/Feb. I'm starting to get back on top of comm stuff though so please get in touch if you'd like some work done!!

Oof! Sorry, how frustrating! I am glad you got to the bottom of it though. I hope gloves work for you. I wonder if cotton gloves will be enough of a barrier?

2 kobolds standing next to each other. one has pink skin and is in an airy purple wrapped fabric dress with gold trim, her pose is elegant, facing away from the figure on the right but eyeing in her direction. the other has dandelion skin and is wearing a loose red crop top, with urban splinter cargo paints with pockets and a kneepad, and big red and black hightop shoes; her hands have gloves, and she's also wearing red tinted aviator goggles on her forhead. her eyes are closed, and she is facing the camera with a hand on her hip and another gesturing in the air. she is visibly sweating a bit.

couple of bolds

cat by the sea

#art

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation

This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Scientists! Avoid entangling yourself in a global child trafficking ring using this one weird trick (talking to literally any woman)
www.science.org/content/arti...

Ok, let me try again!

Nope. The one is "the address couldn't be found or is unable to receive email" and the other (proton) is "host said: 550-Verification failed for <[my email address]> 550-Unrouteable
address 550 Sender Verify Failed (in reply to RCPT TO command)

I get errors when trying to reply to your mail on either platform.

Please reconsider using AI generated images for science communication or application of any kind 💔 There was no need to use one here. There is never a need to use one anywhere, and seeing it is off-putting and erodes trust and goodwill from viewers.