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a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow . Alt: a black and white cat is sitting on a bed next to a pillow and pouting

i'm sorry if my horrible naked chin disgusts you so much

just a little guy with a little ship 🫶
#OFMD #OFMDfanart

Oh you have a shade variety!

Thank you so much I am taking full credit for coining it 😌

one of my fav rareships, two flavors!! comms for @bromelads.bsky.social *smoooch*
#ofmd #ourflagmeansdeath #art #frenchie #edwardteach #blackbeard

Bonking you with deep affection

Jackie/Evelyn

Yes to ScotchBonnet!

fuck people who don't like tofu [lots of amazing tofu dishes] share this post if you love tofu fuck yourself if you don't love tofu

And I’m wearing my Frenchie Friday shirt

Oh yeah I was just using that as one example that I’ve seen from the beginning that annoys me

Ohtangerine's ACGGoods shop opening post! Image shows a doodle version of artist ohtangerines, arms pointting up towards text that says Ohtangerines SHOP OPEN! and a link above acggoods.com/store/ohtangerines. Beside them, there's a text bubble saying 'worldwide shipping!'. Bellow are a collection of products that can be found on the shop, like Ed and Stede's dagger keychains, a bunny hoobies keychain, Dungeon Meshi stickers and funny duck stickers.

Hi, lovely crew 🍊 My ACGGoods shop is now open!!

The co-captains standee is back, along with new sword keychains - including the gentlebeard dagger keychains - , lots of stickers and button pins!!

Worldwide shipping available✨
acggoods.com/store/ohtang...

#shopOFMD

Remember when people used to be all “hard times creates great art” because no actually it’s just this.

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

*holds your hand* hey. Stop just thinking about the idea. Doodle it. It’ll probably take a couple or hundred tries but that’s okay. Just put it on paper. You’ll work it out

A WIP process screenshot of Silco Arcane's face. His head is tilted slightly, propped up by his left had. He glances offscreen to the left of the viewer with a neutral expression. Behind him, the color green offsets his pale skin and the red of his dress shirt.

Dusting off this old Silco that's been in my drafts for a while. Hope to finish him this weekend before his migraine manifests haha. 🐟 #arcanefanart #silco

Actually more villains should be tenors

Yeah you can just alternate as you get too warm or chilly

Yeah, or you can do this

Photo of a black pitbull mix rolling around on his back in the sunshine

Garden update: an early season pit-unia has appeared

The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on. The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service. This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future. As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user. I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley. It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a…

Software-As-A-Service has been mutated and brutalized into the service of capitalism. Things were too easy for too long, which led to the Rot Economists chasing out the people that actually made software, because one could eventually sell to companies without ever dealing with the software itself or those that might be unfortunate enough to use it. And as the SaaS business model dies, nobody at the helm of these companies can find their ass from their earhole. Without the imaginary eternal growth engine of SaaS, venture capital and private equity will lose one of their only replicable tools for conning limited partners and pension funds into handing over tens of billions of dollars to invest, and they deserve it. They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse. I’m sure there are noble SaaS investors out there, people that give a shit, and SaaS companies that exist that are doing useful things that their customers like. I just think they’re drowned out, both in share of voice and venture capital dollars invested, by the plants of the Rot Economy’s worst venture capitalists and private equity worms. I don’t think that anyone who actually interacts with SaaS companies with any regularity will disagree with me about the larger state of the industry, and anybody who gets mad at reading this likely participates in the greater con of the greed-led SaaS empires that are currently billowing with smoke. And really, my grievance is with the funders not the founders, other than guys like Aaron Levie who spend more time writing endless Twitter screeds about non-existent AI agents than they do thinking about their actual customers or workers. AI-pilled SaaS leaders have lost the plot. They do not understand technology anymore, nor do they care about their customers enough to steer them away from unreliable, …

The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that venture capital and private equity incentivized to prioritize growth over anything involving solving actual human problems.

AI didn't break the software industry. VCs did.

www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-saas/

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You will love it (I hope)

You're all out here creating and imagining and living! Every little bit of art or writing or design or craft pushes back the darkness. It doesn't matter how "good" it is. Existing is radical in itself. That goes for you too.

A graphic of the fandom market with text over it that says "Auction items for <$10, a thread"

There are... a lot of items up on the auction site, and not everyone has a Goofus Doofus budget, so I'll be highlighting auction items that currently sit below <$10!

(I might also do the $10 ones in this thread but not today)

#fandommarket

We still have no names for these little guys so I'm gonna run a raffle. Donate to the shipping cost for the auction and be entered to win! ko-fi.com/D1D21IP072

Fill out the attached form and upload a screen shot for a chance to name five kittens and mama! tinyurl.com/27cpa5fv

Drawing on 3/17!

Wait have you not read mercy?? It’s one of the sacred edizzy texts! I’m so excited for you!

Happy birthday!