Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

If we call all Norse people from the Viking Age "Vikings", it's only fair to also call all British people from the Age of Sail "Pirates".

"William Shakespeare was inarguably the most famous Pirate playwright."

"Most Pirates at the time were at least nominally loyal to Pirate Queen Elizabeth."

"Under James, the noted witch-hunting enthusiast, the Pirate homeland had finally been united under a single king."

"Most Pirates practiced a religion called 'Anglicism' that differed from that of pre-piratical Britain. But in the far north some adhered to the cult of 'Presbyterianism' and yet others clung to the ancient Catholicism of their heathen forebearers."

"The Pirates once again captured Napoleon Bonaparte, and left him stranded on the remote island of Saint Helena."

"I am descended from Scottish Pirates. Which sounds a lot cooler than saying my ancestors were probably farmers from Fife and sheep thieves from the borders."

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: https://doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists

North Carolina, y'all getting up to some good trouble, keep going.

These are some lovely fonts, free for all non-commercial use, small businesses that give back to the community, and public-benefit corporations.

https://wehtt.am/fonts

via @piccalilli

#fonts #design #UXUI #webdev

I am (un)happy to report the system is fekkin useless, 6 different orgs, 0 boots on the ground help, 0 financial support.🙄
And yet I persist..
Need $600 for last of moving costs.
And need ~$500/mo to cover hired help so I stop floundering and have free spoons to put my life back together, and build https://turtlebower.org/ to stabilize #housing for myself and other #spoonies
Every lil bit helps.💞
https://ko-fi.com/valerie7173
Or DM for etrans.

The Super Nintendo turned 35 years old today! Which means, if your game is running on SlowROM, it just finished one clock cycle.

which geological era is democene?

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Anyway, I have $6 in my account because income has been very very low these past couple of months.

If you feel like tossing a coin to your local art goblin, please feel free to poke my ko-fi page!

(absolutely not necessary nor expected, but appreciated if you do!)

https://ko-fi.com/goblinhellion

Another silksong fanaaaart 🥰
#silksong #hollowknight

do you have art? do you want to put it on a website, that *you* own, for cheap-as-free?

im writing a program for that! you just drag and drop your art into a folder, and run "galleryify", and it generates html for each image, and adds everything to a thumbnail gallery. you can group with tags and style everything however you want, too.

i need testers! if this sounds good then please comment and let me know your level of comfort with art and with html.

https://nycki93.github.io/eleventy-image-gallery/

if you just wanna know "the stack", this is made with NodeJS and Eleventy. if that doesn't mean anything to you, dont worry about it.

#website #art #code #programming #html #heycohost #eleventy

My SIL has informed me that this exists in Auburn WA.

I have a new place to visit!

#crow #statue #publicart

one in four animals on the planet earth is a beetle. think of your three closest friends. if none of them are beetles, statistically speaking you are probably a beetle.

I'm new. I'm from the cholkyknight pattern.

“$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition: Local activism threatens to derail the U.S. data center boom.” Cooool.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/

keep up the good work, folks! hit them where it hurts, make data centers unprofitable!

I know compassion fatigue is high & wallets are low, but my twin & I are disabled Black parents just trying to get by. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel & need food, meds, & transit fare. I know it's a lot.

Me: 260/500 cashapp/vmo SingsongRaptor

Sis: 235/500 cashapp/vmo squiddcandy

We also have mutual aid on our throne #wishlist

Mine: https://throne.com/SingsongRaptor
Hers: https://throne.com/bayonetbunny

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid   #MutualAidRequest #DisabledCrowdfund #BlackMastodon
#MABoost

doctor says "treatment is simple. great website protector Cloudflare is in town. go see them and they'll surely get you up and running smoothly again."

"but doctor" says website,

Newgrounds guide to spotting AI audio

this is fucking great and completely accurate in my experience. you do not need to hear much Suno output to pick all of this shit. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation/how-to-detect-ai-audio

Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from getting Another World to run on 16-bit consoles not in the least bit designed to handle it, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.

And she did so much to boost trans visibility. By being so unapolagetically loud and proud as herself there's absolutely no goddamn way of counting how many of us she helped clear a path for.

She will be missed so goddamn hard!