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Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks

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[Note that other Condé Nast-owned media sites like New Yorker, Wired, etc have their own unions so aren't part of this.]

A creature whispered.
« Yes, it is safe. He is sleeping! »

Once these words have been uttered, more creatures tip-toed into the room.
The first one points to a red book that lies in front of the sleeping inhabitant.
« That's the book! We have to be as silent and quick as possible! »

Now, one of the other creatures took a book, a quill, and a bottle of ink out of a bag they had been carrying. They set to work to copy the red book.

The work was almost done when the human awoke.
"What kind of creatures are you?" he asks.

« We mean no harm! » They say. « We are Goblins. »

Now the human wonders. "But why are ye here?"

« You are the only one with this tome of knowledge, we need it, so we have to copy. If you could let us finish? »

"Oh sure!" the librarian said. "And if you need to copy other manuscripts you can just ask me, I'll gladly help you!"

This is why you may see a goblin here and there in that library, copying ancient manuscripts. Preserving it for goblin generations to come.
It is brighter than ever.

#GoblinWeek #TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction

@autisticadvocacy personally I have an app called DeafNote. It's made for Deaf folks but is the only app like this I've found for android! You type on one side and the words appear upside down on the other. Great for ordering food/coffee/etc or communicating with someone standing in front of you. It has a text to speech function as well. Iphone version is called FlipWriter. Here's what mine looks like:

Whew, it's finally done, felt like I was going mad at times, drawing so many squirrels!
I don't think I've draw so many characters in a single picture before...

Originally the plan was just drawing one picture of 16 people and be done before Squirrel Appreciation Day which was Sunday, but... I ended up drawing almost double with an whole second image ​

I got to say, it was VERY interesting to draw this one... for a few reasons, as ended up painting a background, in more detail than I generally do and in a style I enjoy making.
But I also noticed that most people that signed up had brown/orange characters, most squirrels are also kept in an "earthy" sort of colour scheme? brown, gray... and also all have green eyes!
There were only two with completely different colours like a purple one, and a blue-ish green one!
I found that very interesting as I've seen other fursonas with more fantasy colours...

Participants (from Fedi):
@Ash_Greytree @Astia @fl4nn @FrostyBeep @harlequeen @HazelByrne @Heythar @JN_Squire @kamiten @Lexi @mars @mattsqu @PetrichorSquirrel @Sqrl @XerShadowTail

(Edited because apparently I made some mistakes when picking colours ​)

#FurryArt #MastoArt #SquirrelsOfMastodon

Hi pachyderms. I badly need transit fare. I have a drs appt this week that I've waited for 4 months to get, but I don't have enough for even the daily commute I make to get my kid to and from school, much less drs appts. I'm at 145/550 of my goal for January survival. I'd like to make more drs appts, but I can't do that without transit fare

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The Afanc - A Welsh water creature that resided in Llyn-yr-Afanc (The Afanc Pool), when angered it would thrash about causing great floods along the banks of the river Conwy.

It should be law that if you use a dataset with assets and material you didn't ask consent for in a generative AI, you should have to pay every single person whose content is in that dataset even if there's no proof you took anything, because there's no way to prove you didn't either.

Yes, that'd be impossible to pay. They'd have to go bankrupt. They'd have to shut down everything.

Good.

you should follow my friend https://www.twitch.tv/palmtop_tigirl as we've been setting up her twitch and she plans to start streaming soon

i mayyyy have made a pngtuber for her also✨

Nightshade was just released. Poison your art before you post it so that AI scrapers choke on it https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

(Further edit to stress that I did not make this product and I have nothing to do with it so please don't assume I did)