Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Hold and attend de-escalation, conflict resolution, first-aid, volunteer medic, and self-defense workshops in your neighborhood, school, workplace, or community organization.

And yes, we can tell when it’s “AI art”

I am begging writers & writing-related-workers of all kinds—but especially people working in journalism and blogs—to stop using “AI art” to accompany your writing.

Please have solidarity with your fellow creative workers 💜

#xkcd: #LaserDanger

https://xkcd.com/3108/

#Humour #Cartoon #Caturday

I've been thinking a lot about that idea of "community is something you establish, not something you end up in" and how a lot of eg. queer discourse revolves around "the queer community" when it should probably revolve around solidarity between *different* queer communities instead

Pigeons love posing for photos. They are fabulous and they know it.

📷 Olympus PEN E-PL 5
🔭 Jupiter 21M 200mm f/4

#Photography #Birds #BirdPhotography #Pigeons #Olympus #MicroFourThirds

colourful containers

#photography

AI is dogshit. And the more contact people have with AI, the more they'll realize it's dogshit and turn against it as tacky. The only reason anyone's doing any of it is because billionaires and multinationals are telling them "AI is the future!" and cramming it into everything

Even with all this they still can't get *most* people to give it more than a passing glance. Because people can instinctively recognize that it's dogshit, that it's useless insipid vapid bullshit with no intrinsic value

I say this because

1. I know some people do look up to me in that way

And

2. It is imo very important to create a culture of shame around the use of AI

If you're a coder and you look up to me in any way as a programmer, please know that I cannot respect and in fact have a very poor opinion of people who voluntarily use any kind of cloud based LLM for coding with any kind of regularity

A short comic about a witch writing down a spell to summon demons, but due to dropping some soup on her spellbook, it makes the spell summon demons that are smooching.

Some kids rediscover the spellbook and keep accidentally summoning two queer demons in the middle of a makeout session. For some reason, it's always the same couple.

The queer demon couple just work in a Hell soup kitchen.

@elilla yeah, I sit here and ponder all this stuff nearly every day lately, how little I can focus, but without changing something tactile my hands just go ctrl t social.p return again.

it is so tiring to deal with this package deal of 'fascinating discussion' and 'no attention span'

https://eupolicy.social/@edri/114704976709292632

What im trying to say is we should stop looking at sexuality as this static thing, and while it's true you are what you say you are, you should be open to new experiences changing your sexuality etc

I totally agree with the concept that you're still sexuality X even if you've never had experience with (some of) the gender(s) you're attracted to

My personal experience tho, lol
I thought I was bi, then had a few experiences with men/masculine genders and realised I'm not actually attracted to them lol

Activate the gay space lasers!!!! #pride

What is it called when you un-fix a problem that was previously fixed?

The American left needs to get organized. I know you're out there. I meet so many people who self-identify as socialists. Recent rallies in Vermont had tens of thousands of people come out, but at every other kind of organizing, be it a meeting, canvassing, strike support, phone bank, etc., there are the same few dozen people every single time.

People in power know this. They used to get nervous when they saw huge rallies, but they've learned that they don't represent an organized threat.