Countess Alice
@countessalice.bsky.social
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countessalice.bsky.social
Protip for the TransFems: Need help reaching your voice training goals? Use a Magic Wand to bust through the proverbial ceiling.
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bearfucker.bsky.social
fuck yea kids
tinfoilawards.bsky.social
Can't find a single thing wrong with this...
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renaryuugu.bsky.social
I can't stop thinking about the guy hitting a clip in dig dug
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thx3188.bsky.social
OF NOTE: they're basing this on *Box Office* sales, not iTunes or Amazon sales. streaming sales don't count towards box office.

if you want them to maximize the payouts you need to see this in a theater
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furryends.bsky.social
taking a bath at the hotel room
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jandri.bsky.social
It’s sad that the discussion around pornography is always framed as “it’s potentially harmful.” It’s also potentially healthy? What did you learn about yourself, your body, your gender, your preferences, your boundaries and your self expression through the smut you consume?
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shiromisa.bsky.social
Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree
sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.
[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]
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yeetkunedo.bsky.social
re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
countessalice.bsky.social
I feel this on such a deep level. Vulnerability is so important.
countessalice.bsky.social
PLEASE!!!!! I want this so badly!!!
countessalice.bsky.social
I thinknit depends on the type of cholesterol to be honest. I know one is a good one and another is the not good one to keep low.
countessalice.bsky.social
Post a random photo otherwise everything goes wrong in June
countessalice.bsky.social
You look amazing!!!! Where did you even find that dress??
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pikat.io
pikat @pikat.io · May 14
an side-effect of Bsky's algorithm being much less tailored is that sometimes my artwork is recommended to people who have little interest in such things.

some of them feel the need to make me aware of exactly how revolting they find me and my work
just a drawing of a griffin thats a cockatiel hybrid
countessalice.bsky.social
Wtf?!?!? Thats not cool T.T I'm sorry, sweetie
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featherfangart.bsky.social
| No Love Is Wasted | ⚔️💮
#originalart
a digital illustration of two gauntlets/hands, a dark one with golden details and white/lighter one, both inspired by renaissance 15th/16th century armor. their fingers are slightly reaching out for each other. both hands are wrapped in a red ribbon that says 'No Love, however brief, is wasted.' In between there are white periwinkles as a symbol for fond memories
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