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Aaron the Crow Father

@crowfather.net

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What you can expect here: • anti-colonialism • independence for Palestine 🇵🇸 • stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 • crows • kilts • photography • Wrexham AFC • copious ridiculous shit

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · May 15

I love artists—artists of all types and mediums. Because I love artists I will block any account the posts AI-generated art. It's not welcome here.

Generative AI “art” is prohibited on this account. No Artist No Art.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 8h

Got a lovely little package in the mail!

#wxmafc #askwxm #wxmthirstsection 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Photograph of a box from Wrexham AFC, containing a Gold Dragon membership package.

Photograph of the inside of the box, including the front of the membership card.

Photograph of the back of the membership card.

Photograph of the wallet and keychain (containing actual turf from the Cae Ras!).

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 9h

We would dearly love to give him away.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 11h

Is it wrong that—as a Seattle-area resident—I’m a little annoyed that Portland is seen as a better target for this kind of fascism than Seattle? What have they got that we don’t?!

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 16h

A reasonable conclusion from the available data, followed by a cogent summation of challenges faced.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 17h

Thanks!

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 17h

More testing is necessary. For science.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 18h

I recently had the opportunity to work with several models in a studio. It was a wonderful learning opportunity for me, engaging in a style of portrait photography that is far outside my normal experience.

#photography #portraitphotography #studiophotography #studiolighting #nikon #nikonzf

Photograph of Jordan wearing a pink, red, orange, and black suit over a crop-top black t-shirt. Behind her is a hot pink backdrop. She has her arms raised, and her hands positioned to either side of her jaw as she looks up and to photograph photographic right. Her eyebrows are raised and her lips parted.

Photograph of Aeriel wearing a black suit with white polkadots. She stands in front of a black backdrop, all but invisible, except for a pattern of round, white lights, off to one side. Her short blonde hair flicks slightly to one side as the photograph catches her in a moment of movement.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 18h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

And if reading that makes you angry, and you want to demand that today stays Columbus Day, ask yourself this:

What makes you want to celebrate the life of a genocidal racist? Someone who enslaved others and set the stage for mass enslavement?

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 1d

About to drink some Scotch from my new, Laughing Gnome whiskey “glass”. It’s made from unglazed pottery, which adds a little something to the flavor of the beverage. It also warms up very well in your had. At least according to the gnome who sold it to me.

#whiskey #whisky #scotch #pottery

Photograph of the box and bottle of Glenmorangie, Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky, the Lasanta 12, and a glazed pottery, whiskey glass from Laughing Gnome Pottery.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 2d

Need another reason to choose Apple Music over Spotify, other than more music, better audio quality, and paying artists significantly more?

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE.

Oh, and now Apple Music can import your Spotify playlists, so there’s that.

#applemusic #spotify

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 3d

I’ve made a Halloween playlist. If you’re a user of Apple Music give it a look, a listen, and let me know what you think.

#halloween #halloweenmusic #halloweenplaylist

Haunted, Haunting, and Viewing Your Soul as a Tasty Snack by Aaron G. Peabody on Apple Music

Playlist · 40 Songs

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 3d

Some folks in Seattle seem to be confused as to how bike racks work.

Photograph of a bike rack outside of an apartment building in Seattle. Rather than using it to lock up bicycles, residence have corralled a number of stolen grocery carts from the local supermarket. A large number of foreign exchange students in this area may be a contributing factor.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 3d

Anyone else planning on attending next Saturday? Anyone looking for a protest buddy? This one is a little different from the last several I’ve been to in that it isn’t starting in Cap Hill.

#nokings #nokingsprotest #nokingsmarch #nokingsseattle #fucktrump

Seattle No Kings- Oct 18 - Seattle Indivisible

Fighting Dictatorship Together Mass Rally and March 12-4 PM Oct. 18thSeattle Center Donate Help us Cover Expenses for Sound Systems and Porta Potties and more. Volunteer Planning, Event Day help, And ...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

Oh it would, would it? Good. Sounds like a deserves to be killed.

His argument boils down to, “it would be too hard.” Which is basically the argument of every white collar, embezzler, ever.

I’ve been saying it for years: generative AI cannot exist within the bounds of the law.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

www.theverge.com

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

Burn. It. Down.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

I’m going to be listening to the new album on  Music, but I preordered the LP just to make sure she gets extra money.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

I’m eagerly awaiting the full release of Brandi Carlile’s new album.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

To be fair, I would happily visit the Roll Hall of Fame to experience the greatest breads throughout history.

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Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

I just got off the phone with both of the Seattle offices of my senators. In both cases I passed along the message that, as long as we have a federal government committing blatantly, illegal acts, no compromise on healthcare is sufficient to reopen the government.

#government #shutdown

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

Oh, they “really care about rightsholders and about people”, do they? Bull shit.

BULL. SHIT.

If the developers of AI cared about rightsholders they wouldn’t have plagiarized nearly the entire corpus of human art and endeavor to feed their little machines.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 5d

Me too. And by “sometimes” I mean always, and by “forget” I mean choose not to.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 6d

No, not that one.
#wxmafc #askwxm #wxmthirstsection 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Photograph of the cover of Seattle Trust (a novel) by Paul Mullin. The book is autographed by the author and is on the bargain table at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park.

Aaron the Crow Father @crowfather.net · 8d

Design opinion: any elevator that serves only two floors should not have buttons for those two floors. Rather, it should have a single button simply marked “go”, or “proceed”, or “get to it”.

#elevator #lift #buttons #design