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shrek from ikea ☆ ς(>‿<.)

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felix lucille/28/they ☆ what holds my body together is a combination of love and criminal intent ☆ ali's guard dog

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shrek from ikea ☆ ς(>‿<.) @bardesuna.bsky.social · Aug 22

i've done it again, its not my fault there's a character like this in every piece of media

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Perry Bible Fellowship

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You’ll Be OK

December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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ada 🌱

@greenmoonie.bsky.social

forgot to post this one here! #frankenstein

December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM

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impembo gabecube

@impemboganecue.bsky.social

A top tell that nobody has actually studied the economic system they defend is when they don’t even know that the most basic thesis of the work of Adam Smith et al is that the state MUST be a bulwark against capital

December 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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Josh Foreman

@josh-foreman.bsky.social

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

while its scary that US politicians are trying to fast track so bogus "child online safety" bills at once, I think their behavior belies the fact that they are aware this is a fight they can lose

but we have to fight them. get friends and family involved.

December 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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latch

@latchk3y.bsky.social

modern ocs

January 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Toyo

@toyo-illust.bsky.social

I find it sad to see how so many people who are "anti-Al" are easily manipulated into accepting a bit of gen-Al in the product they're consuming (yes this is about the f2p wuxia game). If it got gen-Al character creation and llm chatbot NPCs, why do you believe they'd stop there?

December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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旳

@diesel2b.bsky.social

#NieR_Replicant

October 18, 2024 at 8:03 AM

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Motheaten Wizard🔞

@motheatenwizard.bsky.social

I dont think I ever uploaded the art for the Ancient charms
(also Zenos and Fandaniel are here for some reason 🙄...)

#wickart

December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM

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@eoin-mcgraw.bsky.social

It’s #WorldAIDSDay - Did you know sanitation and barriers are industry standard in tattooing because Cliff Raven, a gay tattooer from Chicago, made sure he could still provide service to his own community as most shops refused to tattoo homosexuals when the AIDS crisis emerged?

Cliff Raven outside Sunset Strip Tattoo in California shortly after buying it from Lyle Tuttle

A screenshot from https://www.luckyfish.com/cliff-raven-in-chicago-2020 reads:

When HIV emerged, studios began refusing homosexual customers, and many gay tattooers left the field. In a letter to Raven, one artist explains feeling relief that police raids closed him down. "I do not fancy working continually with people's BLOOD on my hands in these plague days of anguish and horrible viruses which they... don't know shit about," he says.
His community's palpable anxiety bolstered Raven's commitment to providing a medical-grade sterile environment, and it secured him as a beacon to gay men who wanted ink.
Pat Fish, the last tattooer trained by Raven, recalls him saying three things are necessary to be a good tattoo artist: art, craft, and morals. Part of having morals meant prioritizing clients' health.
"He made me buy an autoclave before he let me buy a tattoo machine," she laughs. This was in 1985. According to her, gloves weren't even industry standard until a doctor led a workshop on it at a tattoo convention in 1986—though Greg James, another tattooer who worked with Raven, says they were slowly becoming common in the early 80s. Raven began wearing them in the late 70s, and he was using an autoclave, the machine hospitals use to sterilize reusable equipment, as early as 1970.

December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Minerva P Kelley

@doubleca5t.bsky.social

Wicked scratches an itch for the femslash people because it does a gender flipped version of that thing a lot of shounen anime do where the relationship between the same gender main characters is a bond stronger than all of space and time and the opposite gender love interest is there also I guess

November 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM