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Level 30+ and Tired. Going to try to be more active and less lurking hermit.

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EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 18h

I just finished reading Hello Sunshine this morning! It is so good, beautiful art and great characters and I'm still full of feelings about them. I just came across this post on tumblr, too, and thought it fit well with the points in your author's note. Good luck with the convention!

Tumblr post by user theautisticschizo. Text says:
I always say that psychosis is a natural part of human experience or state of mind. And guess what, non psychotics get MAD when I say that. "No, it's not natural or normal at all! Don't normalize it!" Guess what happens if you haven't slept in a few days? Psychosis. Guess what can happen when you're too stressed? Psychosis. Guess what can happen from physical conditions? Psychosis. Psychosis is the same type of normal that any other negative state of mind is. Someone experiencing depression due to circumstances? Normal. Someone dissociating during a stressful event? Normal. Psychosis isn't different. ANYONE can experience psychosis and it doesn't even have to be a disorder. Psychotic disorders are disorders due to the frequency and intensity of psychosis. People need to stop demonizing normal human experiences.

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

This AI is offered at extremely subsidized prices. People don't realize they are not paying the actual price, that limit caps will come, and it's not so good for how much that will cost.

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's actually here to stay? At least not in this saturation. AI companies are currently operating at a massive loss. At some point they either have to jack up prices or implode. They're banking on companies being too embedded to leave once the real price tag arrives

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

Any bird feeder is a squirrel feeder with extra challenges for mental enrichment

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

I think they also change prices based on views. Plus I once bought a "only 1 left in stock" item only to look back at it and see it was absolutely still in stock and being sold. They are SHADY

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

I miss Cracked. ;-;

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff also used to be made from things people could reuse. Fabric, wood, metal scrap. But cities and suburbs are designed to be more hostile to gathering, loitering, street vending. The separation from skills, materials, time, and community means we only have our allotment of money to fall back on.

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

There was a massive cultural shift from "housing is cheap, stuff is expensive" to housing becoming expensive and stuff is cheap. It also used to be that people had skills to make more of their own items (or knew someone in their local community who could) but we've been isolated from craft

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and all the gas being burned off instead of collected...do they think Texans hate money?

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 2d

Errands are essentially "living logistics." And I've seen job posts for "assistants to CEO/executive" where the job duties included picking up dry cleaning or laundry service or groceries. Companies subsidize this for their highest earners yet they don't value the people doing it.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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

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

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 3d

A flaming skull screams yes. Yes. YESSSSS!!

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a cardboard box with Time Machine written in sharpie, it's legit

a person is opening a cardboard box with their bare feet

ALT: a person is opening a cardboard box with their bare feet

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EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 4d

An astronaut on the moon looks in awe at the space before them. Painted by an actual astronaut - cannot recall the name right now

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Aleksi Gray @ The Bard and the Messenger @alakotila.bsky.social · 6d

My new coloring book "Fabulous" (A Fancy Fantasy Guys Coloring Book) is available! My local bookshop confirmed they're able to order it, so folks should be able to order at their bookshops too ^^

Cover image may not be showing up yet, so I'm attaching a pic:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fabulous-a...

Image of a coloring book cover. It depicts a smiling satyr wearing colorful, patterned clothes in greens and pinks. he wears bells and tassels and ribbons and wields some type of spear. His long blonde hair is in a braid and he wears flowers in his hair. The cover title is "Fabulous" and it reads "A coloring book by Aleksi Gray" in the lower right corner.

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 4d

Ooooh made a request at my library for Jack of Thorns

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah a lot of jobs do not like accommodating a sick person's schedule. It's one thing to have wheelchair access in the workplace, it's another to fire someone because they ran out of allotted sick days but still can't come in. Plus limited or nonexistent public transit schedules!

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 4d

Are they making a big deal out of the hour-ish of television difference? The chart shows people spend two more hours caring for others. And even tv time is probably "on-call" time for most. It's an easy activity to drop when grandma needs her butt wiped.

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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 6d

Hang in there, struggling artists

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for saying this

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Cassandra Jean @cassandrajean.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh today is Angel Day?
Share your angels! 🪽

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Elwyn's Sketchbook @ewylana-sketchbook.bsky.social · 7d

Repostober day 3 : A stone study done in 2023, still really proud of this one !

#art #study #repostober

A study of some minerals on a white paper

EmCaCo @emcaco.bsky.social · 7d

Scrolling, I thought this was just a neat photo until I read "study" then had to double take and look again