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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 6h

It’s Dork Bath Friday and I’ve just had a bath, with a documentary about the Bronze Age playing, as well as a glass of red wine, and three rubber duckies were present.
🐥🐥🐥🍷🧼🦴
How are you doing self-care tonight? Don’t. Skip. It.

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 12h

I think more and more people care and that as a whole, we are not quite the boomer-ass disconnected grift-loving asswipes he thinks we are.

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 12h

Yep. And “content “

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 12h

Sawdust-makin’!

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 13h

ALSO, ALSO.
Just an idea concerning "The consumer does not care if what they are looking at is AI"

What if *enough of the audience* cared?

Historically, we have been able to make movies lose money. We have done this together and I'd like to believe we can do it again.

Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 13h

Didn't I read "the entire Disney catalogue is not enough to make good AI" recently?

SURELY, if it turns out it can't be done ethically (toootally unrelated to this being the reason they made it with theft right off the fucking bat) we will all just say "oh well" and go home. Or buy data. SURELY. 💩

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 13h

I ain't ceding mine

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 13h

Didn't I read "the entire Disney catalogue is not enough to make good AI" recently?

SURELY, if it turns out it can't be done ethically (toootally unrelated to this being the reason they made it with theft right off the fucking bat) we will all just say "oh well" and go home. Or buy data. SURELY. 💩

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 14h

Pure joy 🥰

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Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 1d

A look back four years to a classic chase with Daisy, Widget, Trigger & Taz the emu

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 14h

day 2!!

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 14h

I bet his parents gave him trophies whenever he flunked an elementary school class and they had to bribe the teacher so he wouldn’t stay in preschool forever.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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A.L. Kaplan @alkcomics.bsky.social · 10d

Strange Illumination

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 2d

I couldn’t agree more, it’s just that I always feel like telling them we find joy in creation is like giving them a gift. I think they revel in the thought of taking it away. They are jealous and malevolent beings.

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 2d

It bothers me that our first reaction is often about pleasure.

AI ghouls never cared about fun: their perfect world is exploiting you or eliminating you once they are done picking your carcass.

My disgust is not about fun. It’s that the machine is using our blood to make shitty soylent.

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Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 3d

Aw jayyy, love u too! 💜 Thank you

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 3d

YOU FOUND IT, hahaha

Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 3d

*proceeds to move to London immediately *

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d

Drawtober Day 7: Vampire
(Used ball-point pen for this Them)
#drawtober #Halloweenie

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 3d

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Marianne Martin @mariannemartin.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe I shouldn’t say here, which is an interesting aspect of social media eh?
But we can play charades or something!

It starts with W and ends with K!
And it’s the thing you go back to after a vacation!