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ZipDeer

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Furry musculoskeletal therapist/strength & conditioning dude. Been working in health & performance since '09. Vegan. Guitarist. Brazilian jiujitsu black belt & judo brown belt, wrestling practitioner.

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 3d

wint @dril
its actually beautiful how half the posters here think its open mic night and the other half think theyre at some sort of permanent funeral

(Curators note: this was actually about twitter, not bluesky)

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 1d

You may attempt to silence them with force!

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Ash @acubed.art · 2d

My thoughts on the gen ai normalization I've been seeing recently:

I'm seeing this from different people:
"We must experiment with these tools to understand them and our place in the industry in the future."
I hear coming from the Trojan horse.
They weren't built with the idea of keeping artists on these projects, they were built as replacements and to save on the "bottom line". Gen ai and llms are used currently as replacements, and they're just going to get better.
No experimenting needed dudes, they are designed so that a 2 year old can use them, if you know how to photobash youll be able to learn this workflow in 30 minutes if you so desperately needed to.
Refusing to use them is standing in solidarity with the thousands affected and more so stolen from. Using them is crossing an active picket line and breathing life into a future where you no longer create art for media, you assist ai until the corporate machine no longer needs you to assist it. This issue is so much larger than the arts. We were just the canaries in the coal mine.
We have the ability to stand firm on this and create the industry and world we wish to live in, not one we are forced to by people with interests directly harming our existence. I owe too much of my own life to art and what it has brought me in my darkest times than to capitulate.

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 1d

Articulate this further

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 1d

And yet so few people have thrown their balls at me

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell it's 7pm when you posted this because you were at a polite enough stage of the evening that you'd label something so gently mild as "adult"

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 2d

If learning something was the same as seeing something, visiting a library would make me the equivalent of a PhD without having to so much as read a single book

We've had public information access for a lot longer than AI, the internet is full of free information

Adding errors doesn't improve it

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 2d

MP3s were the best way of going about things and I'm willing to stand by that for the rest of my life

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 3d

I really enjoyed exploring Tokyo by e-scooter - so many nice back roads to navigate through

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 3d

You might be interested in this old BBC show:

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Being Human (British TV series) - Wikipedia

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 4d

Got my Brazilian Jiujitsu black belt this Saturday after a mere 16 years of training

A long and challenging road across 4 towns, 6 gyms, a handful of competitions, a few minor injuries, a few not-so-minor injuries, wins, losses, ups and downs, and now here we are at the belt I'll have the longest.

Two folks stand in Brazilian Jiujitsu gis, one blue, one white, both wearing black belts - the person in the white gi has also got a brown belt around his neck, implying he had just received the black belt (which he had!)

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 8d

Extremely. It is a great MOVIE by every metric, not just a fun genre piece

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 8d

Did you enjoy Hereditary?

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Squid @squidinu.bsky.social · 10d

office persona

drawing of a party werewolf named Rocco dressed in business attire and standing alone in a space with his back turned from his sparkly neon furry counterpart.

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 10d

a cartoon of homer simpson saying i 'm squeezing im squeezing it

Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson squeezing a penny whilst saying i 'm squeezing im squeezing it, shortly before the penny migrates beyond his skin his skin and slowly floats more proximally through his upper limb, making its way to his control centres for who knows WHAT purpose

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ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 10d

I get a nice one from St Pancras whenever I'm traveling

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 12d

A startlingly similar start to the day as those who work as early morning toast interrogators

ZipDeer @zipdeer.bsky.social · 13d

WHEN ONE SIDE NUMBER GO UP

OTHER SIDE NUMBER ALSO GO UP

AAAAA

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 14d

a punk in the park! 🌳🦖

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pye the velociraptor fursuit leaning on a fallen tree, with green grass and a blue sky in the background