Aria 💜
@ariaforfun.bsky.social
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For real tho have a great one y'all 💖
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
For real tho have a great one y'all 💖
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there's a certain way certain people write fiction about disability that really sets my teeth on edge, and it's an approach that I can only describe as 'educational hugboxing'
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
(🧵)
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
(🧵)
December 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
there's a certain way certain people write fiction about disability that really sets my teeth on edge, and it's an approach that I can only describe as 'educational hugboxing'
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
(🧵)
in this, portrayal of disability must be constantly affirming, and it must use specific and correct terminology
(🧵)
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🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
December 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers!
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heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!
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Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
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Honestly the thing to know about Blue Sky is it is all about interacting, tho not for like 'stats' or 'algorithm' if you want to thrive here you got to make GENUINE CONNECTIONS
Hashtags do work they get put in feeds, Starter Packs also help
However ya jus got to go back to the roots,
Socialize
Hashtags do work they get put in feeds, Starter Packs also help
However ya jus got to go back to the roots,
Socialize
To the influx of artists and people about to join in from another stupid move by shitty bird app, actually use this place. Genuinely, if you just make an account and leave, then there's no point. Try to post here whenever you can.
December 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Honestly the thing to know about Blue Sky is it is all about interacting, tho not for like 'stats' or 'algorithm' if you want to thrive here you got to make GENUINE CONNECTIONS
Hashtags do work they get put in feeds, Starter Packs also help
However ya jus got to go back to the roots,
Socialize
Hashtags do work they get put in feeds, Starter Packs also help
However ya jus got to go back to the roots,
Socialize
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I've just embraced sounding like a total bitch at this point.
Kids: it doesn't matter how many eyes you get on your comic if there's not much to see yet. 1,000 strangers looking at your inconsistent work and clicking away is inferior to one person seeing something good and telling their friends.
Kids: it doesn't matter how many eyes you get on your comic if there's not much to see yet. 1,000 strangers looking at your inconsistent work and clicking away is inferior to one person seeing something good and telling their friends.
I wish there was a way to tell young beginner cartoonists looking for promotional advice that they need to stop putting all their energy into marketing & work on their comic instead without sounding like a total bitch. my love, there is nothing to market
December 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I've just embraced sounding like a total bitch at this point.
Kids: it doesn't matter how many eyes you get on your comic if there's not much to see yet. 1,000 strangers looking at your inconsistent work and clicking away is inferior to one person seeing something good and telling their friends.
Kids: it doesn't matter how many eyes you get on your comic if there's not much to see yet. 1,000 strangers looking at your inconsistent work and clicking away is inferior to one person seeing something good and telling their friends.
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Sad that Costco *has to do this*, but cool that Costco is the kind of company that cares about the majority of it's membership such that *they're openly doing this*, despite it probably making some scalper dweebs incredibly pissy. This is $1.50 hot dog & soda (+ refill) thinking applied writ large.
It is hilariously pathetic that they have to do this because gigantic scalper manbabies wont let kids have fun
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Sad that Costco *has to do this*, but cool that Costco is the kind of company that cares about the majority of it's membership such that *they're openly doing this*, despite it probably making some scalper dweebs incredibly pissy. This is $1.50 hot dog & soda (+ refill) thinking applied writ large.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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This is going to significantly change the site and it’s all downwind of AI image editing stuff. Incredible own goal from X.
potential EME alert 🚨- apparently the Japanese are signing up to bluesky in droves. If you check the newskies feed 99% of posts are now Japanese
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is going to significantly change the site and it’s all downwind of AI image editing stuff. Incredible own goal from X.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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Bullying* works.
*Standing up for workers’ rights
*Standing up for workers’ rights
'Everything Will Be Made by Humans': Expedition 33 Dev Says No More AI After Post-Awards Heat. (Repost)
'Everything Will Be Made by Humans': Expedition 33 Dev Says No More AI After Post-Awards Heat
Generative AI "felt wrong"
www.pushsquare.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Bullying* works.
*Standing up for workers’ rights
*Standing up for workers’ rights
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It's quite simple:
If an account is based around "DRAMA WARNING!!!" or "GRIFT DETECTED!!!" or "CALL-OUT ALERT!!!" then you are dealing with a leech who is trying to farm e-fame.
"Look, the account can be trusted, it is run by..." Yeah, cool, you need better friends, and higher standards, shut up.
If an account is based around "DRAMA WARNING!!!" or "GRIFT DETECTED!!!" or "CALL-OUT ALERT!!!" then you are dealing with a leech who is trying to farm e-fame.
"Look, the account can be trusted, it is run by..." Yeah, cool, you need better friends, and higher standards, shut up.
just got informed they already had to retract Gang Of Dragons and will "keep an eye on it" purely because it was all based on vibes and nothing substantial lmao
please remember how bullshit this whole thing was on Twitter
please remember how bullshit this whole thing was on Twitter
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's quite simple:
If an account is based around "DRAMA WARNING!!!" or "GRIFT DETECTED!!!" or "CALL-OUT ALERT!!!" then you are dealing with a leech who is trying to farm e-fame.
"Look, the account can be trusted, it is run by..." Yeah, cool, you need better friends, and higher standards, shut up.
If an account is based around "DRAMA WARNING!!!" or "GRIFT DETECTED!!!" or "CALL-OUT ALERT!!!" then you are dealing with a leech who is trying to farm e-fame.
"Look, the account can be trusted, it is run by..." Yeah, cool, you need better friends, and higher standards, shut up.
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That picture of the girl on top of the other girl to do her makeup, but it's both Aerith and Tifa on top doing Cloud's makeup. 🥵
December 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
That picture of the girl on top of the other girl to do her makeup, but it's both Aerith and Tifa on top doing Cloud's makeup. 🥵
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Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I know I don’t talk about writing much. It is because I am writing so slowly.
But I want you to know that I am taking a part of this story that absolutely sucked and took me months to produce four of the worst chapters I have ever written and in the edit I figured out how to fix it.
But I want you to know that I am taking a part of this story that absolutely sucked and took me months to produce four of the worst chapters I have ever written and in the edit I figured out how to fix it.
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
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“They only use genAI for internal use”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
December 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“They only use genAI for internal use”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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At a city council meeting about an AI data center going up in my community. It's packed and people are furious. Calling the mayor and council members corrupt. Loud applause for open socialists and anarchists. Naked anti-capitalist rhetoric. Most folks here didn't even know about it until weeks ago.
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
At a city council meeting about an AI data center going up in my community. It's packed and people are furious. Calling the mayor and council members corrupt. Loud applause for open socialists and anarchists. Naked anti-capitalist rhetoric. Most folks here didn't even know about it until weeks ago.
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Breasting boobily down the stairs? Tits bounce when I walk? Yeah turns out all that's real btw, and yeah it does kick ass
December 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Breasting boobily down the stairs? Tits bounce when I walk? Yeah turns out all that's real btw, and yeah it does kick ass
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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The primary organiser of The Indie Game Awards, Six One Indie, has confirmed to This Week in Videogames that a recently resurfaced article from Spanish newspaper El País, where Sandfall Interactive clarified its use of genAI, was the catalyst for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's reconsideration.
The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone
Low-budget films like ‘Flow’ and ‘The Brutalist’ and video games like Clair Obscur are competing with major productions thanks to accessible tools like AI and free software
english.elpais.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The primary organiser of The Indie Game Awards, Six One Indie, has confirmed to This Week in Videogames that a recently resurfaced article from Spanish newspaper El País, where Sandfall Interactive clarified its use of genAI, was the catalyst for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's reconsideration.
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by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints
December 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
by far the funniest use case for AI is “I use it for powerpoints because I hate making them and nobody looks at them” because it kinda sounds like the real workflow savings would be to stop making powerpoints
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everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
quanticfoundry.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...