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Diana Lucifera 🌟

@dianamcqueen.bsky.social

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I don't like labels, but if you need a few, here's a couple that can describe me on a good day: Singer 🎤 Actor 🎭 Artist 🎨 Writer 📝 Archer 🏹 Feminist ♀️ Vegan 🌱 Cat person 🐈‍⬛ 日本語話者 🇯🇵 神道学者 ⛩️ ADHD 🧠 Bi 🩷💜🩵 AI 🚫 Always Winter, Never Christmas ❄️🌨️🌬️🩵

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2d

Joined this app to keep sharing stuff/socializing bc that seems so impossible in person these days, but honestly I'm still very depressed, have nothing to share let alone promote and I'm so tired of social media. When they stole my joy on TikTok I just let it go. Social media probably ruined my art.

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 6h

This is all to keep us from knowing he’s a pedof*le but the catch is - we already know he’s a pedof*le!

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loam aspected @wardeneater.bsky.social · 2h

ai can never replicate how oomfs go into gpose with two rocks, a prop ripped from a whole other game, a monster model broken in half and 3 espresso shots in their veins and come out the other side with nothing like what they expected but everything they wanted. i am oomfs. you are oomfs. ai is weak

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

I love the fact that this character got to spin off It was the least expected thing for me but it was so amazing to see it. I haven't been able to watch it because it's stuck behind a paywall but one of these days I'm going to sit down and watch the whole thing. I loved the good wife so much.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

And something in me wants to say something about how social media is just a tiny piece but honestly it's not even a canary in the coal mine It is a prime example of how the core of this country has become rotten with greed and apathy.

When corporations control everything humanity cannot survive.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

And that's why America is going to fail.

Something else might grow in its place. But fascists, Nazis, narcissists have destroyed any semblance of what America was trying to do and they did it slowly over the decades and also leaps and bounds.

You can't do surgery if the entire body is infected.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

Functioning societies do not have fascist ideological thugs violently keeping the peace.

Healthy functioning societies have trust they have clear systems of governance and fairness. And we have none of that right now.

You cannot force a healthy society that has all of the things we love in it.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know how the human race or even not the human race but America itself is going to survive this existential crisis of we put corporations in charge of everything and corporations do not give a s*** about anything.

We have eroded what makes a functioning society to the point of no return.

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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

And that means putting all of the policing all of the community protections on autopilot and then ripping away people's livelihoods and access to their income or their audience at the drop of a hat and then making the burden on the victim of this behavior last for days while they scramble to save it

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

These corporations are so clueless about even how to exploit people to keep it going long-term. And that is the core of all of this Is that billionaire corporations that don't give a s*** and want to run on autopilot don't care about the long term. They only care about the now.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

Like I cared about the production value I cared about editing I cared about costuming I cared about perfecting the performance. And I did all of that work for the sheer joy of doing it but also cracking jokes with people in the comments afterwards. TikTok destroyed that. It is insane to me.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

And I would rather put a password locked page on my own website that has two factor authentication that I can show my art to the people I need to see it then ever show anything on social media again and have a corporation benefit from my labor. TikTok was the first time in a long time I made stuff

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 1h

And yeah this might be depression and anxiety talking but it's a legitimate concern when you put something out into the world psychologically you no longer control that thing It belongs to literally everyone but as far as copyright and legality goes The corporations control everything.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

I will never be okay with putting art on the internet again. I even have a hard time putting it on my own website which is really hard when you're trying to build your portfolio up again so that you can actually get hired to do what you love.

I just don't want anyone to touch my art ever again.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Like my profile picture is going on two and a half years old at this point because that was the last decent picture that I took of myself that is still kind of artistic and not really just a candid shot of me. But also it feels more like an art piece that I am okay with losing control over...

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

The due to minor body dysmorphia, I still don't really feel like I found my own personal aesthetic yet for this era of my life or whatever... But also I wanted people to share those other images of me I didn't care what happened to them because they were public facing images. Now I don't feel safe.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

But even now mostly because I'm not really doing anything in the performing arts currently I don't like posting pictures of myself anymore because there's no point? I used to make art with selfies and my camera every single day for fun and just creative exercises I didn't think about.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

So it was a much more organic inclination to share images of myself that were partially owned by other artists because we were all posting it together for either publicity of the event or publicity of the photographer's work and my modeling experience.. And that felt like a buffer to me.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

On Instagram it's almost all I did luckily when Instagram first launched I was actually a performing artist and not really a graphic artist anymore.. So I didn't really fully own all of my work because it was collaborative and I wasn't the director or the playwright. Or even the photographer.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Like people who post their art I want them to get what they want I want them to go viral if they want I want them to get attention if they want I want them to get positive interaction that's what I would want... But ultimately I just don't want to put my art out in the world anymore. Bc of this.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

All of these terms of service that are so long that not a single person has sat down and read them all because it doesn't really matter what they say you have to be on social media in order to be relevant as a business these days. But I've never liked it and I'm sick of pretending I like it.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Those were services that I was contracting with in order to grow my own business but social media is so exploitative that people have given up their own websites and their own control over their own work in order to get exposure or to combine exposure with socialization. That never felt right to me.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Before social media I had my own website and I would go on message boards and other people's websites to just socialize or post links to my website that would drive traffic to something that I like 95% created if you don't count storage and paying for services having to do with website maintenance.

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

It wasn't just evil corporations not holding up their end of the bargain even though they were making money hand over fist... And it wasn't the psychological pull to post instead of make things anymore... Ultimately even at the very beginning of social media I hated it bc I had to trust a company

Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 2h

Like it really feels like these corporations are so out of touch that they think that they're just canceling like a teenager's fun hobby account and just slapping them on the wrist instead they're killing people's careers that are basically also victims of their exploitation. It's insane.