crabby 🦀 they/them
@raspberrycrab.bsky.social
30s. adhd. nerd. writer.
anxiously awaiting the next crab rave 💃
anxiously awaiting the next crab rave 💃
Pinned
30s. they/them 🏳️🌈 #lgbt+ #pagan
you can call me crabs or crabby 🦀
💻: #htmlcss #twine #python
🎨: #fibercrafts #tabletweaving #printmaking #stampcarving #doodles
🎬: #jurassicpark #studioghibli #potc #themummy1999
📚📝: #originalfiction #fantasy #sciencefiction #romance
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#promosky (more below)
you can call me crabs or crabby 🦀
💻: #htmlcss #twine #python
🎨: #fibercrafts #tabletweaving #printmaking #stampcarving #doodles
🎬: #jurassicpark #studioghibli #potc #themummy1999
📚📝: #originalfiction #fantasy #sciencefiction #romance
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#promosky (more below)
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I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
May 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!
well, we do. so fuck off.
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One thing I think about a lot from working on Blight's Hollow is my co-creator, Oli, a writer/TTRPG dev, telling me "This arrangement is great because I wouldn't be able to afford you otherwise." I don't know why more indie projects don't make up for small budgets by enticing top talent w/ ownership
artists and writers should be co creators on more projects
May 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
One thing I think about a lot from working on Blight's Hollow is my co-creator, Oli, a writer/TTRPG dev, telling me "This arrangement is great because I wouldn't be able to afford you otherwise." I don't know why more indie projects don't make up for small budgets by enticing top talent w/ ownership
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Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
May 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
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Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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People increasingly recognize it's not okay to use generative AI trained on artists' or writers' work to get out of paying artists or writers, I'd like to humbly submit it's not okay for artists, writers, etc to use generative AI trained on programmers' work to get out of paying programmers either 🥲
May 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
People increasingly recognize it's not okay to use generative AI trained on artists' or writers' work to get out of paying artists or writers, I'd like to humbly submit it's not okay for artists, writers, etc to use generative AI trained on programmers' work to get out of paying programmers either 🥲
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You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225.
“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.
“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.
“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225.
“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.
“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
“This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author.
“Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
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Hear ye! Hear Ye! The new Disability in LIS Journal (DisLIS) is now actively recruiting media reviews (books, movies, websites, what have you) of materials that have disability as a major component, from people who have experience with that disability. cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/
Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) | Journals | Minnesota State University, Mankato
<p><i>Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) </i> is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All m...
cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu
May 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Hear ye! Hear Ye! The new Disability in LIS Journal (DisLIS) is now actively recruiting media reviews (books, movies, websites, what have you) of materials that have disability as a major component, from people who have experience with that disability. cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/
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I know the law
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I know the law
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NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.
The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
NEW: The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.
The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
The change quietly went into effect last year. It looks like a lot of SoundCloud users were caught off guard.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
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Authors Against Book Bans is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds to help engage more folks in those areas! Join here. @authorsabb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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AABB Special Expertise Request
Because our expertise is centered strongly in the traditional publishing world, AABB is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds. We're lo...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Authors Against Book Bans is seeking subject matter experts/veterans of the Academic Publishing, Comics, and Self-Publishing worlds to help engage more folks in those areas! Join here. @authorsabb.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
ok then... deleted all our songs that we uploaded to Soundcloud and now closing account:
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
(open the link and search for the word "train")
Terms of Use - Listen to music
soundcloud.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TLDR, Soundcloud has put it in their terms of service that must agree to letting them use your music to train AI.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
If you're on the site, get off now and move your stuff elsewhere.
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@tkingfisher.com Real life White Rat propaganda?
May 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
@tkingfisher.com Real life White Rat propaganda?
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COMMENTARY from Malinda Lo, the author of one of the books being pulled from SC public school libraries...
Why is sex so scary to book banners? scdailygazette.com/2025/05/08/w...
Why is sex so scary to book banners? scdailygazette.com/2025/05/08/w...
Why is sex so scary to book banners? • SC Daily Gazette
Commentary from Malinda Lo, the author of one of the books the State Board of Education ruled must be pulled from K-12 library shelves.
scdailygazette.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
COMMENTARY from Malinda Lo, the author of one of the books being pulled from SC public school libraries...
Why is sex so scary to book banners? scdailygazette.com/2025/05/08/w...
Why is sex so scary to book banners? scdailygazette.com/2025/05/08/w...
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I always try to hammer home art is a trade skill, it needs to be seen as a hands-on labor occupation. It's not an indulgence, it's real work, real sweat, real time investment.
genAI arguments only make as much headway as they do because people don't see art that way
genAI arguments only make as much headway as they do because people don't see art that way
May 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I always try to hammer home art is a trade skill, it needs to be seen as a hands-on labor occupation. It's not an indulgence, it's real work, real sweat, real time investment.
genAI arguments only make as much headway as they do because people don't see art that way
genAI arguments only make as much headway as they do because people don't see art that way
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One of the things I wish more DMs would do: have animals interact with the magic of the world.
What, like humans are the only ones who've worked out spells?
Your telling me a New Caledonian Crow can't figure out how to cast Goodberry?
What, like humans are the only ones who've worked out spells?
Your telling me a New Caledonian Crow can't figure out how to cast Goodberry?
The emus have formed a complete circle, which is beginning to manifest a giant glowing swirl of energy.
ASSASSIN: Maybe we shouldn’t let them summon their giant emu god?
PALADIN: MAYBE WE SHOULDN’T ENRAGE THE GIANT EMU GOD?
ASSASSIN: Maybe we shouldn’t let them summon their giant emu god?
PALADIN: MAYBE WE SHOULDN’T ENRAGE THE GIANT EMU GOD?
May 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
One of the things I wish more DMs would do: have animals interact with the magic of the world.
What, like humans are the only ones who've worked out spells?
Your telling me a New Caledonian Crow can't figure out how to cast Goodberry?
What, like humans are the only ones who've worked out spells?
Your telling me a New Caledonian Crow can't figure out how to cast Goodberry?
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*me, lying facedown on the bed, yelling into the mattress:
"WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"
"WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"
May 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
*me, lying facedown on the bed, yelling into the mattress:
"WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"
"WHY DO THOSE OF US WHO DIDN'T FUCK AROUND ALSO HAVE TO FIND OUT"
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If you think that saying “get out of here, you jerk” is worse than sending people out of this country, away from friends and family, to be imprisoned without a trial, your civility is rotten all the way through.
May 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
If you think that saying “get out of here, you jerk” is worse than sending people out of this country, away from friends and family, to be imprisoned without a trial, your civility is rotten all the way through.
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It feels trite to quote fiction but all I can think of is the Adama quote: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
“Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime”
April 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It feels trite to quote fiction but all I can think of is the Adama quote: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."
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Why did we become convinced that the answer was always “disruption”, when experience tells us that the achievement of civilisation is the opposite? The move from chaos to organisation. The move from vulnerability to stability.
Move carefully and fix things.
Move carefully and fix things.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Why did we become convinced that the answer was always “disruption”, when experience tells us that the achievement of civilisation is the opposite? The move from chaos to organisation. The move from vulnerability to stability.
Move carefully and fix things.
Move carefully and fix things.
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Struggling with social cues as an autistic person isn't necessarily missing them entirely. It's sometimes being painfully aware that someone's annoyed with you... knowing you're making it worse with every word... and having absolutely NO idea why it's happening or how to fix it.
May 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Struggling with social cues as an autistic person isn't necessarily missing them entirely. It's sometimes being painfully aware that someone's annoyed with you... knowing you're making it worse with every word... and having absolutely NO idea why it's happening or how to fix it.
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A Titanfall extraction shooter would have whipped ass, probably.
But that's because Titanfall ANYTHING would whip ass and I think we should NOT cancel the game or fire the team building Titanfall
Thanks for coming to my lecture: we should all play movement-centric shooters and have a lot of fun
But that's because Titanfall ANYTHING would whip ass and I think we should NOT cancel the game or fire the team building Titanfall
Thanks for coming to my lecture: we should all play movement-centric shooters and have a lot of fun
April 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A Titanfall extraction shooter would have whipped ass, probably.
But that's because Titanfall ANYTHING would whip ass and I think we should NOT cancel the game or fire the team building Titanfall
Thanks for coming to my lecture: we should all play movement-centric shooters and have a lot of fun
But that's because Titanfall ANYTHING would whip ass and I think we should NOT cancel the game or fire the team building Titanfall
Thanks for coming to my lecture: we should all play movement-centric shooters and have a lot of fun
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April 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic