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🔞AnemoneArt @anemoneart.bsky.social · May 21

I've had this pose for Hades (The Hades Calculus) in mind for a while, but it never materialized quite as clearly until last night. A goddess so somber as the lord of the machine dead should stand as a statue, a monolith, so that even the cracks on her facade may speak more of power than frailty.

A woman seen from the front, wearing heavy black robes that cover all but her arms and a long v neck down to the navel. Her body and robes bear glowing golden cracks, breaking into spots of light and smoke. On the background, a stylized pomegranate tree with unfeasibly large fruit.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 6h

The one has giant crosses and queen also has exactly one arms on each side of her body and a pair of legs, QED.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 6h

I swear, 9/10 times I try to come up with an on the nose evil corporate or research group; I give it the perfunctory search and an org with that name already exists.

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 11h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 14h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 1d

Mei is, to the enlightened, parodixally somehow less obviously a lady than Gero; which kinda highlights a strength of the scale centered on who can see it, I think.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

the Mizuki Coefficient. 0.0 mizu indicates that the character in question is not a tgirl and nobody believes them to be one. ~0.25 is just the tgirls see it. ~0.5 is that queer/trans ppl as a whole see it but the straights dont. ~0.75 is that everyone except the straight guys see it. ~0.95 is that shes basically canon but it hasnt been told to the viewer directly yet. ~1.0 is that she is confirmed and the transness is relevant to her character

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 1d

Would Mei Marriagetoxin fall closer to .75 or .5? Gero is obviously somewhere .15-.25…

Mei’s fandom wiki talk page lacks years of back and forth sniping over whether you can call Mei a girl; which feels like the definitive sign of a score over .75, but that might also be a popularity thing.

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Velvette @velvette.bsky.social · 3d

Since some people are discovering Ranked Competitive Breast Growth reminder that I have made a free amateur audiobook reading (with some acting) of the public chapters and side stories!

ether.aetherial.xyz/ranked-compe...

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth audiobook

My amateur audiobook for the public chapters of Ranked Competitive Breast Growth by Beth and Talia totalling over 15 hours of narration.

ether.aetherial.xyz

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 1d

Finally sat down to read this last night and it really is every bit as fun as people say. Brainworms for days with a surprising amount of heart and sincerity in the relationships beneath it all.

Highly recommend!

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

The compiled RCBG web-serial is now available as a singular work on Itch! Lightly edited for the medium, with some side content now incorporated into the main canon, and an amazing cover by @hdthorn.bsky.social!

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial by Talia Bhatt

All chapters of the web serial RCBG, in one convenient location!

taliabhatt.itch.io

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

I find them mildly annoying, but they do stop slowdown with long pieces of prose or a ton of comments/suggestions

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

Tabs can solve the issue two if you 1. Prefer single files for organization and 2. Don’t hate tabs

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

The compiled RCBG web-serial is now available as a singular work on Itch! Lightly edited for the medium, with some side content now incorporated into the main canon, and an amazing cover by @hdthorn.bsky.social!

Ranked Competitive Breast Growth: The Complete Serial by Talia Bhatt

All chapters of the web serial RCBG, in one convenient location!

taliabhatt.itch.io

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

Like, I don’t think that’s what you intend. I respect you a lot as an advocate.

But this seems to offer a model of volition that demands a lot out of people who are often the most structurally disadvantaged in their industry.

Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

More, the idea that there is always a choice to say no to, in this context, being the subject of misogynistic abuse, is itself a supposition that leads much more quickly to much more immediately horrifying positions.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

Like, I dislike “given” as a term there too, but it’s an off the cuff skeet and at the point where you’re suggesting saying capitalist institutions coerce people, particularly women, but using imperfect language is just mirroring fascism, you may be somewhat missing the forest for the trees.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 2d

It is fundamentally ridiculous to say that “actors are often coerced into doing things and we should acknowledge this is bad,” is a fascist take.

If we think in these terms, the initial critique critique, in suggesting AI can’t choose and humans adopts a liberal-individualist idea of consent.

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nemo @nemolimo.bsky.social · 3d

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · 2d

Live reading Keeping the Peace by @trishusband.itch.io. While this cyberpunk trans lesbian noir is set in Gunmetal Olympus, it can be read entirely as a standalone.

trishusband.itch.io/keeping-the-...

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 3d

It means “doesn’t exist in some cases,” which is the exact at scale situation envisioned with AI actors coexisting in the industry with human ones.

The idea that this in particular is a way AI worsens things is to imagine a version of the film industry that isn’t already structured around misogyny

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 3d

“Presumes that actors can, in practice, say “no” even.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 3d

The point is not that the AI could be abused, any more than that a fictional character in a book or comic can abused. The claim is that AI’s inability to object removes a structural barrier inhibiting more misogynistic content in film.

But that barrier often doesn’t exist under present conditions.

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 3d

The argument is that AI’s inability to consent will lead to trashier and more misogynistic content (because current actors cannot say “no” and that obstacle would go away).

This, in turn, presumes that actors cannot say, in practice say “no” which is only sometimes the case.

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M-1R @hovermyr.bsky.social · 4d

the problem with mechsploitation is that if you turn a girl into a dog that's also an ace pilot you've just succeeded in creating Snoopy

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 3d

While this is definitely true, I do worry that framing the issue as such somewhat oversells human autonomy.

Like, often it seems that many humans can’t meaningfully refuse in the industry, and I worry that suggesting this as a change from shifting to AI envisions a much more just today than exists.

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