Spring
@springcritter.bsky.social
XFX, loving Xiao Zhan ❤
New and old SPINs: birds, Critical Role, MDZS, Discworld etc.
Hobby artist, Music lover 🎶
+30, she/her, Queer and Autistic
No AI, no NFT
No RPS
New and old SPINs: birds, Critical Role, MDZS, Discworld etc.
Hobby artist, Music lover 🎶
+30, she/her, Queer and Autistic
No AI, no NFT
No RPS
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Heather's new TED talk on AI and human identity, is now online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...
How artists can protect their work from AI | Dr. Heather Zheng | TEDxChicago
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Heather's new TED talk on AI and human identity, is now online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...
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The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all
August 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all
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Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld
automaton-media.com/en/news/stea...
automaton-media.com/en/news/stea...
Steam adult game programmer has account frozen by PayPal, £80,000 in earnings withheld - AUTOMATON WEST
PayPal froze £80,000 of a Steam programmer's earnings because of their involvement in developing adult games.
automaton-media.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
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For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for
August 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for
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The Valley of Omar
August 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Valley of Omar
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List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚
August 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚
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#artfight I have a new obsession and it's called Findiana Jones, thanks to @spiritcrowart.bsky.social
I will die for this tuna
#art #movieparody #indianajones #lastcrusade
I will die for this tuna
#art #movieparody #indianajones #lastcrusade
August 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#artfight I have a new obsession and it's called Findiana Jones, thanks to @spiritcrowart.bsky.social
I will die for this tuna
#art #movieparody #indianajones #lastcrusade
I will die for this tuna
#art #movieparody #indianajones #lastcrusade
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Aspen trees are growing taller in Yellowstone thanks to wolves that prey on elk, which graze on trees.
Since wolves’ return, Yellowstone’s aspens are recovering, study finds
The researchers found a 152-fold increase in sapling and young-tree density.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Aspen trees are growing taller in Yellowstone thanks to wolves that prey on elk, which graze on trees.
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CAMPAIGN 4 IS COMIN' ATCHA! 🎲🔥
Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks!
WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT youtu.be/mEuwZbNde2s?...
Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks!
WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT youtu.be/mEuwZbNde2s?...
August 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
CAMPAIGN 4 IS COMIN' ATCHA! 🎲🔥
Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks!
WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT youtu.be/mEuwZbNde2s?...
Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks!
WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT youtu.be/mEuwZbNde2s?...
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If you don't know what my reskeets about Unbound/Boundless are about, here's my previous statement on 'em: effinbirds.com/post/7856233...
Statement on Unbound
June 6th, 2025
Unbound, my former UK publisher, owe me a lot of money.
What’s worse, though, is that during their collapse, it came to light that they were underreporting my sales and shorting my...
effinbirds.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
If you don't know what my reskeets about Unbound/Boundless are about, here's my previous statement on 'em: effinbirds.com/post/7856233...
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there is nothing I love more than making random art gifts for people and I cannot recommend it enough
people keep saying they want year round artfight and i’m here to hold your hands and tell you the greatest power you have as an artist is slam dunking random gift art into someone’s dms and watching them freak out
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
there is nothing I love more than making random art gifts for people and I cannot recommend it enough
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No one is safe from their violence. Her story is absolutely horrific. No one should be traveling to the US.
Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained
«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...
www.nzz.ch
July 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No one is safe from their violence. Her story is absolutely horrific. No one should be traveling to the US.
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Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
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WE HAVE OCD. A whole episode w/ ICON Dr. Wayne Goodman.
Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope.
Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP.
www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...
Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope.
Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP.
www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...
Obsessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Dr. Wayne Goodman — alie ward
Ruminations and reassurances. Checking and counting. Suffering and stigmas. It’s OCD, babes! OCD is now considered one of the most common psychiatric conditions, afflicting 2% to 3% of the general pop...
www.alieward.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
WE HAVE OCD. A whole episode w/ ICON Dr. Wayne Goodman.
Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope.
Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP.
www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...
Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope.
Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP.
www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...
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🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Major Indie Marketplace Itch.io Shadowbans NSFW Content, Trans Authors Impacted
A dangerous escalation against free speech and literary preservation from a longtime haven for transfeminine literature.
thetransfemininereview.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: In a dangerous evening escalation of the anti-porn war on the gaming industry, indie platform @itch.io has banned a number of NSFW titles and delisted thousands of others.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
Trans authors are caught in the crossfire.
MasterCard, Visa, and anti-porn group Collective Shout drove the ban.
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Guys, I just found itch io has been secretly taking down nsfw and adult content from being searchable. This is so f***ing bad, please sign this, people's livelihoods are on the line.
Let’s change gears. Do some good
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.
Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.
action.aclu.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Guys, I just found itch io has been secretly taking down nsfw and adult content from being searchable. This is so f***ing bad, please sign this, people's livelihoods are on the line.
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lrp rly great resource, and to add specifically for comic hosting, rarebit is a 100% free & accessible template that just uses basic html/css + some javascript if you want a comic site independent of places like webtoon / tapas! its not live yet but i use rarebit for my comic site & it works well!!
July 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
lrp rly great resource, and to add specifically for comic hosting, rarebit is a 100% free & accessible template that just uses basic html/css + some javascript if you want a comic site independent of places like webtoon / tapas! its not live yet but i use rarebit for my comic site & it works well!!
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Important info from our friends at Trees Winnipeg:
"An urgent appeal to water your trees!
Winnipeg has received about one-third of the precipitation that it normally does at this point in the year, and there is no significant rainfall in the forecast as we head into the hottest weeks. ..."
"An urgent appeal to water your trees!
Winnipeg has received about one-third of the precipitation that it normally does at this point in the year, and there is no significant rainfall in the forecast as we head into the hottest weeks. ..."
July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Important info from our friends at Trees Winnipeg:
"An urgent appeal to water your trees!
Winnipeg has received about one-third of the precipitation that it normally does at this point in the year, and there is no significant rainfall in the forecast as we head into the hottest weeks. ..."
"An urgent appeal to water your trees!
Winnipeg has received about one-third of the precipitation that it normally does at this point in the year, and there is no significant rainfall in the forecast as we head into the hottest weeks. ..."
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Penguin Daily Affirmation: Rest is productive, too. 🐧✨
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July 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Penguin Daily Affirmation: Rest is productive, too. 🐧✨
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