By the standards of what else could have happened, this obviously counts as good news, but the good news these days consists of the US president backing down from a totally unprovoked genocidal threat he issued in the first place.
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
You don't need to watch this. The trailer, the show, none of it.
You are not a child anymore. There are other stories.
Potter may have once been a well of inspiration or joy, but that well is poisoned by the venom of its creator who sees every engagement as endorsement of her war on trans people.
for MY birthday i'm giving YOU a new podcast from me & @jessfrom.online!!! i'm so glad will was on this first episode bc i had New Project Nerves but gameschatting with them is such a treat every time that i was like ohhhh wait.... we're just doing my favourite thing which is talking abt games.. 🥰
bookmarking so I can read later ty for sharing
yes finally i have successfully engineered an excuse to regularly invite people to have conversations with me on mic about game design
What service??
My latest premium newsletter piece is about the conservative obsession with their own cultural impotence.
same sadjkasndkja there was one specific character I played a few years ago who was basically pulled directly from Alexis down to me doing similar hand things, but if Alexis was a monsterhearts fae who loved Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals
If Jacob Elordi wins playing The Creature after Emma Stone won for Poor Things, that's creating a clear path to victory for any actor (play a reanimated corpse)
Everybody knows Sinners is in theaters again this weekend, right?
You’re welcome!
This really gets to the core of what makes Vance such a detestable figure
introduce yourself with five concerts
Carly Rae Jepsen
Bruce Springsteen
The National
Chappell Roan
JADE (well, in less than a month)
Event submissions are now open for CanGames 2026 from May 15-17 in Ottawa! We would love plenty of roleplaying games of all sorts, particularly from Canadian creators. cangames.ca
in the past week more than 400 people have cumulatively donated more than $23,500 to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
it would be *amazing* to hit $26,000 by the time the video drops tomorrow 👀
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Hey you! Are you a TTRPG writer staring at discourse on bluesky??? Would you rather be writing for a game? I want to pay you (at $0.20/word) to write for a zine month project!
I'm seeking folks interested in folk stories and examining power structures in storytelling!
not in my world. not in the world I'm living in.
Felipe.mp3 you are a genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOx...
![The main villain across Black Mirror is AI. At this moment in time and at the current pace AI is accelerating, how terrified are you of it?
Ying Yang. There’s two fronts that you’re looking at it. One is the professional end in front of the industry and what it means for creativity. And the other is, are we going to get terminated — is that happening? Do you know Ed Zitron?
I don’t think so.
You should look him up. He’s extremely cynical about LLMs [Large Language Models] and chatbots and stuff like this. He is convinced this is a massive bubble. There’s a lot of that thought going on at the moment that the LLM side of things is a kind of bubble that’s brewing — and how useful are they, really? For somebody who does a show that is worrying out loud a lot of the time about unforeseen consequences of amazing inventions, I can catastrophize with the best of them very quickly. And I can also, sort of think — I can see the value in these things if they’re used correctly as tools, basically. I can see the value in a tool creatively. I can see the value in a tool that a human being is deploying in that way. I can see the value in the tools in Photoshop. It’s when is when people go, “Oh, well, take your hands off the keyboard, walk away” — I don’t see who that’s for.
The thing that worries me about, like AI imagery — you feed the screenplay into it, and it pumps out a whole movie — is a smaller concern than: “Oh God. Society will crumble because we’ll just be flooded with misinformation.” That scares me more on a deeper animal level than the industry things. But the industry stuff worries me too. … I flip-flop between cautious optimism — or at least thinking — “Maybe this is just a big bubble and it’ll all go away,” and thinking, “Oh, we’re fucked.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreihhvdt7zukixvqvoryswtwjwufcxf5ra5rdbdpkzmyavafyv2hwbm)
The main villain across Black Mirror is AI. At this moment in time and at the current pace AI is accelerating, how terrified are you of it? Ying Yang. There’s two fronts that you’re looking at it. One is the professional end in front of the industry and what it means for creativity. And the other is, are we going to get terminated — is that happening? Do you know Ed Zitron? I don’t think so. You should look him up. He’s extremely cynical about LLMs [Large Language Models] and chatbots and stuff like this. He is convinced this is a massive bubble. There’s a lot of that thought going on at the moment that the LLM side of things is a kind of bubble that’s brewing — and how useful are they, really? For somebody who does a show that is worrying out loud a lot of the time about unforeseen consequences of amazing inventions, I can catastrophize with the best of them very quickly. And I can also, sort of think — I can see the value in these things if they’re used correctly as tools, basically. I can see the value in a tool creatively. I can see the value in a tool that a human being is deploying in that way. I can see the value in the tools in Photoshop. It’s when is when people go, “Oh, well, take your hands off the keyboard, walk away” — I don’t see who that’s for. The thing that worries me about, like AI imagery — you feed the screenplay into it, and it pumps out a whole movie — is a smaller concern than: “Oh God. Society will crumble because we’ll just be flooded with misinformation.” That scares me more on a deeper animal level than the industry things. But the industry stuff worries me too. … I flip-flop between cautious optimism — or at least thinking — “Maybe this is just a big bubble and it’ll all go away,” and thinking, “Oh, we’re fucked.”
Charlie Brooker asking the important questions (whether or not somebody has heard of me)
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anyway before I get shaded as a complaining commenter on the next bonus ep this is a joke and I love IBCK and Queen's deserves to be wrongly named <3
yes that's right folks. Elon Musk and I attended the same elite party school,
I'm riding on goodwill rn because a nice IT person helped me get back into my Queen's account today. and now I have spent that goodwill
need @ifbookspod.bsky.social to issue an apology immediately for saying Queens College when they meant Queen's University
Pride & Prejudice 2005 film study using my new set of @maxulichney.bsky.social watercolor procreate brushes!
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
If you're looking for a verified donation drive to help a family in Gaza, I can vouch that one of my irl friends is helping with this one. Consider donating if you can! chuffed.org/project/1479...
pixel art shows the numerals 1 through 80 over a background of genderfluid pride flag colors. each number is on a section of a ribbon shape creating a woven appearance, with rainbow and transgender pride flag colors and various textures.
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