Business card, unless the flyer is for an event I'm actually interested in

LONG LIVE POCKET BACON!

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I filled it out. Banks and credit card companies have no business telling people how to lawfully spend our own money.

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Absolutely you are!

And it doesn't help that 90% of what AI has ingested was already vague corporate marketing copy, which was already living in horror of using specific--and therefore legally actionable--language.

The most reliable tell, in my experience, is that AI never wants to be specific about anything. AI writing will say "he felt so strongly about things that he was willing to do anything" and then just never say what he felt or what he did.

I have now learned about @thisguysucked.com , which means I have looked it up and discovered there is not yet a Melvil Dewey episode, so I beg my history-nerd librarian pals to pitch this one. Because WOW that guy sucked. 📚

It's ok to try lots of different things and figure out what works for you, personally. Just because something often works for most people, you aren't always most people.

It's also ok if something you've tried before doesn't work the next time. It's a living process of exploration.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

see, as a former Homestuck fan I read "Homestuck update schedule" as "small bursts of activity separated by massive hiatuses, long enough that you'd forget the comic existed if not for the fandom"
then again, I started reading during the Gigapause, so maybe I was spared the worst of it

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

I see "my" book in there!

(I'm allowed to be possessive of an anthology I edited, right?)

Everytime I see shit like this is a fundamental failure to understand the role and purpose of what an "NPC" plays in game design. The role of an npc is to deliver tone, information, character. Things AI are incapable of doing because it requires intent.

As of thirty minutes ago, we started the last full week of Poetry Month, and that means that we're close to the Pride Month deadline!

If you have a story or poem you want read this June, then we need it by Thursday the 30th!
#FurryLit

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I was also grateful that studying ASL has given me practice watching Deaf people navigate communication with people who don't sign much/at all

So I had more focused gestures, pointing at menus, typing little notes on my phone for complex/precise stuff

Helpful strategies I didn't have to invent!

I only just found out that the word "strewn" (as in "his clothes were strewn across the floor") is just the past tense of the verbal form of "straw" - the bits of wheat that get blown away when you harvest wheat.

"Gunnerkrigg Court" is actually kind of structurally fascinating in terms of how literally every escalation – no matter how bizarre the circumstances or how urgent the stakes – manages to immediately settle into a new status quo that's conducive to several chapters of slice of life bullshit.

Scientist friends:

When you're writing a paper, have you ever chosen not to cite someone's work because that person is a jerk?

Obviously you can't avoid citing vital work, but there are lots of times when you could choose any of several papers to cite. What factors into your decision then?

🧪

I also disagree with the idea that you can’t avoid citing vital work: if a foundational scholar in your field has harmed others in your field, don’t cite them! Cite papers that meaningfully build on whatever foundational work you’re avoiding citing! I think we can do this more often than we think.

I once told a “Viking bro” that since Odin & Loki transformed into females (Loki notably became a Mare and gave birth to Odins 8-legged horse), that many Norse Gods were gender fluid and pansexual.

The particular shade of magenta that the Viking bro’s face became was glorious to behold.

This is one of the reasons we always ask guests on @lingthusiasm.bsky.social how they got interested in their research topic: not only does this lead to fun stories, but it also leads to explaining the research process and leaves room for uncertainty

Apparently the Marty McFly piece wasn't done with AI, the artist posted the layers of the piece on Instagram. The dangers of including AI art in your projects means that legitimate artists are under further scrutiny- It poisons the entire well and needs to be stopped.

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Life is much too short to live the way others want you to. Always be yourself unapologetically. 🧡

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal] @MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

Make a fursona

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Worth a look, I'd say...