lololol - Bluesky managed to put an "adult content" label on an image which YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE

/2 Actually my favorite Michael Jackson story is about defense lawyer Mark Geragos, who was summoned to Neverland Ranch to discuss defending Michael regarding unpleasantness, and left in a waiting room for four hours with “It’s a Small World” playing on infinite loop.

Good name for the News Corp. building. Too bad it’s taken.

🎶trump approval thirty-two, matching carter low

Pakistan talks collapse--ceasefire gets a pass

Ayatollahs in Iran, with new cards that's the plan

Scammers--in Strait,
OIL SPILLS SEEN FROM SPACE🎶

Buy the wallet, I have bottle babies to feed and they're g r o w i n g

re: the gundam movie

I rly don't care about the actor selection or what the plot is or what happens to the fandom, I just hope the movie doesn't have imagery that gets picked up by alt right idiots that are desperate for cool iconography they can steal for themselves

Let me tell you traditional art has this solved, put your tablet on an easel

Anyway this is part of why whenever western IPs are like"we are giving you representation now" my immediate knee jerk reaction is "please don't"

PANEL 1: A demented robot holds laser gun at a guy (me): TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! DJO: Whoa! Ok!

PANEL 2: The robot to a doufy guy: FOR $7.99 A MONTH YOU CAN USE THIS NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR’S WORK TO CREATE YOUR OWN WATERED DOWN VERSIONS! Doufy Guy: got yourself a deal, buddy!

PANEL 3: DJO: That robot guy just stole my shit and you’re paying him for it! Doufy Guy: Sorry, pal! $7.99 is a great deal, and like it or not, that robot guy…

PANEL 4: doufy guy continued: …is the future! The Robot holding a laser gun at a little girl: TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! Girl: Dude, I’m seven. [PATREON.COM/DJOLDER](http://PATREON.COM/DJOLDER)

GenAI is plunder, panel by panel

PANEL 1: A demented robot holds laser gun at a guy (me): TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! DJO: Whoa! Ok! PANEL 2: The robot to a doufy guy: FOR $7.99 A MONTH YOU CAN USE THIS NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR’S WORK TO CREATE YOUR OWN WATERED DOWN VERSIONS! Doufy Guy: got yourself a deal, buddy! PANEL 3: DJO: That robot guy just stole my shit and you’re paying him for it! Doufy Guy: Sorry, pal! $7.99 is a great deal, and like it or not, that robot guy… PANEL 4: doufy guy continued: …is the future! The Robot holding a laser gun at a little girl: TURN OVER ALL YOUR CREATIVE OUTPUT FROM THE LAST 15 YEARS OR I VAPORIZE YOU!! Girl: Dude, I’m seven

GenAI is plunder, pass it on (a comic)

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“'If that bot were a person they’d be charged with a principal in first degree murder,' Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said...

The shooter sought advice from ChatGPT on what weapon to use, what ammo to fire, and where he could find the most people to kill on campus, Uthmeier said."

Meta Is Sued Over Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram A lawsuit from the Consumer Federation of America accuses Meta of misleading consumers about its efforts to combat scams advertisements on its platforms.

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America sued Meta this morning over scam ads on Facebook and Instagram. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Any army before 1900 that had our current rate of sickness and disease would absolutely annihilate their opponents, even if completely restricted to the technology available at the time.

This is not a conspiracy theory, simply the truth, especially with regard to why the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Occupation-led medical examinations of hibakusha (the ABCC exams) after the war were also a data-harvesting, not humanitarian, mission

Again, where the fuck have AAPG, GSA, and AGU *been* in raising alarm about this shit?

All three geological and geophysical professional societies have *direct interests* in at least getting the public aware of what an absolute disaster the targeting of civilian energy infrastructure is.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

“The US has provided no evidence that any of the vessels were involved in drug trafficking, and legal experts and rights groups say the attacks amount to extrajudicial killings as they apparently target civilians who do not pose any immediate threat.”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

not to mention has missed the entirety of video game discourse since 2018 because God of War's reboot was literally built on the premise of fatherhood overcoming the base self

I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.

Today we celebrate Retsu Unohana — one of the best healers and deadliest captains in the Thirteen Court Guard Squads 🩸

Anime: BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War

The cover of "folkish" by kym deyn. Published by nine arches press.

Reading @kymdeyn.bsky.social's 'Folkish' and whispering "fuck offfff" after every poem because it's just so good.

Ugggghh. It’s called ocean jasper because of the color and pattern, they’re not found in the ocean

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

An English Bluebell with multiple ‘bells’

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, we present to you the Queen of English Bluebells

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

When I see someone getting unhinged about a tv show because it doesn’t match the show in their head

Justices to Hear Case on Catholic Preschools That Reject Children of Gay Parents

You wanna guess how this will go?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

A ref sheet featuring Kdin Jenzen's VTuber model which is a light blue anthropomorphic werewolf combined with a sega dreamcast VMU inspired digital visual interface where her eyes would be. The ref sheet features a side view of the character's head, a very detailed open maw picture, a top and bottom view of her paw/hands, the detachable controller interface for the visual memory unit, the color pallets used, Kdin's logo in the bottom right, and text that reads: "Twitch: KdinJenzen Tired office lady who knows more than you."

Finally sharing my current Fur-Vtuber-sona's refsheet~

Art by @pinkwispy.bsky.social !

Agree.
Most people struggled really hard with the isolation of quarantine and COVID--there is no question.
I feel like my students are still dealing with the aftermath of this--pretending its not traumatizing helps no one.
And few of us are designed for real solitude, or prepared for it.