Zoom settings panel saying: My notes Transcribe my meetings with My Notes Generate and enrich content with AI Companion Both settings have been turned OFF.

I thought I'd turned off all "A.i." bullshit in Zoom, but I got a pop up saying "This meeting is being transcribed" during a recent call. So I went into Settings on the web and found these turned on for some damn reason. Turned 'em off! Highly recommend you turn 'em off, too!

Very annoyed!

two little maple bowls, to walnut candlesticks, two walnut altar bowls

Within shouting distance of our late healthcare payment. Thank everyone who has picked something up from my sale so far!

There are still sale items available! Use Coupon Code DEATHNTAXES2026 at checkout for 30% off these items.

night shift drawing #art

A group shot of enamel pins for Pawtisserie series 2. Each pin is a cat inspired by a dessert. Designs include red velvet cake, lemon cake, donut, pie, and carrot cake among others.

Sweets & treats ✨🍰

[ #cuteart #artshop ]

Just a quick reminder that these friends are still looking for homes! The link for them is below~

A very rumpled and flat great gray owl, sopping wet from the rain, in a tree snag.

Mama great gray owl in the rain accurately reflecting my mood today.

Handmade Flicker ✨
When you attempt to recreate something from nature you see many things you never noticed before.

Needle felted wall art - with flexible clay, fosshape, wire, and glass.

🌼 Available 🌼

#felting #birdart #artwork #contemporaryart #nature #painting #birds #animals #artist

Clean copy

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

I’m glad Hero Initiative is doing the good work they do but I also think Disney/Marvel execs should feel *deep and lasting shame* that it exists at all. You’re asking the public to give you another $1 billion for an AVENGERS movie while the people who created all this are buried in medical bills??

I'm going to be opening up a new commission soon with a mystical tapestry motif! If you'd like to browse what I have open right now, you can visit ko-fi.com/sorotrax/com.... You can also look at some examples in posts that I'll link below. Up to date prices are on my Ko-Fi page!

Quality controlling a reprint of my giant millipede enamel pins. They each come with a teeny tiny cucumber pin! I miss Slow Jim a lot and I’m so glad these pins are well loved

fantasy stories need more cranks & crackpots who are completely wrong abt how shit works & waste everyone's time with bullshit fake magic that doesn't do anything.

favorite part abt the maesters in asoiaf is how much they hate people who go for the Valyrian steel link (majoring in parapsychology)

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

My illustration of a perched female kingfisher. Drawn in Photoshop using a Wacom Intuos drawing tablet.

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon, female). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP
🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #kingfisher #LongIslandSound

Somebody posted this on a Discord server I frequent. Possibly the most Edwardian feline gentleman I have ever seen.

#caturday

Illustration: a black cat with white paws wearing a wizard hat sits behind the table of a market stall bearing a faux-scroll sign that reads “SPELLS AND HEXES”. On the table are four potion bottles of varying size, a human skull, wand and a candle in a wooden holder. A sign reads “objects cursed while u wait”. Several stick effigies hang from the sign. A snake is climbing up one of the sign supports.

Welcome to Honest Ash’s Spells and Hexes. What can I enchant/curse for you today?
#art #magic #cat

YESSSSSSSS!!!! I FOUND ONE OF THE BEST BUTTERFLIES IN THE WORLD AHHHHHHHH!!!! 🤯😭
Caria plutargus amazonica I’m CRYING!! 🦋

five sentrets all in a line, each based on a different care bear!

fun idea tonight :)

Remember this every time a Reasonable Democrat says we should be onboard with legal/technical measures to stop minors from accessing adult content

Once you create a category of Bannable Speech, you've created a tool for the powerful to ban any speech they want; just put it in the Bannable category.

An illustration showing a variety of oceanic creatures.

Happy Earth Day

A perfect pudu 🦌

Three left.

A white beetle-thing with red stripes, wings, and a horn on a background of green.

Check out this tiny candy cane unicorn.

I’m reposting the broth video because sometimes I just need to see it

Meow cat gatcha charms. Not a fan of the red eyes tho personally. I think ill swap it out with blue in the near future.

Two lambs gambolling in a field of grass

Getting pretty heavily into online gambolling lately