Same here! High-5!

I think the most telling thing is that the companies that trained us all into calling art "content" are the same ones pushing AI.

Because to capital, it doesn't matter what the "content" is. So long as you "engage" with it. Be it a movie like Sinners or an Asmongold reaction video.

Yupppp. And I sure wanna trust Tim Sweeney with my personal details after he defended Elon's AI deepfake and CSAM generator. That sounds like a great idea.

Also god, one of the excuses here for requiring ID verification is "well, it's no different from going to a club!" Yes it is, the bouncers aren't taking a photo of my ID and storing it in off-shore servers for future use. Fuck that lmao

Oh yeah, no. It's all steeped in far-right authoritarianism, censorship, and surveillance. There's a reason right-wing governments are just chewing at the bit now that the floodgates are open for age verification.

It helps nobody but the fascists. It makes nobody safer, and that's the goal.

My stance is that me being forced to give up my privacy does not make someone's hypothetical child safer. It just compromises my own safety. But that's just it, it's not about "the children." They're just a scapegoat for mass surveillance.

It's up to parents to do their fucking job.

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God, saaame. Makes me treat them with so much skepticism afterwards ngl.

I mean, I'm agreeing with you?

There's no excuse for it, full stop. Even less so when you have resources, but there's never an excuse for any reason in any circumstance.

Gods, right? My thought was more about if you need to get the visuals done cheap or for practically nothing. But yep! Plenty of artists out there who'll be more than happy to take on a cover art commission, easily.

It's what scrappy indie musicians have been doing for decades lmao...

It just feels so lazy and uncreative to me, especially when everyone's carrying a perfectly decent camera in their pockets at all times.

Like, you're already carrying a tool to create visuals for your music without generative AI. You just gotta be a bit creative with it.

Watching K-On and going "look! She has Euronymous's guitar!"

I love the feel of heavier flatwound strings. They're just kinda frictionless to play, it's so good

A Fender Jazz Bass body, in candy apple red with a black pickguard. On either side of the bridge are two screws where a bridge guard once was

A Fender Jazz Bass headstock. The silks at the end of the strings are coloured in an alternating blue and red pattern, in the West Ham soccer team colours

Hell yeah, I now have the Steve Harris strings my boyfriend gave me on my favourite bass~ It's kinda perfect now?

Do I need to shelve the gifts I got you for a Blob Light and that one issue of Nintendo Power with the Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus poster?

Honestly, I LOVE the form factor. With the offset body and the bridge way up where it is, it feels very similar to playing my Jazz Bass (hell, it's about the same size), albeit with shorter fret spacing. Mine also feels really stable on a guitar strap, so no real dive at all. It's really nice!

Yess! Yeah! It kinda feels like playing my Jazz Bass, which is very much my favourite bass that I own.

Sisyphus the Spheal is the protector of all music gear, and also the cat. For the cat hides behind him.

A Squier Paranormal Rascal Bass with a metallic black finish and a white pearloid pickup rested up against a life-sized Spheal plushie.

I did a retail therapy. New bass day~

You know, he coulda gone full "how do you do, fellow kids?" and worn a King Gizzard shirt

The idea that Anthony Albanese would say anything substantial while addressing the nation was the real April Fools prank

No band shirt no playlist don’t care

Kirk Hammett's signature ESP KH-WZ guitar

Kirk Hammett's signature ESP Demonology guitar

Kirk Hammett's signature ESP KH-3 Spider guitar

Showed @floppablecat.bsky.social Kirk Hammett's signature ESPs and her commentary was "Sid from Toy Story would play these guitars." Incredible

It's the skull fret markers that really does it for me. I love them, they're beautiful and Sid-core.

Oh my gods!!

My beautiful edgy boy!

But he needs to tell you he's got SUPPLYYYY-YYIIIIIIEEE-YIIIIIES~

I love my adorable boyfriend. He bought a copy of Transilvanian Hunger on vinyl, not realising he already owned one. So now I have a copy of Transilvanian Hunger on vinyl.

Aha yeah, I don't trust myself and my own clumsiness to carry it around in a gig bag. Hard case only XD! Maybe it's already a little beaten up, but I wanna take care of it as best as I can!

I will never get used to lugging a Jazz Bass in a hard case around on public transport lmao...