I hate this a lot. I know so many parents who "ground" their kids from cellphone use but that's the only way they can get hold of anyone.

Finally a color palette I'm happy with: green + carmine + burnt umber :)
#art #bskyart #painting #watercolors #sciart #flowers

Happy lesbian visibility week 💗

#pixelart #ドット絵

pixel art of a fantasy creature in the style of the original pokemon. the creature is a black snake with a large leaf on its head and a vine going down its body

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

A large dark draconic monster rises from within a split mountain. It towers over a hill that has a tiny house-like structure.

The Song from the abyss.

First of two pieces I had the chance to make for Swords without Master - Fugitives of the Shattered Menagerie!

Me and the baddie I pulled by being able to breathe toxic gasses

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

'We must become less reliant on American tools': Windows 11 is so bad the French government is switching to Linux — and Microsoft should be worried Is 2027 set to be the year of Linux? There are signs that this might actually be the case, this time.

This article is weird. France isn't switching to Linux because Windows is bad - it's switching because Microsoft is a US company, US companies fall under US law, and thus simply cannot be trusted with EU data. Windows can't "solve" this. There's no "fix" here.

www.techradar.com/computing/wi...

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I try not to be bitter, but I don't like to see my home state get more weak and sick every year. The whole history of Florida has been finding new ways to squeeze the blood out of the land, and now it's so busted they can't even make it grow oranges.

What started as just a random "I wanna draw my sona, I guess sitting and drinking boba idk" turned into this. o.O I can't believe I crammed so much detail into this and I'M STILL GONNA ADD MORE

Hi #portfolioday ! My name is Joe and I'm a fantasy illustrator whose worked in RPGs and on Magic the Gathering. Currently available for work and can be contacted at: Slucherj@yahoo.com .

American Hippo River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories

Anyway ALSO everyone should read American Hippo by @sarahgailey.bsky.social because nothing says 'yes fun' like both riding hippos and man eating hippos and queer people.

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As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.

End the project already, Dave.

You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.

Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

I guess I say this for some little piece of posterity but: There were good people there. We wanted a better thing than what you all got. We cared and we believed but at the end of the day money won the game.

The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.

The morning mist hovers over the silhouetted vista as the distant mountains are woken by pre daybreak light. The waterway is calm as it holds the reflection while edged with auburn grasses.

The morning arrived 📷🕊️ …

Cottontail painting from 2023!

A chipmunk peaks out between stone and dry grass.

Good morning sweetie! How was your winter nap? ✨

Bomba Estéreo - Soy Yo (Official Video) YouTube video by BombaEstereoVEVO

If it’s in my head now, it should also be in yours. Soy yo!

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

"Torturing him would not get them the answers they needed. The only real information you can learn from committing torture is that you're a torturer." #wip

Isolated, masked. Book Moon: curbside only, no events, total grind. Boo. But: alive! Barely saw people. Then: vaccinations WOOHOOO! (I keep getting 'em.) Never went back to restaurants (pickup, phew). Missed travel, friends, family. Somehow got Long Covid. Since: lie on couch, repeat ad infuckinitum

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

A new TikTok AI toggle is causing panic among creators TikTok creators say a new AI remix setting is enabled on videos by default, forcing users to manually review and change permissions.

Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

We proclaim: Buy Gay Books Day ✨🌈

A thing I think about a lot, as a confirmed social media addict, is how there used to be a time when so much more of the point of going online was to share things that were actually great and interesting, and how far we've strayed from God's light