Supporting GenAI is a right-wing position.
Yes, really.
AI data centres poison the environment, disproportionately affect low-income areas, and are owned and operated by technofascists. GenAI directly benefits the owning class while physically harming workers and pushing them out of their jobs.
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
Hey everyone!
Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!
But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.
I just resorted our list to put those on the top.
Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
This thread is some of the most exceptional storytelling I've seen in ages?? wow. truly worth your time.
Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box.
Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper
✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
6 deformed golden brown Yorkshire Puddings rising from a cupped baking pan.
Front cover of a small cookbook called “Recipes: The Cooking of the British Isles”, from “Foods of the World, Time Life Books”. The picture on the cover features a roast dinner with a royal crest in the background.
Ok, success with this recipe from 1969.
Now we can try and make it vegan by replacing the eggs!
Seems like a good moment for a 3rd attempt at making Yorkshire Puddings, this time with eggs.
A hand holding a small section of a miniature stone wall, painted and textured to look like old weathered limestone blocks. Green stuff glued to the corner represents moss, while the 3D print layer lines kind of look like the bedding and striations seen on actual limestone rocks.
Anyway, here’s a test piece for a larger model I’m making that’s secretly an excuse for me to play with stone textures, green stuff, and trying to replicate centuries worth of weathering with paint.
Every gift I make for someone else is secretly a gift for me because creating something is a goddamn joy.
She’s done! Pretty girl. 😍
#Embroidery
2 inch wide cherry boards, laid out on a workbench in the rough shape of a Hoosier cabinet door. Next to it a much smaller prototype I made earlier.
A person holds up one of the cherry boards to show a channel and rabbets that have been routed in the wood.
After months of putting it off (because I was worried I’d screw it up), Hoosier door making is finally happening!
Honestly I’d just eat a meal comprised entirely of garlic bread.
After pasta, you should be given a surprise slice of garlic bread… because I don’t have to will power to just save garlic bread for later
Local newscaster voice: It’s called “Surprise garlic bread”, and some experts believe it could be the next Pokémon Go…
She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
A close up of a person wearing a yellow rain coat, wet with rain. Over their shoulder a bicycle is propped up against a grey pillar. Yellow leaves cover the grass behind it.
Rainy autumn days are for cycling to the bakery and only getting 50% drenched.
A fluffy black and white tuxedo cat, cradled in someone’s arms. The cat has a grumpy expression (although he secretly loves it).
Pros: Can jump pretty high, have feather fall, claws!
Cons: people keep picking you up because you’re just a baby! Oh my goodness look at him, he’s just a baby! Oh my-
Nothing too adventurous, just paint it and add brass and wood elements
A wall-mounted fan, partially dismantled upon the floor showing some of its components.
Normalise immediately voiding the warranty.
A large cardboard box (the length and width of almost an arms length), strapped to the back of a bicycle using bungee straps. The box overhangs the bicycle and is pushed right up against the saddle.
Normalise carrying big ass boxes on a bicycle.
It's Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration season in Texas. At least 90% of all southward migration passes through Texas, either along the coast, or through central Texas.
They'll overwinter in Mexico, then return.
Let's talk about the utter weirdness of generational migration.
Cycle for 30 minutes and get bread and pastries, um yes please
A silver and green bicycle rests against a bicycle rack on the pavement.
It’s a cycle to the bakery kind of morning
A Particle Tachyon single board computer next to a 3d printed prototype which houses some magnets, an 18650 battery, and a seeed xiao sense ble dev board.
The 3d printed protoype magnetically adhered to the back of one of our washing machines.
a screenshot from a webpage. Ascii art of a washing machine with some little waves in the center indicating it's running. It's labeled "Washer 02". Underneath, it says "running - for roughly 9374 minutes"
A rare practical project from me. I live in a building with ~16 units and we all share 2 washers/2 dryers. Very annoying to go all the way down to basement just to find out they're in use. So I'm putting together a low maintenance, non-invasive monitoring setup we can all use 🧵
Got some nature happening over here today
My first cupboard I made was a flimsy thing built out of thin wood and nails. It completely fell apart when I carried it down the stairs so these latest builds are a friggin triumph.
A 10 by 12 inch cabinet door, with rails and stiles of cherry wood, and a panel of maple plywood.
A side view of the cabinet door, showing the routed joint between rail and stile
I’ve made a cabinet door. The entire world of furniture with recessed panels has opened up to me. I have “I-could-probably-make-a-interior-door” levels of confidence right now.
