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Discord has posted updated clarification:

-Discord is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID to use Discord
-The vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today, without ever being asked to confirm their age

discord.com/press-releas...

'member when it was heavily frowned upon to share private info online? yeah why don't we go back to that

An image from Clockwork Revolution

Clockwork Revolution Preview – Rabbit's Got A Gun

For the latest edition of Game Informer magazine, we spoke to Clockwork Revolution's director to learn why the team thinks it "reacts to what you've done in ways that you just don't see in many other games." gameinformer.com/preview/2026...

HELL YEAH!!

Look at what we did TOGETHER! Comic-con has quietly changed their language and will NOT allow GenAi imagery in their art show!

And this happened because you all wrote letters, and shared your concerns! Speaking up works EVERY time!

So congrats friends! We did this together!!!
🙌🙌💖💖💖

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Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

How to support human artists... FREE TIER: follow, like, share, review, reject AI PAID TIER: donate, merch, subscribe, commission, license Image by Kenney (www.kenney.nl) Original icons (some edited) by Lucide (ISC License) Fonts used: mini-わくわく & 和風ぽっぷ

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

just text me like a normal person 😭

It's such a sad thing about human nature - say you absolutely loathed a book and everyone wants to know what it was.

Mention a book you loved, recommend it for readers, and the world is a chorus of crickets.

Y'all just want to hate on stuff

A hand drawn picture of a wizard, with the full beard, robes, and pointy hat, checking an open, rounded bottle with a pointy stick. There is a smoke trail or some kind of lightning bolt between bottle and stick, and another pair of sticks on his back. Perhaps he is charging some kind of terrible, magical bagpipes. This may explain the text; It's always the motherfuckers with no magic trying to tell you what to do with yours.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

If you’re in the US and you’re able to, please go vote. Even if your slate is just local elections. Change has to begin locally.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Au Ra dark knight wielding a great sword while dressed in white mage artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing a Hrothgar pictomancer wielding a paintbrush while wearing paladin artifact armor.

A Final Fantasy 14 screenshot showing an Elezen dragoon wielding a lance while wearing fisher attire.

Fashion enjoyers, this one is for you!

From Patch 7.4 onward, you'll be able to equip any glamours regardless of your class/job! ✨

Mix and match your favorite outfits and slay on the battlefield! 💅

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Amazon just turned every single Ring camera into a potential ICE camera for sending your neighbors to concentration camps.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Are you a PNW voter who usually returns your ballot via U.S. Mail? Switch to a drop box to ensure it counts this year! Do not return your ballot through the United States Postal Service -- there's a real risk it won't receive a timely postmark.

Are you a PNW voter who usually returns your ballot via U.S. Mail? Switch to a drop box to ensure it counts this year!

Do not return your ballot through the United States Postal Service -- there's a real risk it won't receive a timely postmark.

Happy Michael Festival

If people don’t communicate their needs, issues, or triggers and hide things from you only to unleash them like a deluge that’s toxic as hell. You deserve people around you that will have those hard conversations, communicate clearly, and foster actual community. True friends grow together.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

It's shocking how many of our problems would evaporate if we just treated each other with kindness.

Trans rights are human rights.

I recently had the “Where are you from originally?” It was as comfortable as it could have been. 🙃

the trans pride flag

Here is some non-satire for you:

Trans rights forever.

that one image of the person with blue eyes with superimposed text reading "it is vitally important that you be a pervert. i am not kidding. you need to be horny. don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise. they are your enemy. kill them"