BY THE WAY, acknowledging that writer pay is generally low and always has been does NOT mean that one should abandon the idea that a) one's work has value and b) that this value should be reflected in what is offered for it by others, says the former president of a writers' association.
I have, technically, been in a swordfight with real swords. (The one I held, at least, was quite sharp.)
Really proud of this piece and so thankful to all the sex workers who talked with me while I was researching! I don’t often see this framed as a speech and artistic expression issue but it is: Visa/MC are effectively crowning themselves art directors as they rip sex workers off.
Digital Illustration Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast are making their way down a feywild path, the grass lush and purple and the sky swirling with colour. Caleb is squatting down next to a familiar cat, scratching it under the chin contently, while Essek floating beside watches with a formal but pleased expression. The piece is rendered with clean strokes and textured painterly lines.
The feywild is a wonderful place for chance encounters. How have you been old friend? #criticalrole #themightynein #essekthelyss #calebwidogast #shadowgast
Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".
Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?
As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.
It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???
What?
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
A digital illustration of Essek Thelyss and Caleb Widogast from Critical Role. They're stood in their lab at a work table scattered with magical components, bottles, books, and jars. A book lies open in front of them and Caleb is pointing towards part of the text while talking to Essek, who's holding dunamantic magic between his hands. Behind them is a bookshelf and a painting of the two of them hangs on the wall.
Spell work in the laboratory 💜🧡 #CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanart #Shadowgast
Terrible day. Caleb widogast #mightynein
Veth #MightyNein
Raw wet clay vase 9 inches high. It has many small diagonal swirls upwards in four shades of brown and white. The final contrast will be more stark and less graded.
Swürl
kutsher's room 965, thompson, new york, 1977
kutsher's room 965, thompson, new york, 1977
This is so swashy and fun! (Also I misread QRP for a moment and got really excited that someone was doing a "draw your QPR meme)
"I can't, I have plans later" The plans: My room *Somber medieval music playing*
This and the next post about women are darkly funny considering the way these dudes talk to Epstein like he's their friend's older brother who they desperately want to think they're cool. One of the many shocking elements of the files is how pathetic powerful men are.
Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids
"The structure becomes the substance" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io91...
Made it with the booze we had on-hand, and it was super tasty! Will try it with better sherry and vermouth next time. Added a couple drops of Scrappy's Fire Tincture to bite thru the sweet, since I like 'em spicy...
I am SO glad you just fell down a Discworld hole
blue atlantic motel, flagler beach, florida, 1990
blue atlantic motel, flagler beach, florida, 1990
yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests
blue haven motor court cabin, view 2, route 1, saco, maine, 1984
blue haven motor court cabin, view 2, route 1, saco, maine, 1984
🤣🤣🤣
i am here to present to you with the world's most underwhelming shadowgast genderbend, simply to sate my own extremely lesbian need for masc women. thank you for listening. gender is fake.
You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...
Deleted prev because really, I should know better than go give unserious publications the attention they're looking for. Anyway, sectorial bargaining now
It's not actually true that every technology succeeds & becomes a part of our lives forever! We can choose to build a future without LLMs.
In fact, we can also choose a future without vaccines; or say, if we don't choose a future with vaccines, we might lose them. If children dying is what we want.
Seriously it's hilarious to me, the line on LLMs is "this is progress! you can't stop it!" from the same people who are trying to eliminate every gender transition surgery and, uh, the concept of the computer. Well, *you* think things can be de-invented! Let's de-invent the search engine that lies.
It's always mechanical turking. Every single time.
"the stench of iron and guilt — a river of
generational blood, it never washes away."
poem by Prena Subba (longingsofawallflower_) on instagram
#criticalrolefanart #mightyneinanimated
I’m just going to keep yelling at the goal is to end your ability to own a personal computer and lock you into AI as well as cloud computing because otherwise they are going to go bankrupt, especially as people realize that the tech is a silicon prison bsky.app/profile/janu...
