If there was a shooter, then whoever the shooter was, I presume we’ll have the usual plague of hasty prior-fluffing misidentifications from Reddit and the more marginal pundits.
Preemptive hurricane reminder that just because Texas is a voter suppressed state whose vocal minority leadership wants the rest of us dead doesn’t mean the actual citizens of Texas don’t deserve to live/aid.
Waiting until there's confirmed information that isn't sourced from a TERF-riddled media site, considering what TERFs have been doing since getting called out by David Tennant.
I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.
I'mma say this for all the people in the back.
Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.
I'mma say this for all the people in the back.
Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.
That is wack if white leftists think you get a revolution by running out into the streets & lighting things on fire. You don't practice abolition by pretending we don't currently live under a police state. You practice it by learning fascism well enough to survive it & built something in its place.
i think before people are allowed to post online they should have to take an introductory course to ensure they understand basic concepts such as "a joke" and "hyperbole" and "metaphors" and "women are people also"
Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.
Unrelated but if you are a publication of any kind please do not “partner with” AI chumps. The ONLY people who might buy yr publication will 100% hate it when you “partner with” some AI clown operation. Again, thank you
a nonexhaustive list of things i would like to stop needing to be:
tough
resilient
strong
resourceful
self-sufficient
adaptable
formidable
intimidating
scrappy
You reach a point where a friend dies and you say: sixty-one! that so young. When you are in your twenties and struggling that point is hard to visualize - you feel like forty more years will be too much. May all who struggle today live in the hope of knowing that sixty-one is so young, so young.
Another way to think about this is that every day ChatGPT uses a typical US family’s electrical consumption for 65 _years_. That’s the better part of a lifetime and they’re doing it to make computers less reliable.
A lot of people have already fixed this, but if you use fancy looking letters in your handle or posts, it comes out as inarticulate nonsense on screen readers.
If you care about accessibility, please don't use those gothic or fancy font letters on social media posts.
Read a blog post about how we all have to accept AI in promo art because not everyone can afford an artist and even free stock art will all have AI, and I just want everyone to know that I will promote my stories with stick figures I handdraw with crayon before I willingly use AI tainted art.
