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I'd like to once more highlight Mohammed Alanqer's fundraiser. He's been funrdraising for months and still not reached his goal. He has a family to take care of, his wife, his children, including a child less than a year old, who was born in this genocide and this war zone and who deserves to be brought up in a safe environment.

Their fundraiser has raised €63,187 so far, meaning they have less than €10,000 to go until they reach their €70K goal. Can we get them one step closer to their goal and reach €65,000?

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this broke me

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watching death note with my family and after the college entrance episode my mom asked offhandedly if anyone had ever pictured L and light as a couple before. it felt like one single white dove had landed on a crystalline lake in a beautiful pure clearing. no i dont think anyones ever thought of that before

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If you're looking for places to donate to this November (Native American Heritage Month) my go-to is the Navajo Water Project/DigDeep. They work to bring running water to Navajo families and have a 100% rating on Charity Navigator!

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Georgia the country. Not the US state.

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having a diabolical stomachache tonight which probably means something

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the game plan for tomorrow is i will be in bed by 10 pm with a box of margarita mix whatever happens to the country after that is up to everyone else

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can 5 people send aseel $10 so she can pay for her father's medical treatment? vetted

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if you vote, please reblog! my friend Munis uses an electric wheelchair, but it was damaged by an israeli attack earlier this year (last post with more info). we are trying to get his fundraiser to replace his chair and support his family to the next milestone - £4000 - by the end of today (november 3rd) in honor of his birthday, which was october 31st.

we’ve raised £140 of £353 needed to meet this goal. please help me spread this and donate if you can to support Munis!

£140/£353

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What I don't get is that other your support of AI image generation, you're SO smart and well read and concerned with ethics. I genuinely looked up to you! So, what, ethics for everyone except for artists, or what? Is animation (my industry, so maybe I care more than the average person) too juvenile and simplistic a medium for you to care about its extinction at the hands of CEOs endorsing AI? This might sound juvenile too, but I'm kinda devastated, because I genuinely thought you were cool. You're either with artists or against us imho, on an issue as large as this, when already the layoffs in the industry are insurmountable for many, despite ongoing attempts to unionize. That user called someone a fascist for pointing this out, too. I guess both of you feel that way about those of us involved in class action lawsuits against AI image generation software.

i can't speak for anyone else or the things they've said or think of anyone. that said:

1. you should not look up to people on the computer. i'm just a girl running a silly little blog.

2. i am an artist across multiple mediums. the 'no true scotsman' bit where 'artists' are people who agree with you and you can discount anyone disagrees with you as 'not an artist' and therefore fundamentally unsympathetic to artists will make it very difficult to actually engage in substantive discussion.

3. i've stated my positions on this many times but i'll do it one more: i support unionization and industrial action. i support working class artists extracting safeguards from their employers against their immiseration by the introduction of AI technology into the work flow (i just made a post about this funnily enough). i think it is Bad for studio execs or publishers or whoever to replace artists with LLMs. However,

4. this is not a unique feature of AI or a unique evil built into the technology. this is just the nature of any technological advance under capitalism, that it will be used to increase productivity, which will push people out of work and use the increased competition for jobs to leverage that precarity into lower wages and worse conditions. the solution to this is not to oppose all advances in technology forever--the solution is to change the economic system under which technologies are leveraged for profit instead of general wellbeing.

5. this all said anyone involved in a class action lawsuit over AI is an enemy of art and everything i value in the world, because these lawsuits are all founded in ridiculous copyright claims that, if legitimated in court, would be cataclysmic for all transformative art--a victory for any of these spurious boondoggles would set a precedent that the bar for '''infringement''' is met by a process that is orders of magnitude less derivative than collage, sampling, found art, cut-ups, and even simple homage and reference. whatever windmills they think they are going to defeat, these people are crusading for the biggest expansion of copyright regime since mickey mouse and anyone who cares at all about art and creativity flourishing should hope they fail.

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hearing that you can't be an abrasive little ass in veilguard is kinda pissing me tf off like i love playing characters that are Mommy's Number One Boy Who Has Something Wrong With Him but also sometimes i want to play mommy's shitty third child who she locked in the basement. idk

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Love that all my posts die🥰love that I'm forever going to deal with poverty 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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There's not really a way to say "Theoretically I go by they/he pronouns but i'm only a he once every few months when I'm in the mood for it" on a name tag so i just write they them cause it's not that serious

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[the party ended an hour ago and he's still here gif] have yall heard this Imaginal Disk shit

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i think rashida tlaib should be allowed to hit one journalist a week with a car