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Patriarch of Zhang

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CHIC magazine Luo Yunxi photos - Part 2

Credit: 魅男库 (Rednote)

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young man. what is that you have found.

I said young man. you picked it up off the ground.

I said young man. you should put that thing down.

I don't think! that! you! should! eat that!

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Something terrifying about the way censorship is just straight up happening right now and they're barely trying to pretend that isn't what it is. The UK rolling out the Online Safety Act which forces anyone accessing 'adult' content (including discord, LGBT+ forums, various resources for drug addicts etc.) to share their face and ID with American third party companies, and refusing to debate a repeal in parliament despite 300,000 signatures on their own website to do so. Something fishy going on with Google docs suddenly deleting/restricting content. Itchio and Steam suddenly deleting 18+ games including both porn games and horror games at the behest of Mastercard.

Like. Truly in the past month the censorship is hitting like a truck and we're all just supposed to be fine with it. Like. It's genuinely making me feel sick.

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The kindergarten-ification of society

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Tracery: A Symphony in Bronze by Timothy Cleary

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steamed dumpling 🥟

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Day out in Manchester today with the youngest child.. Aflecks Palace, Waterstones, sushi, Oseyo, and I miiiight have stumbled across a kpop shop on the way to Waterstones and I just HAD to get these...

I verrrry nearly also bought a super-cute SKZ o'clock mini jiniret but I made myself be sensible and put it back... 😭

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In the ask box

I'm posting this with the asker's name obscured, as I don't want to run the risk of embarrassing them, or of provoking others to some kind of backlash.

Numbered? Okay. Here are reasons number 1 through 186 for you, made available by putting my name into this master list of Meta--scraped works and pulling up the titles of those works of mine that over time made their way into LibGen without my permission, and which (after they were scraped from there) were then used to train AI at Meta.

That is pretty much my entire literary output for the last fifty years, scraped illegally from LibGen into Meta's LLM-training database. Those include numerous works from my own tiny online bookstore, the income from which is sometimes all that's kept @petermorwood and me alive.

It's often my great pleasure to donate ebooks (and regular print ones) to libraries on request. But to have work taken and posted online without permission strikes me as... not very nice. Donation of one's work to online sources should be a choice the individual artist makes. And I was never given the chance to make that choice. Others decided they were entitled to make it for me.

Anyway, I think Meta's actions should have consequences: as should other thefts of copyrighted material by Big Tech. That's what the class action lawsuits against Meta and Anthropic are about.

I hope the above data will be helpful in assisting you in your assessment of my possible state of misinformation, or my moral decrepitude.

And if you feel that my being angry about what Meta and Anthropic and their ilk have done with my work (and my dead husband's, and that of tens of thousands of our colleagues) makes me evil...

Well, that's a take. May others' assessment of your moral state be kinder.

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Sherilyn Fenn for Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 91/92, photo by Steven Meisel

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Y'all... I watched a video my friend sent me on tiktok about a guy throwing a sandwich at the gestapo occupying DC and tried to reply to her. This is the message I got:

I'm sorry... what? I'm not allowed to even joke in my DMs? I VERY MUCH DON'T LIKE THIS.

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New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.