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Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.

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…THEY’RE CALLED T-SHIRTS BECAUSE THEY RESEMBLE THE LETTER T

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told my parents robert de niro's daughter came out as trans and he's being cool and supportive and my dad, in a terrible robert de niro impression, says, "you talkin' to they/them?" which like. not entirely accurate but he got the spirit lol

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My grandma’s on and off again boyfriend that she cheated on grandpa with died today.

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apparently lugia was created specifically for the second pokemon movie?? like the creator was surprised to see it in the games??

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My followers know I hate talking about politics and current events, and generally refuse to do so, but this is important.

A bill has been introduced in the US that would make all pornography a federal crime. Owning it. Creating it. Distributing it.

Under this law, fanart of nude characters would be a federal crime.

Under this law, depictions of homosexuality or simply being transgender, would be considered pornography and a federal crime.

This bill is not going to pass.

However, the reason for this bill is to continue to push the "overton window". The reason for this bill is to make banning pornography seem more and more normal to everyone until they can actually do that.

And remember, they consider depictions of gay characters and transgenders characters "pornography" in any context, including platonic.

They have been working on this for a decade now and it has been working.

If you are one of the people in fandom who thinks that "nasty" porn on AO3 should be banned because it's "icky" or "immoral", then this mental scam is working on you.

Censorship is never about protecting people.

Censorship is always about control.

Do not let the rising moral panic affect your mind and make you weak to propaganda that lets others control you and control what you watch and read.

Do not fall for the scam.

When they say they are going to ban "pornography" it means they're going to ban anything they don't like by calling it "pornography" and they don't like you!!

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"i don't care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt" i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die

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Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"

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I'm sad that so many people seem to be missing the point of Nemo's performance this evening and/or just focusing on what they were wearing.

Like that shit took my breath away! It was so raw and powerful and emotional. Did no one else feel that?

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Can't stop crying thinking about Nemo's Unexplainable performance. I love them so much. Going on stage, opening up your soul to millions of people, singing a song about the fear of never being understood by the world you live in, showing so so much vulnerability and strength while knowing that that's exactly what's gonna happen. Knowing that you'll be shredded to pieces because no one is gonna get what you're doing, what you're saying, how you're looking.

Someone asked them if they thought they would've won this year, given the current state of *gestures vaguely to everything*. They answered saying that the real question was if they would've written a song like The Code, or dared to go to Eurovision with it. They said Unexplainable is the song they would've written instead.

Being trans right now is extremely scary. Seeing them in such a huge stage singing about people like us means the world.

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The longer I exist as a loudly proudly gay man the more I think that cishet men aren't actually attracted to women.

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Gamefreak. Gamefreak look at me. are you telling me that every Pokemon canonically has a scientific name and you’ve refused to tell us what it is for every single Pokemon except goddamn Oddish

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