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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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as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

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I commissioned this Catiua from @taxkha! She looks wonderful in their style 🖤

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Sea Foam ||

Rihan doodle at work <3 I want to digitally recreate this one day lol

Will make it a free downloadable postcard during the hashi-tea event, being held online by some Japanese nuramago fans over on Twitter! I'll have the links to some free nura postcards up during the event in Sept, but as always, if you redistribute and/or sell it, or use it fund NFTS/AI i will haunt your soul for the rest of eternity <3

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Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

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Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

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the generational gap between me and the people my age who use chat gpt

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Abolish Tesla.

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✷ #mARTch 2025 prompts!

F.A.Q

✷ do i have to draw every day? nope! the 10 days marked with a star are the main ones! please focus on them and skip any other days you need if you're tired/busy/not interested/falling behind :)

✷ do i have to make polished/finished art? nope! these prompts are just intended for daily warmup/practice, you don't need to make anything fancy :)

✷ event tag? #mARTch or #mARTch2025

✷ can you share/promote my entries? yep! i try to share everything from the tags to @bweirdevents during the event — but tag search sucks sometimes, so if i miss something, sorry! i also can't guarantee i'll share anything on other sites, archiving on tumblr already takes up most of my day!

✷ can i re-upload your prompt list? PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS — i have accounts on most sites, just reblog/retweet/share from me

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for more info, visit my website for a detailed explanation of every prompt, or join the event server to ask a question directly!

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I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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Handy reference chart showing the difference between blossoms (ume/plum, momo/peach, sakura/cherry, anzu/apricot, ringo/apple). Note the colors, how the buds sit on branches, and of course petals shapes.

Apricot and apple are veeeery rare as kimono/obi patterns. Morover, what I usually simply call “plum” (ume) is in exactly the Prunus mume (or Japanese apricot/plum) and come with red/white/pinkish flowers.

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FFXII ANNIVERSARY WEEK 10th-16th MARCH 2025

This is a bingo card style event, ending on the day of the Japanese release of the Original Game! Ostensibly, a bingo card type event has the goal of getting a line in any direction of the card - horizontal, vertical or diagonal - however, it's entirely up to you how you fill in the card and there's no pressure to get any lines at all if you don't want to!

"Rules" are as below:

-> Create a piece to cover one or more bingo squares (you can tick off multiple squares with one piece if you want to) -> Pieces can be art, fanfiction, meta, graphics of any kind (gifs, edits, recolours etc.), playlists, or even physical items! Anything you want~ -> There are no rules on allowed content, but please ensure you tag up your works so people can mute tags as required -> Mark off your completed squares on the bingo card and then at the end of the week, post it so we can all see how you did! -> Tag all pieces with #ffxii week and please tag @ffxiievents as well so that your humble moderator doesn't miss your work!

The bingo card prompts are written out below the cut for your convenience:

All lines are left to right

Line 1: Pirates ~ AU ~ Omegaverse ~ Crystal Line 2: Sex Pollen ~ Occuria ~ Sage Knowledge ~ Only One Bed Line 3: Fake Marriage ~ Skycity ~ Bestiary ~ Enemies to Lovers Line 4: Zodiac ~ Hurt/Comfort ~ Forbidden Love ~ Clan Centurio

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You can fight AI in indie publishing by leaving reviews.

Seriously.

Ai-generated garbage is flooding the self-publishing market. It works as a numbers game- put out ENOUGH fake crap and eventually someone’s aunt will buy them the ebook as an unwanted gift, and you’ll have made two dollars. This tactic works at SCALE, which means real independent titles are now a needle amongst a haystack of slop.

If you have read a book this year that has less than 5 reviews, your rating is an algorithmic spotlight on that needle.

A one sentence review helps. Really. A star rating helps if you really can’t think of anything to say, but if you can muster up even “I laughed at the part about the tabby cat” you are doing indie authors a favor like you cannot believe.

(Also if you left a review on one of my books this year I am kissing you so softly on your forehead and I adore you)

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The US economy genuinely might collapse within a week. lol

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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.

Akash Bobba

Edward Coristine

Luke Farritor

Gautier Cole Killian

Gavin Kliger

Ethan Shaotran

Spread their names!

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A series of posts from the Alt National Parks Page regarding Elon Musks take over.