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As of today, I have been inactive on this blog/site for 1 year and 11 months. There was no real reason as to why I stopped. Real life just happened to have a lot of things compounding on each other around that time, and I kind of drifted away for a long while, ya know? But recently I’ve found myself in the mindset to want to return.

That being said, I’ve spent the last handful of days trying to reacquaint myself with the site/app and figure out how things have changed in the last ~2 years. Hopefully within the next few days I’ll return to a steady level of activity.

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So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

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love when creatures sniff your hand and are like. ah understood

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genuinely hope to see the fall of christianity as a global power some day in my lifetime

belief on an individual level, whatever that's fine, but do not act as if christianity's influence and doctrine is not a heavy hand behind some of the most evil governmental decisions being wrought upon people at this very moment (anti-trans bills, don't say gay bills, roe vs. wade repeal, etc)

people who are not christian are being forced to live by christian standards and under christian rules and that isn't right

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if ur wondering what the fuck is wrong with me imagine how i feel

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im gonna be real i do think we need to spend more time as a society encouraging adults to play pretend in structured ways bc what i’m getting from a variety of sources is we all like to make fake shit and pretend to be people we are not

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(superman: the animated series - mxyzpixilated)

i want a live action movie that’s just two hours of this

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denying yourself enjoyment of things because you don't want to be 'cringe' is the most cringe thing you can do actually. like what are you, catholic?

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I just stuck my leg out to fake trip my brother but he just kept walking and since he’s so much bigger then me I just pivoted like a revolving door.

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it makes me so mad people won't leave this poor kid alone but every single response he shoots off is funnier than if you gave me a week to think of one

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i am completely fine in an “i have been mentally unwell for years” kinda way

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American urban planning!

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Hey guys, happy black history month!

I hate to beg but I recently went back to college and I’m paying super high interest rates for loans because I’m an immigrant and I don’t have a super lengthy credit history. 

You might recognize these from edits/pinterest/telegram etc. I made them! So if you’ve ever wanted to support my work, you can share this post around and/or tip me on ko-fi. anything is super appreciated and goes towards my student loans ♡ 

ko-fi.com/swordknight

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I dreamt that I accidentally befriended a rat that lived in my home. It was a friendly rat and it would bring me little gifts, but it was still a wild rat and it was still a biohazard and its family was still infesting my home. I didn’t feel right betraying its trust after having forged an inter species friendship with it but I still had to do SOMETHING.

I logged onto Rat Facebook, which was exactly like regular Facebook but only for rats and accessible only via a miniature phone, and saw that my rat friend was a girl who had apparently announced they we were engaged. My notifications were all from hundreds of her relatives welcoming me into the family and wanting to get to know me better. They all thought I was rich and would provide for all of them so the fact that I wasn’t even the same species was just kind of glossed over.

I was horrified, obviously, because I did not want to marry a rat but I didn’t want to break her heart or murder her family, either. I told my friends and family and everyone agreed that while it was unfortunate for me, the leverage and influence I would gain among Ratfolk could be the key to solving many social and ecological issues; if I were accepted into their Rat Ways I might be able to make rodenticides obsolete, not to mention commanding an expansive espionage network unparalleled by human technology.

Anyway I was pressured into an awkward political marriage with a rat and became a Rat By Marriage. At least it was a girl rat?

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DO YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED

YOU KNOW THE HAIKU BOT???

OFC YOU DO

YOU KNOW THAT MESSAGE HE PUTS AT THE END OF EVERY POST????

"Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up."

YEAH???????

WELL THATS A HAIKU TOO

Beep boop! I look for

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.

NOW YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME THATS NOT THE CUTEST THNIG YOUVE EVER HEARD