#attention theft

[reality-detective]

Listen up American Taxpayers

A Boeing Whistleblower Report shows defense contractors are robbing taxpayers, the government did an investigation and found

- Boeing charged an 8,000% markup on 44 generic soap dispensers. costing taxpayers an extra $150,000

- Boeing overcharged $300,000 for retainer bands

- They marked up transmitters 3500%, costing taxpayers an extra $142,000

Images of each item are included in the video and it should make you furious 🤔

[cacodaemonia]

Uuuugggghhhhh. I hate it when I draw something based on someone else's fic, and my dumb image gets a bunch of comments but then no one bothers to go comment on the actual fic (which I always link to in the author's notes). >:(

The image wouldn't even exist without the fic, so it's meaningless on its own! It has zero value to me without the context of the words that inspired it!

EDIT: I wonder if asking something like "What was your favorite part of the fic this is based on?" in the author's notes would help get people to read it... *squints*

[bucky-bucky-bucky-bucky]

So everyone saw all the stuff about how AI “art” steals from real artists.

Everyone has seen SAG-AFTRA and the WGA fighting against studios using AI

Everyone saw musicians stand up against AI

And yet, y’all are STILL making these Sebastian AI posts? It literally goes against everything that artists are fighting for. Get it together.

[girltheftauto]

catalina moodboard (san andreas)

[lakesbian]

blake has like. a Thing about the horror of corrosion of identity also being paradoxically freeing because the imposed and manufactured parts of identity are included in that erosion. not "the freedom of having little-to-nothing to lose"--although that is something blake mentions experiencing in the Drains--but specifically being the experience of being freed from artificiality.

it's sorta the same thing i was talking about here--he views the integrity of his body as being inextricably intertwined with his identity, and thus has Complexes about keeping his body sacrosanct. even something as small as having stubble when he'd rather be clean-shaven is viewed by him as a jarring crack in his identity. the thing is that this trait isn't genuinely his--it wasn't really developed through his own life experiences, it was implanted by design. and given that vestiges falter most from having the identity they've been given challenged, it was very blatantly implanted for the specific purpose of ensuring that he would seek to prevent damage to his identity--for the specific purpose of keeping him from realizing the truth about himself: that he's been manufactured, manipulated, from the smallest of social interactions all the way down to the barest facts of his existence.

the drains strip away not only his identity, but the artifice inherent to it--freeing him from the constraints of things that only matter to him because he was forced to care, allowing him to shuck off the extraneous and directly grasp the core of himself. the blake thorburn filled in by spirits is more himself than the blake thorburn who still bases himself around his motorcycle, because the blake filled in by spirits is the blake filled up with his own experiences, marked by the scars and gouges that result from a life lived autonomously--often miserably, but autonomously. he will be miserable, and he will be whittled away to next to nothing, but it will be His nothing--and he wouldn't have it if not for his Brief Vacation To Ego Death Land.

[bitchy-peachy]

Reposters that get more recognition and notes than the original artist and original post never fail to piss me the fuck off. Especially when they don't even bother to credit the artist. Ah fuck you.

[laismoura-art]

It's really hard to find Harumi stuff on Pinterest (nearly broke my heart when I first looked for her and found nothing)

But I'm slowly getting there! Even making some of my own pins! 💛🩷

If anyone needs them for reference, here's my Pinterest! <3

[scarbordoefair]

So! It's been brought to my attention that there's an etsy shop that's selling my Jaskier Sticker along with other fanart in their Witcher sticker lot. I can't attest to anyone else, but I certainly wasn't asked if they could sell my boy. I've asked them to take him off the lot but we'll see how it goes!

If you like my little chibi Jaskier I do have a redbubble where I sell him as a vinyl sticker if you're so inclined!

[buildingunderstanding]

This morning I dreamt that someone recognized my Mjönir necklace and asked if I was a Norse Pagan, I told him, yes, I was and returned the question. At which point this man said, "Yeah, I am, but I don't really think the gods are how we think of them."

Naturally, I asked him to elaborate, and he basically said he believed that there was a span of time in which the Norse pantheon wasn't worshipped at all and it weakened the gods so much that they couldn't see us, even when present with us and that's why "they're just energies, they can't fully manifest yet". Apparently, my facial reaction spoke volumes because he got an attitude as was like, "Obviously, you disagree, so tell me what you think."

So I told him, I knew the gods could, in fact, see us. And when he cut me off with some snotty remark about the belief of the Christian God being omnipresent and omniscient, I admitted that yes, I am working on unpacking a lot of Christian beliefs, but, "I know the gods can see us because when I was doing research on Loki, and upon reading about how he stole a bloodstone from someone, he also stole one of mine. And it'd be really hard to steal the same crystal twice if he couldn't see us."

This guy kind of just stared at me for a moment before I shrugged and added, "Also I don't think they were ever not worshipped. Even if they we ere worshipped in secret, they've always been held in honor to someone."

[reality-detective]

Sen Rand Paul Breaks Down the of $1 Trillion in Government Waste, let’s look at some of the insanity…

- $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing mostly empty buildings

- $12 Million on a Las Vegas Pickleball Complex

- $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil

- $10,851,439 on Orwellian cat experiments

- $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers

- $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq

- $365,000 to promote circuses in city parks

- $90 billion on ineffective Navy LCS vessels

- $873,584 for movies in Jordan

- $288,563 to Ensure Bird Watching Groups Have Safe Spaces

- $20 million on the Fertilize Right initiative to advance fertilizer use in Pakistan, Vietnam, Colombia, and Brazil

- $2.1 million for Paraguayan Border Security

- $10,000 grant for ice-skating drag queens

- $892 billion in fiscal year 2024 on the interest on Uncle Sam’s Credit Card

It has been happening for decades 🤔

[chloe12801]

Cause Hell is hot

The flames are getting too hot

Too hot for a devil like me

Cool me down

Call me up

Riding it out on the heatwave

~

Carmen Smith (OC) x Trevor Philips Summer Moodboard! I love them so much, I really need to write about them but until then moodboards will have to do. Hope you enjoy <3 @gtafest

[angelhimeros]

ouuuhhh can someone send panty theft / boxer theft scenarios its sooo hot ,,,,

[somnolent-snufkin]

Tumblr users. Go get your shit together.

[birdkittenn]

it is an *interesting* development to see how my iterator sun and moon designs developed to go form a whole new iterator oc that isnt meant to be them

if i had a nickel every time i turned an au variant of the dca into an oc, id have 2 nickels

[phantastus]

MAN this is frustrating-- the slog of cleaning up my whole archive continues, but I’ve discovered that a since-defunct blog that used to post TONS of incredible and (most importantly) thoroughly-sourced and credited  contemporary art apparently became the victim of some kind of mass copyright-claim, because 90% of the photography and art is gone and the blog is deleted.

All of this stuff was amazing and there were ALWAYS links to the artists (frequently their own portfolios and websites, so that business could be funneled their way) or public articles about the exhibitions/galleries/etc that the art was featured in.

Maybe it’s just my inner archivist/art historian but the temptation to just gather up all the stuff that got nuked and draft up new, even more thorough posts showcasing the artists is nigh unbearable.

[thewritingsofevbrowne]

Guess what I'm doing today... I will be downloading all my google docs and never using it again.

🚨⚠️ATTENTION FELLOW WRITERS⚠️🚨

If you use Google Docs for your writing, I highly encourage you to download your work, delete it from Google Docs, and transfer it to a different program/site, unless you want AI to start leeching off your hard work!!!

I personally have switched to Libre Office, but there are many different options. I recommend checking out r/degoogle for options.

Please reblog to spread the word!!