#im currently doing this

[hinamie]

quick megumi style study

[sophiebaybey]

Not to preach to the choir but I wonder if people generally realize that AI models like ChatGPT aren't, like, sifting through documented information when you ask it particular questions. If you ask it a question, it's not sifting through relevant documentation to find your answer, it is using an intensely inefficient method of guesswork that has just gone through so many repeated cycles that it usually, sometimes, can say the right thing when prompted. It is effectively a program that simulates monkeys on a typewriter at a mass scale until it finds sets of words that the user says "yes, that's right" to enough times. I feel like if it was explained in this less flattering way to investors it wouldn't be nearly as funded as it is lmao. It is objectively an extremely impressive technology given what it has managed to accomplish with such a roundabout and brain-dead method of getting there, but it's also a roundabout, brain-dead method of getting there. It is inefficient, pure and simple.

[peachdalooza]

their contrast is funny to me

[catboybiologist]

By now, there's lots of people have heard about the internal CDC memos for all newly prepared manuscripts (like future scientific papers waiting to be published):

There's so much to comment on, and I'm seeing it all right now. What the state of science is. What this means for the queer community. All of that.

But fuck, I think I might genuinely start crying over this. As a transgender biologist, this feels like a brutally personal blow. I slowly accepted my gender alongside my biology education. The more misinformation that was spewed about "biological sex" by mainstream media, the more my professors, colleagues, and primary sources would casually drop information that proved they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not an expert on sex determination, gender, or transgender biology specifically by any means. But my worldview has been crafted by my studies in genetics and molecular biology.

Engaging with this research helped me demystify transition. It helped me optimize my transition. It helped me explain how HRT and other steps of trans healthcare work to other people. And it helped me overcome my own internalized transphobia, and finally start transitioning, despite knowing I wanted to since my preteen years.

Who knows how enforceable internal guidelines like this will be. But its certainly going to scare a lot of researchers away from transgender healthcare and science in the coming years, and that breaks my heart.

There's a lot I can say here, but fuck. I just needed to vent for a moment. Fuck.

[sha1l0t]

[clumsypuppy]

forgot i made this my obsession a while ago

[drgaes]

I think it needs to be said in light of VERY recent events that violence on the MAGA front is about to increase tenfold. They will see this as permission to carry out the violence they've been promising since day one. Don't fearmonger, just keep yourselves and your families wary. Please stay safe out there, americans.

[suntails]

airplane!

[nin-ei]

Save me God of War Ragnarok (Prints available here)

[stargirl230]

rock (a sweetheart) vs rock (candy)…who will win??? 🍬

Full piece I did back in 2023 (help that was two whole years ago) for @rriotzine

leftovers sales are open now!

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[sakasakiii]

im a bit rusty when it comes to rendering comics but since i missed out on the yearly comic offering in 2024, here is an old draft from 2021 that has been sitting as a wip in my folder for 4 years ajsddhj

bonus: what master smiths do in their free time

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[needlesknick-knacks]

see if someone asked me how to get into comics id tell them to look up reading lists, find foundational arcs, more accessible one-shots etc but that does not mean ill take my own advice. when i want to get into a superhero i start reading from their first appearance like god intended

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[italofobia]

hello.

are you still here?

...that's good.

can you do me a favor and read about @save-mohamed-family 's campaign (which has been verified by @gazavetters and is number #192 on their list)?

mohammed has to provide for three young children in the midst of a genocide. they have no home, they can barely get food or sleep and then are constantly in danger. the least you could do is support them in any way possible!

DONATE WHAT YOU CAN, AND REMEMBER TO SHARE THIS CAMPAIGN WITH YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY OR ANYONE ELSE WHO COULD HELP.

HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU!

[classical-linguist]

it's hailing today and the gloom outside is casting peculiar shadows around my room...