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mastodon 4.7.3Curious #Geek #Critter Cross-Platform User #AuDHD Occasionally sweary.
Likes Problematic (so most) Disney films.
Bippity boppity back the fuck up.
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DO NOT FOLLOW ME IF YOU LIKE OR USE A.I. GENERATED IMAGES OR TEXT
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Joined December 16, 2022
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[TERFS! SUCK] also FUCK A.I. FUCK LLM's
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The WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS!
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE
because it is the INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN !
... Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984
Notes
[ See link for the full Manifesto. I've run out of characters !]
https://archive.org/details/whycheapartmanif01unse/page/n1/mode/1up
I haven't read it, but "Dungeon Crawler Carl", is giving me "Ready Player One .. "vibes from the little I have seen about it.
If you've read it does that seem .. accurate?
We could've had THE Mads Mikkelsen as Doctor Doom, but apparently the people who run the #MCU thought RDJ was a better fit.
😐😑
I am a big boobed, small backed, under six foot woman and I have to shop for a new Bra online.. Pray for me ?
😑 😮💨
I will soon own a pair of flush cut pliers.
I imagine this will make me Unstoppable*
[* For A Very Teeny, Tiny, Measurable, definition of Unstoppable when encountering plastics that need flush cutting]
#Craft #Crafting #CraftTools
Replying to
@MicroSFF if that Boy likes dating girls, he is never, ever, not gonna have a girlfriend ! ,🤣
Soooo #hobbii brand got bought by a "Tech company" and the CEO recently made a LinkedIn post all about how ~great AI generated images~ are.
Notably they didn't put that on their store anywhere - just LinkedIn.
Aaaand the backlash has been swift.
Consumer trust ? Nuked from space.
Influencer Goodwill? *obliterated*.
Why buy a company to just destroy it ?
#cotton #knitting #crochet #yarn #yarncraft #Craft #Craftwitch #YarnWitch
Friends, I just had THE Most horrifying interaction with a banana, that the heatwave and humidity had somehow managed to ~ liquify inside the intact banana skin~.
The words Undulating Waves might allow you to imagine *some* of the interaction but..
:: shudder ::
Mere words cannot convey, the squishy sloshy sound and excruciatingly WRONG feel of the thing.
#heatwave #fruit #banana #EldritchHorror #Ew
Oof. Reading a piece of long form fanfiction and this quote just jumped up and punched me ~straight in my psyche~ :
"People think I’m tough. And maybe I am. Maybe I’ve earned it. But tough doesn’t mean untouched. It just means you learned how to bleed quietly."
#Fanfic #introspection #writing
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@vagina_museum@masto.ai @pzmyers@freethought.online also ... *ALSO* THERE IS SOMEHOW A PART OF A HUMAN SPINE INSIDE THE UTERUS !?! WTF !?!
🫤😖
The Industry rumour is that Netflix is attempting to buy Letterbox - because part of the Dystopian Now apparently involves every media outlet in the world being owned and/or a subsidiary of the same freaking Big Six companies.
I hate this.
I hate all of this.
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/15/if-letterboxd-sells-out-to-netflix-the-people-lose/
Nobody: ....
Me: WHIMSYMAXXING IS A NEW PHRASE THAT NEEDS TO GO DIE IN A FIRE !
ABSOLUTELY MUST STOP. STOPPIT. STAHP.
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@Printdevil@dice.camp "Siren Call of Possibility" should be the Neurospicy Anthem
if I wasn't drowning in other stuff, I'd write that song.!
#Stationary question.
Do drawing #compases that can hold large width pens exist? I mean like phat Posca marker size ?
Or is it a edge case so small I'll have to DIY something ?
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@Printdevil@dice.camp so you're saying buying tools is an additive, and addicting practise ?
I Am AWARE SIR.
Also tin snips are something I have covered for *years* but rsi and general Feebleness of Constitution mean I know that buying them would be.. a mistake.
😁😜
Updated Consumer Trading Law mean that a lot of #USA and #EU small businesses just won't sell items to the #UK any more - apparently this has been. True since Dec 2024? ...
Speaking as a UK resident.. this sucks.
#GPSR = The General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is the EU law that ensures all consumer products sold in the EU meet strict safety standards.
Note: This also applies to digital products, like PDF patterns, AND products not sold, but provided for Free.
https://www.lucylegal.co.uk/blog/do-i-need-to-comply-with-gpsr-a-clear-guide-for-uk-businesses
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@diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk
Genuine.
Nightmare.
Fuel.
Plus! The song in the ad has this chorus - which plays as the 'Fruit Giant' *gives bits of his body away for kids to eat*
"Give a little bit
Give a little bit of your love to me
I'll give a little bit
I'll give a little bit of my love to you
There's so much that we need to share "
This could potentially be a fantastic (NO A.I !) drawing / art reference for all kinds of hairstyles:
"The HJ Gallery
Seventy years of hairdressing inspiration created by some of the industry's most iconic names, including Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie and Anthony Mascolo "
"Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone
The [United States] government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal. "
- Arstechnica.com
This seems like a cool thing:
The Periodic Table Of Linux Distros.
[ Please note, I am not the creator of this table just found it interesting ]
"The Linux family of distributions is large, varied and complex. There are hundreds of Linux distributions in the world, many of them with close ties to other projects and it can be difficult to keep track of the relationships between distributions." - Distrowatch
#Linux #LinuxDistros #OS #Computers #OpenSource #Freeware
https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=family-tree
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@jepyang@wandering.shop You'll be happy to hear that the kind of person who'd believe this is also the kind of person who already avoids all fluoride containing products - because they believe it's 'a feminising govt conspiracy'
It's been a fringe paranoid beliefe for ~decades~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_water_fluoridation
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@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange I Mean I COULD ... but having done it in the past - I like having legible fingerprints more than I enjoy making jumprings..
I find this very soothing to watch.
I can almost see the travel vectors in my mind.
The Math is (for once) Math-ing nicely
So an - interesting ? depressing? worth mentioning? - thing about my latest hyper-fixation is that is features a bunch of human characters rendered in 3d who all have very distinct faces and features. Particularly thier noses.
Anyway, every #AI generated image or video about these characters straightens out their noses and makes them all the same nose.
Which is .. weird. ? 😖🤔🤷🏿♀️
I suspect it's because the 'average' amalgamation of images of a human #nose, probably is 'straight' ?
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@erikcats@dice.camp My original post was never about the activity attached to the word, but the existence of the word in, and of, itself as a descriptive concept.
It's roots in 'Looksmaxxing' - and the entire mess associated with that term - is the point.
My point was that whimsymaxing is fruit of the poison tree and a use of English that is .. counter-productive at best.
It's Double Plus Ungood - and if you understand that phrase, then you can hopefully see what I was referring to
Peeps who have followed me for a while - should I watch the TV series Heated Rivalry* ? 🤔
Seems like a looooooota people like it.. ?
[Am unlikely to read the book because I don't read many books with modern contemporary settings, but I watch plenty of contemporary set TV shows. Soooo 🤔🤷🏿♀️!]
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org It's the teeny tiny details that make your art so distinct and lovely to get lost in.
*Every single one* of those mice has a different personality and the viewer can tell with a glance.
Seeing your line art makes me simultaneously want to draw more and also want to give up !
Hope that makes sense.
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@DXMacGuffin@metalhead.club
You might enjoy / be confuzzled by these also? - Someone commissioned teletubbies meets hellraiser cenobites mashup dolls...
https://www.reddit.com/r/CustomDolls/comments/1qj4jl8/i_made_my_own_teletubbies_x_hellraiser_collab_im/
@scalzi it's almost like no one ever took Microsoft to court over these exact same kinds of Monopolistic shenanigans.. oh wait.. 🤔😮💨
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@swetland@chaos.social I know I already own the first two English volumes hence me preordering
the grimoire to read the rest :)
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@http_error_418@hachyderm.io @diffractie@glitterkitten.co.uk
My brain is a bit broken by the entire concept! But - to lean into the Horror aspect, I suspect all the kids who eat the Fruit & Veg, wake up the following day to find that *they are themselves now made entirely of Fruit & Veg.*
They roam the country infiltrating supermarkets everywhere.. waiting for unsuspecting children.
And the cycle continues ...
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@lambdacalculus thank you! I have wanted to try Rockbox for a long time but for some reason thought it wasn't easily reversible.
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@jordanlafordan@tenforward.social congrats I haven't read it yet I'm saving it for a Easter break duvet day ! - but congrats!
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@shonalika@deadinsi.de soooo full on goth mini festival weekend in the woods then? a Ren Fare for the Goth / Metal inclined ?
A kind of Gloom Glamping ?
🤔
Edit: Thanks to every one who answered. I learnt a lot about U.S. linguistics and Boston !
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How do People from Boston, America pronounce Boston?
[This is just for funzies.]
Boyf and I are disagreeing 🤣
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@lambdacalculus of something goes wrong is it easy to recover itunes though ?
It installing Rock box additive or destructive (in a software sense) ?