AelderFlower

Cerberus at the pet store

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr I feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals.

None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit.

Crochet Flower Patterns // Tanitka Lace

#What three hours of sun does to a nation

iceland’s two seasons: hibernation and mania

Ladybug Necklace | blackbarcjewelry on Instagram

I've been rolling something around in my head.

If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?

Just let that marinate for a moment.

Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.

Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.

When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.

It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.

Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.

Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.

mesmerized 💡

strawberry themed dwebble/crustle variant

kofi

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

Seeing as Twitter is gonna legally steal your work now, please use glaze to protect what you make.

Guys did you hear about Nightshade?

Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI's recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.

And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ

Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

not that ai companies have to respect this, but FYI for everyone you should turn this on

Illustrating some literal mushroom names in anticipation of baby's first convention season (as an independent artist)

Here's 1 out of 3 - Chicken of the Woods!

Come see me at VanCAF in May if you like chickens and/or mushrooms. I'll have stickers and postcards and other art toooo

This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism

Talk to construction workers and you will learn that the million-dollar mansions being made today are total garbage that will fall apart within a few decades.

Decades? Try years. Try immediately. I toured a high-end development demo house once and the place was already shit. Drawers didn't fit right on their runners, doors not hung right, all sorts of other small issues. The people I know who work in the trades say they're not allowed to spend the time to build these places right. Labour costs money and everyone from the owners to the developers to the contractors wants to save a few dollars. And that includes the private mansions they've worked on. It all adds up to small leaks and minor inconveniences that build into structural problems that will make these places uninhabitable in less time than it takes to pay the mortgage.

i'd say arrested development tried to warn us but we were already deep in it then

推特有什麼萬一，就先在這裡

Claudia Bueno is an artist born in Venezuela, now based in the USA, whose light art installations will tease and tantalise all your senses. Bueno works with circuits and motors to create ethereal installations which play with light, sound and touch, creating immersive art which is psychedelic and magical in nature.