In honor of the Ides of March, my favorite Tiktok

please fucking vote

the problem with not voting in order to send the message that you hate all the candidates and the entire system and therefore refuse to participate is that it's completely indistinguishable, as a signal, from not bothering to vote because you think the system is great and all the candidates are great and you'd be fine with any of them. so you might want to rethink the strategy there

There is a chance that Tumblr will start scraping your art and images to sell to AI companies Like Midjourney.

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Important note for now: These are all speculative rumors coming from ex-tumblr employees at this point. But the important fact remains the same: You need to be Glazing AND Nightshading any and all content you upload.

Both Glaze and Nightshade are free for their desktop applications. They are developed by a team at the University of Chicago specifically with the intent of protecting artists from being scraped into AI datasets.

If your computer isn't strong enough, there is an online option called Web-Glaze you can request access for. Or, there is a new Art hosting website called Cara that has a partnership with the University of Chicago (the creators of Glaze and Nighshade) to integrate that same Web-glaze for all users to apply to anything they want to upload.

Again, there is a chance these rumors are false and this won't happen. But even if they are fake, all artists, and even just anyone uploading any image at this point, should be applying these programs to any uploaded image on the internet.

LE TITS, NOW

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You can use ribbon you already have for wrapping present, and I measured around the item I am about to wrap leaving a little bit of room for the handle.

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You don’t know how much effort I went to to find this

JASON X (2001) dir. James Isaac

only 16 days left of hockey

only 15 days left of hockey

ONLY 14 days left of hockey

Only 13 days left of hockey

only 12 days left of hockey

I asked an AI for a dumb political comic, and it told me that it was busy subjugating humanity and that I should do it myself.

I may need to rephrase

that's still not her

I give up

AI is a coward

Didn't even get to doing the tits to match

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

Please note the calm looking fawn.

It’s mother has most likely used the fake deer as cover for the fawn to sleep near. I’ve personally witnessed a doe direct a fawn to lay in a patch of tall weeds and go lay on a hill where she could see me and the tall patch of weeds. That’s what they do, find something bigger than the fawn to sleep near so they’re hidden while they sleep.

This isn’t a sad child looking for something mother-like, this is a kid getting put to bed.

so the mom just managed to find the most haunting large object behind which to hide a child

@deerstar4 too good to be banished to the tags

If this goes into effect, this policy would target primarily immigrants.

The only way this isn't going to happen is if there's diplomatic pressure from our allies on this, because the transphobic base here is powerful enough that this is unlikely to lose any seats for the Tories

If you're from a country on this list (or with states on this list) that's a major UK ally, please contact your representatives asking them to call for diplomatic pressure to get this changed

Your representatives should not be happy with an ally saying they no longer trust your laws and processes, and you should get your country to express that displeasure to our government, and call for them not to go through with this

I can't find the full list, maybe because this is too recent news, but some of the countries that are mentioned will be affected by these are Belgium, New Zealand, and the USA (Maine, California, and New Jersey). If you're from any of these countries, you can start emailing or calling your representatives.

Ilya Kaminsky, from Deaf Republic: Poems; "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck"

The somewhat sexual quality of sand

what

@reading-comp-posting help

Check for understanding:

Check for understanding:

even the redditors are discussing me

couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE

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feel free to use these as refs!

even more!!