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PILOT ANIMATIC THIS WEEK!!! 🌟

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous

hey. hi. I work in academia. and there are a lot of student-age folks on this site.

don't do this. don't use genAI. even if your professors give you permission. even if they ask for it or suggest it. if they do anything short of directly requiring it (and I weep, because I've already seen assignments that require it) don't touch that crap. if they do require it, stick it to them. be as maliciously compliant as possible. be a nightmare.

I know it might sound easier right now -- just plug in your assignment and get the answers. you don't care about this class anyway, it's not for your major, you don't see the value of the assignment.

but for your own sake, for the sake of your education and mind, and for the sake of the future world we want to have: learn the stuff. you are not as stupid as the corporate bizzaro kings who want to rule the world think you are, so don't give them reasons to believe it.

and odds are good genAI is gonna give you corrupted info anyway -- more and moreso as the machines cannibalize themselves.

just don't do it. not even "I just do it for XYZ--" no. stop. there is no valid use of generative AI, and even using it for memes or lolz feeds the system and directly feeds the pockets of the people who want to replace you anyway.

Rage reblogging this. Yesterday i got into an argument with one of my college friends who is using chatGPT to do all her work. We're psychology students. The whole group chat laughed my arguments off as if they didn't matter because "she's an artist, of course she's anti-AI" and i had to deal with it. This is a warning. If your therapist graduated in 2023/2024, ask about their opinions on chatGPT. They might lie to you if you ask "did you use it to graduate" directly, but try to make jokes about it and play it cool. If they're into it, DROP OFF. FIND A NEW ONE. Do not trust your brain to someone who didn't bother to use theirs.

Just do the fucking work.

You're not going to retain anything otherwise.

If I kept the knowledge from the many Blender videos I've watched while drawing other shit I'd have mastered it by this point.

Do the fucking work.

Also AI is trash and it doesn't actually know anything.

Knights of Guinevere Color Scripts

Said this to a dear and much-loved friend today, but I think maybe we all might need to see it:

Fandom is a community, not a corporation, your productivity is not a payment you have to make to be here.

Oh, this is nice!! Thank you OP!!

This is definitely something I’ve been struggling with as the anxious heap of human that I am

Hey! I still have some sets of 6d6 fireball dice sets available on my ko-fi! Ya know...in case you wanna buy any...

I wanted to get an invitation done a week ago but such as most things in my life, I'm late to the party.

A-hah.

Anyway, I'm gonna have a bit of a party on Twitch! I'm gonna draw some stuff, build a bird out of some tiny blocks, play some games, and do a few little giveaways. Mostly doodles and some (older) games that I'd love to give to somebody!

I'll be streaming both Saturday and Sunday, October 12th and 13th, from 10am Central until I'm too tired to keep going.

It'll be at twitch.tv/fusspot!

Come hang out! Mess with some of the special b-day only redeems I'll have up! I'm hoping it'll be a good time! If I have it in me I might even do some multiplayer games with folks, if anyone is able to join!

I'm thinking maybe Don't Starve Together or Core Keeper, but I'll run with whatever I've got depending on what other people have.

Sorry, no Jackbox, I don't wanna get banned. 🙃

Cheers!

Starting up in a few!

#OCtober with #DressupTober! I'll vaguely follow Unknownspy's guide from 2021, but will add my own outfits/spins on it. Next is Thiira! 🦜

Look at her Look at that polite little bird My girl Thank you!!

Inktober days 1-8. I’ve been struggling to catch up with this shit and I’m still a day behind. Kill me.

1. A character. 2. Their love interest. (She technically doesn’t have one so I’m running with shit from RP.) 3. Their pet(s). 4. Their home. 5. Their job. 6. Their favorite outfit. 7. Their sibling(s). 8. Their parents.

I haven't been assed to do Inktober since 2018 (or a lot of other things for that matter) so I'm just reposting these for posterity.

ALRIGHT YA NERDS! MOUSEPADS ARE LISTED!

I'm placing my order for Werewolves AND Mindflayers (and more Owlbears since I've run out!) These should be done by November and should ship out by the holidays!

As some of y'all may know, these guys are NOT cheap to produce. The minimum quantity per design is 50 and the cost per piece drives my overall order to over $2k. So PREORDERS HELP A LOT!

So considering a Christmas or birthday gift? Know you'll want this for yourself? Please consider preordering!

[text: once my german friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and i felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes]

As a recent DM stated, it's been six years since this zine started. Five years since preorders were taken. I've got a lot to apologize for, and I could go into the reasons why this is so delayed, but at the end of the day I should have been more responsible or taken help where it was offered instead of being stubborn.

This is just a physical proof. I have a couple of small graphical edits to make (cover & credits page backgrounds) and I have to add contributors' social details in. For that part, I'll be reaching out to writers and artists over the next week or so with a PDF preview to confirm details. I'll do this individually so nobody is getting lost in a stack of BCCs.

Thanks for your patience. And thanks to Slug/Snailirific for holding my feet to the fire on this.

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b o o k

Voting for Democrats is the "leaving the house, getting some exercise, and drinking more water is good for your mental health" of societal change. Everyone keeps telling you to do it, worst of all your mom keeps telling you to do it, and it's not a magical cure-all, but it actually works and rotting in your room shitposting does not help in either scenario.

Also like mental health, voting doesn't solve the whole problem! But if you aren't doing this bare minimum thing, the other tools you have aren't going to work as well as they should either. If you get medicine and continue rotting in your room shitposting, you will probably still be miserable. If you get a union at work but don't vote for politicians who support unions, the union won't be able to advocate for its members as effectively and work will still be miserable.

Voting is maintenance. It's like doing the dishes or cleaning the leaves out of the gutters. You're never going to get to a point where you are Done and Never Have To Do It Again (alas,) because time will continue to pass and you will continue to eat meals and the trees will continue to drop leaves into your gutters and right wingers will continue to submit bad bills to every session of congress.

You'll never be done with maintenance. But if you don't do that maintenance, your situation can and definitely will get Worse

Finally a take on the 'vote or else' shit I can vibe with. It's currently like showering with dysphoria- miserable and annoying with no real positive outcome past the current state not rapidly getting worse, but that's better than the alternative of things rapidly getting worse