Don’t feed the AI, use Glaze / Nightshade before uploading your artwork online
I will no longer be uploading my art to Tumblr due to their deal with Midjourney/OpenAI (along with their other controversies)
You can find my work at:
You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.
There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.
Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.
PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.
Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)
The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.
So even if you think it isn't enough, remember that donating even as little as $1.35 helps! It's $1.35 they wouldn't have had otherwise. So donate if you can. 🇵🇸
Since the minimum is so low, this is a great place to put the last of a prepaid card, don't just give it back to the card company by tossing it with money still on it! Even a dollar can do good!
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palestine masterpost-masterpost
i've been trying my best to collect a bunch of links to other, more structured resources about the genocide in gaza, and what you, reading this, can do about it, that i'm going to compile here.
DON'T SCROLL PAST. LOOK THROUGH THE LINKS. REBLOG.
less and less people are talking about gaza every day, but it is still a very real crisis.
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Don’t feed the AI, use Glaze / Nightshade before uploading your artwork online
I will no longer be uploading my art to Tumblr due to their deal with Midjourney/OpenAI (along with their other controversies)
You can find my work at:
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And about the AI opt-out setting Tumblr will deploy tomorrow, I’ll just let you with the words of the person in charge of the heist:
Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who’s opted out since the last time we provided a list. […] I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point.”
So Tumblr will notify openAi and Midjourney that you wish your posts to not be used and it’s entirely up to them to comply or not. And as we know, we are talking about some of the less ethical companies on the internet (which honestly is kind of a feat), so that cute little setting will most than probably do nothing and less.
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if yall want to have fun on the internet while feeling like apart of a community you should join neocities and make your own personal website im so srs.
you’ll need to learn html coding but there are loads of free templates you can use! this layout generator is a great place to start, and neocities also has their own starter guide. i promise coding is not as scary as it looks, once you learn the basics it is rewarding & fun!
having a personal website on neocities is like having a little virtual house that you can freely customise how you want then you can go and visit other ppls virtual houses. it’s comfy, slow-paced and very welcoming compared to current social media.
if you don’t want to join, i still recommend checking out peoples websites ^_^ they are interactive works of art! keep in mind most are best viewed on a computer rather than mobile.
here is my website if you’d like to check it out :3
Here is a BIG list of free HTML templates you can use to start your website!
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social media doesn’t deserve artists. im so serious …. modern SM wants to exploit us, steal from us, then try to replace us.
we provide so so so much free “content” and expect nothing in return, yet they still want more from us. they want us to post our work constantly, participate in the current trends, or we will be punished by the algorithm. it is a vulnerable, exhausting experience to share our art and hope that it is good enough for our audiences and algorithm. the system kills creativity. yet artists are expected to depend on these awful systems just to survive.
websites built for artists, like deviantART and artstation, betrayed us by promoting AI. they should have protected us.
artists deserve more respect. the modern internet is a garbage fire.
i’ll share my blog post that i uploaded to my neocities / personal website a few weeks ago, as it expands on my personal experience with this topic
“I’ve started limiting my use of modern social media like Twitter/Tumblr, instead I use Neocities, and it is incredibly refreshing. I like being able to curate my online experience. I like that artists on Neocities can update their website at their own pace without the fear of getting lost in a sea of ‘content’. I like that it gives power back to the artists to build their own online spaces. On the Indie Web, It becomes the responsibility of the viewer to keep track of the artist if they want to see more of their work, it isn’t the artist’s responsibility to cater to the algorithm. It’s not about attention & numbers on the Indie Web, it’s about creating a virtual space to nurture our individual personalities, interests & experiences (at least that’s how I see it). Of course it’s not a perfect system, but it’s a lot better than the hellscape of modern social media.
We get less traction on indie web, but is that such a bad thing? Are a certain # of likes really what we should value our art, when art is incredibly personal self-expression? Is art only considered ‘good’ if it is palatable/aesthetic/familiar enough for people to want to ‘reblog’ it? I don’t want to be an artist in a world like that. My purpose is not to create ‘content’ for scrolling. Connecting to 1 person, is more influential to me than 50, 500, 5000 likes could ever be. I don’t want my art to exist within the vacuum of a bland, soulless corporate social media account. I want it surrounded by who I am and what inspires me, the indie web enables that.
I want to understand the people who view my art too, it brings me great joy to explore the personal websites of my Neocities followers. I really cannot overstate how important community is for artists. Art is a language, we want our art to be understood and seen, but thinking that validation can come from likes/reblogs is incredibly damaging and fruitless. I speak from a place of privilege as art is not my source of income so I don’t need to depend on having my art shared, but that’s a whole different topic.
After uploading my art to the internet since 2009, it alarms me how much of an influence it has had on my work. Of course I have been inspired by so many incredible artists that I have met through places like Twitter/Tumblr, and I am grateful to have their influence in my life, but the culture of social media has had a negative impact on me. Sub-consciously, and sometimes consciously, I will cater topics and my style to what gets more likes/view/reblogs/whatever. That makes me sad, I want my work to delve into weirder and more personal territories. When I would try to post more personal work on modern social media it performs significantly ‘worse’ compared to my more generic furry drawings. People like familiarity, familiarity grows the follower count. I’m sad that I let those stupid numbers influence what I create. I want to break away from that.
Of course I still post on modern social media for visibility but after being burnt by Twitter after it was bought by Elon Musk, I lost my faith in social media as a community hub for artists. The rise of AI images within places like Artstation/DeviantART was the rusty nail in the coffin. Artists have collectively spent millions of hours making and uploading their work for free only for it to be stolen and replicated, but again that’s another topic. All I’ve ever wanted from the internet was to share my art and talk to other artists. Neocities enables that connection in a very unique way. On the Indie Web we have room to grow and develop our individuality, not just cater to what is popular. I won’t lie though, it does hurt to see the current art community so divided…”
@ivaalo v much that... while they steal the internet from us, they also manipulated us into providing free labour for them. tumblr for example would be nothing without the fan artists, WE bring people to their site, yet they are still willing to sell our 'data' / creative work to midjourney/openAI. it's pure greed.
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social media doesn’t deserve artists. im so serious …. modern SM wants to exploit us, steal from us, then try to replace us.
we provide so so so much free “content” and expect nothing in return, yet they still want more from us. they want us to post our work constantly, participate in the current trends, or we will be punished by the algorithm. it is a vulnerable, exhausting experience to share our art and hope that it is good enough for our audiences and algorithm. the system kills creativity. yet artists are expected to depend on these awful systems just to survive.
websites built for artists, like deviantART and artstation, betrayed us by promoting AI. they should have protected us.
artists deserve more respect. the modern internet is a garbage fire.
i’ll share my blog post that i uploaded to my neocities / personal website a few weeks ago, as it expands on my personal experience with this topic
social media doesn’t deserve artists. im so serious …. modern SM wants to exploit us, steal from us, then try to replace us.
we provide so so so much free “content” and expect nothing in return, yet they still want more from us. they want us to post our work constantly, participate in the current trends, or we will be punished by the algorithm. it is a vulnerable, exhausting experience to share our art and hope that it is good enough for our audiences and algorithm. the system kills creativity. yet artists are expected to depend on these awful systems just to survive.
websites built for artists, like deviantART and artstation, betrayed us by promoting AI. they should have protected us.
artists deserve more respect. the modern internet is a garbage fire.
Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.
Yeeeeeeeeeehaw.
sy sable (left), arguably the father of the furry fandom, died peacefully in his sleep this morning at 71 -- he co-founded Confurence, organized our very first room parties and the first furry BBS, and provided housing to displaced furs since 1980. please keep his partner, friends and family in your thoughts today and remember the passion and effort your community was built on
Not to be pedantic, but he passed from stage 4 liver cancer that had given him a stroke around New Years, and passed yesterday in hospice care.
His partners (he has two, who love him dearly and should not be erased) and loved ones have been taking him to different hospitals and took over his hospice care.
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❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥
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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
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“God is under the rubble in Gaza. He is with the frightened and the refugees. He is in the operating room. This is our consolation. He walks with us through the valley of the shadow of death.”
– Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, in his sermon “God is under the rubble in Gaza.”
I made this painting of the manger scene created by Rev. Dr. Isaac’s church, Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, with the Christ child under the rubble (original image here).
shes just a little guy
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