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[baglsasha]

at the end of the day i think the online digital artist community has for a very long time operated on a set of like unspoken handshake rules generally enforced by social pressure which (despite being positioned on a moral & pseudolegal plane) have very little overlap with what is legal or illegal (de facto or de jure) but which have Everything to do with figuring The Artist as a universal would-be petit bourgeois auteur, reflected through these rules' emphasis on (1) the moral necessity of The Artist's unwavering & eternal power over their own art (& its reception) as articulated via informal pseudo-IP mechanisms (no reposting, dont tag as me/kin/id, dont use as your pfp, dont draw my oc), (2) the moral mandate toward Constant Self-Improvement (generally meaning adopting more of the conventional signifiers of "Good Art" eg realism) (admonition of "tracing" even for practice, artists who do things that are "not conducive to improvement" being fair game for mockery), & (3) attempting to induce in observers (often through guilt) a social pressure to further the ambitions of such artists ("you need to reblog/share, not just like", "you MUST commission 1 million artists immediately", "it's rude to express anything other than praise for any piece of art")

like these all (in tandem with SEO etc) boil down to attempting to lay the groundwork for an imagined future state of self-employment emanating out of one's (semi-)hobbyist artistry (& to obstruct anything perceived as interfering with that fantasy or its actuation). it's sort of like hiring a team of accountants on the assumption that youre going to win the lottery someday, like if it were in another context we'd effortlessly recognize it for the meritocratic grindset shit that it is. & none of this is even remotely conducive to the production of good art lmao

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being someone who is barely old enough (25 years old) to remember the height of anti-sjw youtube in that plausibly deniable era before they turned hard right in 2016, it is absurd to me how much this current wave of transandrophobia-truthers has in common with them, and many of them are a lot older than me so they've gotta remember it too, right

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yeah I think i'm gonna ditch this site. not deactivating yet but just. opening tumblr just leads to me not being happy so I'm done.

if you don't have contact with me elsewhere and want to stay in touch reach out

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this website is so fascinating bc it sees itself as the last bastion of intellectualism on the internet and then its users think cigarettes get you high and have never heard of bob dylan

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nobody respects the genealogy of ideas. if you tell people words come out of history and are attached to different forms of material power and domination they immediately throw a temper tantrum

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basically all the major land area has now been covered. Main progress today was setting up some nether infrastructure. I've decided to build nether tunnels out to all the villages (and maybe a few other points of interest since the north has less villages). Got the first one of those set up today, connection from my base at the center to Desert Village. Nether tunnels will make the travel needed to fill out the remaining little bits of land and big bits of ocean much easier and faster. Setting up a nether hub w/ connections out to points of interest in this world which you can see on the map will also be rly beneficial to my friends who are also playing on the server. Fun

trying to fill out 4 of the largest sized maps in minecraft. fun side project

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why can you doordash from Dick's sporting goods

open up doordash like "yeah I need a ball"

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genuinely everyone who yells abt AI art all the time are missing the actual problem so hard. The damage ChatGPT and other LLMs are doing in the form of spreading misinformation and validating people's beliefs in misinformation is extremely worrying.

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Moooore mapping progress! really only a few major gaps left in the land coverage. This project has been very fun

trying to fill out 4 of the largest sized maps in minecraft. fun side project

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oh fuck jesus real in minecraft

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>be democrat

>republican gets into office

>starts deporting citizens to concentration camp in another country with no due process

>ignores supreme court order to bring one of them back

>fires the joint chiefs of staff

>purges military structure

>purges FBI and other federal agencies

>starts arresting judges

>talks about running for a third term less than 100 days into office

>secdef is covered in crusader tattoos

>the guy who gutted the federal government flashed multiple nazi salutes at the inauguration

>Immigration police can now storm any home they want without a warrant

>global economy almost gets crashed in one week by economic policy from chatgpt

>eggs cost six dollars

>republic is in total crisis

>do nothing

>constituents spend last 100 days screaming that i need to do something or we're all gonna fucking die

>introduce another federal assault weapon ban

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ppl need to stop complaining abt RYM charts and bask in the glory that is the Sputnik Music Top 10 of all time

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historians believe that the cause of the third world war can be traced back to musician claire "grimes" boucher placing the term "anti-imperialist" back in her instagram bio

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im going through exact same

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