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Hey folks I'm invoking my namesake here. It's Vital to be Angry.

The head of the copyright office was fired days ago, and the powers that be are trying to make sure that individual states cannot self regulate anything regarding AI. I am an Artist, I work hard and respect others who engage in this skill set. I assume you do too if you are even seeing this.

If you are in the states. Call your reps. Call your Senators.

Find any Representative.

Leave voice messages, speak to someone in person if you can get a hold of them.

For some more information here.

I keep my page clear of many things because I do not want to spam people thus encouraging them to ignore me as sheer background noise with all the problems we have in this world. Know that I am tired, I am justifiably upset over many other issues, I know I am not alone in that I'm sure most of you feel and know the same.

I have made these calls myself. Be direct. Be forward. Be orderly. Be Punctual. Do what you can.

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I am genuinely, genuinely pissed off at how generative AI has melted the brains of younger folks.

I have been asked to train a new medical secretary for a different program, and she's a year out of college now but her complete lack of basic knowledge makes me wonder if she even actually went at all. Because this girl can't even write a letter to a specialist by herself. I'm not even talking about using developer tools to make a template, something that I could do in my sleep at her age, ten years ago. I mean simply sitting down and writing out the contents of the letter!

I don't care if this is mean to say - I don't think she deserves to have her certificate if she (by her own admission) relied fully on ChatGPT to get it. I don't think she is qualified to work in this field, handling sensitive patient information, if all she knows how to do is feed shit into a robot and wait for it to work for her.

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guess who finally remembered mermay exists🐟

jmart as a stingray & a blue green ringed octopus

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distortion + foxglove

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By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

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So do you think anybody is going acknowledge that Hind Rajab should have been celebrating her 7th birthday today with her family? Do you think anybody is going to acknowledge that?

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Color theory: there are several colors

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Images from Leonard Nimoy’s The Full Body Project (2007)

The Full Body Project is a book of photography by Leonard Nimoy that features a group of women involved in fat liberation. They were the Fat-Bottom Revue—women who worked in film, theatre, and art and who formed the first all-fat burlesque performance group. The founder of the Fat-Bottom Revue, Heather MacAllister, was an advocate in the LGBT rights movement, the fat acceptance movement, and in particular was a champion for fat lesbians.

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jmart. many such cases

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Today my daughter Laila felt dizzy and fell to the ground due to malnutrition. We are living in the worst conditions and very difficult days. There is no food. My son Ahmed cries all day from hunger. These are the hardest days since the beginning of the war. We've lost everything. our dreams, even our sense of security. We don't want to lose hope. Please help us.

Please donate.

Help us and donate. Every donation makes a difference. Don't ignore us. My family needs you.

✅️vetted by @/bilal-salah0, @/90-ghost, & @/el-shab-hussein✅️

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wasn’t super happy with how i drew sasha bc she didn’t rly look like i pictured so. here!!! love of my life

(ID: Three digital drawings of Sasha James from the magnus archives. She is a thin Arab woman with light brown skin and dark curly brown hair in a ponytail. she has freckles, light stubble, and glasses. In the top left drawing, she is wearing a brown three piece suit and carrying a bag and newspapers looking suspiciously over her shoulder. In the top right drawing she is wearing a white blazer with flowers patterned on it, a burnt orange sweater, and light beige ruffly pants. In the bottom drawing, she is wearing a red brown sweater vest, a collared blouse covered in mushrooms, and a green skirt with flower patterns. She has large dangly earrings in all the drawings.)

bonus concept/design sketches under the cut

(ID: four traditional pencil sketches of Sasha. She is wearing various outfits and smiling in all of them, except in the fourth, where she is staring with a frightened expression.)

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It is so fucking sinister that the only form of child abuse that society really cares about is sexual in nature. parents are free to control everything about their child's movement, presentation, eating, faith traditions, information exposure, socialization, and can restrict all of these things to an extreme degree as a form of punishment or in order to shape the child into whatever they want that child to be. and that's all considered completely normal, the parent's right! people don't even see the fact that a parent has the power to control so much about a child's life for damn near 20 years to be a problem. The only time they become concerned about child abuse is when the prospect of an outside stranger behaving in a sexual way toward a child is raised. and yeah a lot of really horrific sexual abuses are enacted unto children, but that's because they have zero control over their own lives and bodies in any other way as well. It is all about power and control. and typically the ones who are abusing children the most frequently are the ones who have the most control over them, the parents.

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The criteria for “addiction” being “dopamine” is so incredibly stupid it had to have been invented by the people that try to say porn addiction is real thing

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Deeply fascinated by the people who heard rightful criticism of generative AI (i.e. chatgpt etc) and decided all machine learning is evil or something. You sound like a scifi villain. You sound like the character who's wrong on an episode of star trek. That's not how this works

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they’re on a date!!! For @dickwheelie and @radiosandrecordings

commission me!

(ID: A digital drawing of Jon and Martin. Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin and long graying curly dark hair. He has a beard, long dangly earrings, and scars dotting his skin. They are wearing a dark purple turtleneck crop top, a sheer white unbuttoned button-up over it, and dark purple shorts with a sheer long skirt over them. Martin is a tall, fat Black and Filipino man with dark skin and freckles. His hair is short, curly, and dark red, and it is tipped with white. He has vitiligo dotting his skin and a tattoo of orchids on his shoulder. Martin is wearing a long pale yellow dress tied with a bow at his waist. Both of them have ace and wedding rings on their right hands. Jon is smiling up at Martin in a pose that’s showing off their outfit, while Martin is holding their hands and giggling fondly at them.)

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The first 1/2 of my TMA Hadestown au!!! Second half will probably come up tomorrow ft Hades, Persephone, and The Fates. Will talk more about my thoughts on this au when the next part goes up but consider, if you will, lovestruck son of a muse Jon and cynical-turned-loving lonely Martin 🥰🥰 and of course, storyteller Annabelle

(ID: several digital drawings of a TMA / Hadestown au.

The first features three drawings of jon as orpheus. Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin and long, curly graying dark hair. He has a beard and an ace ring on his right hand. In two of the drawings they are wearing a pale shirt with the buttons undone, red suspenders, and a red bandana. The top left drawing has Jon standing and looking off to the side, a guitar strung over his back. The bottom left drawing has him holding out a flower and looking up with a smile. In the bottom right drawing, he is wearing a pink dress with shiny fabric, sitting down, and playing a lyre, with his hair up in a bun. The background has a flower pattern and Handwritten text reads “Jon (orpheus) - Now Orpheus was a poor boy, but he had a gift to give.”

The second has drawings of Martin as Eurydice. Martin is a fat Black and Filipino man with dark freckled brown skin, short curly reddish brown hair tipped with white, and vitiligo dotting his face and hands. In the two right drawings he is wearing a thick coat and light blue scarf; in the top right, he is looking sternly off to the side. In the bottom right, he is smiling and has a flower tucked behind his ear. In the bottom left drawing, he is wearing leather overalls and a wrap top and looking nervously to the side. He has an ace ring on and the background Is blue with scattered red diamonds. Handwritten text reads “Martin (Eurydice) - Eurydice was a hungry young girl, a runaway from everywhere she’d ever been.”

The final has three drawings of Annabelle as Mr. Hermes. Annabelle is a chubby Black woman with dark brown skin and short bleached blonde afrotextured hair. She wears a tiny top hat with spiderwebs in all three drawings. Part of her head is caved in with spiderwebs on it. In two drawings she is wearing a light grey suit with a blue waistcoat, and a pocket watch with a spider on it. In the top left drawing she is singing and smiling, gesturing with her hands. In the bottom left she is frowning and crossing her arms, looking sadly off to the side. In the third drawing she is wearing a flowy cream colored shirt and dark maroon skirt, with a necklace with a spider on it. She is smiling an opening her arms wide. There is a spiderweb in the background and the handwritten text “Annabelle (Hermes) - A man with feathers on his feet — Mr. Hermes: that’s me.”

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Sigh… im halfway through s5 now. Its so joever