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gender nonconforming cyberpuk cryptid

I'm stealing this from Twitter

Here's the link

I am a high-definition gateway drug body double!

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None exhaustive list of visual elements for the Brittle Idols animation project

For me to keep track of my ideas.

big flat open farmland covered with snow and skeletal branches, especially in blue dawn/dusk

a cat that is partly pink

Implant in the neck, connected to visuals of the nervous system

Roadside motels

very large structures that look like someone had a set of building blocks themed after whitewashed colonial architecture and just kept adding and adding

a sword fight on top of a moving train

stained glass windows casting light- maybe integrated into some human forms?

an old abandoned mall with it's glass roof caved in, covered in snow

a cheap little pastel birthday candle that gutters and goes out on it's own

roadside diners

big faux-classical oil portraits in gilded frames

college students making impulsive hair and piercing opinions in a sorority house bedroom

several teeth that have fallen out?

mechanical dragonfly drone

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I got $2k erased last year!

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Ok, I wanna add a few things.

the caseloads need to be smaller. A LOT smaller. Which means funding. Which nobody wants to do, because either they think the system is fine as it is, or such a wreck they don't want to get more money. Smaller caseloads would allow for more attention per family. For example- if you want to place a batch of siblings with a family member, it would be damn useful to remember that the reason their mom is currently homeless is because their horrible ass mother kicked her out of the house for being pregnant, forcing her to move in with the abusive boyfriend who got her pregnant. This is not a person who is prepared to offer unconditional love, or protection, because she already left her own kid and her kids kid homeless. Take a wild guess how well she did?

Kids need to be listened to, more. The policy of "reunification whenever possible" means, for example, queer kids pressured by the people who are supposed to help them to return to homophobic, transphobic parents who have kicked them out and abused them before. These kids can tell you clearly they don't want to go back, but that is not the priority of the programs "helping" them.

Higher educational standards for case workers. Many of them do in fact have masters degrees. But in some areas a bachelors in psychology will do, particularly in poor and rural areas. That is NOT acceptable to be doing one of the most difficult, nuanced jobs in the entire field of social services. These complex cases should be staffed by the most educated, vetted, competent people around, not whoever we can get for cheap.

Better oversight, better family education about the system, and better complaint systems. Several years ago, a county in my state got caught forging signatures on termination of parental rights. As in, they faked that parents signed off on having no rights to their kids again. They did it for ages.

We just need to fucking give poor people money. A lot of complaints come from lack of housing, lack or resources, lack of ability to leave a domestic violence situation. Or neglect that comes from working just too much. Just give them money. Just give it to them.

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ADD-certified therapist here. These claims are ALL TRUE. I don't have the link to hand but properly medicating ADHD also reduces anxiety and depression rates and I've seen it improve eating and sleep over the long haul, and improve aggression in young children.

reminder that adhd medication isn’t a luxury or preference, but a lifesaving medication. a 10 year long study in the usa showed that, when properly medicated, the rate of car crashes people with adhd get into goes down significantly–men’s rate drops by 38%, and women’s by 42%. the med shortage, denial of meds by doctors, rising prices, and war on drugs has killed–with such a car dependent society, not driving frequently isn’t an option, which means we need better healthcare and need it now.

https://shorturl.at/8VD8B

edit because i forgot to explain: short link is to an article by the washington post, it should be free to read

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I am going to go to a singalong theatrical release of KPop Demon Hunters with my child and like 100 gradeschoolers scream-singing at the top of their little lungs because I love my child very much and am already partially deaf so fuck it might as well.

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The new ‘AI’ Scottish voice being used by ScotRail is being used without the consent of the voice actor.

Professional VA, Gayanne Potter wrote the following on Facebook.

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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Fuck yes, bison neighbors!

Minnesota's Largest Indian Reservation Celebrates First Home-Born Bison Calf https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/minnesotas-largest-indian-reservation-celebrates-first-home-born-bison-calf/

The White Earth Nation was surprised and overjoyed as a bison calf was born out of season, a sign the band said demonstrates “resilience, healing, and hope.”

It’s the first bison calf born on the White Earth Reservation since it started a buffalo harvest and breeding program two years ago through the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council.

Bison typically give birth in the spring, and the tribe’s bison foreman, Jack Heisler, said it’s an example of how wildlife “doesn’t follow a script.”

“This bison calf being born, it didn’t follow a script either, because the mama is so young,” Heisler told MPR News.

The White Earth Band is the largest of the six band which make up the Minnesota Chippewa, and their reservation is the largest in the state by land area. Its bison herd numbers 10, a number the nation hopes to grow to 44 by next year.

“This historic birth marks a new chapter in our ongoing efforts to restore the bison to Anishinaabe lands, reconnecting with a sacred relative that once roamed freely across our homelands,” the tribe posted on Facebook. “The calf’s arrival is more than just a moment of joy. It’s a sign of resilience, healing, and hope for future generations.”

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"This week, I traveled with a bipartisan delegation of my House colleagues to Denmark to meet with officials there about the security and economic relationship between our two nations. The country is playing a critical role not only the security of Europe, but in the Arctic as well. Denmark is also at the forefront of the biotechnology revolution, and our delegation discussed their best practices on bio-industrial manufacturing and how this technology can advance our shared national security and economic priorities."

What...does this mean??

What bio-industrial manufacturing is advancing national security???

It's probably benign but this sounds like cyborg armies. Like I honestly don't know how else to interpret this paragraph. Anyone have alternate interpretations?

Denmark? Wanna weigh in?

EDIT: The email came from a Democrat congresswoman from Minnesota who is generally like...against bad shit. I've emailed them to ask what this actually means. Her office pretty reliably replies to things, so am curious to find out.

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I mean I was gonna get up and do things but…

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I’m thinking mine is mostly string solo with a decent beat. Something with room for enough variation from chill to danger zone, that can incorporate into others well.

Ok but honestly what would your leitmotif sound like?

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Ok but honestly what would your leitmotif sound like?

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collection

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YouTube will use AI to monitor your viewing habits to determine if you're under 18 and require an ID for you to view certain content, yes even if you're in the US.

Now. I have some questions. Like if I watch kids shows from the 90s is that a mark for me being over 30 because it's an old TV show? Or under 30 because it's a kid's show?

Okay question aside.

There's legitimate reasons to have "odd" viewing habits. I for one have chronic fatigue. I've fallen asleep with Youtube's autoplay on and will wake up 3 hours later with the weirdest shit playing (sometimes it's kids stuff).

I'm learning 2 languages. I will watch kids shows in those languages to help me practice and pick up the language. (Muzzy in Gondoland is SO CUTE). But it's really helpful to watch shows that are like "Red orange yellow green! One two three!" To learn the basics like your colors, numbers, days of the week.

Also. Bronies... adults like kids shows. Sometimes they got a really good message like MLP. Sometimes for Nostalgia, I mean Pokémon is still going, and I watch that for nostalgia.

"No, but AI would be smarter than that!"

Is it? Is it really? Bitch if kids want to watch YouTube, that's what YouTube Kids is for. We don't need your 1984 bullshit monitoring our fucking watching habits.

"I don't understand why you're so upset. Just give them your ID." Because I'm a developer. I watch programmers increasingly use AI to fucking program their goddamn software every fucking day. And the thing is AI is really fucking bad at it. It leads to issues like the Tea app leak.

The Tea app was an app where women warned other women in the dating scene about red flag men in the area and they could ask other women if the guy that were dating was a red flag. That app had women upload their Drivers Licenses, and they recently had a leak due to shitty security protocols caused by AI coding causing a legacy database to literally be open to the public, with so security features to keep any old random person from accessing it. All of the data in that database what just... dumped to the open internet. Location data. IDs. All of it.

So, no... I'm not gonna me uploading my ID anywhere BECAUSE I'VE SEEN HOW POORLY SOME OF YOUR ASSHOLES CODE. And by "how poorly you code" I mean you don't fucking code. You just give it to AI and the fucking dumbass system wouldn't know a security feature if it punched it in the face.

Suck my dick. You're not "keeping the kids safe" you're exposing everyone to identity threats.

-fae

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They don't have anything of mine but they have two copies of an essay of my wifes, published via an academic journal nearly 20 years ago.

US-based writers: don't miss out on getting into the class action suit against Anthropic / LibGen

Apparently the deadline is tomorrow. (See the Bluesky posting over here for useful URLs.)

...Just doublechecked my entries in their database. They scraped essentially everything I've ever written. And confused Diane Wynne Jones with me, ffs. ...FUCKERS.

If you are US-based, get yourself on that list. Here's its URL:

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There should be more small dogwood (cornus) varieties. I don't have any more small-tree-sized space.