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from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

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I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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As AI art gets harder to clock, I feel like we are going to need to have a discussion about attribution and it's probably going to bum some people out.

Because the surest way to avoid platforming, reblogging, or encouraging AI art posting is to know where every image you share originated and that's 1) boring, tedious research and 2) extremely limiting in what you feel you can reblog. But if unattributed images never gets traction, people will start attributing their images.

I've been guilty of this in the past, but for a while now it's been my policy that if I can't verify the origin, I don't share the image. That goes for stuff like screen grabs of headlines too -- more than once I've avoided spreading misinformation by saving a post to research before I reblog, then seeing the post refuted before I've been able to verify it.

And I usually try to attribute photos I take -- case in point, the "woman with shrimp" post gets a lot of attention but not one comment about it being AI, despite it being pretty similar to something you'd get from an AI. That's because I clearly state it's in a museum and link to its catalogue page.

I'm not saying this to scold anyone -- I think yelling at the Internet to cite its sources is very much a losing game -- but because I don't see this discussed much. We're such fertile ground to be fooled by AI art because we've grown accustomed to not questioning the origins of any given image. And of course I also want to encourage both OPs to attribute their images and rebloggers to verify unattributed ones.

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i'm not going to lie. i would do this all the time

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Griddleharking

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love u all

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Believe it or not ، Do you believe! This simple food is impossible to get in Gaza and you need a big miracle that may cost you $100 ...

My family and I are doing our best to stay strong despite the extreme challenges we face daily.

We are reaching out for support not out of weakness, but because even the strongest need a hand sometimes. Your contribution can help us secure basic necessities and preserve our dignity during these difficult times.

If you’re able to help, it would truly mean the world to us.

Donation link: [ Ayesh Fundraising Campaign ] £620 _ £2000 Short Term Goal We need £1380 to get the goal

Thank you for standing with us.

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“Hey, look. I got the hammer. And it only took me, like, what? 10 seconds. 11 tops.”

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[fleabag voice] his beautiful neck

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Fasciation - a type of deformity in flowers🌼

It can happen as a result of random mutation, infection from disease, bacteria, or hormone imbalance

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Baby Blacktip Reef shark!

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the worst part of being jobu tupaki is having to come out twice

from july 29th, 2024

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arun drawings! partially inspired by this lovely drawing. i’ve mostly draw him in kurta pajamas so i wanted to try drawing him in a dhoti and scarf.

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Another devil’s minion commission by ezra for one of his fics :D

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he’s the worst man ever invented but of course, his breasts are sublime