when the jackboot needs to jump

My moniker is AC. He/him or ze/hir, adult butch. It's all transformers, all the time, here. I 🩵 G1 canon soup and votescolding and #DARKWOKE. "Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there." (This user is a pescetarian and his water use as a consumer is probably lower than yours.)

[arseniccattails]

We need to find a way to install the sociological imagination in humans at birth

[zaphoda]

Are you ready to die for the bit, ryan gosling?

[tsarina-anadyomene]

I feel like people are always doing some form of "we compared the westborough baptist church with sufism and what we found is that islam is much more progressive than christianity." like i think it depends. it depends though. like it depends.

[snowflakeeel]

I chime in with a haven’t you people ever heard of

citing a goddamn source??“

[theequeerstrian]

No

It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of

Smug irrationality

[ms-demeanor]

This is a really excellent deep dive into AI water use and how a lot of discourse around it is at best inaccurate and at worst deliberately misleading.

A great example of how it's misleading is the NYT story about an AI datacenter causing local wells to dry up for residents, but the story is actually about the construction causing water issues - the datacenter wasn't active, hadn't been finished, and the construction could easily have been for a shipping hub or housing development. Framing "construction company did not do appropriate groundwater surveys and fucked up the water table" as "data centers guzzling up water" is extremely disingenuous.

The substack article I linked is quite long and quite technical, and if you're not interested in reading it Hank Green has made a video discussing the fact that there is a lot more nuance in the discourse around AI water use than the most vocal Pro-AI or Anti-AI people are interested in examining.

There are a lot of people who say that all AI use is theft. I think that's uncomplicatedly wrong, that if you're using "theft" the way that the DMCA uses "theft" you're wrong. For more on that, I'd recommend reading the "Expanding Copyright is not the Answer" section of @mostlysignssomeportents's adapted speech on AI criticism or the EFF's comments to the copyright office RE generative AI. (You should actually read both, and you should read Doctorow's article in full because it is a criticism of AI that moves beyond thought terminating cliches to really explore why the AI industry as it stands is bullshit).

I do not, generally speaking, like AI. I think that most AI products create shit results. I think most AI art looks like shit and most AI writing is awful bordering on unreadable. I think that there's a massive bubble built up around AI and I think AI is absolutely fucking the personal computing market.

And, all that said, it is deeply annoying to dislike AI as much as I do and still feel the need to point out that the way that a lot of people criticize AI is shortsighted, reactionary, and just flat-out incorrect. There are real things wrong with how we are approaching AI as a society and how AI is being sold to users and forced into our environments, and "art theft" is not one of those things.

(And this is everyone's reminder that fair use is the best, I love it, and you are allowed to copy, distribute, remix, sell, and do whatever you want with my art and writing whenever you want to. Every time I write something like this people come into my inbox to say "I hope your art gets stolen" and I'm like "Bitch, me too, the fuck?")

[curlicuecal]

100%

Its one of those "ughhh I don't even like this thing, quit putting me in a position where I feel obliged to defend it on a technicality"

but like it does *matter* when you make incorrect vs correct arguments against a bad thing (because the incorrect arguments can get wielded against other stuff that is not bad)

And it does *matter* when you erase nuance from an issue (because again, good things and people can get caught in the collateral fallout)

also one issue I've seen frequently with people that both dont engage with ai and also argue against ai is talking points that go like "ai is so stupid because it's like xyz. why don't they make something actually useful that does abc?" and sometimes I have to speak up and be like... 'uh, they do already have ai that does abc. that is already a thing that ai does". bc, like, the cherry-picked examples of ai fuckups that go around the web are only ever gonna convey part of the thing. which is gonna make it harder to create cogent arguments about it's problems.

(as part of my job i have to interact with ai at least enough to know what things other people can/are doing with it so I can problem solve for that in advance; it's a whole annoying thing)

[romanceyourdemons]

when you’re mean to me this is literally who you’re being mean to *image of me perched atop a throne of human skulls on a cliff above the ocean, howling wind and shrieking seagulls, and the dream goes on forever, one single static frame*

[rylandgraces]

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller Director's Commentary Notes

[armadillorollup]

i love the mountain goats songs where there's a quick aside about how much this guy's stepdad sucks

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

WBE Jazz

Smash or Pass?

Smash

Pass

Voting ended onJun 3

[autobotjazzweek]

(graphic by Kellendraysia)

Hey there all you Autobots, Decepticons, Neutrals and others! The moment you've all been waiting for is here!

It's the 2026 Jazz Week prompt list!

This year, we're changing things up just a little from the usual format and adding wild card prompts! These are prompts you can swap in for a day's prompts if you don't like either of them but still want a bit of direction for your fills. These are optional, like all Jazz Week prompts, but we hope they inspire.

Remember, Jazz Week is all ages, all ratings and all types of creative works! Create freely and tag appropriately (during posting in July) and have fun!

See you July 19th!

And, as always, the text version of the prompts for those of us who can't see the graphic:

July 19: Space//Light Show July 20: Planning//Past & Future July 21: Trio//Peekaboo July 22: Swing time//Care July 23: Telephone Game//Ballad July 24: Avalanche//Heist July 25: Oath//On patrol

Wild Card Prompts: -You can certainly try -Comfort -Distrust -Integration -Firestorm

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Remaining time: 18 hours 37 minutes

[daenystheedreamer]

if you could delete a trope from fandom completely What would it be

found family

enemies to lovers

hurt/comfort

post-canon fix it, ending what ending

fake dating

soulmate au

only one bed

fluff

angst

ot3

modern au

other au - royalty, college, cafe, florist

Remaining time: 6 hours 20 minutes

tired of favourite trope What is your most HATED trope. no omegaverse cos it would sweep

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Voting ended onJun 6

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I absolutely failed at doing this:

[aggot]

weather so nice i've decided to free a hostage

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me