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I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

byjove

Without fail, every time a woman is talking about how she does not want to have children and never wants to be pregnant and how medical professionals, romantic interests and family members keep trying to bulldoze her decision and keep expecting her to change her mind because motherhood is something that is expected of all women and it is abhorrent to think a woman could not desire it, a random mother spawns in the comments to be like “Well, actually, you never know! I didn’t want children and then I got pregnant and I realized I love being a mama and I have five little babies now! Could happen to you! 🥰”

Sister, keep that to yourself or make your own goddamn post, you are ignoring that woman’s central concern and belittling her, you don’t even think you’re doing it. Formerly childfree women who ended up having children and loving it are like detransitioners in the sense that there is nothing inherently wrong with changing your mind about having children or realizing you were mistaken about your gender identity but immediately weaponizing your indecision to tell people that the barriers to healthcare and the violations of their bodily autonomy and the way society ignores that person’s wishes is actually okay because you were wrong. Some people do know themselves.

bloodhownd

This. Fucking THIS. everytime I say I don't want to have kids, my mom, my teachers, any fucking woman that's over the age of 19 goes "Oh 🥰 Yeah you're just a Silly Little Girl right now haha! Yeah, no it'll change. Of course you're wrong! Haha yeah my kids are the love of my life but I didn't want them either lol 😂🫶" like literally I would rather be put down like a dog please

New crystal haul from my local gem store :3

Shoutout to my mom and my aunt for buying them for me bcoz I'm a cheapskate... X3

Also, anyone know any crystal/gemstone communities to join? :0 I want to share and indulge in content about like the properties and stuff of certain stones, but the closest thing I can find is witchcraft, and while I'm not against it it's not what I'm looking for. Any help appreciated!

Pictured: Obsidian wolf totem to protect me, small rose quartz heart to put under my pillow, rose quartz tower, and a prophecy stone to help guide me in these rocky times 🧡

#crystals #gemstone #crystal gems #obsidian #rose quartz #help

ellesthots

PSA for people who might not know: @glimmerfics is a site that uses AI to produce choose-your-own-adventure fics. an author on the site writes a little bit, and then AI slop fills in the rest. a reader gets some free ‘turns’, and then they have to pay for more. Glimmer profits both off of fanfiction and AI slop.

Glimmer claims to partially ‘offset’ the environmental harm through purchasing carbon offsets. they claim to care about artistry and cite sharing the concern of AI in fandom, but immediately throw it away with some bullshit excuse about only using AI as a ‘tool’, because they ‘don't believe machines can replace human creativity’. they also claim that their goal of butchering man-made art via injecting randomized AI slop into it is because they ‘want to live in a world where more people are making art, not fewer’. sinisterly hollow sentiments, all of it.

i am sick of AI-shills co-opting accessibility arguments to justify causing harm. art is HUMAN MADE. across ages, across abilities, across every single human variable, art can and does persist. this language spits in the face of every disabled artist. every poor person creating in the spaces between. every marginalized person crafting art under oppression. AI does not make art accessible, because it does not make art period.

AI is not a tool, it is a miserable disaster and a despicable weapon. it wreaks havoc on local communities where data centers are built. people dying at rapid rates from cancers and other preventable illnesses directly related to air, water, and land pollution. it is forcing states to go into droughts from stealing all the fresh, drinkable water. it is kicking people out of their careers and preying on vulnerable populations to work for them. it is stealing and scraping people's work, and stealing people's REAL art, including other fanfic authors who do not consent. it is also wildly inaccurate. it also sends people into psychosis and causes them to end their lives.

sites like Glimmer normalize all of that violence, and how they try to wrap it in a velvet bow further normalizes, erases, and justifies it. as an artist who sits at the intersection of many of the identities these AI-proponents claim to be helping, I am appalled. i know many others are too. it's imperative we call out leeches like these in creative spaces.

i don't give a fuck if Glimmer responds and says whatever PR statement they think will be ‘transparent’ and help weasel their way out of real accountability. i don’t care if they say every bit of money goes back into developing the site: any site that uses generative AI in fandom spaces should not exist. especially not with charging users money in direct exchange for fanfiction. it puts the entire fandom community at risk. it mocks and endangers what they insist they care about.

i don't care what reasoning, anecdotes, placation, loopholes, dismissals, or logical fallacies they may employ to rationalize their platform in their potential response to this post. the entire foundation of their business is actively causing harm to the world and the community they claim to love. unless they stop using generative AI entirely (and stop monetizing fanfiction), whatever they say is hollow. these people know they can get away with it, they have users who either don't know the damage AI causes or don't care, and have people singing the praises of the platform. a lot of people applaud bad things. it doesn't make them any less bad.

there are valid ways to create ACTUAL choose your own adventure fics that do not perpetuate violence and oppression (like Twine!). Glimmer can dig their heads in the sand and pretend they're paving a path all they want, but it's a path to hell.

FUCK AI and fuck opportunists. please repost to spread the word, because i've even run across some of these 'fics' and their posts in the wild and been swindled.

derinthescarletpescatarian

michaelmurder

happy pride month <3

angelic-femcel

fightingbymoonlight

Seeing people I know and like using AI is making me understand the protagonists of those old time sci fi dystopia's.

"Oh I don't normally use AI, I just wanted it to plan my trip"

You lived on this planet for decades, you know what you like, there are hundreds of websites where you can type into any search engine " things to do in [area]" and have at least a hundred different options.

"Oh I only use it so I can figure out what to make during the week with what I have"

The most popular website as you type in "recipes" into google have sections where you click dinner- quick and easy and those usually rely on staples + 1 or 2 items. I found 30 recipes on chicken alone.

"I had a writing idea, so I typed a few sentences into Chat GPT and I was able to write 20 pages with it."

Youdidn'twriteit.Youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.youdidn'twriteit.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.YOUDIDN'TWRITEIT.

what-even-is-thiss

That crisp feeling of new cotton fabric against the skin somehow being the only sharp thing in the brain fog and a wonder if life would feel sharper if you only just put on your glasses but then again why is everything other than sight also lacking clarity why is the fifteen pound cat on your chest floating away in your minds eye why is your crisp new Donald Duck t shirt the only real thing in the universe as the migraine and lack of sleep swirl together behind your eyes and why oh why can’t you sleep

shop5

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

FINE! I'll do it myself

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

Why did 12 people reblog this today??? IT IS ONLY AUGUST!!!

huffy-the-bicycle-slayer

I see it is once again August 😮‍💨

no-one-offical

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chaos-triangle

It's actually the fourth o' July right now! Halloween is eternal!

mlpdaily

prettylilqueer

forcepunk. dragging me to local shows with you, encouraging me to smoke with you between sets, “c’mon, you can take another hit”, sneaking into the bathroom or alley w me to push me onto my knees, ‘cause we don’t belong to anyone but my mouth is yours, baby. fighting w me as aftercare to toughen me up,, i can take it and you know it.

running away from the graffiti we just sprayed w me, your callused hand firm in mine, giggling at the tag I chose for myself.

letting me wear ur old band tees, reveling in my wonder when I gasp at merch from bands now disbanded, letting me patch up ur battle jacket, teaching me how to put spikes on juuuust right to mine, sharpening ‘em for me so nobody fucks with your butch boytoy.

showing me how you turn hardware chains into jewelry, slung low and heavy around your hips, or tight and chafing against my wrists when that starts to bore me.

bandaging my knuckles when I split ‘em against your face, so proud that I got a hit in, because you want a mean guard dog and you’ll whip me into shape for it yourself.