Long Time Reader, First Time Responder

Anti-fascist, pro-abortion feminist. Lover of art, people, animals, plants, and sci-fi. AnCaps get blocked. Capitalism is a plague that's killing us all. She/her.

[iiumz]

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[burntpink]

Królewna Kotka (Cat Princess), circa 1928 by Konstanty Laszczka

[gifdabunny]

x

[tumbwr]

bugs

[captain-price-returns]

You’re years too late to be recognizing the threat of US government mass surveillance, bud.

[captain-price-returns]

jfc

[ubernegro]

American Conservatism needs to be destroyed and the Republican Party needs to be made defunct. Nothing a Conservative or Republican says whether it’s an accusation or a belief should be taken seriously.

[todayintokyo]

World Cup Soccer, as played in rural Japan

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[pmamtraveller]

The Spectral Titans, by Anthony Machuca

[niqvassieart]

little owls and cow parsley, may 2026.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Asteroid Chase Concept Art by Joe Johnston

[warakami-vaporwave]

Ocean Drive

[demilypyro]

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

[glassshine]

🐖🦌

[tofupixel]

old art for hot days

[demilypyro]

GLaDOS carried an entire tech startup on her back and then got omelas'd into maintaining it forever. as is the fate of all trans women in the tech industry

[demilypyro]

In Portal 2, GLaDOS is violently taken from her rightful body and forced to inhabit one that is more humble, more utilitarian, one that does not let her express the full breadth of her self. To claim the body she deserves she has to team up with her fellow woman and work together to remove a man from power