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alf - they/them - art @arsonwizard

[thefaiao]

Chimeric Knight

[what-even-is-thiss]

Thinking of in universe reasons for mages/witches/wizards to wear robes and pointy hats even though nobody else in their universe wears them.

They’re a kind of advertisement like old beer selling hats. This kind of outfit indicates that this person is selling some kind of magical service

They’re all in a cult that hates pants and tailored dresses

Some spells or rituals require them to get naked really fast for whatever reason

The order they’re a part of has existed since before people in the region made sewn garments and whenever talk of changing the uniform comes up there’s a riot

Everyone dresses like that to go to bed and magic users are always shut up in their houses wearing their pajamas

These assholes are constantly wearing their graduation robes to show off that they went to college

[installationwizard]

I kind of love the idea of the job stones being able to give non-combat related advice, but its all kind of terrible except for dark knight, which just says "communicate or break up" to everything

[tsscat]

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

[tsscat]

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

[tsscat]

Listen, you can take away anything you want from this but just as a suggestion given a lot of responses I’ve seen here.

Conclusions from this which are not very productive: the Internet overall is bad and we should destroy it.

Conclusions that are perhaps more productive: Currently the Internet, which many lives depend on, takes up a lot of resources, has a climate impact, and runs on exploited labor. We need to find out how we can avoid this (it’s certainly possible), and work together to achieve this.

[vicholas]

Why are people now saying "LARP" when they mean "poser". It's confusing.

[vicholas]

Everyone is always parroting The Buzzword Of The Month without actually knowing what it means or where it comes from, make it stop

[gunsandfireandshit]

Kinda like how "POV" went from "(implied first person) Point Of View" to "there is a video"

[nepofledgling]

happy pride month from sápmi! ❤️💚💛💙 I want to show you the sámi pride flag, it’s a rainbow version of the sámi flag (bottom left picture) and I think it’s really beautiful

[nepofledgling]

happy pride month from sápmi again!

[sevensmallgummies]

wait they deleted pjackk? he was already dead?

[sevensmallgummies]

they undeleted pjackk? he's still dead?

[sevensmallgummies]

wait they deleted pjackk? he was already dead?

[goodgirl-inc]

[sophiesalacia]

[possuminnit]

they sold me to two direction

[the-ghost-fragments]

I need more context. what is different about this from one direction? do you still have a messy bun? is it even music anymore? im so curious..

[possuminnit]

i don;t know

[possuminnit]

im scared

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[ellienamored]

on an amtrak when a buncha cis ppl one seat behind me started gushing about "the harry potter experience" and going to london to see all the potter stuff and the hogwarts express and i turn to my girlfriend and project my voice juuuust enough and say "hey did u hear jk rowling was in the epstein files? :)" and start yammering about her and i hear them all shut up reallll quick. i kept going for some time, loudly but enthusiastically conversing with my girlfriend about a topic of some interest to me no matter how uncomfortable it made them. much like some other ppl on this train

[silurisanguine]

Linktree will be feeding your images with DALL-E, Open AI from 5th July 2026.

Warning to anyone using Linktree.

From the 5th July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

I deleted my account just now, because there was no way to turn this off or opt out.

[silurisanguine]

Update with some alternatives-

Carrd.co. Free alt with paid features.

Bento.app Currently free, integrated with bluesky

Everlink.tools Closest to Linktree, has some paid features.

Omg.lol Currently $20 a year. If paying for Linktree features this is a great upgrade.

[everydaylouie]

mole's thought

[timeflow]

trans pride flag color picked from trans pride flag

[theforsakenprince]

Bet it feels good as fuckkk to rest your hand on the pommel of your sword when the newcomer steps a little too close to your lord who you’ve sworn to protect with your life

[strangegutz]

Little Menaces - Angel Kiana

OOAK handmade art doll

[peevishpants]

fuck it... bird sneaks