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Mostly for posting drawings and the like I've done for now, probably. Other places I am: https://linktr.ee/kate.g.d

[katethelinguist]

Updated the ol' commsheet to reflect the fact that I've been doing digital art a lot more often recently, and to include a couple of more recent pieces.

Go here if you're interested: artistree.io/kated

[macmanx]

[trangoldin]

Literally the main civilizational achievement of the Romans is being the first to build what we might consider a State in the Western world. Everything else is just them loving autocracy and slavery and eating endangered species.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

It's pretty great that this dude also thinks the Romans all lived in colonnaded temples and not what were essentially 5-over-ones (with strict height limits imposed for safety).

[trangoldin]

LITERALLY

[kiioki11]

Mikuuu🩵

[adler-schwarz]

Finally drew her mortal disguise

[skipppppy]

So there’s a trend going round where you draw Miku inspired by your own culture and normally I just sit those out bc i’m from England but then the image of her covered in fake tan with the full chav makeup and sloppily bleached blue pigtails popped into my head and i almost threw up laughing. So here’s bri’ish Miku. She smells like impulse body spray and spent the last 30 minutes arguing with the teacher who told her to take her coat off. It’s chewsday innit

edit: i fucked up with the cigarette i know it’s the wrong way round blease stop making fun of me 😔💔

[theabigailthorn]

IT'S COMING HOME

[simzart]

[assumptionprime]

A webcomic about swords and sorcery and subways

putting it together

[tightjeansjavi]

also, google is free, but pick up a textbook every once in awhile. Find articles written by POC and keep up to date with how you can be a better ally. I took a black feminist theory class in college…taught by two white women.

You heard me right. Two. White. Women.

Which is fucking insane in itself, but on the first day of class one of the professors was reading an article, written by a black woman…and decided that it was completely acceptable and appropriate to drop the n-word (hard r) and every single person in class was fucking MORTIFIED. Even in the context of education, there was no reason for a white professor to so casually and subtly use that word. (They were called out for it immediately after and profusely apologized)

My point is that covert racism is still racism, and unfortunately it is alive and well.

I also have all of the articles and works saved from this class if anyone would like to do some heavy and necessary reading! I have hard copies, but I’m sure I can find the links for the articles as well.

Just after doing a little research on google, I found these articles to be incredibly helpful on breaking down covert racism, racism, white privilege, etc.

covert racism

systematic racism

racism and health

becoming trustworthy white allies

what is white privilege

books on systematic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism

race equity tools

Bottom line, white people have no excuse to not stand up for BIPOC. There is no excuse for racism. There is no tolerance, and we have to do better. I firmly believe that the first step in becoming a better ally is to educate yourself.

[creatingblackcharacters]

thought you might like to know that the FIRST EVER vocaloids are Black! Well, technically theyre vsynths. but even though theyre frequently depicted as white, but their voice providers, while not publicly known, have been confirmed to be Black singers!! so theyre as Black as a vsynth can be !! Hoping Black vocaloid fans will find this by me sending this to your blog! It was really cool to learn while doing research about these two!

(sorry for the lack of examples of their uses here, i wanted to show their best stuff & its very lacking. people really were trying to tune them to be white back in the day) Static by FLAVOR FOLEY ft. Lola : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23er0jPUjVI (< probably the BEST COVER using either of them ive found. Lola is impressively clear for how old she is, and importantly, her tuning is definitely used to bring out her Blackness!)

Official demos! They also definitely have their Blackness highlighted here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiqVQuRLVJMpXEEF1b39foKD6kTU6WUBv

lola + leon demo archives

I actually did know this!! Thank you for the bits, though!!

[nighthawkes]

I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

[o-craven-canto]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscopy universe -> monostrophe

[gemsofgreece]

The funny thing here is that some of the alternate Greek swaps here are - accidentally or knowingly? - just the Greek words for these meanings.

The Greek word for magnanimous is μεγαλόψυχος - megalópsychos.

The word for homicide is ανθρωποκτονία - anthropoktonía.

The word for manuscript is χειρόγραφο - chirógrapho.

So, if you came up with these only by knowing ancient roots and not actually checking the current equivalent terms, OP you did a great job!

(Of course the endings are different because OP is using anglicised forms)

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[stunningpicture]

Lobster in a bucket looks like a gigantic monster on a metallic planet, and the waterdrops look like stars.

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[phinarei]

A lot of cis people are treating her like an actress who pushes diet culture or a singer who is too sex forward for their tastes. Like she's an inconvenience to their moral comfort instead of the existential threat she is.

She is not that.

She is Elon Musk. She is Trump. She is a powerful monster with the money to end lives.

Giving her money and creating a demand for her books by engaging in fandom should be seen the same way owning a cybertruck is seen. Harry Potter gear is in the same category as MAGA gear.

I need to see the same disgust and outright hatred of her that I see about all the evil men in her category. I don't know if people see her as less dangerous because she's a woman or if people are worried that hating on a woman will get their feminist card revoked, but she needs to be taken more seriously by a lot of people. She's a big name heavy hitter with more money than anyone should be allowed to have.

This isn't a scandal, it's a genocide.

[monidoll]

dna is often explained as if it was computer code, but its important to remember its literally a bunch of physical strings. just as important as the sequence itself is how these physical strings are packaged and where proteins attach to them, because this determines which parts can even be read

[monidoll]

purified dna looks like this in bulk

[transmechanicus]

my beautiful singular gram of DNA

[elbiotipo]

Here are some other images:

It's not ALL DNA, I don't recall the specifics right now, but yes, it does turn into this stringy thing when you purify it for DNA extraction. I was amazed when I saw it for the first time, it really looks like what you would imagine it to be.

[rabbitlegs]

request stream results ft. Angewomon (Digimon), Bazett (Fate), Katsuragi (Senran Kagura) and Phoebe (Pokémon)