The Galactic_Black Prince

khy.

[khymeira]

finally found my

password back to this livejournal

[herpsandbirds]

Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, Kenya

photograph by kenyanbirder

[herpsandbirds]

Purple-crested Turaco (Gallirex porphyreolophus), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, South Africa

Photograph by Derek Keats 

[mmaisonnnn]

[jamesusilljournal]

@virtualplaza

[jareckiworld]

Olan Ventura — Still Life with Parrot Tulip, Poppies, Roses, Snowballs (acrylic on canvas, 2019)

[antisocialxconstruct]

AT LAST....... I'M FREE

Approximately seven months and almost 12,000 stitches later...... behold :') I don't even know what else to write anymore gfdsgsd just look at it. Please.

Feeling brave enough to try it yourself? You can buy the pattern here for as little as $1 👍

[mellifexfarm]

last video I have of chia, enjoying the dirt

[khymeira]

sitting in the room with my partner and being told by the head surgeon that it's the "better cancer to have" definitely marks this as one fucking hell of a week.

i always took comfort in the idea of a vast universe that didn't judge and didn't care. and yet, a projection of myself was watching us in that room, wondering why this would be allowed to happen. the great autoimmune Dx of 2014; the spinal emergency terror of 2020; now this. thought all the dues were paid?

but that's just it, i guess. can't expect the Far Ink to not care and yet, still expect It to dish out the trials and tribulations of the Human Experience amongst the populace with fair and balanced play in mind.

i sat in the waiting room while the surgical team carved it out. day 2 of recovery and my partner's doing well. spewed this out, thoughts roaring, brain slogged and i'm fucking tired. i just hope it never comes back.

[kenyatta]

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos | Cornell Chronicle

A team of Cornell computer science researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is

The idea is to hide information in nearly-invisible fluctuations of lighting at important events and locations, such as interviews and press conferences or even entire buildings, like the United Nations Headquarters. These fluctuations are designed to go unnoticed by humans, but are recorded as a hidden watermark in any video captured under the special lighting, which could be programmed into computer screens, photography lamps and built-in lighting. Each watermarked light source has a secret code that can be used to check for the corresponding watermark in the video and reveal any malicious editing. [...] “Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make,” said Abe Davis, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, who first conceived of the idea. “Now you can pretty much create video of whatever you want. That can be fun, but also problematic, because it’s only getting harder to tell what’s real.” To address these concerns, researchers had previously designed techniques to watermark digital video files directly, with tiny changes to specific pixels that can be used to identify unmanipulated footage or tell if a video was created by AI. However, these approaches depend on the video creator using a specific camera or AI model – a level of compliance that may be unrealistic to expect from potential bad actors. By embedding the code in the lighting, the new method ensures that any real video of the subject contains the secret watermark, regardless of who captured it. The team showed that programmable light sources, like computer screens and certain types of room lighting, can be coded with a small piece of software, while older lights, like many off-the-shelf lamps, can be coded by attaching a small computer chip about the size of a postage stamp. The program on the chip varies the brightness of the light according to the secret code.

wake up babe, irl drm just dropped

[kradeelav]

things I would do if you're a nsfw/kink creative now because I've been eerily prescient about every single wave:

a) get a personal site with your own domain you own. now. not a carrd or third party squarespace. not next week. now. get it online with ugly-ass html but get your links there.

b) if you have the money: join one or multiple of eff.org / cbldf.org / freespeechcoalition.com

partly because they're actively fighting this, partly because they have members-only Lawyers You Might Need. Hint. Hint. Canary.

c) Write Down Those Lawyer Contact Numbers in meatspace. phone number of a real human being especially on paper, On You.

I have been in contact with lawyers for a few months now as my doujin circle knows. this should be telling you Many Things.

d) www.ecrater.com is where i'm going to be tentatively testing a shop because i like the fact you can *not* have payment processes and order digital/physical products via purely mail order.

(... be prepared for this to fall through too in the next 1-6 months.)

e) friends and followers of nsfw artists who earn most of their income through it: now's the time to support them. they're going to need the grace and financial flexibility especially mental health wise. domain/shop transfer/refund/therapy bills ain't free.

check in on them, and often.

f) get a VPN, use it daily to acclimatize, have them on your hard drive, several VPN's preferable. this is for the age verification laws coming. Start reading up on secure, privacy-focused infrastructure (prioritize email > website > shop in that order).

eff.org has a *ton* of resources.

g) prepare for discord and tumblr to be hit in the next wave. have alternatives *and actively start using them* if they're mission critical platforms for you.

I've played with matrix though I quite fancy IRC. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I say these things not to fearmonger but to give yourself the maximum amount of time to prepare. the pendulum *will* swing back. it did with the 80's moral panic. it will for this too.

you just have to outlast the bastards.

[kradeelav]

Again, I know it's been extremely rough on this corner of the internet, but please consider taking at least one or two concrete actions a day to protect yourself.

Instead of my previous "I'll do some of these in six months" timeframe, I'm now approaching these with a "with a budget of XUSD, inside of two weeks, with a threat model of Y" urgent mentality.

Take that as you will.

[pukicho]

Me casually casting meteor shower in a safeway before leaving and going home

[vymp1r3-bl00d]

what is your problem

[pukicho]

haha fuck these dumb idiots

[mellifexfarm]

last night i lost my sweet baby Chia, due to what i am fairly certain was a heart attack. she was seven years old, and was starting to develop cataracts, but i was hoping to have a few more years with her. my beardy girl. queen of wiping beak on me. the most cuddly bird i have ever had.

:(

[idrawr16yt]

[dynared]

I don’t know if anyone was more overqualified for a job than Jean Giraud/Moebius was for doing concept art for Space Jam.

[buge]

[mcmansionhell]

Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise

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[mcmansionhell]

FYI, this post is now available for all to read!

[6vcr]

camera 🐶☀️ art 🥀🚬