Check Your Back Pocket For Me

he/him, mostly art of tma and bugs, lv 20, coms are open! Where I am most active: https://www.instagram.com/mantis_creature_?igsh=a3lsbjRjanNwczdo&utm_source=qr

[mantis-creature]

I am opening my commissions for the first time! Contact me on here or DM me on my Instagram in you’re interested

[baleful-meat-worm]

jonster (jon monster) from my au. which is a lot more slice-of-life than you might expect (and by that i mean 100%)

[baleful-meat-worm]

body sketches/studies

[mantis-creature]

WHO ELSE IS EXCITED FOR THE NEW EPISODE OF PROTOCOL TOMORROW!!! I CANT WAIT TO HEAR SAM SUFFER MORE!!!

[iron-wyrm]

procrastinating on other things by continuing some fluff from a previous jonmartin beach date post

couldn't think of a good way to continue having Jon get menaced by beach critters so Martin's getting menaced by the sun instead

[alwayssarcoidosis]

Coping hard don’t touch me

[frecktheheck]

Carousel animation meme 👁️💚☁️

[mossiistars]

debated whether or not to post this and ultimately decided it's too silly to stay in my drafts

[mantis-creature]

Had to draw these cuties for pride month

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[jenshenundersomerock]

(Redraw)

[nespolkey]

Hello tma people. Long time no see

[oatmealdoodles]

took a mental health day and did a therapeutic Jon drawing

[justatiredghost]

Sex-averse Jonathan absolutely sure that Martin won’t be interested anymore once he comes out to him. Not that he doubts his character in any way, he just thinks he couldn’t possibly be enough as he is. He’s made peace with it, and really it’s for the best, because everyone around him dies and he just wants Martin to be safe and happy. 

But then he tells him and it changes absolutely nothing and he’s so confused. Here is someone who genuinely loves him and he hardly knows what to do with any of this. Except he does, because he has so much love to give and he’s had nowhere to put it for so long and he’s so grateful he can give it all to Martin now.

[rohirric-hunter]

I am sort of frustrated about that post I made about Google Gemini giving an AI summary of Tumblr users if you google a URL because it quickly turned into a long post where people started sharing all the things the AI got wrong about them, and I'm not saying it isn't good for a laugh when an AI is wrong, but I feel like people are missing the point. Who cares if the AI offers information about you that's wrong? What's worrying is all the information the AI got right.

That initial accidental google I did of a mutual returned an AI summary that was absolutely correct, and featured information about them that would not have been obvious from a quick perusal of their blog. The first few times I googled myself the AI overview was 100% correct. The version of that post that is circulating is not the one where I shared that the AI gave me someone's real name. I had hoped that it had screwed up and it wasn't their real name after all, but no, I checked with them, and just by googling someone's Tumblr URL, I got their honest to goodness legal name. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? Like yeah I get that it's fun to go, "Haha, AI bad at collecting information," but that's not the problem. The problem is that sometimes AI good at collecting information, and it can collect a lot more a lot faster than a normal human can, by running multiple searches simultaneously and cross-referencing a lot of different documents all in a few seconds, for a level of snooping that would take a real person hours or even days, if they could do it at all.

That is so dangerous and I need people to be angrier about the fact that Google thinks it's okay to let their AI do this for online users. If you google your legal name and you're not already famous the AI won't say shit. Because that would be creepy and invasive! So why does Google think it's all hunky dory to do it for random internet users?

[mossiistars]

hi have two versions of this cause I like both. thumbs up emoji

[lukewarmtomatosoup]

my archnemesis @baleful-meat-worm graciously entrusted me with drawing its somewhere else jon design. therefore he will be cozy and happy and warm :-) yay

[mantis-creature]

@toothflowers dtiys of Sasha!! Had a lot of fun designing her