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[renstrapp]

Some miscellaneous Gideons and Griddleharks I got to draw for sketch commissions! You're all so very smart and galaxy brained for these requests.

[en-theos]

Tasks that take 15 min but 3 hours if you include the agonies

[callese]

[pansexualshitposting]

YES

[floatingstirnerhead]

A kitchen is a research lab for new ways to say I love you

[wambsgender]

she ouro on my boros till she ouro on my boros till she ouro on my b

[exeggcute]

An ex-TikTok moderator, who was paid $10 a day and had to scroll through child abuse and gun violence, was required to keep her webcam on al

Colombian moderators work six days a week for $261 a month, compared with about $2,200 in the UK, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism rep

today in "content moderation is thankless work done by underpaid, overworked contractors, largely in the global south":

Carolina, a former TikTok moderator who worked remotely for Teleperformance, a Paris-based company offering moderation services and earned $10 a day, said she had to keep her camera continuously on during her night shift, TBIJ reported. The company also told her that no one should be in view of the camera and was only allowed a drink in a transparent cup on her desk.

[...]

Luis, 28, worked night shifts moderating videos for TikTok. He listed to the outlet the kind of content he sees regularly: "Murder, suicide, pedophilia, pornographic content, accidents, cannibalism."

(and before anyone gets needlessly smug and tries to spin this as a problem unique to tiktok: it's not. not by a long shot. content moderation across the board is a thorny issue that requires huge amounts of real human oversight, which is made worse by the fact that so much of it is low-paying, soul-crushing work (or, in some cases like reddit, completely unpaid work done by volunteers). facebook in particular has been mistreating its content moderators for years now.)

[vcrcleaner]

Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators

Moderators told the Bureau they faced inadequate psychological support to deal with the endless stream of disturbing content and had to work

Highly recommend reading the full article originally by bureau of investigative journalism as it’s a lot more comprehensive!

[gayvampyr]

i love cheating on exams i love abortion i love autism i love “unhealthy” food i love vaccines and ugly clothes and sex changes amen

[ariellebobbwillis]

105 year old artist, Loongkoonan 🫶🏼

[girl-biter]

‘Daisy’ Loongkoonan was a Nyikina woman and elder

She passed away in 2018 at 108 years old

Her exact age/birth date is unknown because the cattle station she was born on did not record Aboriginal births at the time

She started painting in her 90’s - 94 or 95 - and painted 372 paintings in about five years

[steelplatedhearts]

the hotel I’m staying in is having a chihuahua conference??? some lady told me there were over 300 chihuahuas in the building and if I wanted to, I could go watch the puppy competition in the morning. I’m in Heaven

[steelplatedhearts]

this is the best day of my life

[skaldish]

Here's a reminder that you don't need to formulate a solid iron-clad opinion about something the moment it's introduced to you.

[skaldish]

Replying, "I don't know enough about this topic to say for sure," is not a sign of stupidity. It's a sign of wisdom.

[chapeldean]

i think you have to romanticize autumn a little. what else are you supposed to do

[oxidi]

“Puddle” woodcut, 24 cm × 31.9 cm M.C. Escher, 1952

[cruelfeline]

I don’t know why this is so funny to me, but it is.

[mayasaura]

love how thoroughly this has breached containment. Ianthe is infinitely relateable

[habbadax]

Puttin’ up the decorations.

[cryptonature]

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

[charlesoberonn]

[sunshine-tattoo]

fun fact!

Vultures are also responsible for keeping diseases at bay.

Vulture stomach acid is so powerful that it can kill anthrax and many other deadly diseases.

So when they consume the carcass of a creature that has died of disease, they actually destroy the disease within it too!

So yes vultures are 100% holy creatures because they not only eat the dead, but protect the living from death.

[hornet-s]

alas poor griddle