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Bear | 30 | They/Them art blog @UrsaKursa

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[holy0ak6-deactivated20240421]

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via bree newsome bass on twitter: 

“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era. 

“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”

https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/986427881680228354

[queen-mihai]

This second picture is MUCH more accurate!

[queen-mihai]

I had the exact same experience the second time I looked at this picture as the first time. I was looking like "what is this green line? Like suddenly everything is OK? It's not. Racists are still trying to push us back to 1619. Nothing has been fixed. We still need to fight. Hard!

[penny-anna]

hes literally nice

[nostalgicmermaaiid]

Black indie animated projects that you should check out!

I thought I’d share the ones i’ve seen and link the channels in light of recent events. beating myself up for not having done this sooner tbh

Wheels and Roses - roller derby & magical girls!

The Three Tomes - a vampire love story

DizzyCat - slice of life adventures of 2 cat siblings

Crocodile Dance - a thriller combining myth and Afrofuturism

Furious and Fat Cat - comedy about 2 childhood friends who reunite as roommates

The Ebony Witch - disney/don bluth inspired fantasy series

I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl - yall probably know this one but I’m putting it here anyway

Please reblog with any that I missed!

[modmad]

quick update/confirmation

Just a small statement about The Situation because apparently some people in the SMG4 following have got it into their heads that I'm going to sue Glitch/ZAMination for as much money as I can, which is untrue now and has never been the case. Initially all I wanted was an apology and for them to call off the hatemail. If they had acted by now, that would have been all. Due to their incredibly poor treatment of me, through their continued and complete silence, that has changed.

My sole ambition, now, is to get them to change the design Mr Puzzle's screen. In an ideal world I would also like them remove the 'drips', and change the angles of the dials if possible.

That's it.

Nothing else. Nothing that would change the rig. Nothing that changes the story. I do not want money, and I do not want to cancel their show.

If Justice for Artists need to ask for an amount of money to cover their expenses, that's their business, but I have never been asking for money. Anyone who has been saying that is lying, and you can check all of my previous statements to correlate the truth of that.

[breya-etherium-shaper]

You ever think about how the only reason Samuel l Jackson got into acting is because he was a radical activist and his mom got threatened that he’d end up dead so she sent him away to school to save him

[postmarxed]

Literally the FBI told her to get him out of Atlanta or they were going to murder him

[pretentiouslimericks]

[yourkpopidolsucks]

UMMM???? CAN WE GET SOME ELABORATION PLEASE?????

[breya-etherium-shaper]

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

the fbi literally threatens people fighting for racial equality with death without a trial and people still think theyre the good guys

[queen-of-andor]

I love how they portrayed Usopp- Zoro friendship during the Little Garden arc on opla.

Zoro was the one who thanked Usopp right after the latter freed them from the wax:

He was also the one who carried Usopp after the fight was over:

And the one who made a toast to Usopp, who he called " The hero of Little Garden"

Like his manga counterpart, Zoro doesn't play when it comes to Usopp.

[zonaenthusiast]

They've truly redeemed themselves with Usopp this season because we got every version of him: funny, smart, witty and brave !!!!

[covid-safer-hotties]

Source

[zonaenthusiast]

It's just elevator music on loop behind those eyes.

[j0serocity]

Happy autism awareness day to Bruno Madrigal

[voiceofaboud]

IF YOU STILL CARE ABOUT GAZA.

ISRAEL HAS JUST CARRIED OUT A MASSACRE THERE ARE MANY DEAD.

[voiceofaboud]

[voiceofaboud]

I saw torn bodies in front of my eyes inside the hospital I cannot describe how horrific it was.

[voiceofaboud]

The attack was close to my little siblings. I am terrified for them. Please skip your daily coffee and donate. Do not forget them after my death.

Chuffed - PayPal - Verified

[bubblepunk99s]

Please all reblog to help Aboud and his family.

[zonaenthusiast]

THE MOST USOPP THING EXACTLY EXACTLYYYYYYYYYY

[eisenkrahe]

Last year JK Rowling personally funded a group called Sex Matters to amend UK law so that trans women *overnight* went from legally women to legally men. This has resulted in mass exclusion of the trans community from numerous organizations, along with ongoing violent assaults on both trans and cis women alike.

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

In fact, you are cordially invited to eat shit and die.

[zonaenthusiast]

He gave us one of the best performances of this season playing fuckass Mr 9, I still can't believe it. Rip the divaest diva of all, this man outsold the original character in every way possible.

[lesbianjaxsondart]

if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on