Sweet Jesus in a Slayer shirt

I'm Amanda. 34 years old. Demigirl. She/they pronouns. Autistic. Aro-ace-spec. Jewish. Metal, anime, Pokemon, Rush, whatever I find interesting. Sideblog: @hentairecaps. Icon made by @prideful-poke-icons. Switch Friend Code: 3685-0666-5691. Pokemon Go Friend Code: 8574-1104-9627. IG/Threads/Pillowfort/Dreamwidth: octoberrust72 AO3/Squidgeworld: teababe27

[nuagederose]

commission i did for @teababe27 yesterday—the email glitched, so I don’t know if she saw it or not.

frankly, i don’t deserve anyone’s money.

[teababe27]

I’m so honored, holy shit, I love it!!!

Op’s Instagram: Badmotorartist

Op’s tumblr: nuagederose

Please commission them and check out and comment on and reblog their art!!!

[carrion-moon]

🐺💦💦

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[guideaus]

did anyone else see that tumblr added the "feature" to see others comments on your dash twitter style or to see peoples comments on their blog???

[guideaus]

this comment is so true. like what are they doing.......

[nighttimerebel13]

Falk stole the drumsticks XD

From 2018 Graspop!

[nighttimerebel13]

Hide all you like, Charles sees all! XD

2018 Day at Graspop!

[possible-streetwear]

[zaffergrok]

I really like the sophomore effort from Bonded By Blood. Exiled To Earth is a very solid thrash metal album, especially when you realize the album is from 2010. When you name your band after an Exodus song you better bring it and they do.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[teh-nos]

this fic is so good i hope i write it

[depsidase]

[bloodwithoutflesh]

Lilith Fair 1997 lineup

[reactionimagesdaily]

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[noelledeltarune]

before pride month ends does anyone wanna admit they have a crush on me

[noelledeltarune]

posting this on the first day of june so you all have plenty of time to gather your nerves and whatnot

[memories]

You ever just… yell about #new york mets??

[xxl1ly-1n-ch41n5xx]

Y’all let me clear some things up.

1.) AI “art” isn’t art; it’s slop.

2.) AI CONTINUOUSLY wastes water and uses up to five MILLION gallons a day.

3.) ChatGPT funds deportation and it is used to find who to hire for deportation raids.

4.) ChatGPT’s founder (Sam Altman) paid money to the Trump administration.

5.) AI chat bots are not your “friend.” They are not sentient, and they store your information, regardless of what you give it permission to do.

6.) Using AI to complete your work is just idiotic and lazy. Ask real human beings what to do.

7.) AI continues to take jobs every day. We could end up with close to nothing left.

8.) When you use AI to do something, you haven’t done ANYTHING besides hurt our planet. You didn’t “make” that art; you submitted a prompt and thought it was funny. You didn’t write that letter, you put it through a machine.

Don’t tell me about when you use AI. You’re wasting water, and quite frankly, my time.

[josiebelladonna]

my dad posted a meme last week (that i reposted on my story) that said “from now on, i’m referring to ai ‘art’ as ‘computer regenerated artificial images’ or ‘CRAP’”. need i say more.

oh my god, I just read something about those big data centers (the ones that generate upwards of 200 kilowatts) requiring more than that on an average basis (because those of us with physics baked into our psyche knows more servers = more heat generated = more coolant required). that alone gave me an interest in environmental science and wanting to go full erin brockovich on all of this (speaking of, she set up a map recently showing the locations of data centers and you can submit a report talking about living near one or even concerns about one cropping up near you—i did just that the other night).

i pride myself on not even touching chatgpt with a 10-foot pole for this reason alone, being a hispanic-passing “spicy” caucasian woman notwithstanding.

every interview or snippet of one of him just gives me sociopath vibes. in fact, look at his name closely: remove a few letters and it literally reads “satan”.

every time someone talks about a chatbot endearingly, i always want to bring up how many times someone has been driven to suicide or full-blown insanity because of those things (in fact, at this point, I believe we have reason to believe that referring to a bot as “friend” or the like is a form of psychosis)

it makes you work twice as hard anyway. and as someone studying neuroscience as we speak, the 3.5 mass of electrified jelly wrapped in three layers of lace nestled in your cranium has more power than something that has potential to go skynet at some point.

story time: i’m an artist and a novelist. on my own time, i’m studying the essentials of physical therapy (kinesiology, pathology, anatomy, biomechanics, the aforementioned neuroscience, biology) and electrical engineering (i was going to go into mechanical but i quit after 18 months from a combination of a lack of proper preparation, being basically thrown into it cold without anything to keep me motivated, being too weird for mechanical normies, and my mental health nuking itself; i never lost the engineer side of my brain, though). i also developed an aforementioned love of environmental science, which goes hand in hand with electrical engineering and dotes into my lifelong love of earth science, and i have a number of textbooks saved on my ipad, which i found for free, engaging in a variety of topics from microbiology to epidemiology to even fire science. i’m also a baker. when i moved to where i live now last year, i thought that if i can’t get a job, i’ll hit the books, and because i figured college was a price-gouging dehumanizing scam a long time ago in 2015 when i got my two-year in art (and somehow, i got out of it by only owing like $600), i’ll do it on my terms. besides, it seems to me that universities seem more fixated on you getting only one degree because that’s apparently the best deal™️ and take this from me: no one likes someone with more than one passion in life. really, they look at you funny. needless to say, i could not get a job if it saved me, not from my lack of experience (because i always heard that someone like me with very little experience would be hired in a hot minute) but because of the job application process. in case you don’t know, like if you’re out of it or you’re over 50 years old and haven’t applied for a job in at least two years, companies use ai for the process now. that is, they use a database filled with keywords and phrases to look for, and it’s totally opaque so you don’t have any idea what they’re looking for despite the description (i.e., there’s a mismatch on their part), plus, because of this, a human doesn’t even see your application. and then there’s the issue with “ghost jobs”, which happened to me a lot last summer: you apply and are told you have an interview, you go to it like you show up early and look nice and everything… only to find the crew knows nothing about it or if they’re even hiring, and you’re left standing there with your clit in your hand. i have my studies and my art and my writing, and i know my curiosity is a saving grace, but what happens next is anyone’s guess. everything has this “waiting for the other shoe to drop” feeling to it now. and no better example of this than this. my mom works full-time from home and she worries about being replaced all the time. one of the reasons I have pretty much given up posting art on social media anymore is because ai is so ubiquitous now that the algorithm just completely buries me and my traditional art. i can’t say how many musicians (i.e., bands like exodus, testament, dark angel, death angel, even anthrax) right now are shaking in their boots knowing they’ll be shit-canned by the advent and promotion of ai music at some point. i guess a lot of acts, save for the taylor swifts sabrina carpenters and bully billie eilishes, the rich kids, have been cancelling shows and tours as of late, and it’s just another sign that ai is both taking the jobs and singlehandedly ruined the market (coupled with the fact that $$$$ = success).

when i started seeing word of it crop up in late 2022, how databases scrape every corner of the internet and now they’re selling it back to us (i.e., they’ve basically said that plagiarism is okay now and that they’ve monetized us), and artists, my enclave, were the hardest hit, i was all over that like white on rice. nevermind the fact i was already the victim of plagiarism, but now you’re telling me it’s acceptable now? and it’s destroying our home on top of it? where’s my flamethrower?

data centers not only steal water but also land: read about people in georgia and florida literally losing their homes because construction of these eyesores is just so important. read about the ones going up near the great lakes, the finger lakes, texas, virginia, arizona, nevada, or hell, the one planned for utah. this also ties into precious metals being mined and raided, elements like lithium and cadmium (which is toxic, btw) and europium being stripped out of the earth. we already have issues with things like soil erosion and deforestation: this will only exacerbate these two things. plus, you have the issue of ancient pathogens like valley fever and anthrax being kicked up, especially with some of these damned things going on farmland, like nature seems to be the only thing that is going to put a stop to this at this point.

quick side-note: in my environmental science class today (i audit online classes from four ivy leagues, all for free, and you can do it yourself if you’d like — yale also offers online classes, i don’t have the link on me right away, but a quick search on duckduckgo can do that), i read how deforestation and destruction of habitat are thought to have been a factor in the last ebola outbreak, back in 2014 (loss of habitat leads to bats interacting with us). the whole time, i was thinking, “i wonder if that was how covid managed to cross over from bats to humans? especially with deforestation being a particular problem in china.” no one seems to have learned anything from covid, either.

and you know what’s really fucking pathetic? the fact that… no one, besides me, you, erin brockovich, and hopefully others, seems angry enough about any of this. i mean it when i say that nature seems to be the only thing that is going to put a stop to this at this point. this is literally destroying everything, bit by bit, piece by piece, and it feels like all anyone wants to do is sit on their hands about it. i’m going to say this, though: they’re all going to regret it. i promise you: in a couple of years, people are going to be looking at one another and saying “we should’ve done something.”