Being in a straight passing relationship (with the most wonderful human and ally being but who still claims they're straight "except for you") while surrounded by loud blatantly queer love at pride... Its amazing to be supported and loved but I wish I was able to be in a visibly queer relationship sometimes...
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.
Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits b
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Okay just in case there's people on tumblr who were too little in 2016 to actually remember it yourself, I cannot stress enough that the clown sightings were a thing. That's not a bit that people just made up like pretending that people in camo are invisible. This is a real tweet from the time:
An actual clown is an inter-dimensional being that communicates predominantly through honks and pratfalls, only eats sugar-based foods, and will pie you in the face if you’re not careful.
Okay just in case there's people on tumblr who were too little in 2016 to actually remember it yourself, I cannot stress enough that the clown sightings were a thing. That's not a bit that people just made up like pretending that people in camo are invisible. This is a real tweet from the time:
An actual clown is an inter-dimensional being that communicates predominantly through honks and pratfalls, only eats sugar-based foods, and will pie you in the face if you’re not careful.
Some more close-ups because I like the texture the prints have a whole lot. Printed by the lovely people at @risoclub !
(These prints and other trinkets with the same designs will be available in my shop once it opens after the convention season (so, around December 2024, hopefully).
Not to encourage a scam kickstarter or anything but I think that tumblr's Clown Husbandry meme (and related offshoots like Knight and Wizard Husbandry) would be a great basis for a cozy game with some horror elements.
Like, you the player have inherited your semi-estranged Grandmother's Clown Ranch via her will. Disillusioned with the corporate drone lifestyle you take a trip out to see the place, and while it's definitely seen better days and has fallen into such disrepair that there aren't even many clowns left there, you smell opportunity and decide to revitalize the ranch and live the Clown Husbandry Life!
Your first clown is a Rodeo Clown inherited from your Grandma, the only clown she had left, and the ranch starts out with some obvious farming game themes borrowed from the likes of Stardew Valley and Story of Seasons. But as you progress you can customize the ranch depending on what kinds of clown you favor, and the actual mechanics have more theme park and zoo sim than farming elements.
Build enrichment for the clowns and attractions for the humans to come and socialize with them. Adopt your clowns out to good homes for humble profits, or make a mint by selling them for higher profit to more questionable buyers. Train your clowns to help increase the ranch's income via shows, parties, and festivals, or hone their skills as hunters and thieves and send them to loot the nearby city.
Different clowns have different inclinations and abilities, and you can breed them for more specialized traits down the line. As the story progresses you can unlock various Clown Dimensions where wild clowns roam, these dimensions are all suffering from some hardship though. Help them with their problems to access new clown types and functions, such as humanely releasing unwanted clowns, traveling to new markets to put on shows, or pleasing the Clown Gods to receive blessings.
Watch out for the Scary Clown breeds in the wild (think Pennywise). They can and will kill you if given the chance, but a skilled enough Clown expert may be able to tame even the most terrifying of encounters, and perhaps find room on their ranch for these misfit predators...
And then ideally there are sequels where you do the same thing but with Knights or Wizards or Henchmen or etc.
I hate when I open a drawing app and try drawing something and then it looks bad. to solve this issue instead of opening my drawing app I simply lay down, do nothing, and feel a combination of guilt/shame. this is a skill I am much more practiced at
im super excited for all the rewritten projects of my childhood games and for whenever they officially reach full completion
some of the games I'm most excited for:
petpetpark
pixie hollow
bearville
ourworld
farmville
jump jupiter
goodgame cafe
fantage
barbiegirls
LPSO
I know that the pixie hollow rewrite exists and I love it very much, I just hope it gets updated with the minigames and other assets that are missing.
I would love to experience playing the ones I didn't get to play on this list. Some I heard of or seen as a kid, but I never fully got into them or actually played them.
before it gets bad I'm just gonna tell y'all certain rich people have literally only recently noticed Open Source software availability compromises the bottom line of their proprietary investments so if you see little chickadees on this website talking about the dangers of Open Source software all of a sudden it's cuz they accidentally sipped some koolaid mixed up by the far right yacht people to fuck with peoples software sovereignty and right to repair, modify, and redistribute robust codebases that become a problem when 30% of your portfolio is in, oh, say, adobe or openai.
This is your unfriendly neighborhood computer fucker telling you not to fall for it and to demand your right to digital sovereignty rather than trusting companies to make correct choices about what to do with the parts of your life they would very much like to have in the cloud to continue improving their products.
my ex’s grandmother did that with black standard poodles she named Precious and told no one that they were different dogs until one of her sons came by one day and noticed that Precious had suddenly become a puppy after 30 years
so she didn’t actually replace him with puppies bc that would be too obvious, she got younger dogs who were still old enough to pass as the previous dog and she had a habit of giving the dog makeovers (dying his grey hairs back to black , painting his nails etc bc “it’s good for his self esteem”) which made it less obvious when an older greying dog was replaced with a younger model. my uncle figures it out bc he moved back in with her to help take care of her and she couldn’t keep it from him when the dog switch happened
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You post don’t got enough wire, Dmitri always make sure you got more wire.