blog got nuked II: the nukening

al | they/them | 21+ | hi everyone. trans rights 🔨 free palestine 🇵🇸 please read my pinned post before following :)

[yourlocalxenomorph3]

hi! welcome to my blog :)

al / xeno | they/them | 21+ | agender

[icon credit ; kMIKEj on deviantart] [flag used in icon background] previous blogs were @yourlocalxenomorph (2014-2023) and @yourlocalxenomorph2 (2023-2024). the first one was terminated for a misunderstanding that staff never properly or respectfully addressed, and the second was terminated because i spoke up about the transmisogynistic moderation and ownership on this website.

if we are mutuals please tag #parent death or #parental death

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i don't block minors; this blog is more or less sfw and i don't post or reblog anything explicit. anything regarding sex is typically tagged with #sex talk or #suggestive.

if you'd like me to tag certain subjects, please shoot me an ask or a DM and i will do my best to tag it :)

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DNI - zionists, antisemites, TERFs/SWERFs/radfems, nazis, proship/pedo/zoo/"radqueers", ace/aro exclusionists, or any other variety of bigot. fuck off

if you have your hogwarts house in your bio i'm blocking on sight. idgaf if you're "anti-jkr", read a better book

arthropod/invertebrate/bug haters also dni. we love and respect bugs here. yes, even the annoying ones. even the scary ones. even the ones that inadvertently carry diseases. nature is morally neutral.

if you unironically, genuinely, and/or proudly call yourself "problematic", go away. and seek professional help, perhaps.

pro-ai / ai users / ai engineers and crypto/nft enthusiasts can go rot in a grave. [specifically generative ai, the kind used for generating images, text, and audio] you are contributing to the enshittification of the internet and the exploitation of artists, not to mention the environmental impacts of what you're doing.

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#xenospeak - personal / original posts

#xenostuff - original works / my art / other creative endeavors

#boo kitty - pictures of and posts about my cat (who is sadly no longer with us)

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@localxenospores - sideblog dedicated to Spore (2008). mostly original spore creations, please check it out :)

@yourlocalxenocs - sideblog dedicated to my OCs (wip)

@/notpublicyet - sideblog for speculative biology and worldbuilding

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one last DNI (tw / nsfw)

people with rape/"""cnc""", incest, and ageplay "kinks": the world would be a better and safer place without you in it and your willingness to commit that kind of violence against your partner(s) is an enormous red flag. it is not safe, sane, or consensual. get help.

additionally, if you refer to rape as "noncon" or "nonconsensual sex", you're a walking box of red flags. call it what it is and stop trying to sugarcoat it.

if you defend people with these "kinks", also fuck off. zero tolerance policy. go rot.

people who engage in raceplay: you're just a racist. getting off to it sexually doesn't somehow make it any better. go fuck yourselves.

feeders/feedees/weight gain fetishists/people who otherwise get off to disordered eating: block me. go away.

objectum: don't take it personally but i will probably softblock you because the whole thing makes me insanely uncomfortable

[ambermaitrejean]

Red-winged blackbird. Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Commerce City, Colorado. Photos by Amber Maitrejean

[bogleech]

I wonder if we'll ever see a movie monster as artistically fresh as the xenomorph was. Even decades later, every other pop cultire monster still feels derivative of earthly biology, with a natural looking exoskeleton or meaty flesh.

Giger's biomechanical aesthetic managed to make even this humanoid entity look completely foreign to our world. It always looked to me like a midway point between a corpse and a motorcycle. And you definitely get the impression that it's only human shaped because it gestated in a human host.

Any square you could cut from the whole design could still be identified as part of The Alien or at least Giger's work. The same size square from most other monsters is more likely to be a meaningless patch of elephantlike skin or raw meat. Surely there are other unique styles out there though???

[scottlava]

“Fist my bump.”

[yourlocalxenomorph3]

i'm really god damn tired of having to go "above and beyond" almost every day for the past 2 months

[criptochecca]

^ is a zionist

[room429]

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[deinonychian]

. ^ . \ / \ V \ \ F /-_. |/ \

the noble quetzalcoatlus

[yourlocalxenomorph3]

today has genuinely been the worst fucking day i've had in months and i am this 🤏 close to doing it for real

[pocketsizedpanther]

Yall be careful!

[naamahdarling]

"it's all fake looking ugly slop! Weird fingers! You can always tell!"

I need you to realize that literally none of these things are true, and that by continuing to believe them, you are making yourself gullible.

[megafreeman]

This is so important. AI is ever evolving, especially with trillions being invested into it. There are no more weird fingers at all.

I have run into several videos into my feed thst I wouldn't have been able to tell they were AI if it weren't for the watermark alone. Especially ones posing as police body cam, security cameras and other similar low quality cameras.

[sistersorrow]

A lot of people hinged their criticism of AI on how it consistently looked bad, which I have been saying for a while was always going to be a criticism with an expiration date attached since AI models have clearly been getting better with time

A lot of people operate with the assumption that AI can never get better than the most obviously AI content they've seen, so they end having no reason to suspect something was AI generated unless it's yellow-tinted pseduo-Ghibli art

[jpnostalgia]

THIS! I also particulary hate those ¨how to spot AI ¨ trends. like bitch you are all directly giving prompters a step-by-step guide as to what they should fix next, basically helping them stealing more efficently while giving everyone else the delusion that they will just be able to tell the differece a few months. Whether they have genuine good intentions or not (sometimes I think they are AI supporters in disguise) all that content is just a distraction while AI users keep stealing data and getting better at making fake content each day. There's only one way to win this war and it's to BAN IT. There's no reason from this ¨technology¨ to be on the internet. it offerns nothing possitive. only scams, CP deepfakes and intelectual property theft

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[lizardlicks]

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

[hapalopus]

And yes, it's still needed today, despite no one wearing hats. People will go to crazy lengths to acquire rare feathers

Dead Exotic Bird Thief | Field Ethos

By Andrew Court In 2009, a college kid named Edwin Rist broke into the British Natural History museum…

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[tboy-cock]

the weird thing about being a leftist is the government calling you a radical extremist and your family believing that youre a radical extremist and the whole times your main political beliefs are shit like "we live in a world where we could very easily end world hunger, homelessness, most disease, poverty, ect. and the people in power are choosing not to, and thats evil and should change" and that bigotry is bad

[draconym]

Having a normal one. Baby hawk in my car.

[draconym]

Baby delivery successful. Will keep an eye out for where a nest could be in case it can be returned soon.

[yourlocalxenomorph3]

did that thing

[rubysapphrald]

kind of fascinating how a lot of people don’t really know how food works

[rubysapphrald]

saw a twitter video of a dude making like fried broccoli with bacon or whatever and everyone in the replies was going “can’t believe he took something healthy and turned it into poison!!!!” i don’t really know how to explain to you that you’re still eating broccoli, and the healthy nutrients do not magically leave the broccoli just because you fried it

[solrin]

We tried to warn you about the "adult content" bans. Now Kickstarter is starting that shit

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

"It must have serious value!"

Staight up sounds like obscenity law/Miller Test-type crap.

[asaflowerblossoms]

"Fetishized imagery intended to arouse" well it's a good thing oppressed and vulnerable communities are never fetishized.

[solrin]

I know many of you have already liked and reblogged this post, but I'm going to attach a couple of links for resources on how to contact payment processors and whatnot. Hopefully they can get spread around a bit. It includes how to contact the payment processors, scripts, and various links to other (at the time ongoing, these websites haven't been updated in about 8 months and 1 year respectively) petitions and forms that might be useful to you.

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP

TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP

I'd also like to ask people to be willing to bring this conversation into spaces where things like "politics" aren't welcome and more forcefully draw attention to the ever growing issue of censorship. Some of you may only have those communities to draw on but we've long since run out of peaceful/polite/non-disruptive options.