Artist, writer, cat co-owner, and the friendly ghost beneath every bed. Art is slow, but expect a lot of politics, horror, art, and cat posts! (if I ever forget to add alt feel free to tell me.) A struggling optimist. 📧: modestlyhottownie@proton.me
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Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
I want to say more, but trying to focus on one of the things you offered to the table of discussion. Tho, for transparency, I do occasionally call “AI” over glorified multi-filtered search engines. Yes, my coding knowledge is incredibly old. On tech, I defer to tech friends. 4/4
My response, is intent and action really matters. First problem, the models are fed the work of people. For art, the prompters go out of their way to name the artist to steal their style. Both would go under scrutiny as plagiarism if an artist goes out of their way to deny this. 3/4
(I have a habit of getting lost in thought, so advising based on exp) If you’re up to it, I want to discuss: “I do not believe that the output of generative models is plagiarism” This, I feel you tried to answer with knowledge that it’s a philosophical issue, so can vary on personal views. 2/4
First, sorry folks make hard discussions even harder. Also, may I recommend writing an essay, screenshotting it, and posting w/ alt? As you’re correct, this space makes the convo hard. Your thread has multiple points that one page would make easier to parse out. Feel free to disregard this. 1/4
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
Commit to the line. Commit to your morales. Don’t fall for cynicism that redraws the line back into fascism. Find the local progressives and uplift them. Listen to what the marginalized advise, and hold accountable those who harm them. These are actions. Nothing is done without us doing it.
the way democrats will be like, "look how good i did on my homework" and the homework was whatever horrible thing the last republican administration started a vision of government that's basically "i am the teacher's pet"
The Fukuyama poisoned liberals of managerial capitalism fundamentally require other movements to make principles for them. They came of age thinking politics was solved, and all they'd ever need to do was efficiently execute policies whose underlying logic would never be questioned
"literally the only people who uphold any conservative principles are liberals" is a huge part of the story of how we got here, too — because they'd constantly do it *even at the expense of liberal principles*
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Start a public campaign to raise money to pay Muriel Bowser to care more about the People than her other donors.
I do not like earlier sunsets, but boy, do I love the colors.
Fuck. Just the fucking powerlessness to stop people from starving children to death really hits home how far from good humanity still is.
It's sad that teachers aren't one of the highest paid careers in the US. They definitely wouldn't have to buy their own students supplies. If they were better paid our education, across the US, would be spectacular.
ICE agents, or the mall cops of immigration, make more than most teachers. How wrong is that?
2/2 Good teachers are like a vaccine: they can make you feel uncomfortable for a bit, but they stimulate your immune system and force you to deal with different ideas. People who make fat stacks don't want the people they're ripping off to notice or do anything. Teachers are an impediment to Capital
1/2 The duty of a teacher is to be in loco parentis, and to ensure student's understand the world, and are courageous enough to ask the most dangerous question in any language: "Why?" Done properly, teaching MUST be a subversive activity vital to the health of society.
My buddies have less than 400 to go!!! Let's help them over the finish line! Y'all know you want to see some sexy Black vamps!!!
Alt text pro tip: For those of us who don't regularly NEED alt text? But demand and advocate for alt text?? ... Please always read the alt text in any image you boost. The amount of lazy, shitty, jokey, not actually alt text "alt text" out there is massive.
It is all about the grift, fascism is just a bonus.
I am a member of the co-op. Are you? If you work in comics you can join. If you just like and support comics, you can still join as a volunteer also!
Blanco County Democrats, Texas
People have no idea how bad things have gotten in Antarctica (and the Arctic, too), and how close we are to a worldwide environmental cataclysm.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
One of my favourite quotes from any neoliberal economist
Oh! Def a fun watch!
Thoughts about doomed yuri
Reposted to add alt. Graph source: www.epi.org/publication/... and www.epi.org/productivity...
Unless elections are eliminated, Dems will win next election. Even the most clueless are impacted by the economy, so the swing. Progressives are asking: Consider putting up an actual Leftist instead of Republican Lite. Consider the election after. A centrist will lose. Raise the damn bar!
all my love, strength, and solidarity to the global sumud flotilla and the brave comrades on board sailing to break the siege!! 🖤✊🏻
Doomy Rock Poem By j And on the back Of the rock Hurling towards The planet of blue A note was etched Never to be read Which said, in fact "We tried to warn you." August 31, 2025 🔥🌏🔥☄️
I'm a Very Important Politics Knower, I can't be expected to remember stuff too.
Decolonialism is also not "let's do to colonizers and their descendants what they did to their victims"
It is (in part at least) "let's stop assigning legal, cultural, and moral value based on people's ancestry or how or whether they choose to worship". Ethnonationalism is not decolonial.
Important excerpt the 972+ article: "Let us not waste another 30 years of Palestinian lives on the partition paradigm — a colonial “solution” to a colonial problem." Decolonialism is not "let's kill/expel everyone we don't consider native".
It's worth noting that while recognizing a Palestinian state may have some value as a pushback against anti-Palestinian policy, it should not override the fact that there is no right to a state for anyone (including Palestinians); there is a right to equality everywhere
#NYC #VisibilityBrigade
Keep up the pressure... more of us than them.
I see a blatantly AI avatar, I block said person with the blatantly AI avatar whether we interact or not. It ain’t rocket science.
The guy is famous for not paying people. Well… somewhat infamous, but people are still surprised by it. Imagine if that obvious truth had been blasted over and over. “Rich fascist asshole stiffs labour at every opportunity.” Why was it hard for legacy news to call out such easy wins?
Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission
Come hang in an hour!
A commission I did (which I never really do ever)
Oh believe me I have called and yelled at the aids answering Newsom’s phones and I will do do again, as many times as it takes. I told them, “If he wants to act like a Republican, then he can switch parties and we’ll vote him out.”
I have had people here try and tell me that Newsom is our friend. The problem is, he's only "my friend" because I'm a straight, cis white dude who's able to pay rent. If you wouldn't be my friend if I was a POC, queer or homeless, than fuck you are *not* my fucking friend.
We should also be questioning why a self serving “blue” governor is being consistently propped up by our media + those whom we supposedly trust to lead. Because nothing he provides will ever be a solution, but rather quiet maintenance of the endless American circle that keeps us stuck in hate loops
lrt imagine being so big of a FUCKING LOSER that you make youtube delete videos of u spreading medical misinformation bc you can't handle being called out for being wrong?? also that youtube did it??????
Obviously not a correlation or causation, but… based on pure, pure numbers, it really does look like they had to hire more yt men to be able to complete that workload. The *only* thing in this information that makes me smile.
Anyone willing to sacrifice their values for a Pyrrhic victory never really held them to begin with.
A painting for my friend @vannotesbooks.bsky.social to promote the book.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVY... "Crushing strawberries one by one, watching the juice drip down..."
What you see now is the result from starvation that started way before. The largest cohort of child amputees and orphans was created under Biden. I feel like a lot of people are paying attention now because it happens under tRump. Where were they before?
I voted for her and wish she'd won. but look at the vast majority of dems right now - still shamefully silent. so there's no reason to think they'd do differently on this issue - on everything else sure
…people were screaming into a void for over a year under Biden
I use it much due to my lack of terms. I was once aware it’s more a general term, but then forgot that till I started running into Dems on here. I honestly don’t know what other word to use to describe those who have goals that oppose the continuation of harm, but yeah… it’s a very broad word.
It was kinda quiet out at the refuge today. Lots of wood ducks, though. And at least a half dozen osprey, which is a lot in my experiences there. Bald eagles were present as well, as per usual. Today was the last day to visit before it’s closed for hunting season. It was a nice visit.
Just remembered that liberal Zionist DSA bro who got mad when I agreed that the UN exists at the mercy of the United States
I am so alived. ⚡️
Because they're far more interested in harming these children and families to make a point than they are about anything else.
Yeah see, so criticisms like this will be as common as they are wildly incorrect. Trump trucked y’all into thinking this was a popularity contest—because social media and attention spans—but this is about money and power. We are witnessing the final decade or so of the United States of America. 🇺🇸
I guess when wonky guys with white collar policy/office jobs do it, it’s serious and hard hitting analysis and not dooming. Weird!
For two years, we’ve been trying to survive hell. Two years of running, hiding, starving, and hoping. We lost our homes. We have lost our universities. We lost our sense of safety, and parts of our souls that may never heal…..:: 🙏💔 GFM : gofund.me/459d365f
Just an astonishing, powerful op-ed that drives home what we are losing and what's already been lost. We are so incredibly fortunate to live with the advances modern medicine and health science. Destroying and stymieing it is just unforgivable. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Did you know that in the 70s, the British Army created Satanic Panic stories in Northern Ireland. They used blood from the mess hall, set up altars etc and then contacted the media
couldn't decide which one fit the prompt better
@safety.bsky.app The list was literally created to help those who don't wanna deal with Vic Mignogna stans, who've actively organized harassment campaigns, doxing, & supporting a serial sexual harasser Vic Mignogna block them en masse. Please reconsider hiding it.
My previous account literally got added to defamatory lists calling me a pedophile or implying I should be killed just because I disagreed with someone. Those lists are okay according to Bluesky but an anti-stalking/harassment blocklist is "insulting" or "contains slurs"
It’s ok. They live in an alternate universe where Haiti never existed
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
I'm here at the Haymarket Memorial in Chicago where folks are setting up for today's Labor Day rally and march. This will be the thread for that.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
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I think we’re just going to have to take Starmer at his word and assume he’s become a nativist. At some point the mask becomes the face.
Our society needs to stop elevating stupid, mean people to prominence If the internet never existed he'd be working in the dishpit at an Olive Garden and xeroxing conspiracy zines in his downtime
This is what the Republican Party has settled on as its leading philosopher - a hilariously ignorant buffoon who created a corporate reskin for feudalism and thinks Romanian and Roma (and presumably Roman) are the same thing.
Hannah Arendt: If “given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness”
2. Over the last two weeks, a war has broken out in Florida over Pride crosswalks. At the center is the Pulse Memorial Crosswalk, painted in rainbow colors to honor the lives lost in the 2016 Pulse massacre but since painted over by the anti-LGBTQ+ state authorities.
8. Suarez’s attorney was on-site for the arrests and delivered a blistering critique to reporters. “I would like you all to look behind me and ask what damage actually occurred. It rained while they were being arrested and there is no longer any chalk on the sidewalk.”
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
But when modeling the long term effect, it’s incomprehensible. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
The number of children expected to die from policies that have already been enacted is unimaginable in isolation, even before factoring in the other concurrent and compounding threats from this new epidemiological landscape.
Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
Good news continues to come from the good people of DC. Grand jury refuses to indict Alvin Summer for a felony charge after he "speed-walked" away from the Park Police. We're up to 3 refusals for DC citizens to help the feds crack down on these heinous crimes. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
What guys like this don't understand is that if this place dies, it dies. I won't be losing sleep over whether the platform I'm on is making a profit or not. That kind of thinking is only for maniacs. Numbers on social media mean next to nothing any more, just have fun while it lasts.
yeah i don't see what the point of this party is
If you see a raccoon out in the daytime, shake the spot. They're nocturnal.
Your Party could have made the case for a humane society that treats trans people with dignity and respect. Instead, you have fanned the flames of transphobia, and emboldened the far right. When you so calmly target a marginalised group with bigotry, you are just another untrustworthy politician.
The fascist playbook is so unoriginal it would be baffling as to why most people don’t see the obvious, but supremacists are ever waiting to take advantage of the under informed public. Fascists constantly hammer away with hate. Using the tools of fascists is how you create a fascist country.
Some nights are so restless. I can’t tell if it’s all the worries, all the ideation, or the beginnings of a flare up. Getting three hours of restless sleep is so common in my family that, like the pain we each tolerated far too long, I took forever to realize how little sleep my family gets.
I loved seeing HK movies at the Kuo Hwa Twin in San Gabriel in the mid 90s. Uncut, OG language with burned in subtitles. The double feature of Rumble in the Bronx and Drunken Master 2 remains my favorite night there.
Truly wasn’t sure as I was like “how would an artist make such strange mistakes?” A collage with floating items and no care for composition, lighting, or saying anything, but “hey remember this,” which is fine, but these are so weirdly boring it screams mass produced like a Kinkade.
Without question the album version is my favorite, by far and away. youtu.be/BfrUQA2tb6M?...
Read Mystik U and wonder what could have been if it actually got a chance to be a series.
chiller 
