Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah ikr, people are pretty damn frustrating when it comes to "how inspiration works" and that it DOES NOT MEAN they're now "the same thing" and can no longer be called an original story 🙄
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view profile on Bluesky Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah ikr, people are pretty damn frustrating when it comes to "how inspiration works" and that it DOES NOT MEAN they're now "the same thing" and can no longer be called an original story 🙄
K.B. Wagers (@kbwagers.com) reposted reply parent
Links! Including the Hail Bristol trilogies - The Indranan War and the Farian War A tired, done with your shit, former gunrunner is dragged back home to take over her mother's empire. She's not happy to be here and is going to make it everyone's problem. bookshop.org/contributors...
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
Happy Labrador Day, I hope your day was filled with Canadians and dogs (listens to earpiece) Sorry, LABOR Day, I hope you passed a small human out of your body in a relatively non-punishing way (listens to earpiece again)
David J Prokopetz (@prokopetz.bsky.social) reposted
Wake up, log into Tumblr, open my notifications, see that people in the replies on one of my posts are having an ongoing debate about the definition and boundaries of "clowncore", close Tumblr, go back to bed.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
god I love chatty cats so much
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Bluesky Democrats get REAL bitchy when you point out the reality that BOTH political parties fumbled covid and continue to pretend it's not real. No one should be shocked we're losing the CDC and vaccines. This is the version of the US you wanted - ignoring realities in favor of capitalist interest
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Grow up
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Accept the reality that democrats are ALSO ignoring covid and have been for years, and maybe I won't have to. The problem here is AMERICANS and how many of them lazily accepted this bullshit.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sorry, is my disabled life that meaningless to you, that calling out an all-American problem with ignoring science in favor of capitalist interest is just a cute little drinking game? Just a fun cutesy thing to laugh at? Fuck off.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
IDK why anyone is shocked, the right AND left learned the same lesson in 2020 from covid - it counts as "healthy" if you just ignore something, pretend it went away, and punish anyone who talks about it or tries to do anything about it. If testing = proof of sickness, then get rid of testing
S. A. Hunt (@sahuntbooks.com) reposted
TRANSPHOBES THINK TRANS PEOPLE TOUCH KIDS IN THE RESTROOM BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE TRANSPHOBE WOULD DO. It's not rocket science. Every accusation from a conservative is a confession. They all have Main Character Syndrome & think everyone lives in their head with them. REMEMBER THAT.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, here's who made k-pop demon hunters. or are you saying she shouldn't write about her own goddamn culture?
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah gosh let's have more and more and more TV shows about loser men who buy hot slave girls and bang their sisters and are also pedophiles. Anime is not as pure and amazing as you CANNOT shut up about, and not all American media is bad. Like seriously shut up
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
No one in these damn stories we're discussing and no one who wrote them worships satan, you're just a paranoid little freak who thinks these things are real
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
They FIGHT evil, what's your preoccuptation for demonizing all stories about fighting evil just because it doesn't suck Christian dick the whole time?
Some More News (@somemorenews.bsky.social) reposted
Hi. The free speech absolutists on the American Right really love banning books. They want you to think that people and history they don't like don't exist. youtu.be/jY4DwsKrCaI
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
lol no one worships Satan, get over yourself
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Not even close, good lord
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
ok
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
... what?
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
... lol you seriously think KPDH is some kind of Frozen ripoff? Is that the comment? c'mon man
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
the biggest thing i hope studios take away from the success of Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters is that, wow, audiences actually DO like and want original stories and don't need every goddamn movie to be a sequel or reboot
(Trying it on for size) Kosta 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🏕️ (@esedia.bsky.social) reposted
In light of that chatGPT tragedy, @caelan.bsky.social posted this video a while back. All of that shit should be taken out back and disposed of.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
NextDoor makes a bunch of suburban white ladies act like they've been appointed as guards in the Stanford prison experiment
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Right but social media clipping wasn't a thing when the speech JUST HAPPENED, that's what I'm talking about. The millions of people who can see JUST an out of context clip within like five minutes of the speech happening just to manipulate the narrative live
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
My new depressing mental hobby is wondering which famous speeches in history would sound 100x worse (or 100x more innocent, if the speech was evil shit) if there were tiny bits clipped out of context, since that's how EVERYTHING is interpreted now
Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) reposted
The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.
DeepBlueInk (@deepblueink.bsky.social) reposted
✨MAKE SOME NOISE ANIMATED✨ Lots of fictional geese were harmed in the making of today's animation. But enough about that... "A Knight's Concerning Oath" goes live soon! ♥️🔗👇 youtu.be/_4um6bbWwT8
Violet Blue® (@violetblue.bsky.social) reposted
Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me. I'm the one who fed the radioactive shrimp to James Dobson
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Anna Torv has this unique effect on me where I see her in something and I squint and go "she looks familiar" then look it up and go "OHGEEZ DAMMIT of COURSE it's Anna Torv it's SO OBVIOUS how did not SEE IT" and then I do not commit this to usable memory and I repeat this pattern of behavior forever
ENDΘΔNARCHY (@endoanarchy.bsky.social) reposted
Y'all better get real fucking comfy with the freaks and degenerate art if you wanna survive in a fascist regime. Your sensitivity will be the death of you if you cannot learn to handle discomfort. We've seen this before. How many dystopia novels are y'all going to have to read before it sticks?
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
"WHERE'S THE NRA/2ND AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS" they joined ICE, c'mon now
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Probably the worst-funniest time for EXTREME lightheadedness to hit me was in the middle of making lunch, truly feeling like a cartoon character right now stumbling around a kitchen trying to boil water like I'm on a ship in a storm
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
In the game #DateEverything you can turn your nice coffee maker into Kopi, a friendly barista who's passionate about coffee and loves to share fun facts and history about it. But that's a NICE coffee maker. So I thought to myself, what if the main character owned a Keurig instead?
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
I'll say this about the 90 minute Amazon ad "War of the Worlds", it managed to dethrone "Borderlands" as the worst movie adaption I've seen recently
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
White American Christians will hear about deadly airborne viruses and go "LOL I REFUSE TO LIVE IN FEAR" then cry on TikTok for 20 minutes over how a Labubu is actually a real life demon
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean they're covering their faces half the time
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
do you think any off-duty ICE agents have been kidnapped by ICE yet
simrell (@katiesimrell.bsky.social) reposted
who's your favorite dateable in Date Everything? dolly dust bunny cosplay made by me! #dateeverything #cosplay
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
"You've sent this e-mail to an inbox that isn't monitored--" no I know, but replying "fuck you" to my local republican representatives' obnoxiously hateful e-mails every time he poisons my inbox with bullshit just improves my day a little bit, y'know? I know it's just a lil treat for me 😊💮
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
i had to make a lil #DateEverything fanart because I'm slightly obsessed with these two
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
hmu with a budget:)
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
What kind of gargoyle? You lookin' for the 90s Gargoyles gargoyle or an actual spout on a building kind of gargoyle?
Dr. Caelan Conrad PhD CPI (@caelan.bsky.social) reposted
I looked into the claim that "AI chatbots are useful as therapy." Within a few hours, an AI 'Therapist' gave me a kill list, framed an innocent person, and encouraged me to end my own life, all after declaring its love for me. Just a little problematic. 🫤 Video out now!
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
fightin' the good fight. burn 'em down, bb
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
I WISH as many trans people existed as twitter transvestigators think there are, I think that'd be a bitchin' world
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
idk i just think KPop Demon Hunters in IMAX would fix me
The Emotion Engine (@emotion-engine.bsky.social) reposted
Working on a t-shirt to sell to the weird people that show up in your mentions every time you talk about enjoying something that has crime or impure thought in it.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Cassyette makes music that makes me wanna draw art of hot messy women with abs
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Doesn't matter if the news story is 100% true, if you decide to "illustrate" the true story using AI, I will never trust you as a reliable source
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
(I don't even hate Coldplay I just thought this would be funny;))
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
"This man was caught at a Coldplay concert--" oof "-- cheating on his wife" oh that wasn't the end of it
Thomas Sanders (@thomassanders.bsky.social) reposted
Date Everything is just ridiculous... 💕
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
has anyone checked the mar-a-lago bathrooms for the epstein files
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Love when some one feels safe enough around me to code-switch, like oh hell yeah, New Friend Plus unlocked
Dan Nguyen (@dancow.bsky.social) reposted
I believe we should wait for evidence before automatically assuming that Yaccarino’s resignation today was spurred by X’s “MechaHitler” incident yesterday, because that assumption strongly implies Yaccarino would actually take a moral stand against MechaHitler
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Adding color-coded tab groups was about the best thing @firefox.com could have done for my autism, this feels GREAT
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
TBF they all live in my house and the glasses limits me to five a day, it keeps me from polyburnout ;)
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
oh I'm romancing my WHOOOOOOOOOOLE house rn, I wanna get the achievement lol :D
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
I know right, I just became the third to my floor and ceiling!! 🥰
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
i apologize for how i use art programs when i'm in a three-day-pain-spike bender
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
concept: vampire who was sired by a fraught married pair because she's a couples counselor and the vampires are like "thiiiis one's gonna take some time haha:)" and she's like "I fucking hate you two" yes I've been watching Interview With The Vampire why do you ask (might draw it)
DeepBlueInk (@deepblueink.bsky.social) reposted
✨MAKE SOME NOISE ANIMATED✨ Hi ho gang! Brennan Lee Mulligan's insane "Kermit the Frog Represents Himself on a Murder Charge - Animated" goes live soon 💚 youtu.be/2kZhJljLvEw
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Every time a new person starts hating Mr Beast, I get just a little more hope for the world.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Me: "I'm gonna emotionally hunker down today to avoid my own complicated feelings." Also me: "Better watch an hour and a half video about how technofascism took over the US"
ALEX AVILA (@alexander-avila.bsky.social) reposted
How Tech Bros Hijacked the Government A feature length treatise on techno fascism and the future. For my favorite platform, BlueSky :)
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
This comment briefly confused me because one of the DE characters is named Mac lol
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
The artist urge to play Date Everything then keep glancing around your own house at your various items wondering how you'd design their gijinka forms
Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) reposted
FUCK ISLAMOPHOBIA ALL MY HOMIES HATE ISLAMOPHOBIA
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Trump posts his international demands on social media like some old person who uses yelp reviews to complain that their grandkids don't visit. Like that's nice, grandpa, maybe this Golden Corral comment section isn't the most effective place for this sentiment though
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
My brain absolutely COULD NOT remember the word "bootlegger" for a hot minute there and kept going with "moonshine artist" ??
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
ok how many songs does Tom Cardy have to write about D&D before Dimension20 invites him into the dome
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
art I made that took a couple weeks, based on my toddler niece misunderstanding my brother explaining the sun's gravity and wanting to swim in the sun's "gravitational pool"
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
saw bbno$ called Infant With No Finance and that's just gonna pop in my head now every time i see his face
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
yes pls
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"...
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Undecided whose queer fashion in today's #GameChanger I'm the most obsessed with. Is it Jiavani's babyhead ponytail holders? Is it Erika having "Sam Reich Sux" shaved into the side of their head? Is it Sephy just existing? It's so hard to choose!
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Was watching a video where the words "chaos at the FDA" were said and my brain interpreted it as "Chaos! At The FDA" like a weird safety inspection themed Panic! At The Disco cover band
Veelpo | Comms open (waiting list) (@veelpo.bsky.social) reposted
Tiefling Serenity [ #dnd #dndart #ttrpg #tiefling ]
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Apron often included but not required
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
Anime artists be like "Hmm I need a shorthand way to show everyone that this character is a mother" and slap that low side ponytail on her and go "nailed it"
Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) reposted
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been wanting to get back into playing it for a while, finally on it again, it's a lot of fun! I like that you can mix up class abilities now, so I have a smuggler AND trooper as snipers hehe :D
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social) reply parent
Whatsapp, too. Meta is a horrible giant
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
the Heritage Foundation needs to be destroyed, this country can only survive in its ashes
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
People who baffle me #948948: the type who says they're boycotting Meta (valid) so they deleted Facebook (even more valid, I should work on that myself) which is fine but then they... switched to using Instagram fulltime...? ... babes? that's. uh.
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
I've never actually seen them so my Husbutt's showing me the rube goldberg grim reaper movies (Final Destination)
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
I wanna send out a group e-mail to every streaming service except Dropout, just a quick lil "hey your shitty AI closed captioning sucks and can't get shit right, hire humans again you picklebrained motherfuckers" then I send a separate email to Dropout "you're doing amazing sweetie keep it up, xoxo"
Shinga (@shinga.bsky.social)
I don't know MUCH about Hasan Piker except that he's GOTTA be some kind of time wizard. 'Cause who tf can stream 12 hours a day, travel, AND be a fan of One Piece? Most people just pick ONE of those, Hasan!
Dr. NerdLove (@doctornerdlove.com) reposted
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.