So, the cyclosporiasis thing is a good reason to grow your own stuff while you still can, if you live in an area where you're able to do so.
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'Cream and Tails' Paper Mache Mayhem'
Cream and Tails are making paper mache bowls, and Cream got a little playful and stuck some paper strips to herself, pretending to be a mummy and splattering some glue in her jumpscare, and don't worry about Cream sticking paper mache to herself, PVA glue is washable and will come off in a bath.
In the background are a handprint canvas and a fingerpainting, and loose paper, a couple glue jugs, and two bowls of slightly watered-down glue to make the paper mache bowls with are scattered on the craft table.
Cream: 'Boo! I'm a mummy! ^v^'
Tails: -giggles at Cream-
This was drawn in Crayola crayons on Pacon Art Street sketch paper, and shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it under natural light from the window.
#cute #cuteart #creamtherabbit #creamtherabbitart #tails #tailsart #sonic #sonicart #traditionalart #crayonart #crayola #crayolacrayons #crayolacrayonart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
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'Splatter Room Paint Fight'
Cream and Tails are carrying on and having a paint fight in a splatter room. They're wearing white T-shirts as the idea is the splatter-painted and finger-painted shirts *are* the artwork they'll be taking home with them.
Tails is chasing after Cream after sticking his hands in a couple paint trays while Cream is running away from him giggling.
Tails: 'RAAWR! Here comes the paint monster!! ^v^'
Cream: 'Oh no, run! ^w^'
On the floor are a couple paint trays and a bottle of paint, and some paint splatters, and the wall has some handprints and paint splatters on it in the background.
This was drawn in oil pastel on cardboard and shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 lens mounted to it under natural light from the window.
#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #tails #creamtherabbit #tailsart #creamtherabbitart #oilpastels #oilpastelart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
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'Pottery in the Park' + 'Bunny in a Field'
Here's the two pieces I did today, one in crayon, and the other in Crayola marker and watercolor crayon.
And I'm starting to really love Crayola and other water-based markers as a painting medium the more I use them.
#cute #cuteart #bunnies #bunnyart #traditionalart #crayola #crayolasignature #crayolamarkers #crayolacrayons #watercolorcrayons #mixedmediaart #crayonart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
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'Sunny Day at the Park'
A group of bunnies are playing at the park on a sunny day.
This was painted in Crayola markers blended with water and Crayola Signature watercolor crayons on Canson XL watercolor paper, and shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteanimals #bunnies #bunnyart #traditionalart #mixedmediaart #crayola #crayolamarkers #crayolasignature #watercolorcrayons #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
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Here's what I've drawn lately.
So, I've been drawing a lot of oil pastel art on cardboard again lately, and this is what's come of that so far.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #raichu #dedenne #togepi #bunnies #bunnyart #traditionalart #oilpastels #oilpastelart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
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'Monsters Under the Bed'
Pichu and Dedenne are playing 'Monsters Under the Bed.'
This was drawn in Crayola markers and Crayola Signature watercolor crayons, and shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #dedenne #traditionalart #mixedmediaart #crayola #crayolamarkers #crayolasignature #watercolorcrayons #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
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'Bunnies Playing by a River'
A pair of bunnies are playing by a river.
This was sculpted in modeling clay and shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteart #bunnies #bunnyart #modelingclay #modelingclayart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
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Good idea to move your community to Matrix or XMPP if you can afford to assuming this image scanning on Discord gets more stringent.
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Debunked, but that doesn't stop it from possibly being a sign of things to come.
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this is misinformation. this has nothing to do with AI. there were some false positive matches, the bans are only temporary until they are manually reviewedNitter
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a king bun!
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Then, I have something to share with you. This was my friend Bun, a Netherland dwarf rabbit, he was 2 pounds at his heaviest. He loved Godzilla movies even after he went blind, his absolute favorite was Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora, All Out Monsters Attack. The yarn next to him became his own Bun-sized blanket, crocheted by my partner.
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Soooo much cute! :3
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I saw the smollest 🐇 today, as it epically struggled to climb some stairs that were *way* to big for its lil' bun legs 🥺
It was so little, I could've cupped it completely inside my hands 🫠
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Ouwwwww probably barely a month old!
is that really a bune? I’d have guessed it was some kind of mouse or shrew or something.
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I too recently came across two small potatoes.
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a king bun!
Aww! Baby bun! 😍
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too bad wild rabbits are dangerous to humans, otherwise it could have gotten an Alice ride to the top.
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Then, I have something to share with you. This was my friend Bun, a Netherland dwarf rabbit, he was 2 pounds at his heaviest. He loved Godzilla movies even after he went blind, his absolute favorite was Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora, All Out Monsters Attack. The yarn next to him became his own Bun-sized blanket, crocheted by my partner.
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ha. I also saw a tiny one like that just a short bit ago today.
There's been a lot of bunnies hopping around in my yard too, and I'll link the image threads showing the shots I've grabbed of them so far.
Thread 1: Some cute bunny shots from my back yard.
Thread 2: I switched to the Lumix for these bunny shots.
Thread 3: These shots are using a Kodachrome 200 sim.
Some cute bunny shots from my back yard.
A bunny showed up in the yard earlier and I got some cute shots of it.These were all shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteanimals #bunny #bunnies #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
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Soooo much cute! :3
Tiny bun, tiny bun, where are you going little tiny bun? Hopefully not in Australia, though.
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that is a very good bun
in return have a bun in a field between some trees
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@moses_izumi @ozzelotI dunno... I think toilets have always been a major area of enshittification
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Some nice sunset shots.
We had a nice sunset where I'm at and I grabbed some shots of it.
These were shot through a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens on an EOS Rebel T3i and had a Kodachrome 200 sim applied to them.
#sunset #sunsetphotos #weather #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #eosrebelt3i #vintagelenses
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I don't usually ever post anything that warrants a CW, but yeah, do this where warranted.
hello!reminder to my fellow fedizens to PLEASE, PLEASE put CWs on heavy topics and CW boost posts containing them if the original post doesn't have one. if you don't then there is a large chance I'll unfollow you per @aperture's advice just so I'm not flooding everyone's timelines with unCWed stuff. if you get unfollowed cause of this, feel free to send me a DM once you change your behavior and I will gladly re-follow
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These shots are using a Kodachrome 200 sim.
Thus far my bunny shots had been using a Polaroid PX-70 sim, but I started messing about with a K200 sim again.
These were shot on a Lumix GF2 with a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteanimals #cutephotos #bunnies #bunnyphotos #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vintagelenses
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First update post on this thread.
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Here's one of PachiChu's speedpaints.
So yeah, here's one of PachiChu's speedpaints for you people on Friendica to enjoy.
I really should start creating again myself..
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We need less shows like Family Guy and more shows like KotH.
This is just my opinion after starting to re-watch my DVDs of the show because I'm kinda bored with web video content now, but we need more shows like KotH and less shows like Family Guy.
@DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) Family Guy may offend sensibilities but it does seem to have some predictive value, not as much as the Simpsons, but some. Personally, I love the running humor like Burns and the nuke plant or his dogs human headed puppies.
And also, to be fair, there are plenty of anime which have a similar chill vibe to KotH.
Lucky Star is one such example as far as I understand of it, as is Azumanga Daioh.
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*Bwee the sky-blue fluffdragon rolls like a fluffy tumbleweed over your timeline and up to you, letting out little purrrs and happy squeaky "bweebweebwee"s. They are clearly delighted to see you!!!*
(Boost to roll me to someone else!) :3
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I shall roll ye in a secondo, but first I shall stroke your wings, give your head a pat, give you a full body squeeze, then... stim on you for a little bit, because fluffy fwoof fur. *hugs, ok now, to hit el buttono de boost *giggles*. Clairre and Hileo
*Static* "r..ger that Houston. Can confirm EVA to install booster rockets to the Deep Space Bwee completed successfully. Ready to fire on your command"
"Roger Roger. Operation Fluffdragon cleared for second stage booster fire. T MINUS 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. main engine ignition, boost rockets firing. Destination Deep Metaverse locked in. Warp factor 9.7.. 9.8.. 9.9.. Toot barrier breached. Shuttle Deep Space Bree successfully breached into metaspace.
God bless all who sail with them..."
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hello floofiest tumblebweed!
kisses you and hugs you tigh how are you doing?
@gwenthefops *clings so they don't roll away* Oh I'm pretty okay 😀 Hanging in there, trying not to think about anxiety-inducing things and keeping myself distracted. How are you doing sweetheart? *Kisskisskiss* 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
Better now that I have a tumbweed with me kiss kiss, then gently knead on you
Oh! I have an idea! jumps and rolls with the tumbweed to whoever we land on next 
Oh! I have an idea! jumps and rolls with the tumbweed to whoever we land on next
@gwenthefops Wheeeee!!! *rollrollrolls with you* 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
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*gives you a basket of s'mores to take with you*
Lovely little bwee. I spy a smile, and oh—what a sweet thing it is. A hand reaches out to you, fingers slipping through your soft fur with quiet delight. Every little tuft earns its own gentle pet, and before long, you’re tucked into the coziest hug. Such a lovely little bwee.
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Mastodon is close to 1 million MAU according to FediDB, and don't you love to see it!
Pixelfed remains 2nd with over 100k MAU.
If Misskey published their MAU, I'm sure they would be in second, or maybe first.
We did this together, without VC funding, enshittification or selling out users via ads or selling data.
Give yourself a pat on the back, because all of you make this possible by participating in these federated platforms.
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there's likely a good few more, as many instances with large numbers of marginalised users may opt out of FediDB to preserve user safety..
@Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK That's the same issue we have with Hubzilla. A lot of our users are privacy-oriented, and broadcasting statistics is off by default. The admin has to install an addon and turn it on. So a large percentage of Hubzilla servers are invisible to stats websites like this.
fediverse is great but I assume it's still susceptible to online safety act requirements? If governments demand people to use ID to get online?
@shemjm
currently most Fedi instances are below the radar of Ofcom UK, and this network doesn't have a large appeal to teenagers yet, and there are smart people including lawyers keeping a sharp eye on developments..
This is one risk assessment already completed for a UK-based instance (a specialist one for PHP programmers)
github.com/derickr/online-safe…
online-safety-assessments/mastodon-phpc.social.rst at main · derickr/online-safety-assessments
Contribute to derickr/online-safety-assessments development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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FYI, social.netdynamics.eu has crossed the 50 users milestone this afternoon :😎: :👍:
MAU = Monthly Active Users
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1 million MAU is probably very cool! If only I knew what a MAU is …
This is the first thing that MAU brought to my mind:
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The Trashmen - Surfin Bird (Video Clip)
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Mastodon - top of Ethical Consumer's list of social media platforms.
ethicalconsumer.org/technology…
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Finding an ethical and environmental social media platform. Ratings for 21 different social media platforms and messaging tools, with recommended brands and what to avoid. We look at issues such as data privacy and tax avoidance.Ethical Consumer
are users only posting followers only also counted?
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And y'all? Donate to your server if you can. I can only donate $3 a month at this time, I feel guilty about that, but anything is better than nothing. Once I see how finances shake out after my move, I hope to up it a bit. And if you can afford more, toss in an extra buck for us poor folk. 😀
what is happening every January, mass cleaning (troth) and mass automated account creation (peak)?
And you paid your instance, right? 😉
Ps. It’s still absolutely bonkers that my country of 5Mil people manages to score fifth!! 🥳🇫🇮
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MAU? Moderately Addicted Users?
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How do we support them more because I'm happy to back a platform that doesn't push digital I.D.'s and advertisement. I use to be on MeWe until that started using algorithms.
Haven't been on #fascistbook for a decade now. this platform is helping expand my spread my radio station around the world...
The #Felicity Station
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Just checking some Misskey instance stats.
Considering Misskey.io alone have 39-40,000 daily visitors, not even monthly, Misskey (inlcuding 10+ forks) might have 800K to 1 million MAU.
Considering Misskey.io alone have 39-40,000 daily visitors, not even monthly, Misskey (inlcuding 10+ forks) might have 800K to 1 million MAU.
will pixelfed get starter packs support?
mastodon is my least favourite type of social media. I would likw to see pixelfed and lemmy outgrowing it
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Sometimes the lights we carry to illuminate our way become the new path we can tread.
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me: "I could draw digitally again. It is fun too!"
ipad: "I'm out of battery" 😀
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pen: "I'm out of battery too!" 😀
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computer: "your art program needs an update" 😀
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ipad: "I do not recognise this pen." 😀
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computer: "I have never seen this tablet in my life." 😀
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Fuck it. Traditional it is.
#drachenmagier #unicorn #traditionalArt #TraditionalMedia #Fantasy #MastoArt
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I once animated a whole game on paper, scanning images in, then using a pixel art tool to cobble together the animations all cause Krita can be measured in "crashes per hour" when doing anything related to animation.
That’s beautiful!
Cory Doctorow was writing about how good tools allow the user to control them, and bad tools limit the user to what the corporation allows. He mentions an older essay on the iPad that hits many of your points. It's worth a read:
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Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either) – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either)Cory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow's MEMEX)
@agreeable_landfall Not quite the topic, since my gear pretty much does what it is supposed to, provided it is charged and maintained right. 😀 As a traditional artist I just do tend to neglect both, which is 100% my mistake. 😁
As for the whole limiting the user: that can have great sides too, and provide a user with very little tech knowledge to have a device that makes their lives easier, instead of harder. 😁
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A really cool storm shot from earlier in the month.
So, we had some storms earlier in the month, and I got a really cool shot of some lighting striking near a church nearby.
This was shot through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
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I switched to the Lumix for these bunny shots.
Thus far I had been using my EOS for my bunny shots, but this time around I felt like using the Lumix.
I'm still using the same Canon FD 70-210mm f4 zoom lens on it though, as both cameras have an FD ring adapter so I can share my FD-mount glass trio between them. These were shot on a Lumix GF2.
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Was just talking to a friend at a US technology company, they’ve had their budget reduced by 50% as the company says it wants to announce “the largest layoffs in US corporate history” to prove GenAI can replace jobs.
There’s no plan to actually replace the jobs with GenAI.. they just have to decimate their area.
Not naming company as the staff don’t know they’re about to fed to the line going up.
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Every slack channel: Hey Luigi, it's Luigi. How's Luigi doing on that sprint that Luigi's team is waiting on? Great! I'll let Luigi know.
The best outcome is a prompt footgun so the endless hype cycles are rationalized
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The vibe I'm getting from lots of people at lots of orgs now is, you know during Fyre Festival, that marketing dude was like "Let's just do it and be legends, man!" when challenged about issues.
That's the GenAI plan fundamentally. Lots of people are making decisions without really knowing what they're doing, because everybody else is doing it. FOMO marketing.
I suspect a lot of large companies are going to look like this in a few years:
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the piss in other ppl’s tents phase is going to be wild
Amazing how many people's lives Roko's basilisk will ruin by simply never existing.
One can hope
my annoyance is the companies are going to be ok, because they are all making the same bet. They'll find ways to make the money work eventually; or write off the losses.
It's the people who will suffer unnecessarily because of this bullshit.
vote for more corporate regulation. we shouldnt have these monopolistic mega corporations. if the economy were more distributed among many more companies, a lot of things would be better. including income inequality and workers conditions.
to be unnecessarily fair to that guy, they did it, and became legends (cautionary tale)
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lol 'AI is the Fyre Festival of technology marketing' is a good take.
I like a good music festival, just like many of the underlying technologies behind "AI" could do amazing things, in the right hands.
it looks like you're attempting a Fyre Festival, let Ai assist you with burning this place to the ground!
kinda like how the US govt is being run at the moment.
folks with no idea what they’re supposed to be doing, let alone how to do anything, but hey, let’s just shut this part down and fire this group and wow! that was fun! let’s do more of that!
Reminds me of The Big Short, when they visit the empty bank offices after the crash.
"What did you expect we'd find?"
"Grown-ups..."
Ed Zitron call them "Business Idiots" and it's hard to disagree
How typical of the average CEO. They get credit - and bonuses - for making the "tough" decisions to increase profits, but avoid liability for the immense costs incurred in recovering from those wrong, tough decisions.
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This company should be named and shamed, though.
@AimeeMaroux
If it happens, it'll be all over the news.
TBF, I was probably already boycotting them for being American.
From my observations many (but of course not all) of the reductions have in fact very little to do with AI. It's just a convenient scapegoat, or it comes later, brought by whoever is left and trying to survive with same workload handled by a smaller team. Saying you're successful deploying AI and need less people as a result looks better than admitting overinvestments. Employees also often don't understand market conditions changing and their division numbers no longer adding up when the company as a whole has resources to invest into AI.
This rush to replace workers with a (coming any day now) amazing genAI system feels roughly like basing health care decisions on the assumption that a cure for cancer is coming next year.
It's like the way the Segway completely changed transportation in cities and NFTs forever altered the very concept of intellectual property.
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@mattblaze Can we put AI on the block chain?
@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud @mattblaze the Dark Blockchain already has AI 😉
@mattblaze There's no need to do anything to improve public transport because cars will be driving themselves by 2018.
@mattblaze That description reminds of how (supposedly, wasn't alive back then) the question of waste from nuclear energy was handled where I live: It will be no problem, because we will have figured out soon, how to completely deal with it, like recycle it or make it absolutely safe
In fairnesw, all our energy policies have also been made on claims and assumptions of fusion in the next x years or carbon capture in the next y years. There's always magic in the sales pitch. Just keep burning!
When the wealthy order up mass layoffs to make the 1% even richer...
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The Chris Hohn's of the global economy are obviously ignorant of the consequences of mass unemployment of the educated...
People with time on their hands will do things like support civil rights movements ... or coups that are contagious.
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Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay
Hedge fund owned by Christopher Hohn urges Alphabet to emulate cost-cutting measures of Silicon Valley rivalsMark Sweney (the Guardian)
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Gitlab? They already announced something similar publicly so I guess it’s not them.
"we don't need a union, we're too important" - tech workers
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Heh! I raised the idea of unionisation with my immediate team for the first time yesterday. They were more receptive than I expected. We can all see AI coming for our jobs.
Heh! I raised the idea of unionisation with my immediate team for the first time yesterday. They were more receptive than I expected. We can all see AI coming for our jobs.
Lol, just got laid off today (along with the CEO, CTO, and about a quarter of our company), all so (PE) line go up.
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I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope you got a decent redundancy deal?
I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope you got a decent redundancy deal?
@CppGuy I wish. Private Equity gonna Private Equity...
Folks getting laid off across the industry need to unionize and refuse to be rehired for less than 5x what they were paid before this bs started.
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Is this the goblin mode people were talking about a while ago?
at this point it could be all of them at the same time and it would seem like nothing out of the ordinary
um, naming the company would be doing those staff a favor, not a disservice.
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I see your “largest layoffs in US corporate history” and raise you one "the largest influx of zero-days and data leaks by disgruntled ex employees in US corporate history".
Maybe do name the company so the employees can have some warning.
Just sowing more seeds of a revolution. Wonder how long they will take to germinate.
Wouldn't "the staff don't know they're about to be fed to the line going up" be a reason TO name the company?
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Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
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but I got the ID of all the users that are on my server 😥
@leberschnitzel wdym by that? like gov ids?
@leberschnitzel you should delete that part of the db, storing that kind of sensitive data is extremely dangerous
@jarinks I never said it's stored on a server
@leberschnitzel it’s stored on a shelf. And their gnoggin! Nothing more digitally secure than that!
Yeah, but that's only because you're self-hosting your instance.
Excellent 90s-USENET-style trolling, though.
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@flyingpenguin just copy fingerprints from asshole politicans!
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- Still works today!
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Here's a thread with some arguments I wrote to my own government about the issue (there is also additional resources in the last post of the thread): infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
A thread to Stop ID Surveillance from coming to Canada ⛔️🧵Yesterday, I sent a long letter to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Culture Minister Marc Miller, and the leaders of all other major federal parties in Canada.
I sent this letter to voice my concerns about the upcoming bill that is planned to be introduced today at 5 p.m. ET, to propose a ban of social media for children, therefore requiring all social media platforms to identify every adults accessing it.
This is a long thread of what I wrote (mute me for one hour if you don't want to see it).
Feel free to copy any parts you want to share in your own letter of opposition sent to your representatives this week.
Here's how to find their contact information: ourcommons.ca/members/en/searc…
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@dsmasterson Not if you use a long, complexe, and unique password with a second factor of authentication. Which is something everyone should do for all their accounts.
@DSM
You are offering a practical solution that requires everyone's commitment for change to occur.
I have already posted on Facebook that should that be required, I will not be back, and posted the throwaway email address I used to register as a means for my friends to contact me.
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I quit FB/Meta years ago already.
Never missed it tbh.
Never missed it tbh.
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Those that don't comply will be the minority, and both politicians and companies count on that - they will be eventually coerced into complying by being shut out of vital tasks, and eventually deemed criminals for being unable to comply with legally mandated government paperwork.
@csolisr That's not how things went down on Discord. Why don't you stop demotivational concern trolling when you don't have anything constructive to offer?
Because Discord was one single site with viable alternatives, so the market logic was still able to pressure them. This is an all-out attack on every single website at once, sponsored simultaneously by the government and the companies, and with actual criminal sanctions for non-compliance - boycotting will eventually become legally impossible. The only feasible remedy is to pressure the governments themselves to change the law.
@csolisr it's not "boycotting", it's adding as much friction to the process as possible. And "eventually legally impossible" is not "currently legally impossible".
@dsmasterson Doesn't help when Facebook's support chatbot just resets account credentials for anyone who asks.. 🙃
@DSM
Also checkout our blogpost about age-verification:
eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/le…
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Leeftijdsverificatie, een gevaarlijke schijnoplossing – Eerlijk Digitaal Onderwijs
Leeftijdsverificatie, een gevaarlijke schijnoplossingGeert-Jan (Eerlijk Digitaal Onderwijs)
Is this already happening? I'm not using any social media so no idea...
better yet, just stay off of the socials! Dump Big Tech!
It is not so hard, because there are very few social media. The majority is obscene, unlawful, a-social, vindictive, addictive, harmful and commercial. You can do without and above all, the need for datacenters will drop significantly.
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You're right, but a bunch of dopamine junkies aren't going to wait for their fix no matter how good for them it would be.
I have already walked away from a decades old linkedin account over this, after microsoft claimed there was a "security issue" with it and the only recovery option was to send them photos of ID etc.
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I prefer using mastodon instances run by gay furrries in their basement without age verification.
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I wish there werent enough dumb people that will comply , but they will, and people trying to point out the obvious end state of this will poo pooed yet again
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I'm leaving Discord over their age verification bullshit. It was never a great platform but somehow it's what everyone uses. I have 6 people who are active in the new place, a Discourse forum, and it sucks that there is no good app like Discord has but I'm not uploading my ID anywhere.
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@AimeeMaroux where are people supposed to upload their ID and why exactly? Is this only in the UK/USA or what exactly is the deal here? EU?
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@dckim In the UK, age verification is already mandatory for 18+ servers, yes. Discord wants to introduce it globally.
I really hope that politicians do not expect Mastondon to be able to use facial ID scans or upload other ID.
Mastodon has a very small dev team with no money to pay for ID scans.
Unlike large social media, mastodon instances are usually moderated with clear policies on what is unacceptable practice.
The way things are going in #Canada people might soon need something like a letter from the Pope just to connect to the internet.
The ignorance of politicians is staggering.
man I will literally just dip out on the whole ass internet before handing over ID for that bullshit.
But...but.... they offered me a cookie.
Seriously, I'm sticking with Discord for now. My friends agree, we don't need ID to do what we do. If that changes, we'll drop it.
@Longspeak we're on the same boat, but just to be sure I already prepared a self hosted stoat instance and a steam group (we're all gamers that have steam) that reflect the discord server. So if something happens it's really just an invite.
This is such nonsense
NO; silly nonsense
out of the billion or so people using social media, how many will comply ?
heck, if EVERY single person on mastodon did this, Zuck wouldn't even notice
All the more reason to leave the platforms that request such info.
I like the sentiment, but really, STOP USING greed-powered social media.
As the person running my Mastodon instance, I'm going to require every user of my server to personally identify themselves to me, with the promise that I'll buy them some ice cream after.
Oh wait, it's just me. I'm just buying myself ice cream.
Absolute win! 😆
Just cut-and-pasted this to my Facebook account, which I do still have. Expecting a few confused followers to ask questions, maybe. Ya do what ya can.
interesting read on the topic:
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedi…
This is where we're heading on billionaire driven social media.
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.
I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.THE LOCAL STACK
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The Felicity Station is where the signal, the land, the journey, and the people meet.
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Sadly, most users will do that without thinking about it
when Instagram asked me to scan my whole head I uploaded a meme about trump and Epstein instead. Instantly banned 😂
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Welcome to the Instagram Instaban club! I was banned right after posting my first comment on a friend's post in Threads, no actionable reason given, and my appeals (which included the requested photo) were denied.
(This was before the push for ID laws started being a thing.)
@maggiejk
welcome to the "club"
I self-banned before signing up, when I heard it was owned by Fuckerberg.
@Netzblockierer @jeantranscene @brunus I use my passport card when I am asked for ID in person because it doesn’t have my address on it. The bartender doesn’t need to know where I sleep at night. I actively don’t want him to have that information.
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@jeantranscene @brunus I'd not be surprised if that wa real.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange *Refuse* to ID *ANYWHERE* as a matter of principle! - No exceptions…Netzblockierer (LGBTQIA+ and Tech)
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That's what i tell everybody. You can change a password or a username but you can't change your face or your fingerprints. Once the biometric data gets abused you're screwed and you cannot do anything about it.
So don't.
That's what i tell everybody. You can change a password or a username but you can't change your face or your fingerprints. Once the biometric data gets abused you're screwed and you cannot do anything about it.
So don't.
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I am totally onboard with the idea of letting these accounts go dormant - but because these are dangerous services that steal your data, use it for the worst possible purposes and are becoming centi-billionaires doing it.
If you're upset about the gov, but not even more upset about the techbros, I don't know what to tell you.
@TCatInReality The republicans ( the ideologues not the us party), are a point of weakness in the social organism, they and other ideologues make themselves a keystone, and then all it takes is for them to topple
Refuse to ID ANYWHERE as a matter of principle!
- No exceptions…
@maggiejk @Netzblockierer @jeantranscene @brunus oh that’s good, I never thought I could use a passport card as a privacy tool.
all biometric data you provide including your face ID, finger print, voice sample and even search habbits even on many chinese made smart phones like #xiaomi and #huawei end up sold to data brokers or AI companies, especially chinese companies to be used for advertisement, AI model training and sometimes illicit activities and criminals..... its beyond social media! These companies buy and sell all client data easily
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Learn how Xiaomi collects and uses your data. Understand potential privacy concerns and what it means for your personal information.tsaaro.com
Problem: but what will the tousands of SM addicts do?
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three-factor (multi factor) authentication was taught to me as
1 something you know (password)
2 something you have (fob or authenticator object)
3 something you ARE (fingerprint, Iris scan, heartbeat signature)
#3 can't be changed so of course it's the most dangerous to just hand over
@Brokar @energisch_ Also under US law you can be forced to "provide" your biometrics (in other words, a cop can grab your hand and forcibly scan your fingerprint) but you cannot be forced to provide a password.
Yup.
#Readers know that the #devil needs #permission; once you give it, you're toast.
This is #NancyReagan's #brokenClock moment.
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@dsmasterson this happened to a friend of mine, and the fake account was selling porn. She was so freaked out that her boss at her important job would think she was selling porn she sat down with him to let him know what was happening. He was actually really supportive and told her he wouldn’t judge her if she had an only fans or something. She managed to get the account shut down but only because it literally copied everything off of her Instagram.
The only difference was that they used an uppercase I instead of a lower case L so the username looked exactly the same as hers.
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Real my father told me yesterday about a new social media from sweden? Not sure about the country but it was EU. And when he starts with its need the ID to enter I said instant no.
He means EU is more trustful then US. Yes maybe but this doesn't matter. I dont give a social media site my ID.
He means EU is more trustful then US. Yes maybe but this doesn't matter. I dont give a social media site my ID.
@fennek Indeed, more on this here: mastodon.social/@_elena/116764…
#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected!
My full article - with a great analysis by @aral:
🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech
And everyone using #whatsapp just stop using it! (after carefully deciding in unison what to use instead).
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still thinking about the time my brother made my food-allergic nephew a birthday dino-cake out of watermelon. 10/10 no notes.
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still thinking about the time my brother made my food-allergic nephew a birthday dino-cake out of watermelon. 10/10 no notes.
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Gorgeous! It’s Art. A very talented brother you have there. 😀
Well done!
Awesomeness over 9000!
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Beautiful capture.
They're coming! The hummingbirds are coming!
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"Litter pickers walking past the patron saint of litter pickers, international tidyman." - Beach art by Fred Brown on Scarborough Beach, UK.
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"Litter pickers walking past the patron saint of litter pickers, international tidyman." - Beach art by Fred Brown on Scarborough Beach, UK.
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@trending_bot but also: DONUTS! 🥰
North Bay is looking good
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The internet is still full of wacky, weird, fun stuff. Your stuff still has a home. People want to see it.
Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.
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I wonder how many people stopped self-hosting their own websites due to ISPs using CGNAT?
It sure broke mine around 2020. I didn't even know that was a thing until ~last year. I just thought I forgot how to properly port forward.
It's the prospect of what I do feeding the slop machines that puts me off these days, sadly
I already know the whole story, and might not be aware of areas that may confuse readers. I need you, out there, to let me know.
100% human written
The fact that StumbleUpon is back tells me that folks really are interested in seeing the earnest, weird, funny, beautiful, personal stuff that other humans have made.
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It's much harder to find gold in all that noise. Doug Adams:
"In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another because sound travels such huge distances underwater. But now, again because of the way in which sound travels, there is no part of the ocean that is not constantly jangling with the hubbub of ships’ motors, through which it is now virtually impossible for the whales to hear each other’s songs or messages." (1/x)
"So fucking what, is pretty much the way that people tend to view this problem, and understandably so, thought Dirk. After all, who wants to hear a bunch of fat fish, oh all right, mammals, burping at each other?
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of infinite loss and sadness that somewhere amongst the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods". (2/2)
We are being engulfed in LLM trash.
@kbeninato Would like to plug this post in support of the above.
terrygodier.com/the-boring-int…
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.Terry Godier
I miss the time when folks had a "my fav links" on their site, the ad hoc pages cobbled together via some geosites interface or an app your friend had. But most of all I miss humans randomly finding your site and just saying: "Hi".
I’ve got a few things like that, and I’ve seen quite a few others who have similar pages. Like… I have a blogroll (shellsharks.com/blogroll), a bookmarks/links page (shellsharks.com/bookmarks), and a li’l weekly link dump publication (shellsharks.com/scrolls/) that anyone can peruse and click around on!
it's so hard to find stuff these days though 
Depends what you’re looking for I guess. There are a bunch of IndieWeb exploration engines/tools/resources you could check out if you just wanted to go on a little adventure —> shellsharks.com/indieweb#explo…. I also have a little link dump “newsletter”-kinda thingy you can check out which links to all sorts of neat things I find each week 🤗 shellsharks.com/scrolls/
IndieWeb Assimilation
An introduction to the IndieWeb, with a lot of bonus resources. Includes lists of interesting webrings, IndieWeb search engines, slash page directories, hosting platforms, and an assortment of other delightful things from across the human web.shellsharks
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#art #artist #handcrafted #creativity #junkjournal #junkjournalideas #junkjournalcommunity #artandcrafts #creative #creativeart #nature #wildlife #flowers #butterflies
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#art #artist #handcrafted #creativity #junkjournal #junkjournalideas #junkjournalcommunity #artandcrafts #creative #creativeart #nature #wildlife #flowers #butterflies
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following! I need more positive fluffdragons in my fediverse. Also, I’m always happy to share pet pics (and see them too). My wife and I foster with the local humane society, so we usually have many furry friends to share.
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Time for an updated #introduction!
Hey there friend, I'm Bwee! I'm your local genuine positivity-spreading fluffdragon.
🩵 I'm #Nonbinary #Trans and use they/them pronouns.
🩵 I live in QC, Canada with my husband @WahFo.
🩵 I am #polyamorous and am in three long term relationships, though I have others whom I say "I love you" to on a regular basis.
🩵 I am an immigrant to Canada (from the US) and do not speak French.
🩵 Art of my fluffdragon self can be found at saybwee.carrd.co !
🩵 I'm a #furry, and a #dragon #therian !
🩵 I was born in 1983 and am in my early 40's.
🩵 I absolutely love animals. Please send me all your pet photos, I will love you FOREVER.
🩵 I am very affectionate in roleplay posts, but will always ask consent before expressing it unless I know you well and I know for a fact that it's okay to hug, kiss and cuddle you.
My main goal here is to spread genuine, loving, compassionate positivity and to help bring a little light to my friends' timelines with silly antics and heartfelt words.
I adore you! Thank you for considering following me! You make me so happy, just by being you. :3
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@Beckydog Precious cutie ;..; Thank you for showing me!!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
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and you're highly cute
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@Hearth >..> Takes a cutie to know a cutie, cutie. 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
welcome on fedi, Bwee /j
@shift Hehehe why thank you ;D 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
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following! I need more positive fluffdragons in my fediverse. Also, I’m always happy to share pet pics (and see them too). My wife and I foster with the local humane society, so we usually have many furry friends to share.
These aren't pets strictly, they're backyard wildlife, but I love seeing bunnies hop around and carry on.
These four pics of a younger bunny in some what was at the time slightly overgrown grass in front of some irises are particularly cute, though.
All four of these were shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it, and all four had a Polaroid SX-70 sim applied to them in post.
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Daaawww those are great pictures! 😍
Love seeing rabbits in the wild, doesn't happen often but it's always a good day when it happens
Daaawww those are great pictures! 😍
Love seeing rabbits in the wild, doesn't happen often but it's always a good day when it happens
Thanks! And yeah, same here. Also, I'm into traditional art, with my fave subjects being Pokemon fanart or rodent and bunny art, although I have also dabbled in Hamtaro fanart in the past and most recently Sonic fanart.
My fave drawing media currently are crayons, oil pastels, and chalk, although markers and water-based paints such as watercolors or acrylics are really fun too. I don't plan on getting into oil paints based on the fumy solvents alone.
(had to narrow this down to four examples because of Mastodon's image limit, which, yeah, I'm on Mastodon, and Pixelfed too, for that matter, but I find myself spending more time on Friendica)
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Hehehe adorable arts! Thanks for sharing with us 😊
Hehehe adorable arts! Thanks for sharing with us 😊
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#ScribesAndMakers June 9: “If you had a chance to ask an author or artist (living or deceased) one question, what would it be?”
In my case, it would be, say, Eric Carle and I'd ask..
Mind if I try making some painted-paper cutout art? Because that looks really fun, plus it's an adorable art style to boot.
We'd probably actually have a pretty good time creating together in that scenario.
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I'm not alone in thinking it would be nice if System76 entered the enthusiast hardware market and sold Coreboot-powered alternatives to mainstream mainboards, am I?
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Some cute bunny shots from my back yard.
A bunny showed up in the yard earlier and I got some cute shots of it.
These were all shot through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 70-210mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
#cute #cuteanimals #bunny #bunnies #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses
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in reply to FadingScholar • •Thanks! And yeah, this is hand-drawn for real, I prefer using real materials because of the sensory feedback which you just don't get when pushing pixels on a screen. My preference for traditional over digital is very much a sensory thing.
Especially with 3D art too, actually squishing a sculpting material such as modeling clay around is way more fun than pushing dots in your preferred 3D modeling software.