"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"

My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

Fred Rodgers on the importance of making something even if other people don't think it's good had me crying this morning. Passing it along for anyone else that might need it.

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

1/10

Honestly, everyone, please read this. Especially if you are an adult creator - you NEED your own website to host your work, don't rely on third-party platforms because you can never guarantee they won't kick you off.

Here’s a quick email I tapped out on my phone making a request under Article 15 GDPR for information on my data from that HuggingFace data scrape of BlueSky posts to train AI.

You can copy and personalise it as the basis of one for you from the Alt Text in the image

send to privacy@huggingface.co

I've been kinda sorta really bogged down by being back in full swing with my professional life but wanted to pop in and share this tiny baby I pulled out of my car's engine bay a few days ago. Named him Boxer because he was under a Subaru's hood

I have precious little joy to share these days but I do have one big piece: I'm being converted from a temp to a full-fledged associate at my job in apparently a record amount of time. I'm very proud

“i’m here for porn not politics”
tough luck buddy, your porn, and the artists that create it, are affected by politics

and so are you

Also, new folks, please know that when it comes to trolls, jerks, chuds and other undesirables here in the sky, we subscribe to the idea of “Don’t Engage, Just Block.” The block function is superpowered and expunges them entirely from your timeline. They hate it! Block with wild abandon! Don’t wait!

I just had the phrase "anointed by cum" roll through my head

This old man has my whole heart

New audio for all Tiers on P✦treon! 😘 It's also my first audio commission—an F4MF threesome where I am *super* encouraging 🤭

Listen to it here ⋆⁺₊ tinyurl.com/ybtrd6dh

A new account needs to be properly christened