Kiku ❤️
@mistressofroses.bsky.social
thank you for thinking of me. Tired and overwhelmed fujoshi. 成人済! Same @ on Storygraph! One of many jp->en translators you don't know because they don't want you to. Proud Luddite and supporter of creatives always. Setzer ff6 is the best character idc
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Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Jack Dorsey is real close to Musk.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
DiVine is made by RabbleLabs, on their site you will find a widget called "And Other Things" that takes you to another domain and explains a lot of stuff about their/Nostr's Ai.
Most likely they just want a free dataset of tons of actual videos to train on.
Exactly this. That person had to be brave enough, vulnerable enough, HUMAN ENOUGH to want community. To have faith the people would rally around them and be kind and helpful and more POWERFUL together than the artist could be alone. If that's not the spirit of democracy I don't know what is.
The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Exactly this. That person had to be brave enough, vulnerable enough, HUMAN ENOUGH to want community. To have faith the people would rally around them and be kind and helpful and more POWERFUL together than the artist could be alone. If that's not the spirit of democracy I don't know what is.
LRT: There is no worse feeling than when something I used to love slops out. I have learned everything I know about LLMs against my will, but now Certain Things in translation Happening Together Too Often makes my brain enraged and sad
But when Art does happen these days it's like a hit of coke, so
But when Art does happen these days it's like a hit of coke, so
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
LRT: There is no worse feeling than when something I used to love slops out. I have learned everything I know about LLMs against my will, but now Certain Things in translation Happening Together Too Often makes my brain enraged and sad
But when Art does happen these days it's like a hit of coke, so
But when Art does happen these days it's like a hit of coke, so
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"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed"
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
Why am I so against generative AI in games?
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed"
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
This.
This right here.
I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.
Pooh so cute a friend sees it and immediately sends you money to buy him
I've been going through it but I am so loved
I've been going through it but I am so loved
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Pooh so cute a friend sees it and immediately sends you money to buy him
I've been going through it but I am so loved
I've been going through it but I am so loved
I laughed out loud at my desk which is very hard to make me do
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I laughed out loud at my desk which is very hard to make me do
Was going through my cabinet and found a partial bottle of Incanto Shine (iykyk) and realized a) man, I really was young once and b) I really need to get myself some Nature Insolente for Christmas because I miss wearing real perfume and not Lush Rose Jam from 2016
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Was going through my cabinet and found a partial bottle of Incanto Shine (iykyk) and realized a) man, I really was young once and b) I really need to get myself some Nature Insolente for Christmas because I miss wearing real perfume and not Lush Rose Jam from 2016
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hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
hey, seattle, here's a bookstore to avoid
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
(as nicole says, don't harass them! but I would add: also don't give them your money)
When I first came to Japan the Suica penguin (like the guy in the suit) was in my train station. Not only was he so short that he had to hug me around the waist the penguin head was INCREDIBLY soft to the point that I have never forgotten how it felt
「Suicaのペンギン」2026年度末をもって“卒業”へ。Suica誕生25周年を機に、新たなイメージキャラクターへバトンタッチ。作者の坂崎千春氏も感謝のコメント
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511112m
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2511112m
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
When I first came to Japan the Suica penguin (like the guy in the suit) was in my train station. Not only was he so short that he had to hug me around the waist the penguin head was INCREDIBLY soft to the point that I have never forgotten how it felt
I remember when I used to drag myself to work and school with any number of horrible maladies and wonder what happened now that a little cold has me calling in and praying to dayquil until I remember that I used to be able to enjoy what I did and take pride in things when they were hard
Womp wooomp
Womp wooomp
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I remember when I used to drag myself to work and school with any number of horrible maladies and wonder what happened now that a little cold has me calling in and praying to dayquil until I remember that I used to be able to enjoy what I did and take pride in things when they were hard
Womp wooomp
Womp wooomp
BABEL. I'm a translator, and it really made me think a lot about if my intentions are as good as I think they are, where my responsibilities to the original artists lie, and made me lose a lot of respect for contemporaries who think it's their place to alter material for "sensibilities" of readers.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
BABEL. I'm a translator, and it really made me think a lot about if my intentions are as good as I think they are, where my responsibilities to the original artists lie, and made me lose a lot of respect for contemporaries who think it's their place to alter material for "sensibilities" of readers.
If a disgusting member of the public/my job gave me a cold I swear to God I am gonna
immediately use that excuse to not Do tomorrow, really
immediately use that excuse to not Do tomorrow, really
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
If a disgusting member of the public/my job gave me a cold I swear to God I am gonna
immediately use that excuse to not Do tomorrow, really
immediately use that excuse to not Do tomorrow, really
Funny that when women were bringing reading/pub in vogue it was "but the books they're reading are stupid" and yet it's not that men are reading grifter "self help" that is worse than pulp romantasy because it tells you it's real, oh it's "performative" because it's a "female" hobby is it? Christ.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Funny that when women were bringing reading/pub in vogue it was "but the books they're reading are stupid" and yet it's not that men are reading grifter "self help" that is worse than pulp romantasy because it tells you it's real, oh it's "performative" because it's a "female" hobby is it? Christ.
I can't begin to tell you how much of my fledgling adult-on-the-internet years were all of us sending the day's Oglaf to each other
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I can't begin to tell you how much of my fledgling adult-on-the-internet years were all of us sending the day's Oglaf to each other
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just re-read this essay. stay for the third act.
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
just re-read this essay. stay for the third act.
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Artwork for the game Secret of Mana by Hiro Isono, 1993
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Artwork for the game Secret of Mana by Hiro Isono, 1993
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
Living here and being surrounded by AI IS THE FUTURE! AI DO EVERYTHING NOW (i mean yeah people still need to do stuff but) OMG AYYYEYEEE! because bad news about AI in Japanese is rare this is so healing
"Because humans can use our heads, hearts, and physical bodies in consideration profound."
"Because humans can use our heads, hearts, and physical bodies in consideration profound."
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Living here and being surrounded by AI IS THE FUTURE! AI DO EVERYTHING NOW (i mean yeah people still need to do stuff but) OMG AYYYEYEEE! because bad news about AI in Japanese is rare this is so healing
"Because humans can use our heads, hearts, and physical bodies in consideration profound."
"Because humans can use our heads, hearts, and physical bodies in consideration profound."
Just because something gets translated/licensed doesn't mean that it won some meritocracy vote against everything made in Japan ever. US companies license the Japanese equivalent of pulp romantasy or endless shonen/seinen but when it is what it is just in English it's the translator doing a bad job?
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Just because something gets translated/licensed doesn't mean that it won some meritocracy vote against everything made in Japan ever. US companies license the Japanese equivalent of pulp romantasy or endless shonen/seinen but when it is what it is just in English it's the translator doing a bad job?
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The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era.
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
Jessica Rabbit (Amy Irving) performing "Why Don't Ya Do Right?" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era.
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…
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No nut november is just a lack of pecans to them
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
No nut november is just a lack of pecans to them
Sanseito are outside my train station right now and man part of me really wanted to say that for being all JAPAN FIRST your signs have a lot of romaji and waseigo on them but unlike these people I had places to be
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Sanseito are outside my train station right now and man part of me really wanted to say that for being all JAPAN FIRST your signs have a lot of romaji and waseigo on them but unlike these people I had places to be
Holy shit I forgot how good I am at making chicken soup (probably because I always made it for sick friends and never for myself since moving here but man)!
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Holy shit I forgot how good I am at making chicken soup (probably because I always made it for sick friends and never for myself since moving here but man)!
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Low Poly Cloud for Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Low Poly Cloud for Halloween.