ames
@astrobleme.bsky.social
Queer Canadian artist and nerd (she/her). Chronically online since 96. Living on unceded Anishinaabeg territory. Obsessed with local plants, animals, rocks, etc. Always trans positive.
new art! 🥰
just finished this one! "crepuscular ray", #digitalpainting in Photoshop. #artistsofbluesky #fantasyart #creepyart
May 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
new art! 🥰
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Proposal: When discussing automation, replace the notional always-on, maintenance-free robot helper you're imagining with the average real-world printer you've encountered.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
The more expensive and complex the printer, the more potential issues and "having a printer guy".
A much better baseline.
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volunteering my free time by gently telling people this in reddit comment threads
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
May 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
volunteering my free time by gently telling people this in reddit comment threads
video call cultures are emerging! Today I spoke with a teen volunteer at my work and they didn't turn their camera on, even though I had mine on. Work camera culture vs student camera culture - at work we usually do reciprocal camera, but students are used to camera off but watching the teacher.
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
video call cultures are emerging! Today I spoke with a teen volunteer at my work and they didn't turn their camera on, even though I had mine on. Work camera culture vs student camera culture - at work we usually do reciprocal camera, but students are used to camera off but watching the teacher.
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Modern "tech" is full of dudes who watched the Instagram/Paypal/iPhone/etc. boats sail without them and make their inventors/investors disgustingly wealthy, and refuse to believe there's no one, final ship, just for them.
When was the last time they invented something worthwhile? The smartphone? The iPad? It’s been scams all the way down for at least a decade.
April 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Modern "tech" is full of dudes who watched the Instagram/Paypal/iPhone/etc. boats sail without them and make their inventors/investors disgustingly wealthy, and refuse to believe there's no one, final ship, just for them.
Carleton you beautiful riding! you did it!
April 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Carleton you beautiful riding! you did it!
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Hey good morning i wanna just have a quik chat with the other cisgendered people in the room: Ok, ok reminder- do not make it about you if you fuck up pronouns. A big spiel about you and your efforts and your trying isnt a thing anyone wants. It makes it weird. Apologize, correct, move on. Easy.
April 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hey good morning i wanna just have a quik chat with the other cisgendered people in the room: Ok, ok reminder- do not make it about you if you fuck up pronouns. A big spiel about you and your efforts and your trying isnt a thing anyone wants. It makes it weird. Apologize, correct, move on. Easy.
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No mater what the poll predictions say, you still need to vote to make things happen.
Go do the thing, Canucks 🍁
Go do the thing, Canucks 🍁
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
No mater what the poll predictions say, you still need to vote to make things happen.
Go do the thing, Canucks 🍁
Go do the thing, Canucks 🍁
We must stand up for the rights of trans people in Canada. As the world enters a dark time for trans folk, we can push Canada to be a safe haven - but only if we vote.
Vote today, like you care for your queer and trans loved ones.
The attack in the Conservative Party platform on trans folks should worry all of us. Think carefully before you vote, and check out the @momentumcanada.net Drag the Vote campaign for an analysis of how all of the federal parties stack up when it comes to 2SLGBTQ+ rights.
April 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We must stand up for the rights of trans people in Canada. As the world enters a dark time for trans folk, we can push Canada to be a safe haven - but only if we vote.
too real
A thing about neurodivergence and masking is that eventually you realise that a. masking doesn't necessarily mean masking as "normal"; and b. being able to dictate *exactly what kind of weirdo people think you are* is often much more valuable. It's like, ha ha, fuckers, now I control the narrative.
April 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
too real
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I just received this! Loved this story so much - it's awesome to have it in print.
April 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I just received this! Loved this story so much - it's awesome to have it in print.
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Another great animation of my comic by @robin.animates (on ig) - I love thinking that this little fish is out there somewhere #kneesinmotion
April 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Another great animation of my comic by @robin.animates (on ig) - I love thinking that this little fish is out there somewhere #kneesinmotion
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JKR believes that the success of her books & adaptations are a direct endorsement of her views. In this case you cannot separate the art from the artist.
Don't watch the new show, don't buy the games, don't promote them in any way.
www.salon.com/2025/04/22/t...
Don't watch the new show, don't buy the games, don't promote them in any way.
www.salon.com/2025/04/22/t...
The success of J.K. Rowling's transphobic fight depends on the future of "Harry Potter"
Rowling's divisive opinions make it increasingly difficult for fans to separate the art from the artist.
www.salon.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
JKR believes that the success of her books & adaptations are a direct endorsement of her views. In this case you cannot separate the art from the artist.
Don't watch the new show, don't buy the games, don't promote them in any way.
www.salon.com/2025/04/22/t...
Don't watch the new show, don't buy the games, don't promote them in any way.
www.salon.com/2025/04/22/t...
After a conversation with my brother the other day, I can't stop thinking of current ai-gen images as Corporate Memphis with added environmental damage. Generic, easy to make, boring... but now with more energy costs.
April 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
After a conversation with my brother the other day, I can't stop thinking of current ai-gen images as Corporate Memphis with added environmental damage. Generic, easy to make, boring... but now with more energy costs.
Like... look, machine vision is a cool field with excellent applications. And I get that part of teaching machines to "see" includes getting them to make images. But the corporations selling you ai art generators are just in their loss leader phase. 1/2
April 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Like... look, machine vision is a cool field with excellent applications. And I get that part of teaching machines to "see" includes getting them to make images. But the corporations selling you ai art generators are just in their loss leader phase. 1/2
I hear people say "it won't be so energy hungry in future" and while that may well be true, 1. it's that energy hungry NOW, and 2. it's still trained on stolen work.
Another reminder that a single AI image produces the same amount of CO2 as driving 4 miles, and AI "art" steals from real artists.
Tell your friends. AI memes are dogshit and terrible for the environment.
Tell your friends. AI memes are dogshit and terrible for the environment.
April 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I hear people say "it won't be so energy hungry in future" and while that may well be true, 1. it's that energy hungry NOW, and 2. it's still trained on stolen work.
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So many people that even The Guardian had to admit that it happened
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So many people that even The Guardian had to admit that it happened
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Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
As someone who grew up online in the 90s and 00s, I was nebulously exposed to the idea as a teen. It never made sense to me to discriminate against trans folk. I still had a lot of learning and unlearning to do, but trans rights have been a core issue for most of my life.
I'd heard about transness a few times, but never really thought about it until a friend came out to me. She only came out because I was so candid about my disabilities, and she was *so scared* of how I'd respond. It all became real very fast. She deserved better than how others had treated her.
cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
April 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
As someone who grew up online in the 90s and 00s, I was nebulously exposed to the idea as a teen. It never made sense to me to discriminate against trans folk. I still had a lot of learning and unlearning to do, but trans rights have been a core issue for most of my life.
I voted! I hope you vote too.
April 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I voted! I hope you vote too.
😊
April 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
😊
In light of current events, it's worth saying again: trans women are women. Trans women do not threaten womanhood.
April 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In light of current events, it's worth saying again: trans women are women. Trans women do not threaten womanhood.