BlaCkreed
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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Btw, did you know the internet is full of very good research tools?
For example, here's a really good online museum collection to use as reference:
For example, here's a really good online museum collection to use as reference:
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Btw, did you know the internet is full of very good research tools?
For example, here's a really good online museum collection to use as reference:
For example, here's a really good online museum collection to use as reference:
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Praying every day for something to poison databases so bad that all these structures and frameworks built around chatGPT and genAI instantly implode
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Praying every day for something to poison databases so bad that all these structures and frameworks built around chatGPT and genAI instantly implode
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If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
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Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
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just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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Welp, time to drop Firefox. What a bummer....
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Welp, time to drop Firefox. What a bummer....
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Giving myself the gift of Deadpool this birthday
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Giving myself the gift of Deadpool this birthday
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my radical gender ideology is 1) mind your business and 2) leave me alone lol
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
my radical gender ideology is 1) mind your business and 2) leave me alone lol
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For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
There's no hard data, so it's impossible to know for sure, but I suspect the number of adult children cutting off their parents isn't significantly higher than it used to be, and what's actually new is that the children are now explaining it in therapy terms rather than simply ceasing contact.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
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I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption
the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption
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Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.
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Episode 2 of The Listening Club, a game of #TheMagnusArchivesRPG, is now available for our early access Kickstarter backers and paid members.
Listen now at:
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December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Episode 2 of The Listening Club, a game of #TheMagnusArchivesRPG, is now available for our early access Kickstarter backers and paid members.
Listen now at:
🪶 https://members.rustyquill.com
🪶 https://www.patreon.com/rustyquill
Listen now at:
🪶 https://members.rustyquill.com
🪶 https://www.patreon.com/rustyquill
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Eoghan VS The Monsterfuck Meme
✨ a brave man that won't say no to a challenge ✨ #teratophilia #nsfwart #monsterfuckmeme
✨ a brave man that won't say no to a challenge ✨ #teratophilia #nsfwart #monsterfuckmeme
December 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Eoghan VS The Monsterfuck Meme
✨ a brave man that won't say no to a challenge ✨ #teratophilia #nsfwart #monsterfuckmeme
✨ a brave man that won't say no to a challenge ✨ #teratophilia #nsfwart #monsterfuckmeme
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Sometimes we need to surround our selves with soft and sweet things. Here is a thread for you.
I don't have any news to counteract the terrible news of the last few days, so here is a thread of cute animals eating things, with most with crunchy cromchy sounds.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sometimes we need to surround our selves with soft and sweet things. Here is a thread for you.
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🇺🇸: use badinternetbills.com to call your representatives THIS WEEK (starting Dec 15)! use the script on their website. it took me a little less than 15 minutes!
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🇺🇸: use badinternetbills.com to call your representatives THIS WEEK (starting Dec 15)! use the script on their website. it took me a little less than 15 minutes!
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December 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
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December 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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The only correct advice ever
July 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The only correct advice ever