figgie 🐸
@figgiebean.bsky.social
Perpetually visiting the land of imagination.
Sidekick streamer.
https://linktr.ee/figgiebean
PFP-dark blueish grey face above a thin neck with light blue swirly eyes above a jagged smile.
Banner-queerchild embroidered on a hat.
Sidekick streamer.
https://linktr.ee/figgiebean
PFP-dark blueish grey face above a thin neck with light blue swirly eyes above a jagged smile.
Banner-queerchild embroidered on a hat.
*groans*
bsky.app/profile/euro...
bsky.app/profile/euro...
Sony has patented an AI gaming ghost that will play PlayStation games for you when you get stuck www.eurogamer.net/sony-has-pat...
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
*groans*
bsky.app/profile/euro...
bsky.app/profile/euro...
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/1945258/indie-game-awards-disqualifies-clair-obscur-over-genai-usage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage
"Perhaps no group of fans, industry workers, and consumers is more intense about AI use than gamers...." writes New York magazine's "Intelligencer" column:
Just this month, the latest Postal game was axed by its publisher, which was "overwhelmed with negative responses"
from the "concerned Postal...
games.slashdot.org
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies 'Clair Obscur' Over GenAI Usage
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/21/1945258/indie-game-awards-disqualifies-clair-obscur-over-genai-usage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Rumor has it...there may be an ill-conceived 2beans stream in a few days as cue and I put together something we ordered for the fur kids. 📦
We've not yet settled on when, so if you're interested, please stay tuned. 🪛
We've not yet settled on when, so if you're interested, please stay tuned. 🪛
December 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Rumor has it...there may be an ill-conceived 2beans stream in a few days as cue and I put together something we ordered for the fur kids. 📦
We've not yet settled on when, so if you're interested, please stay tuned. 🪛
We've not yet settled on when, so if you're interested, please stay tuned. 🪛
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I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
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Organizers with students engaged in advancing Texas (SEAT) are suing Texas over the new App Store Accountability law that pushes age verification and now they’ve made a game that shows how school filtering is impacting content.
The kids are alright ✨Check it out!
www.access-denied.org
The kids are alright ✨Check it out!
www.access-denied.org
Edgelands Game
www.access-denied.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Organizers with students engaged in advancing Texas (SEAT) are suing Texas over the new App Store Accountability law that pushes age verification and now they’ve made a game that shows how school filtering is impacting content.
The kids are alright ✨Check it out!
www.access-denied.org
The kids are alright ✨Check it out!
www.access-denied.org
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...then fucking perish.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
...then fucking perish.
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
Five minutes?
*wanders out to put the kettle on*
*wanders out to put the kettle on*
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Five minutes?
*wanders out to put the kettle on*
*wanders out to put the kettle on*
I just checked, and the Yule Festival in LOTRO seems to be live with this week's update.
Feel free to hang out with us tomorrow as we head to Thorin's Hall Inn to help diggy diggy snow to send to places that lack it and chippy chippy ice for frozen treats.
lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Yule_Fe...
Feel free to hang out with us tomorrow as we head to Thorin's Hall Inn to help diggy diggy snow to send to places that lack it and chippy chippy ice for frozen treats.
lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Yule_Fe...
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I just checked, and the Yule Festival in LOTRO seems to be live with this week's update.
Feel free to hang out with us tomorrow as we head to Thorin's Hall Inn to help diggy diggy snow to send to places that lack it and chippy chippy ice for frozen treats.
lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Yule_Fe...
Feel free to hang out with us tomorrow as we head to Thorin's Hall Inn to help diggy diggy snow to send to places that lack it and chippy chippy ice for frozen treats.
lotro-wiki.com/wiki/Yule_Fe...
Someone is napping right now, and I cannot for the life of me find the desire to wake them despite knowing we talked about streaming this eve in roughly an hour and a half.
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
December 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Someone is napping right now, and I cannot for the life of me find the desire to wake them despite knowing we talked about streaming this eve in roughly an hour and a half.
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
Decisions...decisions...decisions...making decisions were never part of my sidekick expectations.🤭
We dropped by @mortisvt.bsky.social's stream. Their friend SheGhoull has a 'Toys For Tots" type of fundraiser, named "Ghouls For Kindness". If you'd like to donate directly, or simply share this link below around. it'd be much appreciated. Thank you! Here's the link: tilt.fyi/U9C3XjcLUi
bsky.app
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We dropped by @mortisvt.bsky.social's stream. Their friend SheGhoull has a 'Toys For Tots" type of fundraiser, named "Ghouls For Kindness". If you'd like to donate directly, or simply share this link below around. it'd be much appreciated. Thank you! Here's the link: tilt.fyi/U9C3XjcLUi
Psst...
we'll start streaming soon.
we'll start streaming soon.
Figgie and I are gettting some dinner, then stream after at around 7:30pm
Everyone needs a break from all the horrific things happening. So I present the very first Two Beans and a Doom Scroll Break - So Join us, come hang out, have a few laughs before getting back to your regular doom scrolling
Everyone needs a break from all the horrific things happening. So I present the very first Two Beans and a Doom Scroll Break - So Join us, come hang out, have a few laughs before getting back to your regular doom scrolling
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Psst...
we'll start streaming soon.
we'll start streaming soon.
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Its my birthday!!! As is bsky tradition, I would be so appreciative if people would share some of my art to help celebrate!! 🥳🎉
October 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Its my birthday!!! As is bsky tradition, I would be so appreciative if people would share some of my art to help celebrate!! 🥳🎉
Thanks to everyone that stopped by our very unplanned stream today.
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thanks to everyone that stopped by our very unplanned stream today.
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
I hope the Fleeting Figments experiment has some nice results in the future.
Time will tell!
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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I'm thinking someone needs to make an old fashioned phpbbs type forum and we all go back to that lol
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I'm thinking someone needs to make an old fashioned phpbbs type forum and we all go back to that lol
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I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.
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To artistic freedom: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems defector.com/to-artistic-...
To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems | Defector
People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to recognize that it’s from The Simpsons. When I do recognize the quote,…
defector.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
To artistic freedom: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems defector.com/to-artistic-...
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With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:
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I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
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lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
September 2, 2024 at 12:02 AM
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider :
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No.
*but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no.
*but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no.
maybe you're not being negative *enough*
Yay! Technical difficulties! They win again! 😅
July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yay! Technical difficulties! They win again! 😅
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A good way to help fight this would be to email the relevant people at Valve, and to use Steam support as well, to voice your concerns.
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A good way to help fight this would be to email the relevant people at Valve, and to use Steam support as well, to voice your concerns.
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
www.valvesoftware.com/en/people
help.steampowered.com/en/
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Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs