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these bots are not only annoying and harmful (if you fell for their lies and gave them money, an access to your personal informations), they’re also keeping artists and art from genuine audiences and destroying the community artists built with their audiences.

this is a post to say fuck you every bot out there.

WITH EVERY REBLOG THIS POST GETS, A BOT WILL DIE

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

"Hey so, your hormone issues will make you too manly and we want you to be comfy and feminine and happy with being GIRLY ENOUGH, (it'smandatoryforyoubcwedecideditisshushdon'tworryaboutthat) so here have some hormone pills. *throwing packets* Lifetime supply. Just because you need it. Gotta make sure you don't ever feel the slightest gender dysphoria!!"

HOW IS THAT FAIR OR JUST?? You'll toss the stuff at ME but my SISTERS AND SIBLINGS can't have it because *checks notes*

So many cis people who's imaginations seemingly can't encapsulate the horror of a trans kid experiencing gender dysphoria as they're forced to go through the wrong puberty suddenly find it comprehensible when the focus is a cis kid.

Puberty blockers were originally used to address precocious puberty, especially the distress and disruption it causes for the child. A cis girl has her first period at age 7, it's easy to understand why she won't feel ready for that, and that she'll feel alienated and out of step with her peers who are still years away from starting puberty.

The idea of taking puberty blockers until she feels ready, until it won't be a distressing experience. That makes sense to cis people.

But using the same medication to manage distress for a trans kid who doesn't feel ready for puberty, so they can have a few more years to figure things out... that's incomprehensible apparently. *

Similarly, a teenage cis girl with a hormone imbalance starts growing a beard and having her voice start breaking, the idea of putting her on androgen blockers is treated as obvious. The psychological distress of girl developing 'male' secondary sex characteristics is entirely understood in that case... THATS GENDER DYSPHORIA. But when it's in a trans kid it's treated as this dangerous idea.

I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.

AI, isn’t art.

There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.

Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.

Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.

Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.

Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.

Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.

hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.

my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.

Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.

What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.

Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.

No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.

'Big Self Portrait', (1967-68)

In 1988, Close experienced a spinal stroke that affected the use of his hands, and he adapted by strapping a brush to a wrist brace.

‘Self Portrait’ (1997)

Here is an interview with Chuck Close from 2011 about the relationship between his art and his disabilities.

It can only make images.

a business will let every person in it die a terrible death if it makes the business profit. A household will spend it’s last dollar to keep the people in it safe and healthy.

A household will use money as a resource to add value to the lives of the people in the household. A business will use people as a resource to add monetary value to the business

They had training in type setting, could churn things out quickly, knew how to organise mailing lists, and had easy access to Expensive High Tech like photocopiers.

You checked out... probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :)

Used our wifi maybe? For something?

Look we actually don't know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer.

We don't want to know.

Our gift to you is privacy.

Take it.