Halcyon Hyena

love that for 100 years people have looked at these beasts and thought “heehee what if the big one wore the little one like a hat”

Contemporary art haters will be like "i don't get it" and then not read the title or artist statement or the medium or the year or

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

If you’re having a bad day, just remember that someone somewhere is seeing Safety Tips From Anubis for the very first time.

That person is me

Write that one-shot. Those 3 chapters will be the best 10 chapters you ever wrote

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

How the fuck are people on this website genuinely getting to the point of saying infidelity is not a form of emotional abuse? Go outside you fucking weirdos

Like half the users on this site are just fishing for excuses to treat people however the fuck they want, regardless of how much suffering that inflicts

Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

this glib summary makes it sound like this is obvious. but the rise of the far right in recent years is in significant part due to the failure of hte mainstream reformist left to understand this rudimentary point of politics and choosing to retreat on the welfare state, on immigration, on trans rights, therefore leaving the agenda to be set by the far right. so actually it's kind of like sun tzu writing about how you need to make sure to pack food for your army. someone needs to write down the basics

doesn't help ofc when you have people arguing publicly that persuading people isn't what politics is for and the only role of politics is to passively absorb public opinion