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Western spotted orbweaver with her little snackie, a red harvester ant (coworker fed her the ant) at an old jobsite. Pics by me. Proud of them. Ok spooder out of the way, y'all is anyone planning alternatives to traditional social media? Or are there plans to make bsky more robust? (Cont.)

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And not begin to lose access to eachother is important and paywalled platforms like patreon are great, but cause a roadblock for many and without standard sm, also keeps people from finding them. Same for substack on that last note. Idk. Just a rant ig, world is scary and I'm tired.

#spider #photogrophy #discussion I always forget tags.

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Youtube looking to push independant creators out in favor of "approved" sources, obviously the buying of tiktok, and the forcing meta users to share their likeness and work with AI unless they go private, along with the use of sm like reddit and x to attempt prosecution of users

I know there are alternatives, like this, substack, and patreon, but idk I feel like we should all start pushing creators to shift to something NOT billionare owned to keep our independant media indepemdant, and our human voices and art out loud and on top

I'm not huge on sm, I'd like to do a lot more and have projects in the works, but seeing the degredation of our privacy, access to information, and forcing of AI ontop of everything else going on has me very concerned. (Cont.)

5 May

*TRIGGER WARNING ARACHNOPHOBIA* This is Billie, my Western Black Widow. I have had her for over a year now, she's way cooler than I ever gave these little pointy spooders credit for.