knob, drawer

knob, drawer

@drawerknob.bsky.social

doorknob was taken. if you’re out there, i love you. may all miscellaneous hardware be free from suffering opinions are not my own and i have no idea what is happening

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it is a civic duty for all graphic designers and photographers to reach out to food cart owners that use ai generated photos of their food and offer your services for free

imagine a world that exists regardless of election cycles. it’s a world with trees and also weather. there are squirrels but not too many, just the right amount. people in this world are talking to one another slowly and listening well. there are birds but not too many.

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we realize all along we never had to be on our phones, we were just addicted to wondering if we’d be one of the first to know when It Happens. we pet the dog’s perfect snoot, not too much, just the right amount and say “you’re a good doggo” and offer the doggo’s human a handful of grapes.

“i grew these myself” you say and discover in that moment all that’s truly beautiful in life isn’t something produced in isolation but something emergent since forever you need to find ways of relating to so you can be buddies.

imagine a world that exists regardless of election cycles. it’s a world with trees and also weather. there are squirrels but not too many, just the right amount. people in this world are talking to one another slowly and listening well. there are birds but not too many.

when a person approaches with news about politics, they get bludgeoned to death. not too much, just the right amount. the clouds hold water against the wind and the earth’s aching branches sound like pulsing streams up above. a dog arrives with the perfect snoot.

i think power dynamics are an essential part of understanding sampling / remix culture and that’s not always mentioned when discussing the great frankensteining 2.0 of internet content

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social

"Digitally handmade" is a useful, vital distinction. Collage work of existing images, authored in an image-editing platform (and done within the bounds of fair use) is the actual remix culture. Typing "make me an image in the style of this creator" into a generator trained on unlicensed art is theft

um actually you don’t have a sign stating you reserve the right to refuse service to anyone which is exactly why i can practice beginners magic all day in this chipotle

can’t imagine what it’s like to be an age where the wonky demons running amok are young enough to be your grandchildren. aging is already weird as doctors seem younger (do they even know lumbago) but at least they’re not trying to use pedophile magic to unsea atlantis and turn it into luxury condos

can someone smarter than me explain the correlation between the manifest destiny caused biological collapse of our planet with the very reasonable desire most people have to die in their sleep