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Goodbyebird
@goodbyebird.bsky.social
Mostly live here: goodbyebird.dreamwidth.org Fannish gopher she/her Bigotry and AI gets you blocked. If you know me from elsewhere, drop me a comment; I may miss your follow otherwise ❤️
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🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!
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OKAY! A friend on bookstagram asked for queer novella recs, and I said, I HAVE TO DO A WHOLE POST ABOUT THIS. But once I made my stack, the intrusive thoughts began: "what if you invented a whole bunch of arbitrary categories to sort these books into so this isn't an undifferentiated pile of book?"
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For @comicsbeat.bsky.social, I reviewed Tillie Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA, which fleshes out extensive documentation of two real queer women who lived openly together in a small town in Vermont in the 19th century. Walden is at the height of her craft here. This book is incredible. My thoughts:
Graphic Novel Review: Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA lovingly documents a slice of queer history Tillie Walden's adult debut, Charity & Sylvia, fleshes out the lives of two queer women who openly loved each other in 19th century Vermont.
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Replying to @dalevince.com
Britain is a nation of animal lovers. These people aren't. The government is consulting on a ban right now, but it closes on the 18th of June. Five minutes of your time could end this for good. Have your say: consult.defra.gov.uk/defra/trail-hunting-consultation
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Replying to @annecomics.bsky.social
You’ve seen it already BUT…just in case you haven’t… youtu.be/bp4_7T9J6Fg
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my favorite saying to remember this is: "you could be the juiciest peach and some people just don't like peaches."
It seems obvious, "well of course not everyone likes everything, Katie!", but I see too many creatives worried about the fact that not everyone likes their work. I'm trying to say that the sooner you understand it's impossible, the more freeing it is. Sometimes it's just not a match and that's ok!
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This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...
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this game is AI slop. I don't care if they replaced everything, they still used it, still forced their employees to clean it up, and if someone steals once you can't really trust them not to again studios need to understand that AI usage is toxic and our behavior is the only power we have
Crystal Dynamics has responded to its AI use in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, telling Eurogamer "we leverage AI tools to help our teams iterate on ideas faster and more efficiently, while ensuring that all finished content in the final product is human-crafted" www.eurogamer.net/tomb-raider-...
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Serendipitous discoveries in the archives and stacks aren’t possible if you shut them down “The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire…”
Wow this is so cool. British Library for the win. h/t @paolosandro.bsky.social theconversation.com/what-a-list-...
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Noticing how most holidays strayed further from their meaning to signify "a day off" and then to "a day to sell shit" is one of those "let this radicalize you" moments. Navigate capitalism as best you can, and sure, snag a deal along the way, but it is really kinda fucked up.
I have seen two ads this week saying a version of "Honor Memorial Day with great savings on ..." It's pretty offensive, and we accept it as normal. No judgement at all if you buy something cheap today. It's tough out there. But the use of dead service members to sell mattresses is nasty work.
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Replying to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Replying to @rahaeli.bsky.social
Which is one of the major reasons it's important to avoid using dehumanizing rhetoric for *anyone*, even your enemies, even casually, because any time you rhetorically draw a line around "human" that doesn't include every human, you are reinforcing that propaganda effect.
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