Spice Merchant Raven

Spice Merchant Raven

@ravenmaybe.bsky.social

She/her, writer, artist, former biologist, nascent vtuber which has yet to emerge from the chrysalis. Sometimes NSFW🔞, minors will be banished to the twelve winds Banner by @coldneonocean.bsky.social

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When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

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uplifting news

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

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bonus: Using them for a reversal of that one meme whose original artist continues to elude me (cursory search suggests it mighta been comic artist Jesse Lonergan but I haven't found the original post to confirm)

Sofa (Comms Open)@sofamods.bsky.social

re: a twitter post speculating "space opera faction with the common stahlhelm+red goggles natzee-coded aesthetic, but they're actually a fairly reasonable center-leftist democracy" Would take a lot of work to clarify, no, their mission statements actually *aren't* euphemisms for atrocities.

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Replying to @jametc.bsky.social

like I seriously don't think people understand how this shit works, and if they do they're hoping we don't every time you use AI, you train it. that's why it's been free or cheap up until recently despite it's insane cost, they need that volume of training input. But since AI is just a sorting-

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It's weird seeing AI bubbles across the world begin to collapse in real-time because AI continually needs more input to function, every time it's used its trained and becomes shittier, but nobody's writing their own code now, so it's a death spiral for everyone who needs claude to work

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I am reading ‘The Nerd Reich’, a book about technofascism, and it really is fascinating. As observed about Elon; they seem to have no ‘culture’ in terms of art etc. They don’t seem to really love anything, or talk about bright or beautiful or funny things, ever, in terms of their values.

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Marvel armor is what happens when artists think studying anything but the arts is beneath them.

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Sofia, the governor's daughter, wants for nothing but the chance to prove her worth in a world built to keep her caged. Dayo, a fearsome pirate captain, seeks revenge for the Empire's conquest of the Isles. Together, they must fight for their freedom—no matter the cost. #comic #webcomic #yuri

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I promise I am not trying to be hyperbolic and this is my genuine reaction having just got out: That is the best film of 2026, the single most technically beautiful and artistically inspiring film I've ever seen, and one of the best fantasy stories in any medium. My god, what an achievement

Zoe TunnHELL@zoewithasword.bsky.social

Now seated:

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"Addressing misconceptions" (ok last one I swear)

Sofa (Comms Open)@sofamods.bsky.social

re: a twitter post speculating "space opera faction with the common stahlhelm+red goggles natzee-coded aesthetic, but they're actually a fairly reasonable center-leftist democracy" Would take a lot of work to clarify, no, their mission statements actually *aren't* euphemisms for atrocities.

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- Sordalan must not fall - ~32 hours ~9821 kilometers ~119,068 tons of personnel, vehicles, and supplies The Airlift, as it would come to be known, had one strategic objective Arkgneisis had waited too long to involve itself in this war - Sordalan must not fall -

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"Shelob had an out-thrust head with two great clusters of many-windowed eyes and great horns and a short stalk-like neck. Her head had a beak that dribbled venom. She had a huge body that looked like a bloated bag. Her body was black and blotched with livid marks with a pale and luminous belly."

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I have a theory that all "Great Men" of history can be sorted into either "and the device shows me boobs?" or "the moon in the fucking sky?" Lenin, Trotsky, Adam Smith, and George Washington are all "went to the moon?" Ben Franklin, Hamilton, Socrates, and Bakunin are instances of "shows me boobs?"

Micah@rincewind.run

how all of these conversations would actually go

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It got worse! "this is what happens when you make bad games" = i.e. refusing to engage with historical context "they should never have released the 2020 trailer" = i.e. not understanding how marketing works "their policy is to not hire anybody who isn't left leaning" = total lack of braincells

Jack | Strider@striderau.bsky.social

todays news about bioware sucks. what also sucks is the maddening explosion of people straight up saying shit like "well, like it or not the culture war folks had a point" they absolutely did not and i think you should maybe stop existing if you feel that way

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the most troubling part of this, is that he feels so comfortable saying it because he knows he won't incur any kind of repercussions and absolutely nothing will happen for it, and as we've seen, nothing did

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

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Replying to @kaitave.bsky.social

Genuinely was confusing even back then. I can why people would love Halo, Metroid, Resident Evil, Crash Bandicoot. ...I don't get why Good & Evil fits in this category