First Equyne from MHWilds

Xu Wu (Marwari horse inspiration)

Quematrice

sometimes I talk about disliking copyright/IP on here, and I always try to stress that the reason these conversations matter is because copyright law is used in real life to hurt real people. I want to highlight a current example of this happening which I haven't seen talked about on my dash yet.

Solar Being is a small business run by two natural hair sculpting artists. their art has gone viral online a few times, and one of their most recognizable creations are their shaped hair puffs:

recently, their business has been under attack by frivolous DMCA & copyright infringement complaints by a competing company. Solar Being has had to close pre-orders for their hair extensions and redirect the funding they raised through a kickstarter campaign into now building a legal defense fund, at the expense of their allocated labor and production budget. in the meantime, they can't even post uncensored photos of their star puffs to social media without facing copyright claims. this issue goes beyond just promotional materials and is also affecting any posts where they (or their customers!) have their hair puffs visible.

on Solar Being's legal defense page they say they "believe [geometric hairstyle] designs should remain free for others to use, reinterpret, and express through their creative and commercial endeavors". and if these copyright infringement complaints are held up, it will likely affect the rights of other natural hair sculpting artists to create designs like this.

if you'd like to support Solar Being's legal fund they're accepting donations now, and I'd recommend supporting them through social media as well. I'm not personally associated with Solar Being and am just repeating what they've already said through their website and social media.

lots of people around copyright/IP discussions like to talk about supporting artists, and if you want direct that supportive energy somewhere productive I feel this situation is one that deserves your attention.

the concept of never including women in anything or never liking women in order to avoid misogyny is really funny and by funny i mean a different word

“catasters” is posting un-disclosed AI videos regarding cats doing things. Such as this video. Regardless of source being given, big accounts should state in their posts directly if AI was used for content. If you don’t want to see AI animal videos, I’d suggest blocking them. Don’t harass. Just be aware they are posting AI animal videos occasionally.

Also it’s not that difficult to find real videos of cats doing things! You do not need Gen AI for that at all. That’s called laziness.

"if israel doesnt have the right to exist then neither does america!" you are so so close to getting it

Who said children’s dreams have to be big and impossible?

My children would settle for a home… and a TV that plays cartoons without suddenly going dark.

Sometimes I laugh… not because it’s funny, but because reality has become cruel to the point of irony.

What has become my children’s dream today was never a dream to begin with.

A safe home, a working TV, ordinary moments that millions of children live without a second thought.

More than half of my children’s lives have been spent in war.

They grew up to the sound of shelling instead of laughter,

lived with fear instead of safety,

until they no longer remember our previous life…

a life filled with warmth, simplicity, and happiness.

Your support and donations are not just numbers added to my GoFundMe account;

they are a real chance for my children to grow up knowing that someone saw them,

and chose to stand beside them in this darkness.

homeless again

hi friends-

so, long story short, ive been in a really unsafe situation the last month and a half. i am now no longer in that situation but that also means i am homeless again. i have a major surgery coming up that involves getting 4 organs removed and im really going to need a safe place to recover - rn i have about enough for a month at an airbnb and that's it. my surgery is projected to be at the beginning of march and i only have enough for mid february rn. would appreciate any help rn, this whole situation is really scary and i still need to find someone to help take care of me as i recover too 🫠 love you all, tysm for your help

pypal | cshapp | friend's venmo bc im locked out of mine | will add my kof1 shortly, rn its suspended and im waiting on verification

kof1 is back online yay :)

im back in the hospital. airbnb is paid up til the 19th but i really need help managing these expenses long term and im not able to get government help for most of it

i dont think i can fully convey just how goddamn hard things have been recently. and im so so tired of trying to. i just need help and i don't have it in me to push for it anymore

by Fernando Cidoncha

12/20

$0/1360

hey folks, we're back in the fucking building again. please help us get this post around, as the rent we didnt make last time has now been tacked onto our rent for this month. i am also working on setting up voice acting commissions, and will get the post up on my voice acting channel once its ready. please share this! any amount helps!

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01/16

$616.26/1370

hey its been a while. we still havent made rent. i know you folks are tired of this shit but I dont know if anyones as tired as me of having to do this shit.

weve got a day left. please help

I love stock photo sentences. This has been the new thing to repeat for me when things go wrong. A mentally ill man with psychological disorders is going crazy at home. The crazy man who is alone in his house is yelling.

wanted to practice environments and mood, so who better to do it with than the boys themselves?

"op"?? sir, we are mutuals. call me by my first name...

Temminck’s Tragopan (Tragopan temminckii), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, China

Photograph by Lin Zhu

Stop watching your people getting jumped by cops

200%

Try.

Bringing this back from the archives.

took acid on new years as per tradition and me and my sister got really into the concept of an origami crane folded out of a pizza so precisely and beautifully that it "shames our hatred". like all acts of human cruelty are shamed by the perspective that its beauty provides. we called it pizza crane