Holy fuck you illegally downloaded a cardigan

@inkthusiasm

this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣

so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.

you bottle Miette??

You crush Miette like the grape?

brick up mother in basement for ONE THOUSAND YEARS

The Cask of Miettellado

Y'all are just absolutely committed to creating humor I cannot explain to my spouse, aren't you?

Love that it’s a Shiraz, a really bold, heavily alcoholic wine.

i'm making a collection

“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.

Privilege exists. It affects our experiences, opportunities, and world views.

Privilege is also fluid and dependent on context. Most if not all people have ways in which they are privileged and ways in which they are not. Hold privilege over others in some contexts and not in others.

For fuck's sake, even Joe Biden, arguably the most powerful person on Earth, was run out of the Presidency mid-election by his own party because he was old and had a stutter.

His whiteness, maleness, cisness, heterosexuality, Christianity, Americanness, and relative wealthiness did not protect him from ageism and ableism (there was also a lot of indirect racism and misogyny in there, as a lot of the "OMG Biden's OLD!" stuff was actually just blatant code for "What if he dies in office and a woman of colour replaces him?")

Some people have more privilege. Some have less. Nobody is immune to having privilege. Nobody is immune to being discriminated against. It is context-dependent.

Trying to use "Does this person have privilege" as a shortcut to determine whether they are good or evil, or whether it's okay to persecute them, is a surefire way to end up on the side of the oppressors without realizing it.

mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

As the saying goes, the difference between having nothing and having a billion dollars is a billion dollars.

The difference between having a million dollars and having a billion dollars is also a billion dollars.

That million is 0.1% of the billion dollars; it's a literal rounding error.

"forgor" did irreversible damage didn't it

mold pisses me off so much

oh you have to eat your produce the moment it leaves the store or the fuckin Hungering Dust will get it. and. poison your food

I ran into this post years ago and to be honest, it has completely reoriented the way I engage with food.

Like. I’ve always sorta understood that things grow moldy or stale or sour or such if left out, but I never really internalized it in a meaningful way.

But now I’m just like.

Yeah. The hungering dust. There exists omnivorous dust in the air that will eat my food if I don’t.

Those bagels have been sitting there for a week. Are we going to eat them soon or are we leaving them for the hungering dust?

Pizza’s been sitting out on the counter for an hour. Everyone’s enjoying the pizza, but if we don’t want “everyone” to include the hungering dust then we should probably put it away soon.

That’s just. That’s how food works to me now. There exists an invisible predator in the air that hungers for your yummies, and it will not hesitate to eat your food if you don’t make the effort to protect and preserve it. And eat what can’t be preserved before the dust can.

Life-changing.

Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.

As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.

The same goes for art. Smear mud on a wall with your feet, it's still better art because you made it, you didn't steal it via machine and then pretend it's yours.

fun fact if your music is loud enough Thoughts Do Not Exist And You Are Calm. do not pay attention to your heart rate and do not accidentally hit pause

But be warned if the Wrong Song That Doesn't Fit The Vibe gets shuffled in, you'll be hit with all of the worst emotions at once!

Dexter Soy's Jason Todd is so pretty

The idea that Testosterone is a “more powerful” hormone than Estrogen is just blatant sexism btw.

If you’re heading to the comments to say that actually testosterone is much more impactful than estrogen, you are exactly who I had in mind when I made this post.

Why is it that every trans woman saying “well I’ve been on E two years and still look like a man” is just “being realistic”. But a trans man saying “I’ve been on T two years and still get misgendered” is just a “skill issue” and “not trying hard enough?” Why is transfem pain inevitable and transmasc pain a personal failure? Have you considered there may be a bias here as to why you don’t believe the trans man? Shaped by either societal sexism or a projection of your own experiences and/or dysphoria?