Ah. Seems I opened the floodgates. I'm very sorry, but I won't be answering any more timeline placement questions. I know that many people care a lot about this, but it simply causes too much discourse for me to feel comfortable getting into when there are no concise answers to be had. That goes double for projects I wasn't involved in.

accepting that your favorite media is worked on by dozens, if not hundreds of people doing their best, and not a single mastermind plotting the pieces precisely on a chess board is step 1 to enjoying media. the bigger the franchise, the messier things get. but messy doesn't mean bad. i don't need to know where every pebble is in the story world, I don't need to know precisely what events happened relative to other events. If a game is a direct sequel, if the events of previous games/comics matters, the current media will tell me. That's all I need. this feels like the mid-2000's push for an official Zelda timeline all over again

Stickers you can immediately hear.

When you leave a room a burst of flaming light blasts through the door as this sounds off

Goth Vixey... still one of my favs! One of these days I'm gonna draw her again :D

Now, I haven't been following OP or scoured their post history, so it's possible they did say that at some point... But personally as a prison abolitionist and police abolitionist, we don't argue that nothing should be illegal! We argue that imprisonment should not be the consequence for a crime.

You are absolutely correct.

They are referring to this post, I believe, in which I did broadly pan prosecution as a solution to problems.

What I said:

And also, regarding hate crime legislation as support for LGBTQ folks:

However, I did also say, on a separate post I believe also in response to that one:

Knowing Tumbr, this will clear up exactly 0% of people misunderstanding what I said.

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something something glass onion being set on a greek island, andi's full name being cassandra, like the trojan princess who prophesied the fall of troy, but whom no one ever listened to, and her sister being named helen, like the greek princess who actually ignited the war and brought about the fall of troy in the end

One of my professors told us that as a teacher, you WILL cause harm at some point in your career. You will say something hurtful to a student or grade unfairly or make a harmful assumption. You learn about these things and try to avoid them, but if you teach long enough you will do something that’s harmful to a student. It’s a numbers game. It’s inevitable.

And that’s why it’s important that you learn how to react in a healthy and productive way! The example she gave was from her own teaching — she had an assignment where students made a presentation with photos that showed their relationship with math over their life (I studied math education). A trans student reached out and told her that they were uncomfortable using pretransition photos. In response, she changed the assignment! By the time I was in her class, it was “make a presentation with photos and/or memes” — a small change but definitely more inclusive!

I think this illustrates why it’s important to say something when you experience microaggressions. I, a trans person taking this class, had a more positive experience because a different trans person spoke up a couple years before.

But also, I think that harm is inevitable outside of teaching too. I think that if you have friends or family or interact with people regularly, you WILL hurt someone eventually. And you have to be comfortable with that possibility in order to respond in a healthy way.

Blade will turn up to a party but point blank refuse to have fun.

I can respect that.

simplifying models for kids in science today

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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

A lot of you are playing into a lot more reactionary of hands than I think you would like when you act like tits are more shocking than gun violence.

We need to call people posers again. We gotta. We just gotta. No you aren't a countercultural weirdo because you made a battle jacket, you get tangibly viscerally uncomfortable if someone is breast feeding in public and that is incredibly square of you.

People who recycle and put their trash in their pocket until they find a trash can and people who pick up liter when they see it and people who still cut the six-pack rings so animals don’t get trapped or choke on them and people who move turtles out of the road and people who stop for ducks and geese to cross all have a very special place in my heart. You are so good to this world and earth. I hope you know that.

This is a really excellent deep dive into AI water use and how a lot of discourse around it is at best inaccurate and at worst deliberately misleading.

A great example of how it's misleading is the NYT story about an AI datacenter causing local wells to dry up for residents, but the story is actually about the construction causing water issues - the datacenter wasn't active, hadn't been finished, and the construction could easily have been for a shipping hub or housing development. Framing "construction company did not do appropriate groundwater surveys and fucked up the water table" as "data centers guzzling up water" is extremely disingenuous.

The substack article I linked is quite long and quite technical, and if you're not interested in reading it Hank Green has made a video discussing the fact that there is a lot more nuance in the discourse around AI water use than the most vocal Pro-AI or Anti-AI people are interested in examining.

There are a lot of people who say that all AI use is theft. I think that's uncomplicatedly wrong, that if you're using "theft" the way that the DMCA uses "theft" you're wrong. For more on that, I'd recommend reading the "Expanding Copyright is not the Answer" section of @mostlysignssomeportents's adapted speech on AI criticism or the EFF's comments to the copyright office RE generative AI. (You should actually read both, and you should read Doctorow's article in full because it is a criticism of AI that moves beyond thought terminating cliches to really explore why the AI industry as it stands is bullshit).

I do not, generally speaking, like AI. I think that most AI products create shit results. I think most AI art looks like shit and most AI writing is awful bordering on unreadable. I think that there's a massive bubble built up around AI and I think AI is absolutely fucking the personal computing market.

And, all that said, it is deeply annoying to dislike AI as much as I do and still feel the need to point out that the way that a lot of people criticize AI is shortsighted, reactionary, and just flat-out incorrect. There are real things wrong with how we are approaching AI as a society and how AI is being sold to users and forced into our environments, and "art theft" is not one of those things.

(And this is everyone's reminder that fair use is the best, I love it, and you are allowed to copy, distribute, remix, sell, and do whatever you want with my art and writing whenever you want to. Every time I write something like this people come into my inbox to say "I hope your art gets stolen" and I'm like "Bitch, me too, the fuck?")