Captain-snark

success baby turned 18 today

happy birthday to one of the founding fathers

Support group

He's saying what we've all been thinking

For reference, OP's "Hear Me Out" is on the left and the commentor's is on the right

Thank you for your service 🫡🫡🫡

Being a really weird fag is the point of it all btw

Cobwebs is good right. Spiders mean that the computer's ecosystem is healthy right.

Jesus wept

Sometimes you procrastinate cleaning something for a full decade and that is normal and fine

The spiders are there to eat any bugs, so that's good for your computer!

#mine looks like this too#apparently your supposed to change thermal paste??

Oh right I should get some thermal paste

I think we have the same computer case...does it weigh 900 pounds?

Fun fact there is just enough space underneath for a mouse to fit.

i was going to do a rant about this before seeing this tweet but imma just leave this here

#been saying for years#rainbow capitalism isn't a movement but it sure is a fucking canary (via @runawaymarbles)

I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.

Quick reminder that if you touch lye with your bare hands, it will react with the fatty oils on and in your skin to create soap molecules.

That means it will give you chemical burns while creating human soap.

OP’s comment about the soap equivalent of a Chernobyl elephant’s foot is on point.

Lye (aka sodium hydroxide) turns hydrocarbons/fats into soap.

You are a hydrocarbon.

Please be careful when making soap, because You are a thing that could be used to make soap. And nobody wants to bathe in human soap, no matter how much rosemary you put in it.

Item: Cursed Velveeta Cheese Block

hank green's 2025 bingo card is gonna make me pass out

when my local friendgroup hit our late 20's/early 30's we all metamorphosed into ancient romans and/or redwall characters bc now whenever we have 'get togethers' ppl are always bringing over cheeses and crusty breads and cured meats and olives and grapes and ales etc

the ancients were wrong about many things but they were absolutely right about snacking plates

Our TOP MINDS are out here asking, what is the meaning behind lightning hitting the highest point it can? This never happens...it must be a omen...

Okay I've dragged myself back to Twitter because I find it fascinating now. It is now, firmly, a social media platform whose only market is idiots

It's where you go to see people wondering "how do the people of Dubai have such a great work ethic? How do we match it?"

But it's also where you go to see people freak out about fog

People are seeing unusual fog. They're seeing fog that's DENSE and has PARTICLES in it, which you never see in late December.

There is video after video of people freaking out at fog with snow/rain in it

They are talking about government death fog, and the community note has to explain what fog is

ELON MUSK, I demand you explain GLOOMY SKIES In the WINTER. What are THEY trying to do to us??? Skies have never been overcast before!!!

This is, I think, the tweet that sparked it, though I had to find a screencap bc it's gone now. They put fog in the sky to stop us from seeing the dang drones

Did you know the government has poisoned people before? That means you need to believe every single story about the government poisoning anything without a single question or you're a brainwashed government shill.

Until a couple years ago Twitter was a forum that had LITERALLY EVERYONE on it: every world leader and every celebrity and every website and every newspaper and ever activist and, well, everyone. All posting in one place for free! And now it's a rabid echo chamber of people talking about how lightning strikes to tall buildings are a sign from God, who ask "why can't we have Dubai's work ethic?", who spend New Year's freaking the fuck out over fog like little babies who've never seen it before. It went from a place where Thought Leaders (TM) congregated to one populated exclusively by the dumbest people on Earth

I love being from a country that gets cloud-to-ground lightning much more rarely than the USA, because when people go ZOMG AN OMEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN it's just like... it means you live in the USA

that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

The earlier in the year you reblog this the better it gets

I wish I’d seen this post sooner.

ugh yeah

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s

And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.

you are a tar pit.

and you are ableist.

you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.

L Ratio It doesn't i slept w your mom

Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.

I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.

AI, isn’t art.

There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.

Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.

Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.

Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.

Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.

Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.

Fuck you.

hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.

my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.

our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.

Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.

Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.

What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.

Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.

No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.

Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.

Can I just add

Chuck Close was a painter and photographer who specialized in ENORMOUS portraiture. If you've never been in the same room as one of his works, try to remedy that if you can, because it is an awesome experience. Close had a number of mental and physical conditions as a child, but in 1988, in his 40s and already a celebrated artist, he suffered a blood clot that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After intensive physical therapy, he was able to regain enough control to move his arms (more his upper arms than forearms), enabling him to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist. He adapted his painting style for his disability... and he continued painting enormous, hyper realistic portraits.

Close with self-portraits before (left) and after (right) his paralysis:

yeah top guy who said ai art is ‘accessible’ fuck you.

Humans adapt, as we have for years. Theft will not stop humanity.

Humans adapt, as

we have for years. Theft will not

stop humanity.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

This is the heart of the problem:

And it's the heart of many MANY a problem currently plaguing society. It is the sheer ENTITLEMENT that says "I want something and I don't want to work to achieve it. I deserve it NOW!"

You've just described what it means on a fundamental level to be an artist in the first place. Art is hard. Art is a skill. Art is constant never ending work.

We all have the right to pursue art and creativity. We do not all have the right to unrestricted access to everything we want just because "the boring pedestrian level stuff isn't as cool and amazing and good as all the other really cool ideas I could see if I just cheat."

Yea, it is a huge drag to have an idea and realize your skills don't match your vision. That's called being a person pursuing an interest.

"I probably won't ever be good enough or have enough money to pay someone". Yea, that fuckin' sucks bro. Get over it. I mean this, truly and sincerely.

I'm a shitty piano player. I wish I were a better piano player and I wish my hands were bigger so it'd be easier to play the piano. I also recognize the only way that I am going to be good at the piano is if I actively TRY. I also know that little children can reach the keys and that I don't need anything special just actual good 'ol fashion hard work. Until then, I can complain and whine and bitch about how important programs are for people who suck at the piano, but at the end of the day it's really on me.