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ratsnakegames ("Ratsnake") wrote:

@0xabad1dea It is also legal to not have an image on every blog post.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

1. A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

2. An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main%5FPage

3. A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

4. A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page

5. Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

6. Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

7. Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

8. Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

9. You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org

10. the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

#writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

wake up babe, new You Have Died (And Been Reincarnated As A Fox Girl) combat mockup just dropped

with new player art by @rally

very happy with this one. might be the best GUI work i've ever done

#GameDev #PixelArt #DosGaming #RetroGaming #RetroDev

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
anxietynectarr ("Bbygurl🧩🍓") wrote:

I’m liking the vibe here so far, but i’m still confused about the whole server/“ instance “thing ?? 😭 how do people find chill or more active servers ? I literally never been so confused lol 😂 hopefully someone sees this ..
#new #introduction #mastodon

jwz wrote:

Seriously though, Tolkien was a Serious Thinker writing Serious Literature. I mean yes, he had a villain called Grima Wormtongue -- you know, of the Chicago Wormtongues -- but that's completely different than, like, "Luke Starkiller".

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

really happy to see that the quote-post on Mastodon hasn't led to a bunch of toxic dunking. it's nice that you can turn it off, and the vast majority of quotes i see are adding something positive or offering an intelligent critique.

jwz wrote:

jwz wrote:

RE: https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/116648620727300005

No frsrs da papa quoting Gandalf instead of Aslan is *definitely* picking a team.

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bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

8
Tolkien: well well well
Tolkien: now look who's laughing!
Tolkien: hmm hey clive
CS Lewis: what
Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan?
Lewis:
Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you
Tolkien: what was that again?
Lewis: no
Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!

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mathewi@journa.host ("Mathew Ingram") wrote:

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Got a letter from the urology center that treated my kidney stone a few years back telling me that their systems have been hacked, which I guess is at least a novel way to get your dick pics leaked

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
36pickledeggs@famichiki.jp ("36 Pickled Eggs :chiba:") wrote:

I think I'm going to take the #keepassxc challenge starting right now. I've been running it for a long time, but only for managing ssh keys. I've just imported all my non-shared #bitwarden secrets to it and have turned bw off on my daily driver for now. It is all very disorienting, as expected, but we shall see how it all works out. I can always fail back to bw if I need to.

jwz wrote:

In this, the Year of Our Apocalypse 2026, Rockbox still cannot display EXIF album art if it is a progressive JPEG of *any* minuscule size or resolution.

I can't even.

Also, while you can finally have a playlist with up to 32,000 songs, "shuffle all tracks" is still hardcoded to 2,000.

I'm starting to think that their heart just isn't in this any more.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7w

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
muhkayoh ("Matt Jordan") wrote:

The power company: This email is to let you know we're raising your rates by 10%.

The power company one year later: Hey, we noticed your bill is 10% higher than it was this time last year. Here are some energy saving tips!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Okay I bought No Man's Sky only because it was on sale, available for MacOS, and for some reason I vaguely remember all the hype around it when it first released. I think I remember some disappointment and then hearing that it got better over time.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Am I a gamer now you guys?

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endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

I hope everyone is okay with me going on a several minute long rant about trans rights in the US in the middle of tomorrows episode

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price."

https://bsky.app/profile/alishagrauso.bsky.social/post/3mmu2lsvllc2u

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fripi@famichiki.jp ("中山") wrote:

Big news, the declining birthrate in Japan might be linked to gender stereotyping in Japan. Wow, happy they managed to get to that realization.
Wonder how long it will take to actually *do* something about it. 🥲

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/27/japan/society/social-norms-low-birth-rate/

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116649018651317684

Never trust anything but inference from a vendor. And even then, verify.

The actual products are so manipulable.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Video of them

Attachments:

• video: d2a3a25500c14dba.mp4

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Horseshoe crabs! (Salem, MA)

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dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

RE: https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116646815985020509

Who is going to use AI to build a non-AI search engine?

Not joking.

Use the tool to fight the fallout

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I like #gotosocial but search is oh so slow

any tips/tricks/config to speed it up?

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@cstross Tony Blair Institute has *substantial* tech industry donors, and this is 100% of the reason for the UK gov AI push (per Pivot to AI passim)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
2something@transfem.social wrote:

Many here are familiar with @alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work 's No-AI list as well as the Slopfree Software Index

Both list FOSS projects with policies of rejecting AI contributions.

I wondered if such a thing existed for wikis. There is now!
https://git.average.name/1something/No-AI-Wikis/src/branch/trunk/No-AI%20Wikis.md

#Wikis

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

AI Don't Wanna Go Anymore, Picturesidrawn, Digital, 2026

#Art #DigitalArt

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

People always be like "Oh Mr Billionaire tell us how you made your billions of dollars! What's your secret ingredient to success??" as if the truthful answer isn't "I convinced the government to pay me money to make a thing that was already free before, and then sold it back to the government (or to myself!) for a huge markup at taxpayer expense. This artificially inflated the value of my stock which I then used as collateral to secure enormous personal loans that I have no intention of ever paying back. Also I refuse to pay my workers and I don't pay a single cent in taxes."

It's crime. The secret ingredient is crime.

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treats@fox.nexus ("things as a treat") wrote:

We can have precedented times, as a treat