H2O Just Add Water But It's 40 Year Old Office Worker Dave

i feel like i'm losing my mind why has the AI debate pivoted away from material/labor concerns back to debates about Real vs Fake Art. cannot express just how little i care about relitigating Art and high art and low art and skilled vs unskilled art. what i care about is the treatment and compensation of workers, the power corporations are exerting over intellectual property and creators, the continued extraction of resources, and the omnipresent glut of spam and disinformation with few or no regulations/resources that filter out the SEO AI generated nonsense

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Unsplash -  photography, illustration, & art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Getty Images - photography & illustration

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more resources for free images <3

Here, have a purple blood troll and my first attempt at making a friendsim sprite type thing

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

We should have had a funeral like this for Betty White.

there's a jam on itch.io right now that's taking submissions for a charity bundle for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. if you have any completed games or books, comics, tools, game assets, etc. consider submitting something (no nsfw content permitted)

the bundle will launch in february and be a pay-what-you-want model with a minimum $8 donation.

submission are still open until 01/18/24.

itch.io

Palestinian Relief Bundle

A game jam from 2023-12-25 to 2024-01-18 hosted by ghosthunter. 🌿🍉 Palestinians are being persecuted from their homes in an ongoing genocide

if you think about it, every time we tranquilize animals to transport them safely to another place, we are the sleep paralysis demon