never let kids get into stories about shapeshifting first theyre pretending to be wolves on the playground then theyre getting radicalized by animorphs then theyre realizing the human body is an impermanent and malleable thing then theyre discovering you can take a potion to change your gender in real life
“The faggots never tire of fucking with the men’s minds. Once all the faggots let their hair grow long, wore necklaces made of silver and shells and clothes of colorful, elaborate fabrics. They looked so stunning that the men over-looked their principles and began to look stunning also. When the men all looked like faggots, the faggots cut their hair, put on black leather and looked like the men used to look. The men were annoyed and pretended not to notice. Growing bored with basic black leather, the faggots began to elaborate. They wore black fish-net stockings and high heels with their black leather jackets. They carefully sewed imitation rhinestones all over their black leather pants. They wore feather boas as they rode their motorcycles through the devastated city. They wore flowing gold lamé gowns and work boots with their short hair and dirty fingernails. They drank beer and swore, in velvet ropes and furs. They sipped champagne and talked refined in paint-splattered blue denim. The men did not want to look at any of this. And when they had to, they became confused and petulant and unpleasant, which pleased the faggots.”
-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between the Revolutions, 1977
i think there should be a several thousand dollar fine for making a wojak
did you know the ancient romans had a sort of standardized caricature called “sopiones” and most of the surviving ones include comments berating the original poster for drawing another goddamn sopio on the wall. Also that for some crimes the Romans would sew you up in a leather sack full of snakes and throw you in the river and basically forget about you. Anyway all of man’s designs are futile and only the earth endures
hi! would you ever consider (/ is it even possible) to do CBDQ on tumblr? so sad about the twitter api thing! thanks for your work ❤
it would totally be possible!
i’m not going to do it, because i am wrapped up in my new project and don’t wanna take on the responsibility of keeping an extra website up. but CBDQ is open source, and i think it would be not too much work to port it over - if anyone does want to take this on, i’d be up for answering any questions/providing any moral support/shouting about it.
Twitter is removing the free API access, which will have the inevitable consequence of driving most twitter bots into extinction.
I’ve written a fair bitabout art bots over the years, since they’re one of the more accessible generative art forms (and therefore one of the most creative and prolific).
Here’s a talk by Kate Compton on the poetics of bots, which will have to stand in as an eulogy for now.
One bot use that I think I’ll particularly miss is the use of bots as periodic chimes. Having something that marks the passage of time is a frequent part of the human experience; before clocks we had periodic chants and rituals that marked the hours of the day or the changing of the seasons. Big Ben chiming hourly, reminders that the weekend has started, and so on.
Some bots performed practical services, like generating a feed of new arXiv papers or emergency service notifications. Some of those will survive, if whoever is running them deems it worth paying for the API access, but most of the delightful little bots that make people happy will be going away. And on social media, that’s an important part of the experience for many people.
Many bots have migrated over to Mastodon, of course. The CBDQ equivalent is cheapbotstootsweet.com and many bots live on a bots-only server at botsin.space.
I think I’ll let @infinite_scream have the last word:
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