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Does anyone have a list of book blogs, legit book reviewers, book magazines, and such places a Mastodontian author could get visibility for their book? Speaking for myself and other indies that could use the boost, since many of us have left META and need new ways to share the exitement of new releases. (: #Book #Books #List #Lists #blog #bookblog #bookish #bookstodon #magazine #bookreview #bookreviewer #indieauthor #author #news

More bird doodles that will turn into crosstitch patterns in my partner's hands. (: #bird #art #pencildrawing #coloredpencils #birb #funny #traditionalart

Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers. They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales. Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble. #Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI

All authors who need an editor, map, cover, or illustration and HATE AI, and want to work with a company that takes their stance against AI seriously - I have a recommendation for you! Stardust Book Services offer all of those things, and I myself include to their roster as a map maker! https://www.stardustbookservices.com/ And, if you use my referral code: STARDUSTMILO you can get 5% SALE from your order! #art #editing #Bookstodon #author #Sale #ArtCommission #FantasyMap #CharacterArt #BookEditing

I just learned that the phone my partner gave me has a scan function! :D So here's some doodles I made with my new fountain pen (gifted to me by an amazing friend). <3 It is so chonky that my fingers don't get too numb while drawing, so doing these is so fun. :D #art #fountainPen #doodles #ink #InkDoodles #TraditionalArt

RE: https://social.ahlroos.me/@yle_fi_bot/116859622939110100 Tämä ei ole totta. Jokainen UBI (Universal Basic Income) tutkimus on osoittanut että vaikka ihmisille annettiin tarpeeksi rahaa elämiseen - he eivät yhtäkkiä lakanneet tekemästä töitä. Monet jopa alkoivat yrittämään, ja työttömät löysivät työtä. Sama tutkimuksissa joissa työtunteja vähennettiin, mutta palkka pysyi samana. Ihmiset haluavat tehdä MIELEKÄSTÄ työtä, ilman että joutuvat kärsimään ja laskemaan pennejä joka kuukausi. Tämä on propagandaa.

RE: https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/117054025515853015 I woke up to my comicbook being number 2 in the Amazon Bestsellers in Disability Art -list!! You guys are amazing! <3 I did not think my little sleep disorder advocasy book would ever hike up so high! And since I shared it only here in one private group - this is Your doing, Mastodontians! :D Thank you so much! <3 #Bookstodon #Books #Comics #Art #Mastodon #Fedi #IndieAuthor #ComicArtist #Disability #DisabledArtist

I must underline this once more - AI reliance, like asking it to make shopping lists, make desicions for you, be your "friend" makes you NOT use your brain. This is detrimental to people who have ZERO memory issues and causes skill regression. It is making people unable to remember things, work things out, and use their own damn brains. That's why AI bro's use AI for emails and AI to read emails but they whine if they have to USE A PEN TO WRITE A SENTENCE. AI kills working brains. #fuckAI

@SamiMaatta@mementomori.social Näistä jätetään aina myös pois se, mitä tapahtuu jos ei terveydentilan tai muiden syiden vuoksi pystykkään jatkamaan koulutusta loppuun. Laina jää kummittelemaan vuosikausiksi/kymmeniksi, pankin kanssa saa sopia pienemmistä maksuista, ja KELA ei maksa edes niitä korkoja takaisin vaikka olisi jo kelan tuilla... Koko lainahelvetti on epäinhimillinen. Valtion tulisi tuoda takaisin reilut opintotuet joilla voi oikeasti elää ilman lainan ottoa.

Hey who was the Sigil using Master here who could maybe help me out with the paragraph breaks? I have a code issue, which I think could maybe be fixable? #Sigil #Editing #Formatting

I HATE how I can't find good images anymore online. Every image search turns up to be at least 20% slop, IF NOT MORE. Google - slop, duckduckgo - slop I can report as slop but it doesn't disappear, Vivaldi - slop I can't report or block in any way even though it is anti AI search engine. I can't use stock photo sites without AI, pinterest is AI riddled as well - where the ABSOLUTE FUCK can I find 100% human photography? #FuckAI #NoAI #Photography #landscape #ArtReferences #vivaldi #DDG #Google

@Evilpupu@masto.ai @Stoori@polyglot.city Hedonista laiskuutta tuntuu löytyvän vain kaikkein rikkaimmista, ja loput on vaan järkyttävän stressin lamaannuttamia joiden mielenterveys ei vaan enää kestä. Nää artikkelit on täyttä soppaa, ja vaikuttaa siltä että YLE on ottanut jonkun lahjuksen että hallitus voi vielä kurjistaa työttömiä lisää - koska mehän tietenkin "ei haluta tehdä työtä", joten rankaiseminen on "ansaittua".

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu So teach the parents how to protect the kids by promotion media literacy in schools and adult avenues. Make laws against the algorythms and proportionate punishments for companies that keep using them. Remove AI and exess tech from schools. Stop trying to gain more information of your citicens and bringing forth the new wave of facism. It will end badly for you eventually too. It always ends badly for the authoritarians. Learn from history. Don't repeat it.

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu Please read all of these comments and wake up from your bubble dreams. Seriously. We so not need this. We need, collectively, clean air, clean water, clean energy, clean food. Invest to to saving the planet, not destroying it even faster, and invest to more trees, cooling the cities that are BURNING, making sure people can grow food locally, and bettering public services in EU countries. Also prioritize fighting the clear rise of facism. We beg of you.

@chetwisniewski@securitycafe.ca @venya@musicians.today Exactly. Billion times better than slop text.

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116977197159867442 You know what's wild? I was left untreated in that place over a decade ago and I am not surprised AT ALL that the head of the trans unit there is transphobic. Because I 100% felt the transphobia. The forced gendering, the "you clearly have ADHD symptoms but we wont tell you and will refer you to trasphobic psychiatrist for a year", and the fact they never interviewed my partner even though we travelled there for hours because they asked me to bring someone. I was left traumatized from that.

PSA for people who want to buy art - please do not use AI generator to make references for what you want, or use AI generated images to show what you need. SKIP THE AI STEP, and just ask us directly instead. We can SEE in our heads what you need, and make sketches and design these things for you. Furthermore, stop using AI, and support artists instead. Some of us wont take you as a client, if you insist on siding with AI. #FuckAI #Art #NoAI #PSA #Commissions #Logo

I genuenly want to understand why people wouldn't plan their meals, buy the foods for at least half a week, and save gas money, and money in general. (The Youtuber DROVE TO THE STORE every day for their food.) Don't people know that when you go to store more often, you are more likely to buy things yiu don't need, and that will increase your grocery bill? (The vid was supposed to show cheap vegetarian food options but ended up costing them ~150USD for 4 meals, 4 days. Plus gas.)

@janvenetor@mastodontti.fi Ja vaihtuvuutta voi myös hallita niin, että työnantajat ei tee työpaikoista helvettiä. (: Porukka viihtyy hyvissä työympäristöissä kauankin. Jotkut jopa loppuelämänsä. Paskat työpaikat tulisi saada jättää taaksensa ilman että joutuu elämään nuudeleilla ja itkemään itsensä uneen. Eikä niihin tulisi joutua jäämään. Lisäksi työn ei pitäisi olla elämä, vaan se osa joka rahoittaa elämää työn ulkopuolella.

I do memory practices every day to try to use my brain and not let it wither. I do them manually, because it keeps my brain as healthy as possible. Automatic audio and photos wont help people remember - they wont even look at the THOUSANDS of images. Like how many ofnus actually look at the random screenshots we take of XYZ instead of forget them untim there are hundreds of them and phone whines about space and you need to delete them??? This is just surveillance and ableism.

RE: https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116828148689789448 I count Open Source Projects from good individuals into this sale! If you embody these ideals as a person, and have a project that needs art - send me a message and let's see if I could do something about that with a sale price! :D #OpenSource #Linux #art #commissionsopen

A quick offer and ask for help from my Ko-fi Supporters!! If you have ever left me a "brain cell" (a kofi), you can access an eBOOK sale of 100% of one of my short stories. https://ko-fi.com/s/843d93abe7 Could you go test and see if it works? And if you have an eReader, could you test if the downloadable file also works? It is christmas horror story with gore, LGBTQAI+ characters, and an unhappy ending. THIS OFFER WONT LAST FOREVER! #Kofi #eBook #ShortStory #Horror #Gore #LGBQAI+

@mindpersephone@spookygirl.boo Exactly. <3

New comic sketch is up for my Ko-fi supporters (one time time support gives you access to ALL of them forever). (: Bit more dream stuff this time, because I saw really weird/distressing/wonky dream and kinda felt like I want to do some proper painting this week. https://ko-fi.com/i/IC2F722P1HH #art #sketch #kofi #support #disabledArtist #DigitalArt #comic #comicSketch #ComicArtist #Webcomic

If you care about Make A Wish - you might be happy to learn that Thankmas has started already and lasts all the way to actual Xmas, and many creators have started to spread the news about it. Thankmas is a fundrasing event that spans thousands of creators trying to spread joy and find ways to gather money for a good cause usually every year. JackSepticEye is one of these creators. SHOULD MASTO CREATORS JOIN TOO?? #Thankmas #MakAWish #Fundraiser #Youtube #Creative #PSA #Mastodon #DoGood

Comic sketch is now up - after I spent good couple hours making....like 7 of them ready since the next topic wont be as lighthearted as this one. (^_^)* Supporters get to see the sketch, so if you want to see them, drop me a brain cell: https://ko-fi.com/i/IC0U323JJ6N #comic #sketch #art #webcomic #art

I am muting this since it kind of exploded and I am very overwhelmed which doesn't bode well for my disabilities. (^_^)* (I am also already tired of blocking AI bro's who claim to be allies but clearly just want to keep using their planet destoying toys.) Thank you for your support everyone, and I hope you have a peaceful Pride Month. <3 Oh and (somewhat) shameless plug. My story is also turned into a comicbook: https://www.amazon.com/Idiopathic-HypersomNIA-Prison-Sleep-NIA/dp/9528818390 Free webcomic version: https://tapas.io/series/Idiopathic-HypersomNIA 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

New comic about "The Horror of Dreaming" - and insight why vivid dream can make you feel...insane. And bit of rambling by my bad memory brain when my first text crashed and I forgot to save it. I swear I am good(?) ad this. :P Please share, subscribe to the FREE comic about IH, leave a kofi if you can, and maybe buy VOL1? Tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/3935969 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/i/IF6G822Y0KR VOL1comicbook: https://us.amazon.com/Idiopathic-HypersomNIA-Prison-Sleep-NIA/dp/9528818390 #IdiopathicHypersomnia #disability #comic #SleepDisorder #Art #ComicBook

@unhottu@todon.nl Kokeile, ehkä ne nappaakin sut sinne töihin ja pääset vaikuttamaan asioihin sisältäkäsin. (:

@shelter@fedifreu.de Looks almost like a "laavu", we have that kubd of shelters in hiking trails here in Finland. (:

@redsad@ohai.social Is pansexual manifesto then "We are hungry and tired". :P

This one is more kid-literature eBook cover, and like all of the others these come with free refresh - and this one in particular comes with a free FULLY ILLUSTRATED title swap as well. (: Only 50€, or you can pay more if you want - for eBook cover. (Paperbacks bought separately) https://ko-fi.com/s/82332aafe0 #eBook #Dragon #Fantasy #Bookstodon #BookCover #IllustratedBookCover #Art #Author #Indiauthor

@vateo@meow.social Wonderful floof. <3

@velgatheobserver@mastodon.art I have not gotten any scam contacts in Mastodon as an artist. And as an artist I have noticed that most of us who are legit offer things like contracts that confirm client rights over commercial work, are clearly against AI (LLM's), have websites, and offer payment options like half payment first and other half after (but dont release unwatermarked work before payment has arrived).

This is security risk, and if someone with memory issues who needs help with recalling what they did on any given day (me) used these glasses could overlook and FORGET that they just spied on their banking information, time in the toilet, every single person they saw, private conversations etc. - especially when its proven that relying on AI for memory MAKES IT WORSE even on people who don't have memory issues to start with! META wants people's full reliance.

@rimmajoonatan@mementomori.social Tuo teksti on myös selkeästi tekoälyn kirjoittama. Saan itsekkin näitä viestejä vähän väliä. Ärsyttävää reportoida niitä ja blokkailla täyttä potaskaa...

@Crow@pagan.plus I think I was given sugarpills for anxiety once. It was before lumbar puncture, and whatever was in them did absolutely nothing. I had one of the worst panic attacks I've ever had as they stuck that needle in me. I was heaving, shaking, sweating, almost blacking out, while two nurses held me still. It didn't even hurt that much. I just have a fear of medical prosedures that I can't see happening. It was upposed to be Valium, btw.

@n_dimension@infosec.exchange How was the training data acquired? If they have the copyright over whatever they train it with and are not trying to push it into everything (like gov, banks, social security, business desicions, hiring management etc.), and they can build their farms sustainably without ruining water sources, driving up electricity costs by supporting fossil fuel industry, and stealing people's data.. I am against LLM's, not all things labeled "AI" due to marketing and lack of regulation.

@foone@digipres.club I am in process of waking up and read the word "cannibal" as "cannonball" and...just rolled with it. I thought it was some old vore word. :P

RE: https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116674116363585525 UPDATE TO THIS ISSUE BELOW! I had sent an email to Adlibris about the possible pirating, and turns out that my book was NOT pirated despite everything suspicious happening. :D Sigh of relief!! Adlibris acquired the book through Ingramspark, who acquired it through Amazon - and due to delays they had NO information up on the site, and chat person worried me for no reason. I do not know why the page count is wrong, as I don't have Ingram account myself. I might contact Ingram about that.

@_elena@mastodon.social May I recommend myself? (^_^)* https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/117230949957008395

@proscience@toot.community @scottjenson@social.coop Yeah we hope that next election will go well and things can be fixed again. Still about year to that I think... And meanwhile they are allowing data centers to pop up around, more forest is being chopped up, disabled people are being trembled by the unempmoyment system many of us shouldn't even be in, and the stress is compounding. (^_^)* Sometimes I wish we could go French Revolution on their asses...on account that they give the money to the rich. Literally.

These are so old, that I have dropped price for some of the covers as low as 10€ (Or you can choose to pay more to support my art) - like this one! AND it comes with a FREE refresh of the art. Each cover comes with illustrated title for the author name. But you can also pay for the mine title swap, and paperback separately. https://ko-fi.com/s/41c5e6de5e #Bookstodon #BookCover #BookArt #IllustratedBookCover #Author #Indieauthor #Books #Scifi #Android #Robot #Brain #Horror #SciFiBooks