NINA BERRY, writer

NINA BERRY, writer

Bodysurfer, redhead, book writer. Prone to wander in body and mind.
Author of THE NOTORIOUS PAGAN JONES (Harlequin TEEN) and the OTHERKIN series (KTeen).
Twitter: @Ninaberry

itistimetodisappear:

degenderates:

strongermonster:

strongermonster:

perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

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this is what i mean

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Via @bulbaderp

To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit

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This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!

(via neil-gaiman)

I am writing to ask you to consider sharing a petition. I don't know how far the story has spread, but a non-binary high schooler in Oklahoma (where i live) named Nex Benedict was killed as a result of an attack at Owasso High School two weeks ago. They were attacked on school property.

The state of Oklahoma School Superintendent, Ryan Walters, who has spent his tenure focused on book bans, villainizing teachers, fighting "the woke agenda," and whatever will get him on Fox news. As a part of this he has formed partnerships with the Moms for Liberty and Libs of Tiktok person, Chaya Raichik.

All of these actions include a near constant barrage of attacks on the lgbtqia community. As an lgbtqia person myself, with kids who are also part of the community, including non-binary children, i am incredibly saddened by Nex's death, and worried about the safety of my own children in this state.

It's just a petition and i know the impact feels limited. It feels small to me, but i would like to ask you to share it in the hopes that it might bring some news coverage and open talks in this state about removing this public official for the good of the community.

I appreciate your time and attention. (Obligatory big fan, because I am.)

The petition can be found here: https://chng.it/CvHz2J8QW4

Thanks.


azimuthalis:

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren’t aware of what Nightshade is, it’s a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model “sees” something different from what an image actually depicts. It’s the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist).

As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

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(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you’re uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

We need this for Wordpress sites and Tumblr posts now, because they’re about to sell our data to train AI.

(via delyth-thomas-art)

dduane:

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“A few significant findings emerged. The birds engaged in most calls for the maximum allowed time. They formed strong preferences—in the preliminary pilot study, Cunha’s bird Ellie, a Goffin’s cockatoo, became fast friends with a California-based African grey named Cookie. “It’s been over a year and they still talk,” Cunha says.

"According to Kleinberger, the types of vocalizations the birds used suggested they were mirroring the call and response nature they engage in in the wild—“hello, I’m here!” in parrot-speak.”

(courtesy wolvendamien at Bluesky)

Animals lead rich inner lives. Too often, humans fuck that up.