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"..the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.
Somebody says you have no language & you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. ... None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."
-- Toni Morrison

After doodling Xenia I itched to draw Kiki as well. Linux & Krita were a major turning point in my life 10 years ago where I decided that digital art can be sustainable and kept at it.

Kiki is Krita's mascot and here she is in battle gear to defend creative freedom for you :D

When I was a child, I wrote a series of love songs to my cat. I think this is the thing I have done in my life for which I feel the least regret. I only wish I had written more.

You all have seen this amazing image... Right?

Check out the #CurratedAccount @AstroMigration for more mind blowing #astronomy #space and #AstroPhysics everyday.

Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure... nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole.

NASA's #AstrophotoChallenge is under way! Time to start processing your astro images of the Phantom Galaxy (M74).

How can you enter the challenge? 👉 https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/astrophoto/index.html

102 years ago, on June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman achieved a significant milestone as the FIRST Black woman in history to earn a pilot's license, 2 years before Amelia Earhart. With great courage and determination, “Brave Bessie,” as she would later be called, pursued her own path, striving always to fulfill her mother's aspiration for her children to “amount to something.”

https://youtu.be/wckEiKzCBqc

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#BlackMastodon 
#histodons #History #Aviation

AI developers worry that AI models will degrade if they train on the coming flood of AI-generated content. I wonder if all post-2023 creative works will be suspect (at least as training data).

You could draw an analogy to low background steel. For certain applications (like Geiger counters) only pre-1945 steel can be used because all modern steel has too much radiation because of nuclear testing.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

Mary Fields (Stagecoach Mary) was the 1st Black woman & 2nd woman to deliver mail in the US. At 60, she applied for a mail carrier position in Montana's Cascade region. She secured the job by skillfully hitching her horses faster than anyone else. Despite bandits, wolves, & grueling weather, Mary never missed driving the route with horses Moses, her mule. Often she would trek on foot, covering 10 miles with mail sacks over her shoulder.

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Forgot to post this on Mastodon:

I am once again on the job market and looking for work!

I am an applied cryptography engineer with an academic background focused heavily on protocols. I'm good at Rust, Go, TypeScript and more!

What am I looking for? Quite simply, a healthy, positive work environment where we make real-world contributions to people via software.

I have good references, and do good work! Hire me! Reposts appreciated.

Apparently, my books are still on sale via Amazon! I'm still struggling with bills at the moment, so any purchases really do help.

I'll drop a link to the trailers for both books in THE OUTCROSSED SERIES in the replies. 🖤

#BookSale #eBookSale #DarkFantasy #NewAdultFiction #TheOutcrossedSeries #DisabledAuthor

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B072FPJ9L8/allbooks

I am also hiring a Videography/Video Editor.

If you like making videos, are interested in #History, and you have experience, check this out: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/COL1030CWF/JobBoard/592f60ce-7315-4fd8-b0cf-3725168de53e/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=dbbce073-ba46-4f19-a556-ed2c5f52d659

Salary Range: $38K-$57K based on experience.

A whio (blue duck) in Whanganui National Park on Friday. I literally fell into the river, then decided that while I was wet I might as well commit fully, waded to the other side chest deep in freezing water, got this shot and waded back. These are the lengths we go to!

#bird #birds #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography #duck