@selfmaderibcageman

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If you find yourself in this sort of situation you should get yourself a cheap bean bag from Walmart and print out a bunch of makeshift posters on printer paper. Off of someone else’s printer if possible. If you have some t-shirts you don’t wear anymore but still like the design of you can hang those on your wall from thumbtacks. If you have enough leftover clothes and the sewing know-how you could make a blanket or curtain out of them.

Dumpster diving for furniture is also an option btw but make double and quadruple sure that there’s no bugs living in it, don’t pick up stuff made of cloth, and sanitize the hell out of it with cleaning spray or wipes before using it.

If you have just a little extra money going to a thrift store with 20 bucks could get you some stuff to hang on your wall or a nice blanket or a card table or even a skateboard to lean in the corner if you’re lucky.

Something I like to do as well is buy surplus wall calendars and cut them up to use as little posters. If you use magazines or find them in the recycling bin the full page spreads on those can also make for cheap wall decoration.

There’s nothing wrong with not having a lot of stuff but a little decoration can make you feel much better even if it’s just some magazine pages taped to your wall.

Thank you for adding that! I was feeling so bad for the replies!!

One thing I wanna add is that you can buy cheap photo frames (the big ones, for diplomas and such) and put the shirts with cool arts there, as well as the cool prints you can find in magazines. I’ve done both and it’s something cool to have. It feels like a personalized picture.

You can also frame stuff you don’t use anymore bc they’re too old but they bring you comfort. For me, it was a pillow case I had when I was a kid and wormed down when I used it too much after moving to live alone. The pillow case always brought me comfort and I didn’t want to throw it away bc I couldn’t use it in my pillow anymore. So I framed it. Cheap 7 bucks frame (a bit more expensive but worth it) and now my room has this pillow case art there and the comfort it brought me so many times is always there when I look at it.

Also, try second-hand websites: things like facebook marketplace or similar frequently have couches or chairs (people swap these things a lot) for very cheap. Once you can, get the basics: Storage (any kind of box works but a bookcase or wardrobe gives the option of feeling less cluttered and keeps your items safe) Couch (frequently on second hand sites and such, just double check that they're not filthy or broken in dangerous ways) Bed (try to avoid just a mattress, you need to ventilate it to avoid bugs. A cheap frame is better than none and you can even make frames out of cardboard) These are the basics. Once you have this, you can build towards more items such as a table (both for eating and preparing food), a desk (for studying and reading ect) and a proper bed (a single if you have little space or a double if you have enough room). Then you have more decorative pieces such as nightstands (get two if you have a double bed) (boxes also work for this), a rug (put it under the couch/coffee table for a nice seating ''zone'', or put a thick towel next to your bed to avoid cold feet) and more storage for next to a desk or similar. As the previous people mentioned as well: posters and pictures are a godsend and they can be as cheap or expensive as you want them to be. Starting at nothing just means you have so many things to celebrate achieving. When I moved out I was lucky that friends got me a bed, old couch, and a dresser. I now have a pretty apartment with ten times as much furniture. You got this, friend.

happy valentines day and happy ten year anniversary to this tweet

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The spouse is getting curious about tumblr

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movies will be like "THIS is the most bullied outcast unpopular girl in school... the Thin White Heterosexual Brunette"

me when i'm at the apple store buying a new phone

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

also i know what i want. i know the risks. everything has risk. i am already living! why am i living half a life because of what YOU fear? stop talking down to transsexuals

had these saved for forever

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

James Baldwin.

Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from “The Phantom Painter” on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). I’ve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either can’t tell it’s AI or don’t care because it looks cool.

This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artists’ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other people’s hard work.

Don’t give people like this money or attention and they will go away.

Please, if you’re going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.

@thegnat That’s the problem, it’s getting really hard to tell what’s AI and what isn’t. This phantom painter person at least says on each post on Instagram that it was created with AI, but when people re-post it on tumblr, it isn’t specified, and people end up reblogging it.

It’s not reasonable to think everyone should be vetting every single art they reblog to make sure it isn’t AI, which is why I made this post to let people know this artist specifically is AI, and I see it reblogged a ton.

While we’re at it

and so is everything by that person, xis.lanyx on Instagram. They also sell prints of their “original images”

That last one is for the people saying “you can always tell by the hands.” You cannot. The whole point is that it’s getting better and better at it. That’s what it does.

As an art curator on tumblr I now have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to decipher whether or not the art I want to share is AI or not and I still sometimes get it wrong.

To actually answer the question of how one can determine something is AI, particularly as it grows more sophisticated with anatomy: you have to train yourself to recognize artifacts.

There is no one single unifying giveaway beyond a strange sense of uncanny that you will eventually begin to recognize the better you attune yourself, and certain models have their own unique “styles” you can begin to recognize (midjourney and stablediffusion produce very different looks, for example). There are however a few things on which one can tend to focus.

Things like this can be tough to spot at a glance if you’re not actively keyed into looking for them, but they’re the type of uncanny stuff that once you see it will start gnawing at the back of your mind. You’ll be scrolling your feed and suddenly take -1 psychic damage and you have to scroll back up to see why. Stuff that goes beyond inconsistent lightsources and bad anatomy.