A painting of Ulysses tied to the mast, beset by flying sirens. The sirens' wings have been replaced with the Bluesky butterfly wing logo. On the deck of Ulysses' trireme is a giant poop emoji.

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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2024 07:42:25 JST Cory Doctorow

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   Bluesky and enshittification

   I know, canonically the sirens who tempted Ulysses were merfolk, not half-woman/half-birds, but all the merwoman versions have a *ton* of naked breasts in them, and frankly, Waterhouses's 1891 "Ulysses and the Sirens" *rips*. It took a some fiddling with the perspective and clone tools to swap their bodies for the Bluesky butterfly wings, but it still looked weird until I mapped in a kind of scaly, butterfly wing texture.

   https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

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