As a fellow traveler with multiple now-unsaleable skillsets, and back pain from a lifetime of hunching over to use 'regular sized' desks and counters and beds, I feel this man's pain. (I used to dream of furniture and fittings scaled up just 5%... until I worked out what that would cost.)

DID YOU KNOW!! A Freestyle side story from 2023. First published as the cover of NCTE's Voices From The Middle (a pull-out cover!), exploring the theme "interrogating the world through inquiry."

Hey, #comics friends and X haters, I just posted this in Instagram. Please feel free to like and share if you're still over there so we can defeat the algo and get it seen! THANK YOU!!! www.instagram.com/p/DYSQjo8ES4U/

QRP with a doctor you'd trust leading hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr

QRP with a doctor you'd trust leading hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them

So we know the graphic novel market is booming right now, but is this being reflected in the incomes of creators who earn from traditional publishing, i wonder?

UK election today. Somehow unchanged commentary from 1905 Daily Mirror (courtesy www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=1... )

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

A report launched today lays bare the challenges facing creators of comics, revealing a landscape of financial instability and chronic overwork, even as the sector… https://downthetubes.net/uk-creators-of-comics-struggling-despite-a-thriving-industry/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Almost 90% of comics creators who earn income from traditional publishing do not earn the national living wage from their work, with 13% relying on state benefits 👇 #BookSky

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

カラスの友を会ったから、今日は良い日と思う。

In all forms of communication, knowing your audience is key. This is true when writing alt text. When describing an image, consider what information, context, and knowledge your audience will have. As today is "May The Fourth," we can use a "Star Wars"-themed example. #MayTheFourth #StarWars

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Meet Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman to have a nationally syndicated comic strip. She used her platform to reshape the image of Black women in American media. Pull up a seat, my friends.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Slightly diminish a book: Moderately risky liasions

I printed my ‘redacted’ font and artwork on a sweater 💪 Release the unredacted files

二週間で、カラス友達に会わなかった。今日、朝ご飯を共に会ったんだ、嬉しい。

❦ Small font & typography resource thread. ➤Let's start with Atipo foundry, a Spanish foundry with a lot of affordable and beautiful fonts, available in various styles. You may have already spotted "Chaney" and "Noway" in my works. www.atipofoundry.com #font #typography

Today in History: Benito Mussolini executed

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

The Mainichi has translated its piece from earlier this month on Tomoaki Ikeda, president of Yudetaro, who takes on critics of the soba chain's postive stance towards hiring overseas workers for its stores. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Hot diggity damn!

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Appreciation post for Nujabes, or Jun Seba. The Japanese record producer and DJ, known as a pioneer of lo-fi hip hop. He died in a car accident in 2010, but he left behind a legacy that still goes strong, to this day. ゆっくり休んでね、ジュン。君にはその資格があるよ。🎐

gYOZA bRAIN [ 📺 | #dorohedoro | #ドロヘドロ | #art ]

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

Get a load of 'c 130 AD Rome' posts over here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_l...

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Well dang it, I guess I like one (1) instance of new music now, please don't revoke my grumpy old person license This album is full of big ol' put-your-whole-back-into-it, swinging for the fences songs and I love it. raye.orcd.co/tmmch-listen Dee-damn-lightful

learning metric conversion via whimsical vintage australian stamps

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study. www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

happy Ding Dong Day to those who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOgd...

友達と朝ごはんを共にした。

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

A lot of people dont like "death dates." And I get it. Why focus on the day someone died - something sad - and not just celebrate the day they were born? But for me, there's something a death date represents better that a day of birth doesnt do as well. Reflection. 🧵