Y’all I’ve gotten to read parts of this as Robin developed it (my ‘Druid’ in her campaign is, in fact, a dream witch!! shock, gasp, etc) and I’m so looking forward to leaning fully into that in game.

After months of development ✨ the Witch Class is LIVE ✨. With FIVE subclasses, NEW mechanics, NEW spells, NEW poisons, witch lore, and a SMASHING cover by @netizenses.bsky.social, go check it out now on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/witch-...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s warm enough to leave the door to the garden open for the first time and the old man cat is just having the best day - he’s going out and puddling in the sunshine and then strolling back upstairs to check what I’m up to. I just hear this little croak from beside me that means ‘scritches pls’ 😂

there's something about the month of march. it's when you get asked to say yes to a lot of things, and in your head you're like "it's still the start of the year!" and "that's soooooo far away!" and I'm here to tell you that october-you is calling and she is SO MAD.

If, like me, you’re faintly incandescent with rage about how this CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM, consider chucking a signature on this: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

You know, the part I had not previously understood about authoritarian/fascist regimes, is just how fucking dumb their chosen footsoldiers are 😒

Looking at this side by side in the ten most viewed stories across the Guardian’s website and feeling absolutely insane tbqh

Anyways.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Pubs in Newcastle standing up to the onslaught of AI slop appearing in the sector 🖤🤍🖤🤍 love the toon! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I went to art school... I had no clue this is what people meant by "warm ups". Like, a whole routine? Each part specific and functional? Dang. Probably would have less "forgot how to draw" days if I did these every time. I'm gonna try it.

being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die

You want hilarity in your dnd game? Give your party of four who all have 8 strength, a strength based challenge 😂

Age verification? I'd nudge you on MSN

Three witches down, one to go.

Oops all witches

generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023 people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip

bringing this gem back

✨An exercise in DM Frustration ✨ Crafting what you’re certain will be a fantastic encounter... and your players sit in a single choke point before promptly retreating behind cover again. Let's change that with 10 FREE options to get players moving around the map. www.patreon.com/posts/tips-a...

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

‘I had a lot of equipment and ink and I was very very angry’ is a beautiful sentence in this context ( @dansinker.com I think you’ll appreciate this one)

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I feel seen

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

Results show:  - A 900% increase in breeding birds and 500% rise in nightingales - In some areas, butterfly species have doubled while dragonflies and damselflies have increased by nearly 900% - A 600% increase in turtle doves, with 22 singing males in 2024 – up from two in 2008 🧵4/5

After two decades of letting nature lead at Knepp Estate, the species recovery has been phenomenal 🦋 The @kneppwilding.bsky.social story is well known. 20 years ago, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree's land was managed farmland and the business was struggling. 🧵1/5

Dr. Rheumatologist, watching me sit down on the exam table: ah, a beautiful demonstration of hypermobility! Me: I fucking KNEW IT

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

Get you a DM who builds mini games into your dungeon 😂😂😂😂 @whatrobindoes.bsky.social #dungeonsandsragons #dnd #frosties

running sky follower bridge in hopes that more people will stay here instead of the other place 👋 Hi! Please stay, I'm here! :D

important message to all bluesky users

Me, who has been clearing out the last vestiges of a decades worth of crap from her house: man now these boxes are gone I really need to go over the forgotten spaces with a magnifying glass and the hoover Jamie, crawling under the skirting: don’t worry mum I got it!

Happy holidays one and all - But especially to the like.. 100 of you who appeared overnight. I assume I've been added to a starter pack somewhere. In the interest of sharing, here's my starter pack for 100% certified human artists: go.bsky.app/Nw4pFee

Hey, artists remember this: No matter how many pieces you made this year you're an artist, even if you only made 1. If you are super active or if you only have time / energy to pop up once in a while, no matter how big or small, you are still part of the art community 🙌 I love u artists

NEW DTIYS!! To celebrate 80k followers on Instagram I have made a draw this in your style-challenge for the new year! You can include your own wishes for the year or not, and remake this drawing (or the one without text in the following post) in your way!! :D #byJessicaElena80k #dtiys

I often stop a painting partway bc something feels off in the execution. I pull it apart, put it back together again and the end result is so much better, more focused on the original goal for it. That's part of the process. If I skip that part, the results are less polished, and less meaningful.

Was very happy to contribute some thoughts to this excellent article 🙏

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

Me: I’ve been coughing for like a month, I figured it’d just go away on its own?? Doctor: yeah so that there is viral bronchitis, congrats Me: oh man, so what are my treatment options??? Doctor:……wait for it to go away on its own

Scientists if you’re like “man I wish more people knew about X” then I humbly suggest hiring an artist to make a thing that communicates X and then put it into the world because it’s so fun, extremely “hell yeah” inducing, you gotta try it.

Happy old year