Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

heartening thread here. there is real, meaningful work we can do to protect our communities, we can learn how to do it from each other, and we don't have to do it alone.

lying in bed with my cat is absolutely what I needed at the end of the day today

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Are you a writer or narrative designer attending GDC? For the first time, GDC is hosting a Narrative Portfolio Review Workshop! I've assembled a literal dream team of Senior/Lead narrative folks to review portfolios, so bring your materials! Deets: schedule.gdconf.com/session/narr...

been planning a game and had to force myself to go to bed instead of continuing to write things down

I'm a game writer & narrative designer open to any full-time, part-time, or contract opportunities with a preference for remote work, #PortfolioDay! 3 years' exp bringing meaning to gameplay, depth to characters, & emotional manipulation of your target market through deft language. jisaacgadient.com

A neighbor was taken to a care facility, and her little tortoiseshell kitty was left behind. I can't take her in but I've been feeding her and giving her water every day. No one in the neighbor's family can take her in. Is there anyone in the Inland Empire area that could foster or adopt her?

18 hours left. Roughly $2,700 to go to goal. LET'S GO LESBIANS, LET'S GO! 👏👏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

Kassie, a witch who can use divination magic. The only thing she loves more than treasure is the adventurous life of a pirate! #OCArt #CharacterDesign #FantasyArt #キャラクターデザイン

very recharging today to go to an art center with my friend and check out an exhibit featuring local poets

Only 538 more backers until we've beaten the odds! Honestly even if this Kickstarter fails, the sheer love and support makes me want to give backers something as thanks. Other than the original game that's currently free anyway. Women of Xal II, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

NEW: Jonathan Ross is former National Guard and Border Patrol and has been part of ICE's SWAT equivalent, a team leader overseeing FBI, ATF, and IRS agents, and a firearms instructor, according to testimony obtained by WIRED. This is from @hudsongiles.bsky.social and me:

Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.

Sorry, folks. Seven days to go and 50% funded. We'll need a modern internet miracle to see these lovely ladies get their sequel. I was always worried that the visuals were not appealing to most VN gamers, but... ouch www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro... #indiegame #Kickstarter #Gaming #pcgame #free

and i'm guessing--i don't know for sure--but guessing that some large percentage of these were responding to mental health crises

i do not want the state to have the authority to kill people! not random mothers driving by! not people the state thinks look like they could commit crimes! not people who we think probably did commit crimes! not people who definitely, absolutely committed crimes! no one!!!

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Truly nothing can activate my hunting instincts like spotting a mosquito in the room

VGC asked a bunch of video game composers about their favourite music from 2025. 🎵 Game OST enthusiasts, this is for you! See what hits and what you might have missed from the musicians themselves. DL: www.videogameschronicle.com/features/thi...

@babblingbear.bsky.social’s Dark-type trainer and his Houndoom! #art #ocart #pokemon #イラスト

favourite spell #frieren #art

I love reaching the title drop of a story (whether literally a phrase or the thing or incident it’s named for) and being like Aha!!!!

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

something about working the days leading up to Christmas feels very unreal, like these are fake days

the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

En Route to Floaroma Town 🌷 #art #PixelArt #ドット絵 #イラスト

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

Support us dry dry humans

Cleaning would be SO much nicer if I weren’t miserably sensitive to dust and reduced to sneezing and wet eyes every time!!

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

little winter joys~🌲🎁💌 #art #watercolor #cozyart

AI dubs aren't just an attempt to replace voice actors. Engineering, mixing, writing, directing, and QC are also cut, narrowed down to a single prompter. When I write dub scripts, it is an exercise in musicality, translation, and personal life experience. A prompter understands none of that.

I finished my book I brought on my trip out of town and was like “what will I read now,” and then hours later remembered I brought a SECOND book all along. a stroke of genius

i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.