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.

#FFXIV FanFest is neither a safe nor accessible convention. -People asking for disability accessibility need to have a phone call to prove their needs -they then must agree to specific accessibility accommodations within 24 hours of a follow up email or schedule another full phone call. 1/6

sighing and staring into the distance. I love stories

A completely inscrutable anime OVA from 1985 was in the US box office top 5 for a couple of days, congrats angels egg www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0208...

Near You, Beside You A comic about siblings growing close and then apart, and the thing that connects them 1/5

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

I wish I could take a picture of my cats' silly expressions fast enough before they move away

This tweet from Jesse Hamm changed the way I saw my art, eternally grateful for his wisdom

I read Ichi the Witch this week and it's been on my mind so much... such a lovely and whimsical little adventure with very endearing characters

The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

it feels really good to play a game that is kind of re-centering me artistically and making me ask questions of myself and what I want to create

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

the desire to rest on Sunday because I finally have no plans vs. the need to do chores because I finally have time

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

staying up to find a singing voice to assign to one of my characters, because that's more important than sleep

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

I love being afforded the opportunity to blab about bears

Been having the struggle of longing to watch a video essay, but not having the mental capacity to watch a whole video essay lately 😔

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

"Every little bit helps save another cat, which is definitely worth it to me." The Cozy Cat Jam fundraiser is happening now raising much-needed funds for rescue cats. Support if you can! #CatSky #IndieGames

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Super glad I got to check out Worlds today! Lots of fun stuff and really happy I got some freebies to collect 🩵 It was devastating to hear kids wanting to buy cards and their parents being priced out, though :/ I wish I knew how this scalping could all stop