WATCH: Mandla Mandela’s son sends heartfelt message to abducted dad

It feels impossible to watch a YouTube video essay about a movie without them mentioning Harry Potter. There are plenty of other movies you can use as examples, stop bringing up the TERF franchise. All 3 of these videos include mentions of Harry Potter. Like, enough already.

Had an early morning visitor to the Garden today! They look SO goofy from the front lmao

Just before my usual walk today, my dad made a comment about keeping an eye out, because it's "puffadder season". Not a big fan of living somewhere with a puffadder season now 😬

November is Trans Awareness Month. But that title seems ill-fit to current politics, so I chose a better one for the Itch book bundle I'm hosting Nov 1-14. Authors, if your MC is trans (yes including nonbinary!) and your book meets the criteria bellow, let me know and I'll DM you the sign up form!

as we see the flotilla volunteeers intercepted and abducted and undoubtedly imprisoned with palestinians who would've been tortured way worse without western witnesses, i feel the need to remind ppl that canada and usa placed samidoun, the palestinian prison solidarity network, on the terror list

My book, the Full Moon Problem, turns a year old in less than 2 weeks, and it'd be SO cool if it managed to get to 100,000 page reads before its anniversary.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

Whenever I get used to seeing a dog in a collar, and then see it without the collar, I feel shocked at them being naked. Even though the collar covers like 1% of their body 😂

Woo, I just finished my self edits on the novella I started writing in August 🥳

Acting like everyone is just "extra mad" cuz they dont allow depictions of rape is a really gross oversimplification of the issue. Im sorry but non-consent has a long and storied presence in art of ALL kinds and trying to cast those defending its presence as angry degenerates is foul

It'd be really cool and fun to not be exhausted all the time 🙃

Been using a lot of speech-to-text for writing lately because typing hurts my wrist, and it ALWAYS thinks when I say "Met her gaze" what I mean is "Makes her gays"

Bird watching is going on 2 different forest walks in the hope of finding new birds, getting 1 new bird on my life list, and having that bird species show up in my back garden a few days later.

Fucking spell check man. I typed "regreted" and it autocorrects to regrated instead of regretted. Doesn't even have regretted come up as a secondary option. And if you regrated into Google, you get a "did you mean regretted" pop up. Like yes, I did mean regretted, tell the fucking spell check that.

A plumpy tawny owl and the moon🌙 #illustration #art #artwork #bird #animalart #birdart #originalart #owl #tawnyowl #birdwatching #digitalart

It's my BIRTHDAY TODAY 🥳 So, I think I'm allowed to ask for some shares of my art, hehe

It's funny how I refused to eat mushrooms as a kid, as a teenager I cut them up tiny so I could swallow them without chewing, and spent most of my 20s trying to aquire a taste for mushrooms, and now mushrooms are like the number 2 thing on my grocery list every week.

The Full Moon Problem ebook is free today! Grab it while you can! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJT1T1X5

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers 📚 #BookCovers

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

The Full Moon Problem ebook is free today! Grab it while you can! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJT1T1X5

Ugh, I'm watching The Traitors Canada season 2, and there's an art challenge and of course all the art is AI-generated 😑 This show should spend less money on the host's ugly outfits and hired real artists. Or just fucking public domain art with some creative Photoshop.

I'm gonna post this year in the hopes it might find the right people. I'm writing a novella with an Autistic trans woman and an auADHD trans man who are both about 40, and I have some questions about growing up Autistic in South Africa if you're around that age

Artists! Post your hot men #art!!!!! Declan 💙

A lot of South African National Parks have free entry in the week around Heritage Day, so we went to do some forest walks today.

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

the people who want fiction to be manuals teaching you what to think or feel about politics/life aren't artists. you're thinking of propagandists.

Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this #bskycensorship

Was looking at the street view of Lake Brenton because I heard there might be a nice walk to do there, and there's SO many buck in street view

Surprise surprise, I've been saying this for years. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

I'm gonna post this year in the hopes it might find the right people. I'm writing a novella with an Autistic trans woman and an auADHD trans man who are both about 40, and I have some questions about growing up Autistic in South Africa if you're around that age

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

I have zero patience for people who cannot distinguish between reality and fiction. Censorship is not the answer - they're coming for you next.

There's already SO many layers in this drawing and I haven't even started shading yet 💀

How do I block the word "rapture" from every single social media I use. Because I don't care. I don't care. I don't want to know about people's weird religious psychosis, I don't think your jokes are funny, I don't give a fuck. Can we please move on to the next stupid thing already.

My mid-day brain fog has been BAD this week 🫠

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

Had a malachite sunbird visit the garden the the first time 😍 (his tongue is sticking out)

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

It's once again "I Don't Want To" Monday 😔

the reason you don't engage in a data-driven argument with fascists is that it legitimises the idea that if the data went the other way their core argument would be acceptable it is not and should be rejected wholesale from first principles

Put off a task for 3 weeks that only took 13 minutes to complete 🙃

I hate that Google took away the shopping tab from me. Like I don't know how to shop for anything online anymore.

I drew porn for fun now I'm drawing it for fun and spite

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

Met the cutest puppy at the farmer's market this morning and I can't stop thinking about him 😭