Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Banned Books - Gator Days

My recent favourite I borrowed from tiktokker kellykozzy, but it's brought me nothing but pain since I heard it, so I'll share it here: What would Obama say if he were a turtle whose home was being repossessed? Michelle

Peppers are behind, but the balcony herb garden was otherwise a rousing success this year

When you're in the middle of sorting your denim scraps, and your phone says there's a frost coming, but the peppers you've spent all summer growing on your balcony aren't quite ready yet. It seemed reasonable until I actually got them in the apartment. I have this same problem with ikea furniture.

Theft was just the first stage Doubt is the real threat that Ai poses to artists.

Things have stacked for me up this year, and I couldn't send one of my usual prize donations to #sgdq2025. I still donated what I could because I do believe in the work that @msf.ca does and the power of the @gamesdonequick.com community. Still time to get your donation in this evening. gdq.gg

You could take a fire hose to my whole library, but ever since I started grad school, nobody has seen me walking around and thought: "There's someone who gets a healthy amount of sunlight."

I was reading the back of my toothpaste while brushing, and the directions told me to "expectorate". If I need to read the directions on the back of the toothpaste what makes you think I know what "expectorate" means. I only know it because it's one of the things nobody does like Gaston.

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A paradox for the digital age: The more one is asked to verify their humanity, the less human they are.

It's been about 6 months since I started carrying one of my Cadre wallets every day, and that's when I usually like to revisit my designs. In an effort to be more active on social media, I'm going to write some of my thoughts from my design check-up on here as a thread. #design #leatherwork

For anyone that is having a hard day, here's a pretty flower for you from my mom's greenhouse.

After receiving some online encouragement, I've shown Moto GO! to a few people over the last few weeks. So far, the response has been really positive, and people have further pushed me to #publish. I've never published a full physical copy of a #boardgame, so the question has to be asked... how?

A close-up of the game pieces I carved for Moto GO!. I'm really happy with this design, that I figured how to have them wheelie and lean so I could include that in the game. A little rough, and in need of some colour, but there wasn't time for everything. #boardgames #boardgamedesign #gamedesign

Are you normal, or did you not have a gift for your niece's birthday, so you conceived, designed, prototyped, and packaged a board game from scratch in a week? So anyway, let me introduce Moto GO! A #motorcycle #racing #game for 2-6 people. #boardgames #boardgamedesign #boardgamesky #gamedesign

I need a better way to prototype game pieces than carving them by hand. At the very least, I should have taken the extra time to find a piece of wood that wasn't oak. #boardgames #boardgamedesign #gamedesign #boardgamesky #woodwork #woodcarving

Half the fun of learning a new program is relearning it every few weeks because you don't use it enough for the info to stick. The other half is looking stuff up and realizing that everything that has stuck is all just "common rookie mistakes."

Day 39 of avoiding a design project I'm really stuck on: I made myself a new hat. It's mostly hand sewn and fully lined, so that should give you some reference on how bad my creative block is right now. Newsboy cap, cotton denim and thread, with poly thread in the linen liner.

Day 36 of avoiding a design project that I'm stuck on: I dusted off my grandma's old bread maker and made bread.

I'm just going to hype my mom for a minute: She grew a #pineapple in the middle of a north-central Alberta winter. I don't think there's anything I else I need to say about that. #greenhouse #gardening

Good evening to everyone who isn't the person who ripped the door handle off of my car.

I love that I got here just as the great ceramicist migration was starting. It's been fun to see a lot of the people I know, either irl or by reputation, pop up on my feed. As big as the craft communities are, it always amazes me how small they can feel.

I like the idea of Monster Hunter Wilds, but I'm not sure I can play it. All the creatures look friend shaped, and hunting them makes me a bit sad. Is there a Monster Gatherer Wilds?

Whomever decided uppercase "i" and lowercase "L" would be the same did not forsee a future in which AI exists alongside people named Al.

I recently had to find a new printer to handle larger #prints of my Hy Art #paintings, so now I have mediocre test prints hanging around that aren't good enough to sell. This "Pipe Dream" one can liven up the work table for now. Wish I had room for a large format printer in our little apartment.

People say Trump practices divisive politics, but I would argue he's great at uniting people. Almost entirely against him, of course.

Trying a new thing where I'm not allowed to be on social media unless I'm on a treadmill. It helps to slow down the treadmill first, but we live and learn.

One strange part of being a self-employed designer and craftsperson (aka. underemployed) is how easily I lose track of long weekends. I guess I'm not shipping this order of prints today. See you tomorrow, locked post office.

TLDR: the loophole is late-stage capitalism

Me at every family gathering. Except I'm part of "they" in this scenario.

We need to come up with unique country codes for political parties like they have for airports. I'll see someone upset at Tories for their a liberal labour policies, And I'm left trying to figure out if we're talking liberals, Liberals, libs, labour, Labour, and which freaking Tories.

I usually do all my social media posting at one of two times: When I should start working or When I should start sleeping Although it is nice of this app to keep receipts to remind me which I'm not doing enough of.

My partner and I made a cake for my grandmother's 90th birthday. I had to share because I genuinely think this was the best #cake I've ever had. This thing had over 1.2 kg of #darkchocolate in the #chocolate sponge, salted chocolate swiss meringue #buttercream, and dark chocolate #ganache.

I find it oddly comforting to find keywords from my thesis on these lists of banned words that fascists keep publishing. Reminds me why I started the work in the first place.

I was otherwise occupied today, but I went and watched Kendrick Lamar's halftime show after the fact. Bookending the performance with"the revolution will not be televised" and "turn the TV off"? Phenomenal.

My Glyph Morse Code pendants. Originally part of a request to #design #jewellery for someone who was visually impaired, Glyph is now my most popular collection. The 7 pendants one is a #haiku, there's a closeup of the titanium bail, last one shows off the #anodizing colours for the #titanium.

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

*old work, nfs* More old #jewellery. This was my second attempt with "pin setting", called "Sidereus No.2: Cor". I tried to push the shape of the stone that I could set this way. #Titanium, #18Kgold, and a #heartshaped #rhodolite stone. Good #valentinesday post, I guess.

*old work, nfs* I wanted to share some of my older #jewellery work on here. This is "Sidereus No.1: Novus". #Titanium and #emerald. It was my first attempt at a process I called "pin setting", where long pins are used to hold a gem in a protective metal cage. I had access to a #laserwelder then.

This is "Hone" A companion piece to "Crucible", Hone is about the paradox refining a skill: the order of #repetition with the #chaos of being on the leading edge. The soothing blues with the hot oranges. While made together, I feel they display best with some space between them. #art #alttextart

What's a professional way to say "I didn't respond to your email for two days because I got a new game"?

Semantically, I understand the argument of people who say that audiobooks are not "reading", they are listening. Academically, audiobooks are cited like any other book, just with time stamps instead of page numbers. Since academics are basically cops for reading, I say it counts.

I am a Canadian designer. 90% of my online customers are from the United States. It's a good thing I have leather punches because I'm probably going to have to tighten my belt before this tariff situation is over.

I've always seen this as one of the core values of craft. We don't make something for everyone. We make things that are everything to someone.

My priority mug. Every morning, I pick four #priority tasks that have to get done today: First - the most urgent Focus - sustained energy Fast - a 15-minute win For me - self care I designed a #mug that I can write on, wash off, and start fresh tomorrow. No more #stickynote pile for me! #design

Alas, poor Yorick #Balatro

Crucible Another from the first release of my Hy Art collection. For me, Crucible looks like a hammer over hot metal in my jewellery shop. I see this painting as a reminder that under enough heat, anything can melt, but that's just how we start a new project.

People cannot survive on calamity alone. I need news, facts, and opinions, sure, but also: I need art I need craft I need design I need memes I need cute animal gifs I need humour I need passion I need growth I need to see people doing cool things, being frivolous, and learning. I need humanity.

I've never made a starter pack because I'm terrified of forgetting someone. And I probably did. But here ya go, I tried my best! Several of these accounts are new but I know them from the other place and want to help them get established here. go.bsky.app/FHuvfX3