The thing we love about art, the connection between human beings across time and space and the sharing of emotion and expression, that's the thing the AI backers specifically hate. They just want objects to buy and sell which can't criticize or question them, or ever make them think.

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Now this is Content

[7] Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a giant in the rekindling of a Finnish sense of identity. Aino Myth (1891) is considered his masterpiece. Lemminkäinen’s Mother (1897) is another work derived from Finnish folklore, as is Kullervo Cursing (1899)

An art lesson. news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...

Happy fall stoat day

small dumb comic about c2e122 if the Nein had ever found out about Caleb’s room #criticalrole #cr2 #themightynein #criticalrolefanart #calebwidogast #defilerwyrmart

Morning walk

Next up: Halandil Fang (Liam O’Brien’s / @voiceofobrien.bsky.social character)! 🎶✨ Somehow he ended up less “lighthearted bard” and more mysterious troubadour in a smoky tavern. Had a lot of fun with the stage shadows and atmosphere. #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #osrart

An adorable cosy doodle of the wizards by @drawsmaddy.bsky.social Thank you so much 💜🧡 #Shadowgast #criticalrolefanart #mightynein #art

BE NOT AFRAID

Very happy Stanislav Petrov day - the man who saved every last one of us from becoming thermonuclear barbecue in '83.

[update] Completed: #AO3 is back sooner than expected, and we have new and improved options for browsing collections! Get the details on collection tags at AO3 News: https://ao3-news.org/collection-tags

[update] In Progress: #AO3 is about halfway through the first part of maintenance. We expect this part to last about 5 more hours. The second, final part of maintenance should be quicker.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

#AO3 will be going down for about 20 hours of maintenance at 05:30 UTC, two hours earlier than previously announced. Check what time that is for you: ao3-news.org/maint2025092...

It can happen to you. Never give up on the dream.

still play this in my head at least once a day

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes."

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

They've lost the 9yos

It’s beautiful!!

Here's the same thing happening above London (the other one, in Ontario, Canada) in 2018. Again: these are NOT spotlights shining upwards. And they aren't any form of aurora. Also, they aren't actually there, even though everyone can see them. Deeply, deeply weird, this. 2/

Your Irish River moment of peace.

Incredible history of humans on this earth and how the ocean wants to swallow us

For the record, if I still have fans after I die and someone does this to me, I will come back from the dead and inhabit the soulless corporate parody of my existence just to invoke a curse on everyone involved.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

FYI that REBUILD is always open to more counselors and therapists of color joining this network. So if that's you, sign up to learn more about the work on 9/25.

The trouble with tiny zines is uh, they're fun, and you want to read and make more of them. Now I just need some zine friends. (This is an assortment I'm offering at a non-zine-specific shindig coming up. They are mostly by other people, a few are mine.)

So interesting. www.openculture.com/2025/09/an-a...

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

Bruh

For years whenever we were overwhelmed by how much we had to do my sister and I would joke that perhaps society would collapse before we’d have to do it all, but today when I said this instead of laughing she just said: I don’t think that’s funny anymore.

As a long-time Redford fanfic connoisseur, have a rec thread in memoriam. Starting with The Sting and including fics for Sneakers, Spy Game, MCU, and Butch Cassidy including one little RPF fic. #ficrecs

Do I know anyone in the SC area who knows someone (or *is* someone) who wants to adopt two cats? I desperately need to find a home for my parents' two cats. I already have three, so I can't take them. They are boarding at their vet while I look, and I have to go home to PA in less than a week.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

This Day in Labor History: September 17, 1989. 98 miners and one minister conducted a peaceful takeover of the Pittston Moss 3 Coal Preparation Plant. This was one of the few victories of the late 20th century for organized labor!

This one is also one of my absolute favorites. Carpathia's absolutely astonishing run to rescue Titanic survivors. Fucking heroic as hell.

One of the greats has passed. Robert Redford was a celebrated actor, director, and someone who held a mirror up to America. His work will live on, but we Ordinary People will feel The Sting of his loss for years. Rest among the stars now, and when you see heaven, may a River Run Through It.

This one hurts. RIP Robert Redford. Here's a fun story from yesterday.

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

How do we fix this mess?

Open call for submissions! Seeking paranormal stories that centre asexual, aromantic, and aspec characters Ghouls and ghosts, werewolves and vampires, cryptids and those that search for them — we want to see them 👀👻 Open from Sept. 15th to November 30th paranormal-aspecs.carrd.co 🌈📚🪐💙

🎮The games industry is full of people driving accessibility. 🏆The Scope Awards are open & I'd love to see us represented. ♿Nominate one of the many brilliant champions making games & workplaces more inclusive: 🔗 www.scope.org.uk/awards

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Interrupting your doomscrolling for a brief timeline cleanser

Kitties!