are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

A mischievous reminder that I have a monthly print club on Patreon 👀 www.patreon.com/c/allimackart

People will keep buying physical media, whether it's "approved" to be bought or not. Might as well make official versions and make the money yourself imo. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

George Lucas dismisses people resisting worker exploitation. It's not just creator-types who are exploited to make genAI products. People in Global Majority countries are exploited and traumatized doing data labelling jobs that don't pay a living wage even in a country with a weak currency. 1/

50% of British voters think that Israel is committing genocide. Just 17% disagree. 55% think the UK should no longer consider Israel an ally. 15% think the UK should be an ally of Israel. That's the latest YouGov polling. Support for Israel is a fringe position in Britain.

If you call Beira's Place, the rape shelter JK Rowling set up specifically so she could deny help to rape victims she suspects of being trans, your call is not confidential and may be listened to by JK Rowling, who may tweet to her audience of millions to ridicule you and express contempt for you.

We have billions for pointless wars, but somehow can't pay for human teachers in rural towns. This is a societal failure, not an innovation.

Small Press Expo is proud to present a series of four comics-focused workshops September 5th and 6th, the weekend before the Expo. These classes are hosted by VisArts, a nonprofit organization and hub for artistic exploration and social impact.

I don't wanna hear a damn thing from "A.i." pushers about serving underserved communities, etc. Consumer-facing "A.i." is a scam tool for scammers, period.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

D-3!!

"Lest I Forget", the first Japanese artbook of Sheya ("Wolo"), is coming next month. Pre-orders >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

Relatedly: "Minimum wage is a story about what a society thinks a human life is worth." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Once again, public libraries as infrastructure. We need to find them at a MINIMUM of 0.5% of the city expense budget.

🗂️ History isn't just what institutions preserve. It's also what communities save. Brooke Palmieri explains much of queer history survives because individuals & communities recognized its value when larger institutions didn't. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵

When Ontario has the worst air quality on Earth just remember that the rich capitalists that run Canada from parliament and Bay Street can afford to stay indoors and avoid it. Meanwhile, you and your neighbours choke on it in small insufficiently ventilated apartments and on the streets.

New Study: AI Screening Tools Favor White Candidates and Exclude Black and Asian Candidates theemancipator.org/2026/07/13/n...

What? An "AI" company violating the copyright and intellectual property rights of individual creators who neither licensed nor gave permission for the use of their work? That's so unusual and has never once happened before!

multiple playgrounds and big empty lots within walking distance of my house, with very little car traffic a local pool, bikeable the mall, which had cheap mini golf and snacks a movie theater with very cheap matinee tickets bowling alley bookstores with attached cafes

Sly Cooer sketch

Kusanagi :)

Tifa #FF7 #FinalFantasyVII

"I Will Fight Like I Always Have!" #TeamDark #SonicArt

we really gotta do something about people who sees any anime that isn’t some hyper wholesome ghibli-adjacent thing as immediately perverted or not worth watching because it is the most exhausting way to view anything ever

Marluxia - Eleventh member of Organization XIII - Kingdom Hearts

When does science fiction start becoming reality? Kevin Cormack takes a trip through Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell to ascertain how much of its tech is on its way to the real world.

Like seriously revoke the medical licenses of anyone who prescribes testosterone on this basis.

a fun thing about testosterone is that having too much of it can make you depressed and violent, and also having too little of it can make you depressed and violent

Seriously. You'll burn out, your passion will wane, and you'll quickly find yourself struggling to keep it going because of how finite the possibilities to discuss the one game/series is.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Before Trump's speech tomorrow night promoting the Big Lie, read up on the Trump administration's "chum cycle," in which they launder declassified docs through friendly media and claim falsely they prove scandal and crime. www.mediamatters.org/john-solomon...

Reminder to contact your representatives about these bills. FftF has a handy website for tracking progress as well as contacting your reps!

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

You may not be the most celebrated character, but you still have your fans and people who want to inspire hope and determination to make a better future like you. Happy 20th, Silver the Hedgehog. #silver #silverthehedgehog #sonic #sega #edit

oh man, i was so close

Note the date

True! Don’t let anyone tell you it’s impossible: they said that to Hollywood, too. Everything we want has already been fought for and won in similar industries, and the bosses are hoping we forget that! We won’t!!!

More & more of our culture now exists only in digital form … but libraries can’t preserve what they don’t own. As books 📚, music 🎵, film 🎞️, and news 📰 shift from ownership to licensing, long-term access is becoming harder to guarantee. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil... 🧵⬇️

Final Fantasy VII fanart circa 2015-2016 (3/5)

Final Fantasy VII fanart circa 2015-2016 (4/5)

i see the rumor mill is suggesting the ailing and unpopular nazi pedophile president is going to make a statement soon on how prior elections were invalid so i feel that now is a good time to bump this one

And if anyone needs Jan 6 footage, or a review of all Trump's bullshit lawsuits and maneuvers in 2020, feel free to reach out. (The Jan 6 Big Timeline has the whole buildup other than some legal stuff.) Again, please! You have 3 days. Enough to write an article, not just transcribe a speech. 2/

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.

These still remain some of my favorite FFVII fanarts. The fact that Zack was not only on the run for nearly a year but doing so across two continents while being essentially being Cloud’s personal medical caretaker because of his semi-comatose condition still really gets me in my feels.