No one asked for this.

I logged into Behance for the first time in a while. They had a survey which was all about AI. Bleh.

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Remember kids. Companies no longer change their logos on Pride month because pandering to queer people is no longer profitable. Keep it that way. Support your local queer artists.

Introducing the Montréal Victoire: the first Canadian team to bring the Walter Cup home to Canada. Your victory was a milestone for women’s hockey — and a proud moment for all Canadians. 🇨🇦

I'm super-grateful to the amazing creators who have praised and supported STILL FRIENDS thus far. I'm also super-disappointed (and a bit baffled) that Foreward Reviews and CanLlit for LIttle Canadians are the ONLY major review outlets to have covered it. A First World Problem, yes. But c'mon! 😠

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Hey, for those of you on #neocities, I was wondering: what do you host your images on (to get the img urls)? Any sites that don't get taken down?

big ideas require big pencils! #kidlitart #illustration

Using A.I. to generate images IS NOT real art. Pass it on.

Nearly 1/2 of kids in the USA live in “book deserts” — communities w/o access to public libraries, bookstores, or adequate reading materials Sign the petition to end book deserts in the USA! Via @everylibrary.bsky.social #library #kidlit #read #reading #righttoread action.everylibrary.org/s4028

Kitty cat, looking back

Bleh, even a simple web search is full of AI results. Apparently soon Google search will be replaced with AI as well.

"I don't want to write my newsletter or organize my links. So I use Claude AI to do that for me. This way my paid newsletter subscribers get what they want without me needing to always do that work." Wow, so you care so little that you can't do the work. Why should anyone support you?

@cloudflare.social Is there a way to report a website using Cloudflare? I found a site for MAP/Pedos which I'm sure Cloudflare wouldn't like.

water your plants

AI dudes will go “you MUST use AI! The revolution is HERE!” Nah bro. Why would I want AI to read and write and draw for me? Reading and writing and drawing are FUN. I’ll use AI as soon as it can clean my house. But given its proclivities, I expect it would “clean my house” by setting it on fire.

Dan Da Dan seasons 1 and 2 were pretty good. I look forward to season 3.

We had an incident today involving the two baby robins near our front porch. I looked outside to see chaos, two crows were swooping and cawing, the robins were going crazy, and one of the babies was down on the lawn, ten feet from the nest. 1/

Today's #Muppet GIF of the Day is...

A friend in an alleyway

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

I had some nice yogurt with some blueberries and a little honey in it. 🤤

Union, KDE's new style engine, will be released with Plasma 6.7. Check out how it works and what changes it introduces to styling and theming for Plasma. quantumproductions.info/articles/202... Are you into theming? Take it for a spin and share what you build with Union! #theming #design

The best time to leave Substack is when the Nazis showed up, which was years ago. Every day after is a bit worse, so the best time still available to Substack publishers is right now. There's countless not-openly-welcoming-to-Nazis options, including Ghost, beehiiv, Kit, Keila, and many more.

Frog party :) #art #illustration #cuteart

Pasta (2016) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

Please help stop yet another book banning bill. Children should have the #RightToRead 📚❤️ #stopbookbans #bookbanning #bookbans #fightbookbans Please sign the petition (and/or donate) @everylibrary.bsky.social

Please, even if you use chatgpt (why would you follow me?!) do NOT do this! Don't give them your biometrics. Do not give them anything personal at all. 🫠

This mouse has figured out the secret to happiness in the digital age: Direct delivery of things that actually make you laugh. No doomscrolling. No "suggested content" that's somehow both aggressive and depressing.

#3313 Some plants are hairy, what's up with that?

I consider it an honor to be on an AI-haters blocklist. You’re saying I’m not a loser? Thanks!

Got back from my yearly eye exam. I don't need new glasses but am now on an eye drop. One bottle costs around $130. I went with the smaller bottle ($80) this time because I had a bad reaction to the last drops I had and had to stop taking them right away.

A cat in a tree! 🐱 🐥 those leaves took me forever #art #KidLitArt #watercolour

Prints on my inprnt shop are 15% off. www.inprnt.com/gallery/soma...

I think these are the only drawings I have with dogs?

#3311 Manbird

Turtles also enjoy a new book at their fav reading spot. 🐢📚 Little original sketch looking for a home. $55 (DM to claim)

New Boards of Canada album coming soon?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgh...

#3304 A sad story that is unfortunately all too common.

For #repostyourart prompt "artist" - have some artist cats!!

From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.

I keep watching this. Haven't seen somebody more over somebody's bullshit in a long time.

Today, all good people celebrate the April 9, 1865 surrender of the traitor Lee and his slavery-supporting army at Appomattox to the U.S Army led by General Grant.

Sketch vs. colour for another page. #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartist #childrensbooks #picturebook #picturebookartist #picturebookillustration #kidlitillustration #childrensillustration

Pickles. Thank you for your attention to this matter. TTG