also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Doing a late night Sonic stream for his birthday!! Just starting with some classic Sonic for now, but might move on to some other stuff later. We'll seeeee #sonic #vtuber twitch.tv/samthesilkie

Hoping to do more Art Fight this year to figure out commission ideas (and have some fun!) #artfight #teamtragedy artfight.net/~SamTheSilkie

*mouth on the mic* um, I need you to know we will never change. don't ask us to. don't ask us for anything. please give us between 5 and 50 dollars or you're betraying democracy. thank you.

Doing a late night Sonic stream for his birthday!! Just starting with some classic Sonic for now, but might move on to some other stuff later. We'll seeeee #sonic #vtuber twitch.tv/samthesilkie

Graphic design is my passion.

Hoping to do more Art Fight this year to figure out commission ideas (and have some fun!) #artfight #teamtragedy artfight.net/~SamTheSilkie

Workshopping a new theory of modern life called The $600 where every couple of months some faceless god determines that you get hit with a bill for $600 for something (your car, your pet, taxes, healthcare). Nothing in my adult life has been more true than this.

found a cute chicken

I hate these people with every cell in my body. I feel I need to say this at least weekly to keep myself from exploding in rage.

Made some references for my new Ecco-inspired beach outfit. Thanks as always to @voxid.bsky.social for the always great model work!

Real conflicted on getting Axel since Sega has crushed my excitement for Crazy Taxi

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

Tove Jansson's illustrated THE HOBBIT is finally getting an English-language edition

One of the things I hate is that I cannot just google "is X safe for dogs" anymore because even sources I would have thought previously were safe are clearly using AI generated content.

Together, no matter what.

As if there weren't enough reasons to boycott Ben & Jerry's already. I really hope they can get the company back from Unilever eventually

I adore Witch Hat Atelier. The anime has adapted the manga so beautifully. It's reignited a love for not only creating art but studying it and its history, so I was so happy when @crunchyroll.com reached out to partner on a commission. Please watch WHA! #crunchyrollpartner #witchhatatelier

Here's a look at #Sonic Channel's new #sonicpict and calendar artwork for July 2026, featuring Cream the Rabbit and Cheese the Chao travelling through Route 99. #SonicNews 🔗 sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannel... #SonicNews

HANGYODON SHADOW !!!

oh my god something Sonic-related in New York again!! I don't think this has happened since Sonic rode a Zamboni in Bryant Park 16 years ago

Happy Birthday to a legend against oppression The pro mental health king

This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.

Moomin with a zweihänder 💙

35YRS HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONIC‼️

birthday sonic n eggman

🎨Happy 35th Anniversary to my fave lil guy Sonic! 💙🎉💙 #sonic35th #sonicthehedgehog

Sick of these content creators on YouTube using AI for thumbnails and using the "UWU I'm just a widdle creator I'm not an artist" excuse. YouTubers didn't need AI before, they learned Photoshop, they drew their own thumbnails, they hired artists. It just tells me I shouldn't watch your videos.

GUYS, IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I DID ART FOR SEGA!!! I honestly can't find the proper words to describe how happy this made me, so for now I'll just say: thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, and I'm so honored to be a part of this celebration Happy 35th Birthday Sonic!

He did the meme

There are people still on X. That blows my mind. In the year of our lord 2026, there are people posting on the nazi/sex trafficker/child sex’abuse material website because they think it’s helping their business or their brand or their journalism. It’s ridiculous. It’s embarrassing.

仕事の締め切りを今週は複数抱え込んでいるので今年はラフしか描けなかったです😅 時間が出来たらそのうち仕上げます。 #ソニック35周年

👑🎂 #sonic | #sonic35th | #sega

yeah i'm not immune she's really cute #tadcspoilers #tadc #jax

DO EXERCISES FOR YOUR HANDS AND ARMS TO PREVENT CARPAL TUNNEL AND INJURY

If you have access to irl figure drawing in your area, do it. I swear that most of my skill came from doing a class weekly on the regular, where I didn't even notice the improvement as it was happening.

oh here's another, related to clarity: I know you can zoom in as much as you want and make your brush as tiny as you want digitally, but: don't haha draw at AT MOST twice whatever zoom your comic will be viewed at and choose a handful of sizes for your brush. choose them based on what's *legible*

I don't need to explain myself #tadcspoilers #tadc #jax

I’ve been laboring over a simple writing task for HOURS which feels bad, but I’d rather spend a whole day trudging through the thick sludgy cement of my ADHD brain than to let some algorithm hork out a soulless pastiche of human thought!

FNAF is ontologically evil because it's so hyper-tuned for neurodivergent children to fixate on instead of healthy things like tertiary dragon ball characters, video quality, sora and riku kissing, color balancing and sonic the hedgehog

This is the only thing anyone should ever say about Elon Musk. He deserves to be talked about in the same category as Mao and Stalin as one of history's worst mass murderers.

People keep acting like the fascists care about "crime." THEY DO NOT. They care about domination & fear. They will fearmonger re: "crimes" committed by out groups while cheering on the "crimes" committed by "their people" Meanwhile liberals keep bleating on about hypocrisy when hierarchy matters.

good ending #TADC

Four more examples of giftuber commissions I've done. Just another week and a half to get 20% my comms over at vgen.co/samthesilkie! #vgen #vgencomm

There are no exceptions that I'm willing to carve out for generative AI. I don't want it in code or workflow, I don't want it as a placeholder, I don't want it for translation, I don't want it in marketing. If generative AI has touched your game, I don't want your game. It's not that complicated.

damn y’all aren’t living under the thumb of an angry and vengeful god who rains fire from the sky every three days from april to october? what’s it like

LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.

"Only translation" - a giant "go fuck yourself" to translators. Translation work is a complex skill that's more than direct from language a to b. It involves cultural context and understanding to make the translation make sense. For a language like Japanese, it's knowing keigo (where appropriate).