Thinking of what kinda art challenge I want to put myself through in February 🤔

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Man I don't wanna leave Tiktok where else am I going to get edits of Hawkeye Pierce and BJ Hunnicutt being hopelessly in love soul mates??

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

Week four round up, bit all over the place this week Bought tickets a show in March, got an album in the mail. Trying to remember there are reasons, however small, to feel joy even when anything outside of unbridled terror and rage feels self indulgent.. #music #albumaday

Day 25 of trying new music with an album a day Outta Key - What You Breathe Started the week with P!atd vibes and kinda ended with it too music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Day 24 of trying new music with an album a day Victor Jones - Zookeeper This is a great time, I'm really vibing with this dirty dance punk Actually immediately bought tickets to an upcoming show coz this guy fuucks music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Day 23 of trying new music with an album a day So Impartial - An Unsurfaced Melancholy This is still going but enthusiasm for new music has waned this week because of just.. everything.. But everything is always happening, and doing this is part of not drowning music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Hello Sunshine is a horror mystery GN about a boy who comes back from bible camp to find out that his secret boyfriend, Alex, is missing after a very public mental breakdown. #comics Available now!! www.thenovl.com/titles/keezy...

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I'm just scared. I keep wanting to say anything, reach out to anyone, but I feel I have nothing of value to offer other than my fear which is in suffocating abundance all around. Trying to be positive feels tone-deaf, crying feels self centered, nothing I do feels like anything

Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities? This is your moment. Let's ride. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... (non 'zon in follow up!)

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Every single artist that posts on BlueSky should have this saved to their computer because so many of you are posting character torsos all day. (created by @/whey.party)

Practicing drawing from reference tonight with MASH, anyone else have these specific feelings about these specific doctors?

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end. I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Day 22 of trying new music with an album a day Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway Wasn't prepared for how emotionally moving this with be and it was too beautiful to put down so we committed music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Minnesota is the best of us.

Sorry Sam but you can't come out of harmonica jail until your feet is tapping to the beat and you're doing a happy little dance like you mean it you fucking sad sack

Yesterdays art was very vintage celestial, I did a full render but I'm iffy on the moon and star so here's the line art #WitchSky #ArtSky

Day 21 of trying new music with an album a day J.Graves - Fortress of Fun Grabbed from a random tiktok and I am excited about it I really want to go to more live shows this year and I'm just realizing getting into local bands is probably the best way to do that music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Day 20 of trying new music with an album a day Autoheart - Heartlands I expected to like it, I did not expect it to scratch a weird nostalgic Panic! at the Disco itch Also got my personal highest honor, additions to the writing playlist 📖❤️ music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

People are angry, of course, about the masked bullies rampaging through our city. But people are also hungry for actions to take that are concrete, specific, and practical.

Really gotta remember social media etiquette isn't the same between platforms Like I can't casually mention spiraling into a depression lol peace sign emoji on Instagram because then Facebook people see it and I get care reacts and sad faces like nooo I'm being funny about it LAUGH DAMN YOU

listen my advice for learning to make comics is will. always be: try. it won't be good. don't expect it to be. that's not why you're doing it. I don't care if you wanna do art or scripts or editing or colors or lettering or what. just try it. you'll be BLOWN AWAY at what just TRYING it teaches you

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Day 19 of trying new music with an album a day TWRP - Over The Top Oo The Gambler sings in one of these songs I bet I'll enjoy this- Ninja Sex Party?? Oh yea, nerds make good shit music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Week three round up, punk funk vibes It's really nice to have a goal and accomplish it, 18 albums makes me feel cool I do wish I was smarter about music so I could write a review that amounted to more than just "this was great I had a good time" But like... these were great, I had a good time

Day 18 of trying new music with an album a day Peaches - Teaches of Peaches I've only known a couple songs, but I really really like them so it stands to reason I might like the rest of it and it felt like the vibe the cap off the music this week music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Day 17 of trying new music with an album a day Shriekback - Monument The album I wanted isn't streaming anywhere, I take this as a sign that I really need to get more into physical media at my library music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Good morning bluesky I'm animating frantically to chase after a trend and trying not to be pre bummed about it not blowing up and going so vial it changes my life You never know tho 👀

Day 16 of trying new music with an album a day Redd Kross - Neurotica And that's another song added to my 'gonna get happy whether you like it or not' playlist, which has been cheaper and more successful than therapy ✌️ music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Your little poems are important in serious times. And your little stories & drawings & your little tunes you’re making. Don’t stop creating!

Me: hmm I don't know, am I actually enjoying this song 🤔 Song: sudden surprise harmonica Me: oh nevermind this song fucks

Bandcamp pays artists about 80% of sales. And prohibits AI music. If you believe music is important, stop using Spotify.

The two great Ego deaths: Trying mushrooms for the first time Using a bidet for the first time

Day 15 of trying new music with an album a day IDLES - TANGK This whole music adventure I've been on for the past two weeks has been really nice, I feel like a much cooler person in general, time isn't rushing by and dragging in silence It's a good time 💛 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I struggle so much with time blindness and anxiety, it's usually such a blink and two weeks have flown past and cry about how overwhelmingly fast everything feels But doing this new album a day thing has grounded me in real time in such a wild way

Day 14 of trying new music with an album a day Viagra Boys - Cave World A bit of a cheat since I listen to several songs regularly, but I never listened through an album so this one, that has all the songs I already love on it, was perfect 🤘 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The emotional whiplash I just got clicking a news link about Bandcamp banning AI music on their platform immediately taking me to an AI summary page for the fucking link is sending me to hell

Drawing fan art is just so delightful coz the entire time you're just looking at the thing you love and then looking at your work and seeing them come through it's such a beautiful process of refining your love into art.. Oops I gave him tits...

Day 13 of trying new music with an album a day An Excellent Man from Minneapolis - 7 Songs I hear he's is actually an excellent man from the bureau of labor statistics, which is located in Washington DC Also there's 14 songs So he makes funky music and lies 🤔 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Day 12 of trying new music with an album a day Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being Love picking the music for the day off a random video only to get mostly through the album and realize I have heard them before It's good stuff 👍 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I need to make it so abundantly clear that when I'm yelling demands about holding positivity and light and love in your life you are hearing the echoes from me screaming it into my own chest

THE RATING In a dystopian society where inhabitants are ranked by beauty, an 18 y/o separated from her identical twin must choose between her duty to the system and her duty to herself. 🌸Complicated sister relationship 🪷Weird cult vibes 🥀Yearning 🌺Dual timeline #Bluepit📖 #Q #YA #SP #DIS #WF

Using my last #BluePit post to reiterate, you need to just get in and try I went from wanting to shelve this project to writing queries, pitches, and marketing material for it Maybe nothing comes of it, but next time that initial jump in won't feel as intimidating #LittleWitch #WriteSky #BluePit💥