Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

Hey everyone! Prayer Is doesn’t come out until January 13th, but it’s available for preorder now! ✨ B&N is having a 25% discount on ALL preorders, including eBooks and audiobooks, when you use the code PREORDER25 at checkout from now until Friday, 9/5. #kidlit #bookrecommendation

(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good

Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social Gift 🔗

When governments police museums, they are not simply policing exhibitions. They are policing imagination itself. Censorship has taken hold at the Smithsonian. I refused to play along.” —Amy Sherald

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards

Doing deep archival recovery work is so painstaking and challenging, but what a thrill to do that work while one’s subject is still around to get her flowers:

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

You all should follow Raissa for her art experiments coz DO YOU KNOW HOW SCARY it is to do these? And then post it online? We live in an age where everyone wants instant art perfection, but this - this is what art is really about. Play, exploration, finding things out in your own unique way.

I babysat my one year old niece yesterday. She wanted to sit in the middle of the driveway and talk, so that’s what we did. I didn’t understand everything that she was saying (but I acted like I did). At the end of our talk, she said “let’s go” and “open the door.” 😂🥹

FWIW, I wrote a thing back in 2018 about the history of product sound design — from appliances to cars to cosmetic containers to gadget beeps — and how it’s designed to engineer our engagement with machines + delimit our agency

I probably revisit that Clipse tiny desk once a week now

FROM T-PAIN AND CLIPSE TO CHAKA KHAN, MEET THE HUMBLE GENIUS BEHIND NPR’S TINY DESK CONCERTS

The last bit of summer. 🌦️ I was thinking back to childhood days. Right about now I would be savoring the very last bits of summer before the back to school activities started. Last minute trips to the shore, sleeping in late, playing outside… all that good stuff. #kidlitart #illustration

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!

This one, too!!! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Gift link that makes clear I'm never sitting on the Smithsonian Board

Chuck Mangione, the jazz legend who created hits like “Feels So Good”, has died, his attorney confirmed

My dad played this Chuck Mangione album constantly when I was a kid. Fond memories. RIP.

RIP Chuck Mangione

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

Most of y'all probably knew Malcolm-Jamal Warner was a director. He started with music videos, including New Edition's NE Heartbreak.

RIP to Malcolm Jamal-Warner, who reportedly has died after drowning in Costa Rica at the age of 54. For many of us, he was the brother we never had on The Cosby Show. He later appeared on shows like The Resident. He leaves behind a wife and daughter. This one hurts. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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It’s almost like this was always going to happen. Lol.

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

How I’m feeling after finishing the edits on this personal project

Have y’all ever attempted to resuscitate a Guinea pig? No? Good. Not a fun experience. (Btw, it was not my Guinea pig. It was my neighbors’ kids’ guinea pig, Esme. And I’m very sorry to report that she has Gone Up Yonder™️.)

In other news this week was THE most eventful week ever. Thankfully it ended on a great note, but wow.

I’ve been so busy meeting deadlines that I didn’t realize I haven’t been posting! Hello.

This Disability Pride Month we're recommending Oshún and Me by Adiba Nelson & @alleannaharris.bsky.social! This joyful picture book about a little girl learning about her Afro Latin heritage features a main character with a visible disability! #edusky #disabilitypridemonth bit.ly/3Sq3Tix

When I met Ryan Coogler several years ago, we were standing in a group of people chatting, when a woman with visible hearing aids walked up, and he casually began to sign the whole conversation so she could participate. She mouthed “thank you”. He nodded and just kept doing his thing.

Here’s a short thread of prints I shipped out today! 🧵✨ This first one is one of my favorites based on Mary J. Blige’s hit, Family Affair. Sometimes you need a reminder that you don’t need no hateration or holleration in your dancery. 🤷🏾‍♀️ This is a 5x7, but I have it in 8x10 and 11x14. #lyrics

I had an amazing time at storytime today at the Hamilton, NJ Barnes & Noble! So grateful for every kid and parent and grandparent that took the time to come out! 🥹💖 #storytime #kidlit #picturebookrecommendation

Very cool thread!! 🧵

him trying to dust into immediately breaking down absolutely shattered me what the hell :(

COUNT YO MF DAYS, NICKELODEON!!!!!!!

Tonight is huge for Cartoonist Americans as Zohran Mamdani is the first mayor of New York City with a cartoonist girlfriend

I actually love how Chit said “Do it lady!” 😂

Guess who’s making stickers nowww ✨ Here’s some water ice and Italian ice to cool you down during this heatwave! 🧊

👀 Spotted by @diking.bsky.social on the National Archives website: “Effective July 7, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the public”

Me every time I check my phone. 😅 (Part of me wants to stay updated with the news, the other part of me doesn’t. *awkwardly chuckles to myself*) #comics

While I’m here, here’s another art print that I sent out last week! It’s the legendary Josephine Baker. ✨ #illustration #artprint

I met my deadline, y’all! 😤💪🏾

I just opened up this app and woah! Hello new followers!!! Thanks for being here! I’m currently meeting a deadline (gotta get these picture book sketch revisions done), so that’s why I’ve been a little quiet here. I’ll be back next week 🤗

IT'S JUNETEENTH! There is still so much fucking work to do in this country to clean up the blood it was built on and so many reparations owed. One of the small ways we can help is actively seeking out, hiring, supporting and buying from Black artists. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Oh wow look at this delightful WNY one - West Seneca West's 1987 yearbook cover

*gets snacks and sets up computer*