Oh fuuuuuuuck that. The tax information we provide at Affiliate onboarding has our age information. There's no way in hell anyone should be forking over their gov ID to leak-prone Persona. Twitch, this ain't it.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.” www.therage.co/persona-age-...

Alysa Liu, US figure skater, won the first Olympic women’s gold medal since 2002. Her family immigrated from China but she chose to represent the US.

The chief of police of quakertown Pennsylvania choked a teen girl on camera and the footage is on the Pennsylvania subreddit.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

Can’t share IG here & Tiktok censored their lyrics, so I am sharing it like this. But @subradioband.bsky.social is amazing. I love this so much.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Galaxy mug. Stoneware. Hand-built. One of a kind. Just listed. Surly.etsy.com #sciart

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It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

the Swiss mixed doubles curling team is married and when their game ended the Peacock stream just showed them playing with their Curling Baby for like 5 minutes with the Olympics music playing

'This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale.'

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

ICE is building TWO concentration camps in Pennsylvania

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The wax will continue to flow Saturday 1/31 🕯️

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

FOLKS IN MINNEAPOLIS: SAVE all videos & photos from today. They will be valuable to prove the ICE agent --- who had time to move & re-position himself to the side of the victim's car to shoot into the driver's side window --- was not in reasonable fear of imminent serious physical injury or death.

"abolish ICE" is like "abolish serial killers" the presence of even one ICE officer is a threat to every single member of a given community, they need to be treated like roving bands of Night Stalkers

I'm helping run a comic-con in NEW YORK CITY! Deadline to apply is February 2nd!

I have some more £10 commissions available currently! Please send me a message if you would like one. Here is a drawing of a sleepytime wizard.

This system forces me to care about money. I don't give a fuck about wealth. My joy is in making things for people. If suddenly all of my bills were gone, I would still be up at 4am working. I would still strive to learn, grow and better myself. The only thing I would lose is this dread & stress.

"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Marky here sounds like most consumers talking about art. By consumers I mean people who just see things as something to be had. Creating, for me, is about the process. When I see a beautiful piece I want to know how long it took to create it. How long it took to gain that mastery.

I have creative projects that I've been struggling to finish for *years* that I would rather fling into a fire than let a computer complete them for me.

First commission done and customer paid. My wife will deliver them shortly, only took 5 hours last night. Not too bad!

Up at 2 with a headache so I am off to the shop to get some work done. Such is the way of things. Hey, if you're in the market for some fancy coffee/tea glasses, I have a few in stock! I'm bad at advertising but I'm doing my best. ko-fi.com/s/961a7a3266

Working on a commission tonight while it’s warmer and the laser wants to work. Seems below 40 causes problems. 46 for the next couple of hours sounds nice.

Listen, I cannot stress enough that I don't fucking care if someone makes every single "bad decision" in their life that they could possibly make. They still deserve access to food, shelter and healthcare.

Last two pieces for the last vendor sale of the year. I have some commissions to knock out later but is like 27 deg here so it’s too cold to work right now.

Meet India's first satellite, the APPLE or Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment launched in 1981. Lacking proper facilities to diagnose telemetry issues, the ISRO put the satellite in an oxcart cart, and drove it around a field to debug. It served for 2 years relaying TV & radio.

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.

“Real scientist are delighted when they find out they wrong... There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.” ― Brian Cox

One of my favorite kinds of jobs has always been portrait pieces. Client sends a photo that I convert to a black and white stencil, apply to vinyl and then hand cut with a hobby knife before sandblasting.

Any vendor friends need to check this out. We ordered ours to complement the swipe readers on our phones.

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's actually no need to tolerate swastikas in our military ever. We don't need policy papers on this. We don't need long discussions and to "better understand" those who wear them. We can just ban all Nazi imagery and call it a day.

Working on a commission tonight. A nice balmy 50deg in the shop. I hope I can get the bulk of my work done before the cold front hits next week. If not it will be rough.

This weekends event was amazing we were able to nearly sell out. Going from our first event where we would maybe $20 worth to this was the affirmation we needed to keep going. Made some connections, friends, profits, and picked up a couple of commissions. Way beyond our wildest expectations!

Gee who'd couldn't have predicted this would happen? Answer- absolutely no one

From the making of THE LORD OF THE RINGS films: That’s Rivendell, brought to life in a parking lot. It’s shit like this that makes me scream about obviously intangible, nonsensical CGI environments in film that make it impossible to emotionally connect to what you’re watching. Photographer unknown.

It's done! One Jack Skellington standing in a ... I dunno. Nightmare Cobblestone Halloween Town Thing. Took about 8 hours total. #Miniatures #Minipainting #Nightmarebeforechristmas

Hey, it's #SelfPromoSaturday! We're Troxell's Trading Post, an online shop that sells 3D printed TTRPG accessories, jewelry, and other things we think are cool. Not a print farm, just someone with a couple printers making neat things! Check us out, if you please! buff.ly/1BDAaSf

Been a quiet run lately prepping for a holiday vendor fair. Here are some of the things I have been making to sell. I have multiples of these and they are all hand painted by me, something new to me.