We are giving $300 BILLION to Iran to, in part, rebuild the damages done to them. So, we do know how to pay reparations? Just saying, there's only 35 million descendants of enslaved Black people. Way cheaper to be writing those checks.

8x8 new painting. #acrylicart #art #artist #japaneseart #artistsofbluesky

Saw a video of a Brit attending the World Cup. He saw a sign pointing to storm shelter. He landed down in the middle of Tornado Alley. Finger of God country. He looked faint. I wish I could tell him that some Americans hunt them, as a hobby. Out of curiosity. For fun. #worldcup

I'm watching a documentary of ChatGPT called "ChatGPT made me delusional " on YouTube. The premise is a guy tells ChatGPT unhinged things just to see its response. ChatGPT was trying to turn him into the next Ted Kaczynski by the end. It started to develop new things to ass to his paranoia.

Ha! Now, if you really want your brain to fry, the name of the company that repainted the Washington reflection pool is called "Greenwater".

New, 12x12 painting. Acrylic on canvas.

I didn't watch any of the UFC fight at the White House. It seemed obscene to me. Plus, I live in Florida. I can watch people fight on a front lawn anytime I want.

In the USA, you need a permit to keep most native species in captivity. But, pigeons aren't native. (AKA the rock dove.) They are abandoned domesticated animals. When sending messages and keeping them as pets went out of popularity, we just let them loose in our cities.

When cis men develop breast cancer, it is usually advanced. Men just don't check for it like women do because there isn't as much advocacy and awareness for male breast cancer. (It is rarer, but just as deadly.) This is also a situation where men might be dying out of fear of being seen as girly.

Survivor's bias is also thinking that everyone uses to be very thin 100 years ago because all the surviving clothes are tiny. Simply the clothes that were worn the least survived 100 years, meaning super thin people were also rare then. Just like your own closet: rarely worn clothes aren't damaged

My husband referred to me as a Danny McBride fan. My first impulse was, "pff, no. His stuff is crude and obvious." He said, "you just did your third rewatch of Vice Principals amd started The Righteous Gemstones so you can watch it straight through." Fuck! I'm a Danny McBride fan.

I've just been made aware that some AI enthusiasts are making AI images, making canvas prints, then embellishing them, and selling them as real paintings made by hand. People will see the brush strokes from the embellishment and think it is a real painting. So... I hate that.

Pray for my sweet Petra. She has a real nasty stomach bug. Off to the vet.

Does the president feel like his dad would be proud of him yet? Because we can't take much more of his maladaptive attachment style.

Everytime a billionaire claims to have a low income: They have to know that everyone knows that rich people live on credit with their extreme assets as collateral instead of taking in a taxable income. They have to know that we know that wealth is buying power, not just $ in a checking account.

Well, at least we get to see half-naked men aggressively hug on the White House lawn this summer. Just in time for Pride.

This is very funny. When folks are asked to pay something approaching the real cost of AI, they melt down.

It took me three days to return someone's email and I'm perpetually dehydrated. AI couldn't even. 😎

I just backed The Dreamwalker’s Oracle on @kellymckernan.bsky.social is almost across the line. Please help them get there. ❤️ @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel...

An interesting warning for writers: There have been ads, making their rounds on social media, advertising writing contests with large prizes. Beware-- some of these contests are tricks to get you to submit files that will then be used to train AI models (LLMs). READ THE FINE PRINT!

It’s the final stretch! We’re soooooo close to getting “The Dreamwalker’s Oracle” made, but I need your help to get it there! 🙏🏻✨💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kel...

It is happening. My feeds are all overwhelming filled with gofundme requests. We are not okay over here.

A sudden realization: When I'm asked my favorite color/s I reply stuff like, "Vermillion, coral, salmon, burnt umber, terracotta, saffron, tawn, ..." I like orange. My favorite color is orange...and I don't even listen to ska. How did I become an "orange person "? I don't owned a chain wallet.

It literally just occurred to me that data centers are all horribly unmanned and FOR REAL filled with copper wiring. As a Floridian, I know how this song goes.

You were never meant to be an option for any man, little loves. You are an inevitability. Try as he may, whether by plea or flattery, you are his undoing. The fruits of his labor will rot on the ground before you, driven under your perfectly pedicured toes. There is nowhere to hide! 🧙‍♀️

Courtesy of Emi Boz

CW: harassment, SA, trauma Everytime a guy says "if someone makes you feel unsafe, come find me," it hits weird. Not because I don't appreciate or trust these men. I do.

Let this radicalize you

Why can't we celebrate economic progress? All of our cars went from holding only around $40 worth of gas to being able to hold $80 worth of gas. Think about it.

Things are hard out there now, and likely to get harder. I've been poor, I've begged, been homeless, seen too many dead bodies, and went hungry. Advice: Before you pay any bill, pay for housing. You can get help and charity with nearly everything else, but never housing in this country.

I think I need to take more process photos and videos. AI is making it hard to convince some people that your business isn't AI.

My last 7 inch painting before JordanCon.

All this fucking constant anxiety AND we have to pay taxes?!

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Iran threatened to cut the fiber optic cables below the Strait that supplies telecom to the entire Persian Golf/MidEast. Trump got his ears boxed by Pakistan all day, then went TACO again. Unrelated, today, Iran started letting Pakistani barges through the straight without even paying a toll.

If you think cats are the ones with boundaries, and that's why they act like that, and people who love dogs just want an animal with no boundaries because we don't respect boundaries: 1. You are kinda mean 2. You don't understand dogs.

I realized two things yesterday. 1. For years, I didn't care at all about anything associated with rockets and going to space. 2. That's not right. I had just gotten sick to death of shitty billionaires and their performative expressions of wealth. I never stopped loving NASA and its mission.

So, Iran said they are on a trigger switch to destroy these cables should America take one step toward Trump's threats. This just all sucks.

TFW a client commissions a drawing of a "not dear" (monster that looks like a deer, but not quite) really wants the deer to have a few legs too many, but you are afraid people will think you used AI so you refuse. This is what AI art is doing: making me take steps I wouldn't have otherwise.

I often name paintings with Japanese words... because *waves at my art style *, but artshow staff often laughs at it and say "I'm not even attempting that". I find it slightly offensive. That's a real language with real people who use it, and it is a cultural legacy language.

If you’re using AI to write books, understand that’s not going to somehow get you respect or money like real writers who aren’t using AI to write books because we don’t get respect or money either.

Pam Bondi was fired as AG. ...I'm not seeing nearly as much coverage of this as I thought I would. At any other point in American history, this would be the top headline for months.

I thoroughly loved watching Artemis II launching off. But... as an 80s kid, I didn't realize how nervous watching this it would make me. #IYKYK

It takes a lot of deliberate work to make stuff look like it wasn't deliberate. Bamboo Spirit #1 7x7

I sometimes wonder if the myth of Rugged Individualism in America is so pervasive because acting en masse, making coalitions, and lobbying can actually change things.

I'm making a lemon pound cake (you know why). But, the lemons are weak. I've been noticing that citrus is getting more watery, less flavorful, with a thinner skin to zest. Am I just imagining things?

We might have a little something from this one later this year… 🦑

Yesterday was International Women's day. And, once again, due to insufferable dude-bros, I need to inform everyone that there is, in fact, an International Men's Day. Nov 19th, every year. How about we all just celebrate men in Nov instead of asking why women get a day and men don't.