It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!

That feeling when you realize you’re in a dream 💭

Oh no I played with a meme generator

Confession: I don't think I've ever viewed a movie more than once, with a single exception (and that was, like, 3 times)

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills. If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now! store.ironcircus.com

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

@profanity.accountant 👀

It’s that time of year again. My big winter sale is on now, with 25% off everything until the 3rd of December. So if dragons, dinosaurs and discounts are your thing, see here for details. 👇 dragonsofwales.etsy.com

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps. When the sales drop, please remember that!

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

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...

The entire Tiffany Aching series collection by Terry Pratchett is currently just $1.99 for U.S. Kindle. These are among my favorite books ever. 💙📚

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...

don't buy this crap, friends

Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner

Here be tariff-free dragons. dragonsofwales.etsy.com

we did it, we found spiders georg’s cave

wait, did half of bluesky just notice the rude filter? that thing has existed from (my) start i wouldn't be surprised it filters more legit content per day tho

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

Oh!! It's my birthday!! I would be so appreciative if you could share my work. I still have openings this year if anyone would like to reach out!

It's all hands on deck. I am shamelessly asking, one more time, for reposts and signal boost as this bird glides toward a landing in a few hours. It's gonna be a beautiful book, and there aren't going to be very many available afterwards! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

For no particular reason I’m thinking about game studios who fire their entire narrative team after six years of development because their CEO is a delusional malignant narcissist who is all-in on AI. I wish them all the luck they deserve.

if you're using Trump pics in absolutely unrelated threads (or any other asshole politics related person) i'm going to block your sorry ass

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

good luck y'all

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

this forever and always

brown and black women were the most vocal about not giving ind*v your email i wonder why all those white dudes aren't listening can't qwite put my finger on it

i am too tired for this shit /and feel zero need to wake up with dumb notifs later

ADVENTURE 🍂 🐱 #cats #KeepYourCatsIndoorsOrSupervised

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it. SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick. Please do not do that. Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.

Day 7 -- Feline Every well educated apprentice witch knows that treats are vital to a familiar's magic focusing abilities ow ow shoot ow dang it ouch

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ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

optics optics optics baby it's ALLLL optics. imo it's not even that big accounts or notable people should have Special Privilege, it's just that they're almost always a bigger target for spam reports and attempts at mod manipulation. you should have a second layer to avoid that

here at the Katie Tightpussy School of Optics we like to stress that Optics Matter. one example of this is that even if link's post is actionable (which is debatable but besides the point), an immediate perma of a vocal critic is a bad look, especially when you're already being accused of racism etc

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

I won't get to all of them, I'm telling you now. 🤣 But here's Day 1: Antoine. #veiltober #dragonagetheveilguard

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Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

I can post great looking, well executed dishes that I’d be proud to serve in a restaurant and they barely crack 100 likes. 😭

this is a fun game and I recommend it! you do need some twitchy reflexes tho, so if you're not sure about that part, maybe have look at some gameplay vids first

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