"but I don't want to waste an idea on bad art" baby you can do the same thing more than once, some people go their whole lives and careers just redoing the same shit over and over because they weren't satisfied with the last time they did it

“I dont think my art is good enough to make this comic/webtoon/visual novel/game” You should make it, because even if your art isnt where you want it to be, the constant practice you gain while working on a project will rapidly improve your skills as oppose to just waiting

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Oh this is ABSOLUTELY true. IME Every. Single. Job. is harder and more complicated than it looks from the outside. When you find yourself saying "but this thing I assume about this job is obviously common sense" STOP and think again.

Ordering food at a restaurant has made me a chef.

Hoping this ends up contributing to the well-established legal doctrine of "Don't mess with the mouse."

Your question is extremely reasonable in a series that has two different boxing kangaroo characters, one of which divorced the other for being a absentee deadbeat father.

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The Department of Homeland Security targeted the Canadian national, who hasn't entered the United States in over a decade, after he criticized the Trump administration online.

1/6. No, this is wrong. Not about the fuck up - it was HUGE - but the nature of the Worldcon is that each one is its own organization. The Glasgow Worldcon addressed the Chengdu fuck-up head on and was a model of transparency and went a great way to restore the credibility of the award.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Y'all know how I feel about Substack. Joining @nwsnws.com is a solution if you're not on it or want to get off it. It gives you everything Substack does: Easy to set up (as simple as publishing to the web), direct access to readers looking for work like yours. *NO NAZIS,* ever. It costs nothing. /4

As an annual public service, I present the graduation calendar for colleges and universities in the Boston area: Northeastern: April 29th Emerson: May 8th-9th BC: May 15th Lesley: May 16th BU: May 17th Tufts: May 17th Simmons: May 19th UMass Boston: May 28th MIT: May 28th Harvard: May 28th

the phrase "do it scared" has done so much for my mental health i cannot stress how lifechanging it is to realize: if you are scared of doing something (especially if it can be beneficial to you), you cannot wait for yourself to not be scared. it will always seem scary. you have to do it scared

... Yes. Yes, Palantir employees, you are and always have been the bad guys. The things you do have been used almost exclusively to hurt people from day one. Your company was built for that exact purpose. You helped. www.wired.com/story/palant...

Look, Trump's approval rating was below 50% for his entire first term. It also never went below 30%, ever. Here he is again. So if you want to crow about this, sure, go ahead, and then shut up and get to work.

CITIZEN, PLEASE STATE GENDER. FAILURE TO OBEY ACTIVATES DESTRUCTION PROTOCOL. YOU HAVE TWO DAYS TO COMPLY. God damnit chill FedEx, it’s a T-shirt.

I, too, have concerns about the most wealthy committing crimes. I hope that Sauron can do for them what Sauron did for Saruman.

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

Boston area folks:

“bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine.” (via @thecity.nyc)

I, in fact, *am* a hug person, and yet this speaks deeply to my soul. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-3

I just called both my Senators to ask them to support Sanders' Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons to Israel. It's easy; your phone rings, pick up & you're automatically connected to each of your Senators' offices. There's a script if you want. actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...

I don't think that people are mean enough to ICE cops, actually. Some of you have them as family members. What are you doing to shame them?

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

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Okay, time to finally figure this shit out.

Oh my fucking god its literal job is to repeat things humans wrote in the past with random variations OF COURSE IT LOOKS HUMAN. YOU BUILT A FUNHOUSE MIRROR.

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Same.

Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’ https://theonion.com/chuck-schumer-the-american-people-deserve-a-president-1835697625/

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

"An Israeli Ceasefire" is eventually going to enter the common parlance next to "A Mexican Standoff", but in this case as shorthand for promising an end to hostilities and then just carrying on.

I know the world is on fire but please take a few minutes to look at the photos of the moon from yesterday. A gallery of some of the most astounding pictures ever taken. Here's one with Venus on the left www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

We’ve been hearing some CDC colleagues say people requesting reasonable accommodations should “get over it” and come into the office. Disability rights aren’t discretionary, and fairness doesn’t mean equal risk. To those colleagues, we say: get bent. To everyone else--good morning 🌞

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Don't forget! Alt that text!

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

Look. I know color matching is hard. But when I put the same hex color into two programs on my computer. And view them side by side. On the same screen. It should match. The reason it doesn't match? Don't care. #ff0000 should be the same red.

The president of France plainly says what the members of our governing party cannot summon the courage to acknowledge

centeronconscience.org/who-is-milit... It is a great time to leave the military. Things are not going to get better any minute now. They are not going to get better any year now. This is a good time to leave.

100% agreed. Either the case wins the administration a huge and unexpected victory, or it provides window-dressing validity to a dumpster fire of a court.

Gerald J. Pappert is a damn moron.

Fire everyone who makes over a million dollars. Fire everyone who has over 5 million in the bank. Take the excess away. They're done. They can retire.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.