Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

Hans Bellmer, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136750

Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer Sonia Delaunay, fashion designs (c.1924) #womensart

🔥Sign-ups for #Cap-IM HE 2025 close Thursday, October 9th at 10PM EDT! 😱🔥 That means you have less than 60 hours to submit your sign-up & ask for the #SteveTony fluffiest fluff, or freshly fridged dead doves, or whatever other delicacy suits your refined palate! archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Pun of the day.

This is an accurate description of some people’s beliefs. Why is this ban worthy? Is the claim that the mods can ban anyone?

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

This is Barrett. He keeps trying to howl along with his big sister Hazel. Personally finds the practice repulsive but refuses to be left out. 13/10 for both (TT: jennyrae23)

I’m sorry you think the internet was constructed for your tender baby eyes only but some of us have real problems and we are making art about them

pigwitch by Rupkatha "the old sow in the back pen has teeth like splintered moonlight. She ate a man once, i think. or maybe a god." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

"Scarlet Witch," acrylic & colored pencil on paper, 9x13.5" (original available and currently open to offers, contact [email protected]). So excited to share my first ever comic book cover -- Scarlet Witch Issue #1 (2024) Variant for Marvel! AD Emily Newcomen Chierchio. #scarletwitch #marvel

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday

Three Studies for a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137346

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Ooh today is Angel Day? Share your angels! 🪽

Sudomek - Unexpected/Unique - Czechia #shedoftheyear owned by Sheddie Drahos Jurny "Our shed is in fact a former huge wine keg which we re-built into a unique garden shed located in our vineyard ." #SundaySheds #cheers www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?sh...

It’s never too late to start masking again. It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it. Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission. You’ll also get less colds & flus!

Me: The Middle-Ages were actually very colorful. Also me: I only want to paint black and green. #knightober

J O I N U S.

I love knights.

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer! Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves. Go!!!

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

First harvest of the season 🍄‍🟫 admirable bolete (?), bears head tooth, and chicken of the woods

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies. Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

Noted, and acknowledgement that the casual "Old Testament/New Testament" division can carry the freight of antisemitism, which I suspect was not intended either by the original comment (and definitely not by me), but it's okay to say, whoops, let's not do that again

Speaking about comics, we let websites kill print magazines, and then social media kill websites, and now social media is dying and there’s nothing to take its place. There’s just no hype for anything.

In Readiness by Paul Klee, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137167

PLUNGE INTO THESE HOT GOURDS WITH YOUR LONG TOOLS AND WILLING FINGERS AND MAKE THEM SPILL THEIR SEED ALL OVER YOUR FRONT PORCH RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE NEIGHBORS

UK painter Melissa Scott-Miller, Back gardens in #autumn, Islington, 2016 #WomensArt

They've lost the 9yos

We think Dr. Goodall would have been honored by this 🫶 #MakeSomeNoise

This is Ruby. She likes to pet the other dogs at daycare. 14/10 extremely relatable (TT: alanahlorraine)

Baptiste, by popular request ☺️ #fanart #baptiste #overwatch

This is Cleo. She has a unique way of sitting. In fact, she has several. 14/10 (IG: cleolonglegs)

Hey there, yeah, you.

A couple of paperback cover originals.

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

Ooh, that's something to chew on. People are going to be actively looking for weird, gnarly, unpredictable.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.