"Trees indeed have hearts." ~ Henry David Thoreau 🎨 Nino Chakvetadze

Let's talk about writing your villains as tech bros and why I think this is a bad thing www.patreon.com/posts/face-o...

Le collectif dont je fais partie a lancé une cagnotte pour Chloé , viré par 9e art parceque elle a osé porter plainte. Sachant que porter plainte pour viol coute en moyenne 10 000e… donnez ou repartagez . Merci pour elle. www.we-solidaire.com/fr/collecte/...

Frontières a essayé de créer un buzz idiot autour de son audition à l'Assemblée nationale, afin de se faire passer pour une victime. Mais, le média d'extrême-droite a surtout montré qu'il ne savait pas de quoi il parlait.

Just looking wistfully out over the landscape: a piebald horse in 1654, painted by Paulus Potter. Today was his 400th birthday.

cis men are allowed to have all the feelings they want and to use those feelings as a cudgel to extract feminized labor and sexual obligation from the gender underclasses.

every single time we manage to claw one nanometer of begrudging sympathy for the plight of the oppressed, the machinery of "what about men's feelings?" kicks into gear and obliterates us. meaning well is not enough. please don't put more hammers in the hands of our rulers

It’s a bit funny to me when folks accuse anti-AI artists of “gatekeeping.” My dude, Midjourney charges you $60 a month for images, while real artists remind you that you can make it for free and experience the joy of the process. So who’s really gatekeeping?

Retired never trump republican who got kicked out of the Boyscouts for being an atheist and is really into upgrading his micro mobility scooter is the most median voter in America.

Mine is "the Vikings regularly visited Constantinople by carrying their ships overland between Eastern European rivers"

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

#Pelican #ink and #watercolor #bird

Speaking as a bi woman who spent summer of 2023 terrorized by war planes fly and bombardments by ~the only democracy in the middle east~, I promise you it wasn't preferable if the pilot was Gender Gay

western liberalism holds that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, but suddenly when there’s a group of people who stand in the way of the state’s objectives those rights become squishy and negotiable. the point of the meme is that the rainbow bomber will bomb you too

This has been one of the hardest years to be transgender in nearly a century. Today we remember all the sisters and brothers we've lost to the surging tide of hate, and redouble our resolve to support and defend one another at a time when few others will. Hold out. We'll see the other side together.

Going to the ramparts for Sarah J. Maas is like marching off to war in service to the Kirkland brand

“open source” is KILLING me

Liberal refusal to empathize with victims of US imperialism or even acknowledge them as a perspective worth considering shouldn't continue to shock me as much as it does

Reclining Woman with Green Stockings (Adele Harms), 1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25881

High Winter, a joyous celebration where anyone (citizen, slave, foreigner) can ask a token of you if you step over a threshold. Barreka, where you thank the chtonic deities (rivers, trees, mountains, fire, wind) for keeping you alive by partying really hard and lighting bonfires

Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising. As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.

No but you know what's super funny. Saying shit like "holocaust education is just about jews" used to be considered antisemitic. It was shit you only heard from denialists trying to go "actually its a big conspiracy to make the jews look like the victims".

#SaveSpeech starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again! stop-paypros.neocities.org

and indie artists and sex workers are getting crucified for existing

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Art by • Dorian Cleavenger

The great Naoki Urasawa once said something to the effect of "don't draw so much, let the audience do some of the work!" And it blew my mind!!!

i have been feasting on the gossip here but the dark underbelly is women like nuzzi make journalism very, very unsafe for other women. i dealt with a LOT of men who assumed that i would fuck them because that's what lady reporters do for information

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

Even Koko the gorilla didn’t actually understand language, so no, your cat or dog doesn’t either. Language is way more complex than just associating a word with a thing. Anthropomorphizing pets can be fun and funny but it’s actually kinda bad for them and that’s the hill I’ll die on!

hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that” I think about that often.

they'll never win because none of them have the sauce to post this hard

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Baldur's Gate 💀

gatekeeping ADHD from former gifted kids. if you did well in school ever then you don't have ADHD you must have like, some other shit that nobody knows the ramifications of yet

Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.

The Cadaver’s Tale~ Some concept designs I did for the animated cadaver & props/keyframe from @realgdt.bsky.social incredible FRANKENSTEIN! Also collaborating with Mike Hill who sculpted and made the puppet (and puppeteered it to life) with the final screen performance digitally augmented by MRXFX!

Karlach x Hellboy

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this set of IRRIDESCENCE references by @mileskitaro! A great ref for your own digital painting, and a useful reminder that there are SO MANY different materials out there for your character and world design! #gamedev #illustration #COLOUR

Arab parents not realizing that the only reason their horrible abuse is tolerated is the usually unspoken agreement that they will not kick you out and that the second eviction is threatened they do not have any leverage anymore and you will leave and never speak to them again

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

People on here cannot take a joke lmfao jesus christ

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Happy birthday to Sam Waterston, co-star of MAHONEY'S LAST STAND (1972), the movie with the greatest poster ever

alright, cat's out of the bag. it's me, torrey peters, carta monir, and alison rumfitt