I've been following Jay's work for years. This is top notch scifi with incredibly detailed worldbuilding and maybe the best spec bio I've seen.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

It's official, I've survived another Canadian winter! #bloomscrolling #garden

In the end, Hungarians showed us not only how to beat a thuggish nationalist, but also how to defeat our own stubborn cynicism. Set some Google news alerts. Get a little invested. The future can still be ours. Nothing is inevitable.

Paying close attention to global democracy movements helps us understand how things can change. It also grants us emotional entry into this profoundly global work. There are models, new ones every day, for stepping off the path of autocracy.

Just like Trump aims to defy political gravity and the norms of democracy. Just like Bibi does the same. If we keep watching, learning, and obsessing over what works, they will all go the way of Orbán.

I know things feel helpless in the United States. But they are not. Orbán was in power for sixteen consecutive years. He was the spoke at the center of the global far-right. He built the network, wrote the playbook, modeled competitive authoritarianism. His long reign seemed a sure thing.

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

Artists! Quote with your blue art!

I do not want to risk a dime of my money going to horrific - and very real - cyber scam slavery operations, which is why I donate to genuine charities. www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Planet pendants are back! This past week’s excitement over the Artemis II mission brought to mind this design from a few years ago, and I am making more! Ocean jasper really lends to a planetary feel. The purple is dogtooth amethyst. Nice connection between Earth and space during Earth month. 🐡🎨🌎

Since a lot of us are trying to collect more physical media-- check out your local library sales. Yesterday I got 5 DVDs, 3 hardcovers and a paperback for $20. That's the cost of 1 new book!

🧵 A Sunday morning thread. If you're a jeweller, you likely know about Kevin Potter. Potter USA is the home of some of the old school tools that jewellers use (they make a really nice 20 ton press). But there's more to it than that. Kevin started off as a jeweller himself, but has gradually 1/11

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities..labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. And they’re replacing all of it..with fifteen political appointees” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Not to be late to the party... but would anyone like a trip to the Moon? oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4486... A & B are blue-green lapis lazuli, C is apatite, and all have a quartz moon. (Credit to @skyintist.bsky.social for suggesting this!) #Handmade #Photography #SpaceGifts

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

interesting that when a movie with female protagonists does poorly the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists and when a movie with female protagonists is a huge hit the response is to cancel upcoming projects with female protagonists

TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS TRAINS!!!!!

Speaking from experience to both young creators and fans: NEVER go to his hotel room. I don’t care that he’s promised a portfolio review or a sneak peek at a future issue. The hotel lobby or bar is FINE and if he presses the issue, LEAVE

This makes me unbelievably angry. We were so close to prevention and cures for so many things. Case in point: Individualized cancer treatments that reduced deaths & recurrence by half! mRNA cancer vaccines were doing well in trials to teach immune systems to recognize & attack cancer cells.

Life size velociraptor

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

Splashdown! Welcome home, Integrity.

I have heard several creatives describe their experience with Pixar being "They hired me for my creativity then shot down all my ideas for being too XYZ."

It’s also hard to appreciate art when it’s completely divorced from the context in which it was made. And sometimes when you learn the full context of a piece of art you can truly appreciate the joke that is “this urinal has made people mad in the exact same way for over 100 years”

I minored in art history in college and it was one of my better life choices. Learning about a specific time through the lens of its art helps give a much more complete picture of the era and the people that lived through it. Plus it’s FUN.

Though the real people that need to learn the lesson really are the median voters: THIS is why you do not put unserious fools in charge of the government. THIS is why 'he talks like me' (= he tells it 'like it is') is not a good qualification for president.

We're watching a bunch of guys convinced that everyone who had their jobs before them were just stupid slowly discovering - without learning a damn thing - that there were in fact very good reasons why no one did the 'obvious' thing before them. This is why.

I've been thinking of this re: Pokemon games, there used to be tons of stuff that unlocked for the later game so you could spend hours playing. Now it's just online raids and some DLC while the world feels empty.

“Charge your car faster than you can eat a bucket of chicken” seems like china just rubbing it in our faces now

DO IT

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#repostyourart Day 9 - Light

This is the difference between lettering, and lettering with a designer's eye. A character is waking up after nearly drowning. The top balloon is okay. It gets the job done. But the bottom balloon really SELLS the watery lungs.

For those curious, Shopify does indeed blame payment processors, not their own guid lines. Visa/Mastercard gets to decide what, otherwise legal, content you get to see. I think that makes total sense personally. It's really chill and cool. (3/3)

Shopify has forced me to remove Chole's pack from our site. We will have to wait until the TrueRef web app we're working on launches late this year to publish any more full-nude packs. I'm angry, but unsurprised. (1/3)

I just saw a horror movie solve the "why can't they call for help?" problem by having teenagers completely stymied by a rotary phone. "Where's the buttons?! What kind of phone is this?!" Amazing, no notes. 😂

Another easy way to do this: take a cold water bottle or soda can fresh from the fridge, and hold it against the side of your face for about 10-15 seconds while taking deep, slow breaths

Gov. Newsom promised to help a Native tribe restore salmon to their ancestral river. Now California is ending the funding. "It makes the tribe feel betrayed,” Gary Mulcahy of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe told @ra-becks.bsky.social. “It’s like they just gave up.” calmatters.org/environment/...

#repostyourart - Autumn. One of my favorite things to paint. Also I just realized how often I use beech trees for these scenes. #fantasy #digitalart

I don't think we talk enough about the effect of art on us. I can see one drawing I really really like and I'll be happy for the rest of the day I'm not exaggerating. Your art makes someone feel that way. Your art makes someone happy. Your art helps someone get through the day.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

“Why aren’t people more alarmed about this” We are. The vast majority of us are as alarmed as we can possibly be about this. Please assume that most people are doing the best they can to fight fascism offline too, and not everyone is able to openly post about it.

Some weirdo wrote a thing that I read this morning that still moves me deeply. I can plant the seeds I can plant.

I don't often post WIPs but I've been having a lot of fun making some little guys out of sculpey recently. #hollowknight #silksong #sculpture