There are 2 violinist students next door, they are pretty diligent in their practice, our walls are not thick and I work from home. Sometimes they are both practicing at once. I feel like the protagonist of a scribbly greyscale indie horror where some monster is hunting me through a boarding school.

A gold star to whoever is doing Channel 4's social media today:

Got a tiny palette recently and treated myself to some nice paints to put in it to give myself a low stakes place to do some art for myself. Test doodle to break in the book from last night and remind myself I don’t have to do complicated serious things here, and my bento from my lunch break today

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

a comic about fishing (1/7)

This is at the same time the government is pretty much turning a blind eye to racists painting on walls up and down the country. Art books will talk about how grotesque this is hundreds of years from now.

Leeds and Leeds adjacent folk! My fellow beloved Arbrevyn dorks and I have a gig on Monday evening at the Grove! Come listen! There will be harmonies and nonsense and good times and we’d love to share them with you 🌻 wegottickets.com/event/668786/

The fact that they have not lifted half a buttock to assist Palestine but soared like fucking eagles to rescue this barnacled creep is all the evidence we need that the government is ruderless.

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

This. I LOVE you for it if you name your budget and deadline right away and I am 1000% more inclined to collaborate with you and figure out a way to make it work within these metrics.

and i can't stress it enough 🌈 #art #furry

Last night had a lot of chopping (my knife skills are ok but still mid enough that match sticking things still takes a while) but now I have a bunch more dishes for the fridge and freezer. I know I don’t HAVE to make OJ carrots into flowers but they are so cute when I do so can’t help myself.

A lot of my friends and loved ones are in Morris sides and they are all good folks. I find display routine dancing a bit too stressful but the call is getting stronger. That said, I’d freaking LOVE to build a Morris Beast some time…

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

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Realised I didn’t get around to sharing this. 18th birthday commission for a friend’s child, it was lovely to get to try and capture so many little elements of their past and personality.

Trying to add more protein and fibre to my bento so I don’t crash as hard mid afternoon and oops I bought a new slightly bigger magewappa box to help me. A new shape to play with! Plus now I gotta make nice lunches or the new box will be sad.

You too should listen to it!

I fell into the Chiikawa rabbit hole the last couple of weeks and this 40 year old bought a little Hachiware in miniso yesterday to remind me to keep doing my best so y’know, this checks out. (I was kinda indifferent to the designs but then was like “wait the story is about WHAT” and got pulled in)

I know how to cook, I’m pretty good at it, I often enjoy it (especially when I get to cook for my friends). Does my brain always let me? God no. Especially since I started trying to exercise more, sometimes there just is not the juice. And that’s just me, who is pretty privileged with my food access

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Been struggling a bit lately but managed to make myself cook a good dinner and get a bit self-care cute with it once I was going, to remind myself I can have nice things. Not too fancily arranged because I just cooked all the veg with the noodles for minimum washing up & it only taking like 10mins

AI boosters get mad when I describe LLMs as "Spicy Autocomplete." Sure, it's a bit reductionist ("stochastic parrot" is more precise), but it's far worse for people to see LLMs as "ineffable superintelligence," as WSJ did by claiming ChatGPT expressed "self reflection." No, it didn't.

I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.

Heads up anyone who uses WeTransfer, especially in creative work

Hey Pocket Friends, anyone know a good alternative walking challenge thing to The Conqueror? I found that really helpful getting me walking but as they added Potter stuff and I don’t want any of my money going to JK, I want to find a different bit of bonus walking motivation.

Look at these inks!! Lovely work!

I have so much art I need to do in the next few weeks and I can feel thumb tendon being like “hey remember when we really hurt for like six months? ;)” and DON’T YOU DARE. Googling “How to fight your own hand” (Spoilers it is take lots of breaks and also stop messing about on your phone)

Friendly reminder that there's no point talking about using a technology "for good" if you don't let people talk about how it's also being used for bad.

Would have been Dad’s birthday today. Still miss him more than words can say. I’m off to go buy some nice real ale so I can raise a glass for him, in the mean time have him singing with his pals, one I always loved how he sang youtu.be/DSMWsXoimDY?...

Needed this reminder today.

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The etymology of the word cliché is very cool

It’s a minor thing but it is refreshing to see this phrased as ‘finds’, not hiding behind ‘claims’ or the like. We need to sit with the horrors of our past actions as a country. It’s a terrible thing but it’s good—essential even—that we talk about it so we can learn to be better.

Low key tempting, ngl. Happy little dom trees!

Needing to order a new bottle of my favourite white ink for corrections/highlights for a bunch of physical KS rewards and I love that it is called White 2. Yes I know it’s just because of how Deleter name their inks but it tickles me the one with best coverage is not just white, it’s the sequel!

Look if you take my em dashes you are going to have to deal with my love of putting too many clauses in every sentence manifesting as just some comma strewn run-on monstrosity instead of a nicely placed flow and you do not want that, nobody wants that.

HERE HE COMES! The biggest boy! (Also the new shirt design rules, dang!)

Who would have thought that drinking like a whole litre of coldbrew across the day so you could stay up and stream with some of your art heroes till 2am, in a heatwave, and then having to try and sleep right after might be somewhat unsuccessful? Everyone, KT, jeez. Worth it though! ☀️

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Hey pocket friends! Guess who is streaming tonight with the wonderful @atnathanyaffe.bsky.social and @dilfosaur.bsky.social for @drawfeeshow.com! (Spoilers: it is inexplicably me, aaaaAAAAAA) Tune in 7pm Eastern over at www.twitch.tv/drawfeeshow and come say hi 🌻

For those of you wondering why there’s not really sharply political/protest folk music in this day and age: THERE IS. Start with Grace Petrie and work outward from there.

ik a lot of ppl are loathed to give stephen fry any due but this, i think, is the first time a mainstream figure has been all over the british press straight-up saying jk rowling has been radicalised. this is actually unusual, and blanket, coverage.

A materials test for the physical commissions on our Kickstarter rewards, I had fun with this colour combo :) Was stuck for what to draw so it was time for my most drawn OCs Mors, Tacey and Clay again. Tombow Fude pen and Rico watercolours.

As I need to make some mockup bujo spreads for a workshop a friend asked me to run for a class in their school (cause swearing/personal details)… would any of you be interested in me posting some journaling/bujo stuff too? Might as well make use of the teaching materials if I’m making them…

Thank you so much to everyone who watched the stream and donated to Trans Lifeline yesterday! You have once again blown us away with your generosity! Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨