Origami in the wild. A little gift on the way through North Wing 2 to the Tea Room at @theul.bsky.social.

Still thinking about this show. Last night I slotted it into the top 10 of my life but it might actually make top 5. Thinking about the trans pride cowboy hats and older gay couple who got up to twirl each other around during Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other 🥲

Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool

I’ve been going to Wolf Trap since I was 4 years old for Raffi and getting to be in a huge crowd of queer/trans people in a summer storm with fireflies in my hometown during Pride for Orville Peck was a singular experience

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

I need everyone to watch Hokum so I can yap about Hokum

I saw Hokum this week and loved it, I am still thinking about the feast of li’l guys we got from this movie (and the shape language that ties ‘em all together, good stuff)

I hate to talk about it, but I have to talk about it. Long post incoming: www.patreon.com/posts/158715...

This vapid piece is rage-bait, but perhaps deserves some response because it's trying to locate a feeling I'm sure is present in some movie-goers these days, a feeling of alienation from the dominant genres in cinemas of recent years. A few thoughts... 🧵

Was thinking about ordering food and realized the late 2010s feel like the peak of the “build your own [bowl/smoothie/whatever]” era of endless choice optimization which has disintegrated into everyone offloading what kind of smoothie they should have onto AI and the answer is banana and frog leg

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Producers of Obsession (in their 40s making their 40th feature) had nearly 1 million but paid their early 20s crew min wage, no profit share or gas money & worked them to the bone. Some were volunteers. Should be a scandal but abuse is normal in indie film. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Anthony Stewart Head will always be a real one for this. RIP www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...

I love bringing a book into the bedroom like there’s any chance I’m going to read instead of fall asleep immediately

If you're looking to donate to an enviro org, may I suggest the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which wants to expand observational research to cougars. The amazing Upper Peninsula is coming under increasing pressure from anti wildlife factions and VWP may be on the front lines www.voyageurswolfproject.org

Mum bought a jigsaw puzzle a 2000 piece one which is a white sailing boat on a blue sea & sky a bloody awful one to do.

The minute we saw that crystal shop in Obsession I knew it was the actual Green Man in Burbank 😭 my old haunts

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

I've spent the last 8 years of my professional book critic career focusing my efforts on YA books by and about queer/trans and BIPOC experiences, and I have also noticed the decrease in these stories being published. It's incredibly dispiriting, as a queer Black adult and as a high school librarian.

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Anthony is the master of AI metaphors. This one takes the cake. Or perhaps, the brush.

It’s very existentially fun to be living in the part of Virginia that has cut down all of its trees for back to back data centers I tell you what

every part of this generative ai surge is anti life

“It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

There is something deeply unsettling (and consistent) to me about how we collectively do not value the natural world enough to care for it but we take such puerile cynical exploitative pleasure in sharing AI generated images of animals for ‘cute’, clicks and/or money.

‼️Look at this insanely perfect shot my husband just captured with his phone. We're both very sad he didn't have a real camera, but this is still amazing.

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.

Rare proof of life

The best advice I ever got when I started freelancing was, if you have to turn down work, always suggest someone else who could do it. I have been so lucky to benefit from that over the years.

i get that some folk are trying to highlight the hypocrisy - banning trans women while forcing women to share a toilet with men cannot be about women's safety. but there are no gotchas or loopholes to save you from fascism. their solution is simply barring trans men from facilities for either gender

sick of hearing "bearded trans men will be made to use women's bathrooms" in misguided pushback against the EHRC guidance. beards don't give you threatening superpowers. as we've seen with countless gender non-conforming folk, if i entered a women's toilet, i'd be the one at risk of attack

Woke up thinking about Romeo & Juliet. Live theater is such a balm for this era of AI slop and I’m so glad I gave myself the intimacy of a seat close to the stage

Mild spoilers for current West End run of Romeo & Juliet but there is a moment where Mercutio and Romeo are sat on the edge of the stage and Mercutio makes shadow puppets that arc up into the domed ceiling of the theater and I became wholly swept up in the sheer power of human storytelling

anthropic is in a way more dangerous than openai because they've duped people into believing they're actually the Good Guys and the others provide perfect foils for that assertion b/c they're so comedically villainous. But anthropic is not and will never be anything remotely like good

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - And when you fall we will come to raise you up, bud from you, banner-like, blossom from you and carry you apart in a sky funeral. In honour of your passing. (But not me, because I am just a leaf eater.)

Feels humiliating to get a bad sunburn in England. From what sun girl

Hermes https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21355

Inea’s story is one of home, tradition, and memory over generations.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Guess who finished their first year at Cambridge yesterday 🥲

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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Happy belated #nationalcartoonistsday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

Strongly suspect this will go the way of all "FINALLY, something WHOLESOME for FAMILIES and TEENS!"-forward media.

When, I ask myself, did I last have a passion fruit?

As a Moon in Libra II in the 1H person the Threads of Fate ep on Libra II is everything I wish people knew about Libra II natives. Just co-signing literally everything

Yes, the sky is crunchy… it’s not just you! The Moon in Libra is sandwiched between oppositions to both malefic planets, Mars and Saturn. She’ll clear the enclosure by 15:23 (GMT/UT) so until then, maybe some deep breathing?!

It's tough seeing every single freelance artist I know having the same "uhh I haven't had paying work or sales in weeks" posts, it's gotten extremely tough out there for us. If you have the means, please consider treating yourself to a commission or print or book from an artist you like, it helps!

creators get better by finishing projects no project ever comes out as good as it is in your imagination but that’s ok, the next one will be better also it’s ok if projects fail, taking risks and big swings is an important part of growing as a creator