I’m howling.

SPREAD THIS FAR AND WIDE A group of New Yorkers has made an ICE hotline to protect their neighbors from being kidnapped by secret police.

ICE never left L.A. The military did but they aren't the ones terrorizing the city. Please don't ignore L.A.

MORE BOOKS IN THE WILD! You can get ANGEL/PEARL and NIGHT PRINCE softcovers at table 24 down at AnimeNJ this weekend!! (I am not able to be there but my books are real and good and I would love the support!!)

A Tufted Titmouse watching the snowy sky.

If you're an artist trying to figure things out, and you're inundated with video after video with advice of ' be this and also be that, and do this, while also doing that', i don't blame you for wanting to throw your hands up in the air and call it quits sometimes

I think that with how uncertain things are right now for the arts, it's especially frustrating when given the advice from artist to artist that in order to survive, you have to do more, and that it's seemingly at the point where whatever more we have to do, it's never actually enough.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!

Take me with you 🫀 man the chokehold this movie has on me #frankenstein

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

no one in the bible had swag so.... opinion discarded

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

This is literally Nazi shit. This is what the Nazis did. If you support this, you are a Nazi, and if that makes you upset, then STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

"Large language models have, as Charlie Warzel puts it, "devoured the total creative output of humankind". This represents a massive enclosure of the digital commons. Writers, artists, and creators find their work incorporated into systems that have given them zero compensation"

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

First week at Cambridge is in the books ❤️🎉

If you have it to give, Maisa and her family are struggling right now quite a lot. I've donated to them in the past. I'm in for $100 today.

Our mini-drive has 14 hours left and shares are so appreciated! This giving circle was a commitment of support for six families & a camp, no matter what. We ask for your boldness & hope to help them flee from under bombing in north Gaza. 242/1000

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

If you see this duck it’s a fuckin miracle, your luck will change, fortune will smile, this is a duck Bluesky doesn’t want you to see.

Trying to edit poetry tonight is certainly an Exercise

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

I'm so tired of concepts having more rights and protections than me, a living flesh person

Lord alive, they want fictional characters in fictional sexual situations to model consent for literal adults like a patronizing early 2020’s sitcom where the point of the writing is to convey that the writer’s been to therapy at some point

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

Difficult to feel like it’s safe to write without heavily self-censoring at the moment, which I am of course thinking about a lot on the eve of my creative writing masters program

and really, I do not believe that everyone needs to "get weirder now," or that everyone needs to "make more nsfw," etc. what I do believe, however, is that everyone should look to those already making that work and sit in dialogue with them. support their work, substantiate their humanity.

platforms for accidentally lingering too long within a fraught topic and losing my livelihood over it is not worth the risk of the full exploration of anybodys artistic vision. unless it's the kind of state enforced sexless hyper-violence we're all inundated with 24/7, that stuff is a-ok

i like to depict intense, broody, emotionally & physically fraught eroticism in my work, a lot of which if it happened in the real world would be dangerous or unhealthy. ppl say my work is daring, but you see the chickenshit versions of it because the risk of getting banned from -

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER Do you like art on the site? Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform. Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

Tiny aqualium #invertebrates

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kamal. Kamal has helped so many people I know in Gaza but never asked for my help before. He had a few careers before this including a tailor and a solar power tech. He’s helping his siblings including Aliaa, 25, Yasmin, 15 and Mohammad, 12.

Everything is very heavy, extremely heavy on me, endless responsibilities in this ap hard times, I appreciate every single support I appreciate every repost. In this time on my life I supposed to be software engineer and endless ambitions but this world just unfair

The pigeons and crows here are in a different font than back home

Have been less online as I’m busy befriending the Cambridge cows

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Luna-Terra and Pluto stickers have finally hit my shop! There are significantly more LTs than Plutos so act fast 💨 maxds.bigcartel.com

please do not use these tools. please do not do this to people.

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Coates makes a number of highly salient points about Kirk's legacy, and the essay should be read by everyone - but for me it's so meaningful and symbolic that he doesn't make trans people an aside or downplay the fact that his anti-trans hatred was central to what made Kirk such a monster.

But attempts to define trans people as a proscribed ideology and remove basic constitutional protections such as the right to a passport, the right to bear arms, the right to safe medical treatment, the right to serve in the military, etc been multifaceted, relentless, and downplayed in our media.