everyone stop being an evil piece of shit challenge oh my god

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

This will fix me.

Oh me? I keep a sketch page where I doodle my characters kissing when I get overwhelmed

just a reminder that I'll be at haunted burrow books in cap hill in Seattle at 4pm tomorrow for a signing!! I'll have hello sunshines, plus other books! please come visit me 🫡

Due to a recent change in my employment status, bird commissions are now open! If you’re interested, please contact me on Telegram or Discord.—HallowCryptid For real, don’t email me. I don't check that… #art #commission #bird #pet #pigeon

wish there was a better way to have the convo about the fact a lot of fans force queer subtext into big corporate IP that is comically devoid of it, champion it for being "so gay", and then turn around and go "mm idk, it isn't PERFECT rep" about indie stuff actually trying to include those themes

Canadians! Some action you can take is signing petitions actually going before the Canadian House of Commons. Here's a petition aimed at closing the arms export loophole: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Petition for immigration reform for Gaza refugees: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

All over the world, there are young men who just want to kill: they seek a permission structure wherever it's convenient; doesn't matter much whether they pretend the permission comes from Islam or 4Chan, since the shooters have no real commitment except to violence.

To be fair I don't even think they lied or anything. I often need to remind myself that many people in tech are either from the US or genuinely influenced by the US's dellusional views on "freedom" that somehow involves no healthcare, regular school shootings, and nazis walking around unharmed

Hey, so, survivor of CSAM (child sexual abuse material) here—and a global survivor advocate, including policy work! Fictional material is not illegal. That’s actually why deepfakes are such a big issue for survivors too. That said, actual art should *not* be made illegal. Why? (Con’t)

I’ve set up a goal on Ko-fi for food and necessities while I’m job hunting. My disability case in in the appeals process so I won’t hear back from that for months. Comms and donations are what I rely on atm. Anything is appreciated! Thank you! 💖 ko-fi.com/aorticinkwel...

Whenever I see something “powered by AI”

Grandma needs glasses. #comics #boumeries

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

@blenderknight.com asked me for a parody anime poster for Hooked, so here's Ram-na, the boy who is also a girl who is also a ram.

Honestly solid advice.

@nileoart.rip was playing silksong on our discord call today and this is the only way i can accurately describe the energy haha

I don't see a lot of people talking about the unintended fallout from this Sinclair Kimmel preemption: 🚨 Your Parents Are Looking Shit Up On YouTube!!! 🚨 If you mom starts asking you "who is this 'Hasan'" in like a week you know where it started.

You NEED to call your reps and tell them this shit fucking sucks! They literally want to big-brother style waych you at all times, zero privacy, to "protect children"

Woke up this morning to see apricot had put this on my desk. I took the hint and I'm SO happy I did. Everything about @keezyyoung.bsky.social 's Hello Sunshine is wonderful. It's creepy, and beautiful, and just truly amazing. I was crying by the end. You really should read this if you get a chance

Coffee break went wrong

embrace

As someone who writes horror games, it feels like a grace is currently extended to me that is not extended to people who write erotica. It is understood in horror that depiction is not endorsement, depiction is not instruction, depiction is not a mind control that will make you do the horror.

Artists, quote with something silly

Unstoppable Joy 🫧

Artists! Post your hot men art!!!!!

The way you can now put a simple idea into an LLM to have it spit out a bunch of words that express roughly the same idea, but with some random shit added to it, probably isn't good for the whole "words have meanings and are chosen on purpose, figure out what that purpose was" angle of text analysis

check out this adorable piece i commissioned from @rainbowdeww.bsky.social of my goblin gal Trivia!! Rainbow's shapework is soooooo good and just a delight to look at, i knew they would absolutely capture Trivia perfectly and they DID!! the lighting is so lovely, too, gosh...!! 💞

🍂 It's officially Autumn! 🍂 Quote repost with your Autumn themed art

Not to be a bitch, but when does Karen Attiah get her job back? Anyone ask Bezos directly?

Artists, quote with something silly!

So cool to see people sharing and enjoying the architecture I designed for Dying Light: The Beast! ♥️

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

They've lost the 9yos

I did it

"You sure stopped looking as intimidating as you'd like when the wind took your hat, dork." As we say goodbye to those beach vibes, I asked @batshaped.bsky.social to do something more cutesy with my bunnies because they deserve to be cutesy too sometimes. Roaring success!

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

Congratulations to the team that worked on the Knights of Guinevere. The pilot is amazing <3

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

I wanna talk a little more about this bc what I often see is the argument that depicting "bad stuff" normalizes it. there's something to it. I rail against depictions of psychosis as dangerous, for example. but I think tagging and labeling something acts as a de-normalizer. it SPECIFICS it as niche

btw trying to get human beings to stop having niche kinks or to stop liking sex fantasties is like trying to get teenagers to stop having sex. the more you prohibit it the more they do is, and the more unhealthily they do it, and the more they are susceptible to abuse within it. please stop trying

George Herriman is arguably one of the first major black artists in comics. And the only reason for that is because NO ONE KNEW HE WAS BLACK. He was light skinned enough to be white passing & hid that fact into old age so that he WOULD be able to continue drawing largely due to rampant racism.

hand hurt but brain happy