"why should we care about the baltics" because the alternative is caring much later and much closer to home. every kilometer a line holds in lithuania is a kilometer it doesn't have to hold somewhere farther west.

Już za dwa tygodnie spotkacie mnie na Bazyliszku w ursynowskim centrum kultury! Znajdziecie mnie na stoisku nr 108 - poniżej mapka, jak do mnie trafić, i snik pik niektórych dostępnych printów ;) Z kim się widzimy?

This started out as a sticker design, but a whole poster grew out of it. I used to play with 60s psychedelic poster style way back in art school, I want to explore it again. gouache on paper. #traditionalart

The Polish president is doing what I can only describe as using his position to crash the national id into the train of Polish-Ukrainian relations and any theoretical merit in his faux outrage needs to be seen as what it is: a Trumpian attempt to generate political capital for betraying Ukraine.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

This started out as a sticker design, but a whole poster grew out of it. I used to play with 60s psychedelic poster style way back in art school, I want to explore it again. gouache on paper. #traditionalart

I'm 43 and I'm still shocked that 28 days only last 28 day. what do you mean it's again already.

Putin openly tells the world that he plans to continue this war until the last drop of blood leaves his body. It's in his every speech. ​When a person tells you they are a sadistic emperor wannabe, maybe it's time to stop listening to the nonsense of russian shills regarding nonexistent peace plans

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

the experience of Eastern Europeans in the UK is /not/ of being accepted as "fellow white people" and it is important for me to remind you all that the very notion is a fucking joke

convention needed a logo from all vendors so I finally found a motivation to make myself a proper one instead sending the one I made like fifteen years ago as a temporary

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

This is rather good www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...

I finally made new logotype for my art, after procrastinating it for years (con asked for one for promotion reasons) and I've just realized that I'm gonna need new cards. I don't wnat to order new cards.

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

Honestly, this is how anthropologists talk about gender outside the West, but it only registers as absurd when the same lens is turned around.

Not all trans language and discourse surrounding trans people should be made on the basis of centering cis people’s views and systems of harm as the normative reader of how we talk about ourselves.

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

This is your daily reminder that: - Colossal did NOT bring back the dire wolf - They are funded by big-business interests to push a narrative that species extinction isn't a real problem because we can just "de-extinct" them later

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

This has been said to death but I'll just say it again: if you're in the creative arts space stop calling your art "content". Call it "work"! Calling your art "work" shows it's the result of time and skill. "Content" makes something sound like it has no purpose other than to take up space.

where are my fucking packages

I think probably the most evil part about ai wrt the arts aside from the theft is how the companies producing and marketing it and the economic class they represent are ultimately the ones who make art feel impossible to learn/get into in the first place. They're the ones who've taken all the...

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

basically the right-wing program, which A LOT of Very Sensible LIberals are absolutely going to fall for (and their total and utter debasement on trans issues is why I will never trust this crowd), is to systematically eliminate any possibility that a child or young person might not conform.

turning every instance of queer depiction into a reflection rather than a window coupled with the way people feel entitled to content was a mistake

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli. I watched it so many times I killed rental tape

I always thought that having birthday on book day should get me free books from bookstores

There is only Eastern Europe. You can run from it, you can deny it, but it is how they will ultimately regard you if you move to London, Paris or Barcelona. Better embrace it.

Right. So... I bristle at the way people talk about other planets, as though they're worthless hunks of rock made for the taking, because they don't have life on them. As though having life is the only thing that could make a 5 billion year old world valuable. In fact, 1/-

If we just bring out colonial and capitalistic commodification mindsets into space, a desire to make everything like us or to extract value out of everything; then we will just replicate our same issues in space and space will not be the driver of human growth we see it inherently as.

I’m not arguing against living on other planets; I’m talking about the colonial mindset we bring to space. We’ve only l viewed space through a colonial lens. But we view it not a thing to take or erase but through a lens similar to indigenous ppl for exp; land that we are a guest on & part of.

If you get paid from your artwork, you are a professional. If you are indie and managing your own business, you are a professional. In no way do you have to work at a big ass studio to be considered a professional.

I’ve said it a billion times; I’ll take messy works of art that are trying to say something over art that is extremely well made and structured, but wants to say nothing at all.

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

so my phone is pre-paid and I tried to use my provider's website to put some money there (I usually use my bank) and listen. it was ten step process that required a phone (I was on desktop), text code, and had attempt at fooling me into larger sum at one point. what the fuck.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

trying to redirect port and getting more and more frustrated because my router's settings page doesnt even have that section? I think I understand why but I'm also very aware that I dont have enough knowledge to change it by myself

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Ok, I'm proud of having written this one.

I hate it when things I use are being discontinued. I used your product for fifteen years and that's how you repay me? how dare.

now for something nice, here's a cat I saw today. his name is Cinnamon.

And because I've seen the comparison: This is not an H.P. Lovecraft situation of "separate the art from the artist." Lovecraft is a century dead. He's not alive right now, trying to suppress records of his yacht visiting Epstein Island and swearing to make the lives of millions of ppl unlivable.

The capitalist ghouls who refer to what was once art as "IP" and "content" want nothing more than for you to convert from Producer to Consumer. Producers are competition. Consumers are profit.