For Day 18 of #ArtAdventCalendar, another shy amphibious gremlin I made today - still a work in progress though with a few details to be added! Paper mache, mulberry bark, flax fibres, and glass eyes, painted with acrylics.

The main reason why I couldn’t keep up a meditation habit before was the misconception that I should make the thoughts go away, to clear my mind of them.

Hei nyt oikeesti.

All meaningful forms of resistance boil down to radical love of self and others, even when it’s inconvenient, and stubborn belief that change is possible, even when systems loom large and powerful. Don’t let the bastards convince you otherwise.

Worf in dad jeans and a shark shirt directing DS9 is the timeline cleanse you didn’t know you needed 🖖

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip

Projekti aloitettiin viimeistään siinä Neuvostoliiton hajoamisen tienoilla.

Holy shit what a great thread on WAKE UP DEAD MAN. Spoilers, eventually

Mom’s a lib, Calvin is a lefty.

Eli persut kieltää että silmien venytys olisi ollut rasistista, mutta myöntävät pelaavansa vieraan valtion pussiin, tällä kertaa kiinan. Se että kansanedustajat lähtevät tällä tavoin hybridivaikuttamaan on myös aika huolestuttavaa.

"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?" Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie. It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such. It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.

This has been a long week.

her shield stops the quick strike, while the slow blade may pass

Winter sheep parade! ❄️

That bubble can't burst fast enough.

Read the study and think about population level implications, remembering that the vast majority of people have been infected multiple times. What are the possible long-term neurological sequelae? What are the implications for societies now? news.griffith.edu.au/2025/12/16/c...

👇 Tässä ketjussa on tosiasioita siitä, millaista toimeentulotuella on elää. Se on aivan saatanan tiukkaa. Jos kuvittelet Kelan maksavan vaikka ja mitä, tsekkaapa Kelalta mikä kaikki sisältyy "perusosaan". Se on se sama könttäsumma, ihan sama mitä menoja tulee. Jos ei riitä, niin pitää vaan riittää.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

This months art prompt number 3 is out. Join the fun! #supportartists #artprompts #drawingideas #artworkshop #artist #artists

One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.

Do you need a gift for the person who has everything? Consider a sanctuary sponsorship! We have different tiers that all include a personalized certificate, but more months means more bonuses including a wooden ornament hand painted by one of our staff members. 🎁 donorbox.org/holiday-spon...

anyway I’m gonna go cry for a bit

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.

reject modernity (micro plastics) embrace tradition (lead poisoning)

I am sure someone else has already come to this realization, but Gandalf is basically a neighborhood cat. He has different names for everyone who knows him, disappears for worrisomely long periods, shows up whenever he wants, and no one knows where he comes from, but everyone loves him.

At SNL I worked with artists who made the funniest, stupidest graphics in no time flat. Some of my biggest jokes would have been impossible without these geniuses building an insane image or finding the perfect real-life photo of a politician. Sucks that their work is being pushed aside for slop.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) is very good.

Rasismin hyväksyminen on rasismia. Puhe lapsellisuudesta ja hölmöilystä on vain oman rasismin valkopesua, kun halutaan jatkaa sitä hyväksymistä.

Please use ALT TEXT so everyone gets to enjoy your posts and get more traction.

What I would love more than anything for the holidays is for our two most shy mama cats to find their forever homes. Porsche, mom of the Auto Club kittens, since May this year. Shoyu, who is the mama of last year’s wonderful little grass Miso & Dashi, has been in our rescue since October *2024.*

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

December Lovely Letter is out! #supportartists #artist #artists #newsletter #patreon #free

@fishtopher.bsky.social look at Provolone Dave up for adoption at Trash Cat Rescue in Pittsburgh, PA. trashcatrescue.org

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December Lovely Letter is out! #supportartists #artist #artists #newsletter #patreon #free

I hope the ocean of rancid pornography/pointless brainrot that comes from this deal was worth spitting directly in the face of artists, animators, and craftsmen. You know, the people who actually built the mouses empire with human creativity and devotion to their craft. deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

Eduskuntaan pitäisi perustaa erillinen Jumanji -sali, missä perussuomalaiset kansanedustajat voivat roikkua liaaneissa ja heitellä toisiaan ulosteilla.

Never have small acts of human creativity mattered so much. Paint, draw, put on a play, write a song, learn an instrument, write a story (or a book!). The worst thing you ever make will be better than all this slop.

Hi! I have a holiday design in my shop (in addition to my usual work). You can still get it in time for Christmas if you order by Dec 15. 100% of the profit helps feed & pay vet bills for the rescue, stray, and feral cats here. Thanks! 🦊🐱🐱🐱 lastflyingfox.threadless.com

“A Singular Sense of Style” Available as a giclée art print in my Etsy shop! Find it here: theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/8274...

Näin ihmisoikeuspäivänä haluan muistuttaa, että ihmisoikeuksien mukaan orjuus ja pakkotyö on ehdottomasti kielletty: Ketään ei saa pakottaa työhön rangaistuksen uhalla vasten tahtoaan. Asioita, jotka ovat keskeisiä ihmisoikeuksia: - Koti - Työ - Sosiaaliturva #ihmisoikeudet

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Reposting with the picture of Lucy and Ricky looking for their home. Please share to help them find it! #LucyandRicky #ForeverHomeNeeded #Rescue #wobblycats #Connecticut #NewYork #kittens #cats

All of this, literally over one LGBTQ+ children's picture book. ONE. PICTURE. BOOK. They dismantled the fucking public library for the whole county. They hate gay people this much. If you have a library that functions, get in their inboxes or meetings now to tell them that they're great.

He’s a rookie cop, he’s a relic from another age, together they fight crime in Natural Law

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Cloud, Phyll, Nettle, and Pyewacket are all available for adoption now! All of them are extremely sweet, social, good with cats and dogs (Phyll would prefer dogs that are small and don’t want to bother him). Please help them find their homes for the holidays ❤️ Elkton, MD crits4cats.petfinder.com