em dashes have long been a common punctuation mark and no more an indication of AI than anything else

Just attempted my first go at being a part of @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 's Southern Reach Files. Probably won't be the one I submit but I enjoyed the process. Will upload all my offcuts, since I get one take but have no self control lol

@coolzonemedia.bsky.social any chance Rich Evans would investigate Primerica for BTB

americans hearing about a culture with human sacrifice: wow! what a bunch of savages! americans nonchalantly driving past car crashes: sucks for that guy lol

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Say what you will about the German communist secret police, but they know how to make a boardroom

I made a small archive of older work that I think holds up. www.patreon.com/posts/comics...

I think a lot of porn doesn’t get credit for how pretty and emotive it is. I’ll always find it kinda wild how one of the biggest, most powerful drives of the human psyche is treated similarly to shitting ones pants

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

this meme was (correctly) targeted at me

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them. Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment. *Artists will.*

This photo is so slutty and I love it

Sean is the only on camera actor I've ever come across that's shown an active interest in what voice actors need by showing up to our contract meetings.

ICE didn't even tell her family that they were deporting her. They just took her away from her kids - she didn't even get to say goodbye to them. Her kids only found out because she was able to call them right before being put on the plane.

🔥🔥🔥🔥A FRESH OUTLET FOR MY FAILURES🔥🔥🔥💀🔥🔥🔥🔥

Was about to go pass out for the day when I ran into this. I think bsky will appreciate this one. #formline #indigenousart

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

A precision strike. They were gathered in a tent together, and a precision strike was used to take them out. Videos show no crater or impact that shows use of bombs or airstrikes. They 100% intended to take them out Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa ✊

This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

Let's Keep Calling!

One thing to keep in mind through all this is that while things like Game of Thrones & Grand Theft Auto are useful gotchas when discussing CC/paypro terms of service, conservatives absolutely WOULD love to ban those things too (or at least be able to credibly THREATEN banning them for concessions)

So while Stripe and PayPal should keep getting calls, Stripe has said that their banking partners are giving them issues. Who are they? • Fifth Third Bank (!!) • Evolve Bank (!!) • Goldman Sachs • Citibank • Barclays (UK) Sources: techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/s... stripe.com/treasury Keep calling.

In case it wasn't clear this is an invitation to post your work and I will repost!

anti-porn people will say stuff like "we need to abolish restaurants. what do you mean why? have you been inside of a mcdonald's before? look how they badly they treat their workers. if you really cared about them, you'd sign my petition to make it illegal to buy or sell dinner"

This is The Patriot Act for canadians. Yall cant let this pass, im begging you

My friend @beurkeek.bsky.social has started a petition together with prominent names in games to save our medium from censorship by payment processors! Please sign and/or boost to show the powers that be that we're not going to take it anymore 💪

Banks are decided what video games you're allowed to buy, and guess what? They don't like the sexy / LGBTQ+ ones. Games journalist @acvalens.net joins me to discuss why games AND the journalists covering this issue have been censored by Visa and Mastercard. haveenteredthechat.com/episodes/213...

Create NSFW art Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like Always resist oppression

The itch and Steam policy changes brought about this current momentum, but these payment processors are consistently used as a cudgel against SW too; pushing for arbitrary policy changes that hurt people’s livelihoods Don’t let them brush this off as just “mad about games”; It’s bigger than that.

Gaza is being exterminated by the occupation. Open the borders and end the genocide.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

No judge should allow this.

The audacity of using AI on an adaptation of an Alberto Breccia comic... a guy who went to any lengths to pursue new ways of analog texturing his work. He made comics of nothing but cut up construction paper, he embroidered landscapes in his panels, and inked with fucking razor blades

consenting adults can in fact, weigh up the risks of whatever they wanna do and make a decision based on that as it turns out, like is it dangerous? maybe. so are lots of things. I do lots of things that are considered risky, but thats a choice I've made after deciding the benefits are worth it

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social has anyone else proffered "Whitby is the rouge"? Along similar lines, is "perhaps the real Lowrys were the friends we made along the way" anything?

When we finally start to build community and solidarity.

A vitally important story, memorialized in Norman Rockwell's "Murder in Mississippi."