Sketch version, because I really liked the sketch 🫶 It's not too late to join in on #zombarty 😁🧟🧟 #SkyOc #BurakkuArt #Sketchpage #ArtSpread #OC #zombie #halloweenArt #halloween #artchallenge #OctoberArtChallenge

Well shit: a Noreaster would definitely explain why my lower back feels like someone hit me with a chair. X_X I think I liked it better when it was just my knee being extra-popcorn-y.

Spotted this near my house. Goddammit I love spooky season 😭 #whimsy

Happy #Caturday! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

If you want to fight, find one group of people at risk, and help defend them. Kids? Immigrants? The homeless? Vets? The poor? LGBTQ+ people? Doesn’t have to be all of them. Don’t have to be a bodily protest for even one of them. But there are things that can be done to defend the weak.

I am a huge fan of the Nevermore webcomic, the writing is BRILLIANT and also I spent half my time wondering about the media literacy of some of the people in the comments because the SPEED at which some of these people forget that X character is no less flawed than Y because X is pretty...

... this is two of -three- versions of this add I've seen that make me wonder what is happening at the 'Zon because uh. ... ...I have questions.

If you despise your queer child so much you’d be willing to place them into conversion therapy, you’re the one in need of therapy, not them. Maybe step back, take a long look in the mirror, and ask yourself what made you like this.

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

well that's good cripes this is cooked over a fire

#LGBTQWriteAThon this is from Rift and Ruin, and it's probably as silly as you think it is. “You’ll save me if I fall, right?” Henrik squeezed his fingers much more gently than Fern had. “Not only will I let you fall, I’ll make sure you do.” Stefan didn’t turn to look at him.

Wake-up-call, even for CPD

The sale is still on! Ends on October 23rd, get 2 books for 3.49!

Start charging AI companies, in full, for the energy they use and the pollution they cause, and they’ll quickly find a way to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Hello All! I'm DD Ward. I write stuff. Have you checked my stuff? It's free. www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit... • The Plight of the Last Paladin • Daughters of the Digital Empire • Hunted in the Wolf Wood

New trans girl Claire just found out the members of her fav Portland band are magical girls - and she's one, too! Now she’s out of the closet as the newest member of Magica Riot! Check out the book Strange Horizons called "brilliant trans joy," in print, ebook, and audio. magicariot.com/magicariot

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

A federal judge agreed to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America, the government-funded broadcaster founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II. https://cnn.it/4pSe92w

Erasing history.

Replace trans with Jew and you have a snippet from 1920s Germany. This is horrendous rhetoric and needs to be destroyed. You don’t throw away human being for any reason. It’s called having principles and believing in things.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

I got some nice samples from Sucrebeille while ordering a present for my MIL: Littlest really likes 'Elixir' so I let them try it on me. On her: Light, floral, pleasant. On me: Antique dryer sheet from hell. Help.

"AI coding is massively overhyped" *GASP* WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.

Hey if you've read any of my books (ghost punch, last light) could you review them? Maybe even get a storygraph account and review them there? Please?

When you realize you just -design silly prosthetic eyes- for the character with a missing eye.

Doomists and doom-saying bots are fucking EXHAUSTING. Like don't you get tired of assuming you should tie a nice bow on and dig your own grave for evil to save it the trouble? Like don't you think you could use that energy somewhere else?

Finished portrait for @wind21.bsky.social 💕 and sketch portraits sheet for @technicalnitwit.bsky.social 💚

Those who fail to remember history often repeat it. But that goes both ways. For instance, Nazi leadership was once certain their victory was inevitable. A few years later, it was all, “But I was just following orders.” The smug bastards in DC likewise think they’ve won. They haven’t.

well Mass Effect 4 is going to be absolutely gutted isnt it.

After insisting on being the sole corporate sponsor for the 3 day Black Book Bash literary festival in Jacksonville, FL, Publix yanked all support only *one week* before the event, citing the “volatile climate” as their reason 🤬 You can show support/donate @ iamcaseyrkelley.com/pages/b3-home

Get this shit the fuck outta here!

Me oh yeah, I will definitely do some very productive editing tomorrow. -proceeds to get a terrible night's sleep and be a zombie- Oh yeah. WINNING.

cutting new prints 🫶

We absolutely cannot give up on calling these fucking companies and telling them their policies are fucking stupid.

I don't normally share/qrp daily OC ask answers but this is so funny please look at this I am dead

OK: I have updated my Ellipsus link to -only people with an account- and removed the Grammarly user from permissions. X_X Hopefully that'll do it. And just because it bears repeating: FUCK GENERATIVE AI.

"The science is unclear. On one hand we have thousands of studies, articles and experiments supporting one side, but we also have to consider that this one facebook meme that says its a global operation to control the planet by the lizard jewish space communists is valid as well."

Found some spare people to help do some read overs: One of whom -offered to feed stuff into Grammarly- I said no thank you because they're using AI and I don't want my stuff potentially fed into that. (And they will because corporations are not our friends.)

Want to get a taste of Inarora's Excursion before she's re-released? Check out these cute short stories from the POV of Kaedan and Byron with an added bonus of Byron being a disabled disaster while babysitting his grandbaby :D books2read.com/fateofenaros ♿♾️📚 🌃📚 🌈📚 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

I’m kind of over the -maybe the rapture already happened- jokes. We’re not in hell, the rapture was made up comparatively recently, and I have trauma related to it being taught anyway. Also it’s not funny when I’m worried that someone in the throes of religion is gonna off their family over this.

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

So one vet trip later and we find out that the cat was LITERALLY butt-hurt. His anal glands were impacted and he been prescribed wet food and miralax

House Kaiju is at the vet; we should have updates by noon.

What am I doing on the morning of the rapture? Scheduling marketing for my trans demon romance. That's what. georginakiersten.com/https-georgi...

Pregnant women want to protect their babies. But the trump regime falsely claims Tylenol causes harm—without science to back it. There’s no link to autism! Such fear may push women to riskier meds. Always talk to your OB-GYN about safe options during pregnancy.

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?