some cute things from my shop ✨ kej.bigcartel.com (use code "3XGXW" at checkout for 10% off until the end of September)

To all freelance peers who are struggling to make ends meet this year: it's not you. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get any gigs and many private clients struggle to pay their own bills. Whatever it takes for us to get through this, please don't doubt your skills and value as a creative ❤️

What really frustrates me about this is that involuntary AI modifications, like upscaling, muddy the water for groups like @aimod.social who already have a tough job identifying AI images. When actual art gets the AI treatment, it can appear to be made with AI and get flagged or suspected.

Where am I again?? Loving this game (despite how hard it is) and am yet again stunned by the beautiful art direction. So here's a little tribute! #silksong #silksongfanart

welcome autumn! 🍂 🎃

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Autumn Wind 🍂🧣 #art

As promised! Here are two pages from 'One on One' an all new Sapphic sports comic written and illustrated by yours truly, coming soon!....ish 🏀

La Hermana is a 24 page horror allegory. Done completely in grease pencil, the artwork in La Hermana is meant to be raw. There is no inking. There are no narration, dialogue, or sound effects in the story, giving the book an introspective feeling. See La Hermana here 👇 tinyurl.com/LaHermana

Whoa. Did not see that coming.

Guys…I’m getting GORGEOUS art every day in my inbox for my next project and I can’t wait to share it with y’all🥲🤩

Guys…I’m getting GORGEOUS art every day in my inbox for my next project and I can’t wait to share it with y’all🥲🤩

9 days left!

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

Was gone most of August on vacation. I come back & the world is definitely still on fire BUT @kejart.bsky.social & I still have pre-orders open for our sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel until Sept 15th! 🌿🤖💕 🌺 back-to-earth-a-sapphic-post-apocalyptic-tale.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

Was gone most of August on vacation. I come back & the world is definitely still on fire BUT @kejart.bsky.social & I still have pre-orders open for our sapphic post-apocalyptic graphic novel until Sept 15th! 🌿🤖💕 🌺 back-to-earth-a-sapphic-post-apocalyptic-tale.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

If you are a creator or a supporter of them, read this thread. Prepare to support more and more creators directly. It's going to be be very very worth it.

"You are not more powerful than Twitter’s algorithm." This is it. This is the whole ballgame. I do not understand how people don't get this.

important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

You can follow all the non-Substack newsletters that people post about on Bluesky by following this feed!

oh and in case you feel bad about charging them back here ya go. Absolute trash person.

Ok on the bright side the police shut them down and they closed. If you bought anything from the A10 booth in pop artist alley at Dragoncon I definitely recommend charging back your purchases. Glad to see Dragoncon took this seriously. Still upset that they took the place of an actual artist tho.

Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

Network of hospitals and cancer centers halt enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it will no longer provide funding . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Man I thought we were going to get some Terminator shit, some Matrix monsters, or at least Hal, but in the end humanity will be destroyed by a banana cart offering to write an essay for us and pretending to be a lover trying to wheedle us into suicide. Not with a bang but a pratfall.

RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:

All, please please pay attention to this. I know there's a lot of news going on, but the impact of this is going to be felt.

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

please support my fiancée and their wrists 🥺💕

My schedule for next month is pretty barren, so, if you need wild art that you won't find anywhere else on your next project, consider hiring me? Covers, sequentials, character design, album covers, I do it all! Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com I also offer commissions if you don't have a project

Pre-orders open until August 31st!

It's coming. It's real. And it's pulpy. Romance. Action. Magic. Lesbians. Sharing psychic masturbation while flying through a gas giant. And more. Join me. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #boombride #bookbazaar25 #💙📚🚀❤️ #🧡🦄📚🪐 🌈🚀💫

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Pre-orders open until August 31st!

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

2 weeks left to pre-order!

Don’t take medical advice from AI. Don’t take legal advice from AI. Don’t take financial advice from AI. Better yet, stop using generative AI. It’s destroying the environment, it generates slop and is destroying the internet, artists, creativity and our brains.

Holy ****. For months —years — I have warned that Trump’s assault on federal statistics was beginning to resemble actions taken by authoritarian governments in China, Venezuela, Stalin-era USSR. Critics said I was being hyperbolic. How do they feel about this threat below? bsky.app/profile/atru...

This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.

Love to check my news alerts and find out that the author of a massively antisemitic smear campaign against me and my organization is now a senior Trump administration official www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just for fun, I made my own version of a Labubu, a Fawbubu if you will. Mine definitely bites. ✹ #sculpting #sculpture #arttoy #labubu

No. No, they are not. It’s not REAL.

UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer: "Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! www.nature.com/articles/d41...