🦄Pre-launch page is live for my next graphic novel! Join awesome tales about the chaotic love lives of a queer bunch of mythical beings where feels & shenanigans reign supreme 💙📚🌈 The line-up of artists is INSANE & the main cover by @notanotheralex.bsky.social ✨ www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I've sent my last newsletter of the year! A look at what I worked on this year, as well as some of the books and comics I've read, games I played, all that good stuff!

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

My entire family got the flu over Christmas and my husband’s best friend just got diagnosed with cancer, so yes, I’ve got many reasons to keep wearing a mask during “people coughing into each others’ faces” season

Yves Chaland

My best recent anecdote—we were asked to give a more “story telling” design presentation at work this holiday. The other team used chatgpt to write theirs, advised me to do the same. My team took time to write something we were all happy with & nailed it. The other team’s was a total crash and burn

Heartbreaking to see the continued dismantling of CDC and the impact this has on the staff still there

'Slop' being the word of the year according to Merriam Webster makes sense & is also a bleak look into our era. Our pledge here at the Studio is to enter 2026 with the mindset that we'll bring more human-made art to the world, we'll uplift human creators, and we'll stand together✨

QRP to reintroduce yourself well hello to all the new faces! 😅 i’m currently drawing The Count of Monté Cristo High for PRH- but probably best know for doing the art for Dungeons and Daddies. also here to sizzle your eyeballs with some CHOICE colour combos #art #DnD #comics

Another author caught using AI to write their fucking book. They left the fucking prompt in. Add Jesse Pack to your Do-Not-Read list.

i would remind anyone that if you used twitter since like mid 2024 you've legally consented to grok training and modifying your art. if you didn't know this, now you do. if you need twitter for a living, limit what you upload but otherwise just leave

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Another cover #art snippet from @mhcaliwrites.com's HECTIC LOVE LIVES OF THE MYTHICAL. The campaign for this #comics anthology full of fantastical romantic trials & tribulations goes live in ‘26! interior artists include @lengog.bsky.social on a short about a mermaid adrift in the dating apps

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

Shaming rarely works on most people, so I will simply say: follow the facts, both scientific and economic, for they tell the same story: The pandemic is far from over. SARS-CoV-2 is still spreading; COVID-19 is still disabling millions today. It's never too late to align one's conduct with reality.

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

In a world without Section 230: 😩 Big Tech companies everyone hates would win. Giants like Meta and Google have armies of lawyers to navigate compliance 😩 Alternative platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon would likely shut down, along with Wikipedia, review sites, how-to resources, small forums, etc

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

A leaked memo suggests Pam Bondi wants to put a bounty on trans activists. She wants to reward people for turning advocates into the FBI. There’s another group who did this. The Nazis. They went after trans people, gay people, the disabled, immigrants and the Jews. Don’t let history repeat

12 days left! Honestly, this might not make a comeback for a long while, if ever, so if you need art and have been eyeing collaborating with our artists, don't hesitate to get in touch!😊

I’m a developer… I’m “supposed” to love AI & be at the forefront of technology. Truth is; AI is just a marketing spin on Machine Learning that we’ve been doing for decades. AI isn’t new; it’s just got investment and billionaires who want to get richer. And honestly no one is really asking for it. 💩

Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!

#Romancelandia #CallToAction (and if you go, "well, I write ~clean~ romance, so it doesn't affect me", please know that fascism never runs out of targets/enemies, and that it *will* affect you sooner rather than later)

🇺🇸: use badinternetbills.com to call your representatives THIS WEEK (starting Dec 15)! use the script on their website. it took me a little less than 15 minutes!

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. 🧵

This whole thread!!! Also when you talk about GenAI even to critique it the stats will suggest to investors that it's more popular than it is. So talking about the art you love and supporting artists, is a much more productive strategic choice that will harm the business of AI at scale

Okay yeah, This feels like a mix of AI Slop, Trace Photo Ref, and Actual (mostly rushed) Art, all made to hide the duct tape and glue. Im kinda mad I backed the Kickstarter, checking that now they REALLLLLLY hid this. AWA Studios really pocketed 100K in Kickstarter Money and ran with this.

Wizard of Oz comic that raised $100k made with AI because fuck the readers, right? Thread has the images if you want to have your eyes insulted

I wrote about the unprecedented mass censorship and surveillance laws that Congress is trying to ram through in the name of “protecting kids” and how none of this is about protecting kids. In fact, these laws cause great harm to all of us, for @zeteo.com

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

hi, this is super fucked up

The holidays are always a time where people's budgets get tighter, we 100% get it! But do you know that we accept time payments that start in the new year?👀 If you need art for your book or project & want to make sure you work with the artist you want from our roster, contact us!💙📚 🌐 42fold.studio

Cancelled Disney and Hulu over their Kimmel suspension, and it looks like the time to resubscribe will continue to float just out of reach. Cancel Disney today, if you still have it. Send the message.

This is a very divided vote. It means we've been encouraging dissent. It now goes to the full committee. Please keep calling and urging your reps to reject it

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

please support writers and artists and musicians and all the people who are doing the actual labor to create interesting, intentional work

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.

Not surprised, of course. But still. Steal from the creators who made your company what it is at a large enough scale, and you reward the thieves with wealth the likes of which none of us will ever see. openai.com/index/disney...

NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/

LOOK AT THOSE LINES😍

There's never been a better time to go independent and tell your own stories. Especially when giant studios are shooting signal flares basically saying they don't respect the artistry that built their entire empires.

ink WIP featuring @mhcaliwrites.com + @galacticjonah.bsky.social's demonic drummer from the upcoming queer monster love anthology; www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (v. brain-dead day so that's an excuse to get this pin-up licked and then OH MY GOD A FREE RUN AT #COMICS IT’S FINALLY HERE 😭) #art

An excellent & very disturbing overview of the scope & scale of domestic surveillance systems deployed in the US 🇺🇸 by @peter.andringa.me @financialtimes.com 👇 Ostensibly for deportation, these can (& likely are) being fine-tuned for deployment on critics of the Trump regime -- a chilling prospect

🚨🚨 Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills. We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

Crowdfunding or publishing a comic or a book next year? Need covers, character art or any merch design? Our artists would be happy to collaborate with you! 💙📚🌈📚🌶️ Plus, we currently have an end of the year promotion going on👀 Don't hesitate to contact us✨ 🌐 42fold.studio

A review does not have to be long or sophisticated either! Just say you liked it, or something you liked about it! One of the best reviews of all time was that one-liner on ye olde Twitter from *checks notes* bigolas dickolas It does matter, it does help.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone. n.pr/3KJ3iIq

Sophie Kinsella, the author behind the popular “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” the million-selling novel about a financial journalist who writes about money matters but fails miserably at managing her own, has died. She was 55.