Flow beats motivation every time. For me, it really just boils down to getting started. Commit to 5 minutes on that project you've been procrastinating on, and it might surprise you when you look up a few hours later and the time has just slipped by. I love flow...

As a tattoo artist, I love when I get a transphobe in the chair to admit their transphobia, so I can smack 'em with, "Oh yeah, I don't get why anyone would want to make permanent aesthetic changes to their body to feel more comfortable in their own skin, kinda like you are right now."

So you can stream games from your PC wirelessly to your Steam Frame...but what about from a Steam Deck or a Steam Machine? I can only assume that it's going to be an ecosystem...

You guys wanna see a dead body?

Harpy portrait for the week. ✨ Those big illustrations are almost done cooking. I may reveal one next week ^_^ . Life has been a little chaotic so we shall see! 🍻 [ #art #oc #harpy ]

I'm buying myself and my wife a Steam Deck this Christmas...and we're probably getting a Steam Frame NEXT Christmas. Steam...you're gonna take all of our money.

Feeling aggressively orange today #art #digitalart #portrait

Finally getting over the pneumonia and getting back to my regular routines. But my son needs to go to the dentist this morning, so I won't be streaming. Side note: if you prep for your mornings the night before...it makes your entire day SO much easier.

First day with snow. I'm surprised they let the kids go to school! 😂 But I got to walk around downtown with the littlest one today and she loved trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue. My kids remind me that no matter how bad things are, there's still magic in the world.

If anyone is in the Morehead, Kentucky area, we're going to be doing family dinners at the studio that the entire community is invited to. Stop by, get warm, hang out. No questions asked.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

*scratching neck* where them NYC results

Yep...those are many of my neighbors.

I am disappointed in a few of my former heroes that fell into the AI Hype Trap. I believe generative "AI" is here to stay in some form or another. And I have no idea what the future of "AI" is, but I know that it reduces our ability to think critically and competes with us for resources. It sucks.

only a tech guy could miss the point this much

My family was on SNAP for about 2 years while I built a business and my wife raised our kids. Now we both work full time and have crawled into a zone of limbo where we make enough, but barely, and we don’t receive any government assistance.

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

I'm a little surprised that the CIA still has this document publicly available. www.cia.gov/static/5c875... You should download it.

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

🐦‍⬛ Happy Devil's Night 🤘🏼 🐦‍⬛

Going live! Come hang out! youtube.com/live/CQARiwB...

I have donated to the DNC, DGA, and a few specific campaigns on a couple of occasions. What I did NOT expect was to be added to every Democratic candidate's substack, personal email list, and text chain as a result of those donations. Chill the fuck out with the comms and trading email subs, Dems.

Had a much-needed day at a trampoline park with the family. We haven't had many family outings over the past couple of years, so I appreciate these days more and more when they happen.

Without proof of another life, without the promise of paradise with no pain and no strife, we should strive while alive for a heaven here on earth, the one life we can prove, so the only life of worth.

Hah hah! I tried to go to their support page and it's down for me. I don't have an active subscription to cancel, but I wanted to test. I switched to Deezer after the whole "Spotify CEO funds dystopian AI Military Startup" shit storm. It's cheaper, better, and supports a company in the EU. :)

At the optometrist and I got the good news that my shingles is finally in remission after a 2 year ordeal of nearly losing my eye.

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

1/🧵 For those who may be migrating away from the Bluesky PDS to Blacksky, and want to use the blacksky.community client instead of bsky.app, you can use a uBlock Origin filter to automatically redirect bsky.app links

Cool cool! Just moved my stuff to the Blacksky PDS and changed my username to my OTHER domain (joshj.blog) to make it a quick verification. Hells yeah. Way easier than I thought it'd be.

Art friends: Here's a tip for getting rid of *a lot* of the AI slop in your Pinterest feed. ⭐Go into your account settings. ⭐Click the "Refine your recommendations" tab. ⭐Click the GenAI Interests subtab. ⭐TURN OFF EVERYTHING. So far, my feed is *significantly* cleaner.

He can be trusted with your bugs #comic #wip #oc #art #digitalart #csp

Dark fantasy character design for a voice chat collab on discord! This is my very kind and caring character... (evil) #oc #ttrpg #angel

I did it #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

Doing a 5th of November flash day (V for Vendetta / RESIST). If anyone in the Kentucky area wants a $100 tattoo on November 5th...I'll be doing them. 🙂 Mostly lettering pieces. Will post them as I draw them. And $25 of each tattoo will be donated to the ACLU.

Going live. Right now. Running behind. LoL Sorry about that. Hop on. Let's chat. :) youtube.com/live/L0Wt2Uu...

Just a semi-regular reminder, if you'd like to commission a portrait of a loved one, I'd be honored to help you out. https://joshj.blog/comm/ #Art #Artist #CommissionsOpen #DigitalArt #Commissions #Portrait #Illustration

My best boy just took his last car ride.

I...have made a mistake. After years of just...not gaming (too busy dadding and building a business), I decided to install... - Hollow Knight - Silksong - Hades - Hades II - Bastion (for a replay) - Pyre - and...Baldur's Gate III. I'll see you next year. Maybe. I'm gonna need a new hard drive...

Going live soon. About 40 mins. Come hang out, let's talk. youtube.com/live/EJYRd3Y...

I'll be doing a V-Themed Resist flash event on the 5th of November. So far the ideas are mostly text-based: - Ideas are Bulletproof - Respect Existence or Expect Resistance - The V logo - A Guy Fawkes mask, of course. Gimme some more ideas.

I won’t be doing my usual live stream tomorrow. I have to take my best boy to the vet, and we’re not expecting good news. He’s an ancient mutt who has been my buddy for a very long time, and he very likely has lymphoma.

It's my birthday! As a gift, can I ask you to share my art?🙏 I love drawing vibrant fantasy illustrations, especially in the field of TTRPGs. And speaking of TTRPGs, check out the post below for more fantasy goodness ⬇️✨

Just a semi-regular reminder, if you'd like to commission a portrait of a loved one, I'd be honored to help you out. https://joshj.blog/comm/ #Art #Artist #CommissionsOpen #DigitalArt #Commissions #Portrait #Illustration

It’s my birthday 🥳🎉 It’s incredibly homophobic that I’m sitting here with a cold for it and have 2 dissertations to work on, ON A SUNDAY But hey check out my work and give it a share 🥳

Shock and disbelief! #bard #wip #comic #art #digitalart