The 1st iteration of HireHumanArtists.com is here. It's currently just a spreadsheet directory of visual artists who've pledged to never use AI in their works. Use the pre-made filters to find what you want or make your own. Please share with authors & anyone else looking for art!

This image was posted by the official Project Hail Mary account on Facebook, and all I have to say is that their marketing people deserve a raise. Now I want the movie tie-in version of the novel to feature this as the cover.

I have more than a dozen reasons to deeply admire @chanda.blacksky.app , but the one I'm choosing to honor today is her refusal to hide the costs of her values. A dear friend often reminds me that our values should cost us something, but folks get uncomfortable actually hearing what we lose.

Good morning ☀️ Today's inspiration from Ukrainian cheerleaders doing the unexpected, finding joy, in wartime. "We train no matter what. When it's dark, & we're walking through the street while everything is burning. When there's no light. I tell my girls: 'We are the light.'" ✨We are the light✨

Made it to Friday but at what cost

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be. Fuck off, Labour.

I don't use any GenAI myself, but I thoroughly urge those that do to join the boycott of OpenAI - QuitGPT and use Anthropic's Claude instead. Stop giving money to the guys bankrolling fascism by creating tech for ICE & the Pentagon to be used on us. quitgpt.org

Every time you think they can't go lower, there they are, spitefully digging away...

I say this, every time i say it (which is far too fucking often), to myself as much as anyone else. Like Kaba says, hope is a discipline, a practice. That doesn't mean "don't be sad," but rather using what you can to turn sadness, anger, frustration, even despair into something that drives change.

Well, almost no one else is doing well atm, so what would you expect of an AI created from the sum total of the Internet?

Happy day, all.

Great rant!

Breaking: We have brought more than 140 feminist and LGBTQ+ organisations together to urge our politicians to act and protect inclusive spaces from expensive lawfare ⚖️ Read more in @the-independent.com: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The revelation that Epstein and his friends masterminded the anti-trans panic makes me even more committed to never voting for a politician who doesn't firmly support trans rights. If they're a puppet of pedophile billionaires on one issue, where else are they a puppet of pedophile billionaires?

I'm not normally a straight drama guy, but Man Enough is just so incredibly well-written and does so much with what is only half-said. www.channel4.com/programmes/m...

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The list is not exhaustive and will continually be updated through out the day, so check back often. The full list: lataco.com/list-jan-30-... By @afroxander.bsky.social

Mayor Gergely Karácsony of Budapest could teach a few American institutions how to deal with fascism. Rather than roll over to a Pride ban, he led a march of hundreds of thousands in Budapest. Now, he's being charged under their anti-Pride law. But he won't be deterred. Our latest story.

The resistance has an anthem. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

you’re all making jokes but the reason Greg Bovino was removed from duty is a safety issue we all need to take seriously

I heard folks are wondering about the shadowy cabal of billionaires who have been funding handwarmers in the Twin Cities. Stay tuned, we have a new Twin Cities supplies wishlist dropping after dinner! Be the shadowy cabal you want to see in the world. 💓

I remember this one being hysterically bad. Though tbh there was a lot of scotch involved in that viewing. 🥃 🤓

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

Great article. archive.is/BLcmi

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

It's STFU Friday. Refresh the script 👇

I am the descendant of African Slaves and Irish peasants who is studying to become an academic in one of the hubs of the world. That happened because people fought for and one the impossible one fucking step at a time. Do not tell me there is not a better world to be made.

😂

THIS. The regime is forging its opposition. In record time.

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

This is the way.

These are our friends. And, to me, this is a No Kings rally.

"Amanda reported on tactical fashion. It is harder to pull your hair if it is in a neat mom bun. Light layers keep you prepared to flee. She’ll find out where the soccer coaches get their whistles."

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Yes. It really is.

Minnesota legend Charles M. Schulz knew what made a great citizen. “Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call ‘American Virtues’ who lack this faith in our country.”

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Unarmed woman executed by state may have been on committee to fight against unarmed women being executed by the state

🚨ICE’s under-reported assaults on Native American citizens across the U.S. *Information and resources outlined on the following post. Please do share this post. 1/2

Hey, fellow Southern Californians - Please amplify this wide and far.

"In a dictatorship...once this process begins, it is hard to stop. If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time. This misses the point. If you help a strongman come to power, you are eliminating democracy. You burn that bridge behind you. 1/2

The gay rams are gonna live rent free in my head