*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration* You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion

AHHH

I’ve got $70 out of the $300 I need for her vet visit. I’m going to call today to pay for her worm medication so I can pick it up soon. Hopefully today. It would really help if I can get her seen and get the flea meds so the worms don’t happen again. I feel so bad for her.

This is such bs

Fatigue is a bitch

These guys are great! I donate every year and may I suggest that some of the crafts they sell on behalf of the elders make great Christmas presents?

I finally read Wuthering Heights, finished it yesterday, and I just wanna read it all over again. I honestly loved it so much, like it’s haunting me in the BEST way

The last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie because it’s the wokest one

I loved Death Becomes Her, but I listened to Maybe Happy Ending for like a month straight so definitely that one. But DBH is a close second

October Reading Stats The Spear Cuts Through Water is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Emma was a fun read like always, the Lathe of Heaven is gorgeous sci-fi, & Never Whistle at Night is perfectly scary. I also read some spooky short stories, & found I really enjoy Edgar Allen Poe

succinct

Just a reminder of the type of coverage @teenvogue.com could have given us on Cheney if they hadn’t fired all their political staff

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

OBSESSED WITH THIS POSTER

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

After the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, South Korea faced a failure of prevention—and mourning. A group of anthropologists explores how grief was managed, marginalized, and ultimately erased, raising questions about who we remember and why. www.sapiens.org/culture/mour...

Our fall sale is happening right now at LibraryGiftShop.org, which means it's the perfect time to layer up with library advocacy and joy! Save 20% on everything thru Sunday, Oct. 19.

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved): Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm! Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch. I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

So- I got to pay two things this month. Gotta pay for a new door as my dog dug a hole in it and pay my phone bill. The total is around $260. I’d love if it gets paid very soon. Please dm if you’d like art from me. Or you can help on kofi: ko-fi.com/missalppy

My sixth piece for my solo show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛ #illustration #fantasyart #magicalforest #forestspirit #watercolor #gouache

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Today marks the beginning of the first federal government shutdown since 2019. ALA is concerned about the impacts on federal library workers, as well as the cascading impacts in communities nationwide. Read more about what this means for libraries: americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

It is making me so irrationally angry and I know it isn't personal but I want to fight every time I see it. More than a decade of warnings and evidence and yet...

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

The problem with having read all of @nkjemisin.bsky.social’s books is now I don’t have any new NK Jemisin books to read

this might flop, but so be it! if you are an author (pubbed or not!) who has a question about publishing/ career/market/ANYTHING, comment and ask! i'll answer the best i can :) note: my opinions are not law or The Only Way, i'm just trying to help

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

The Knights of Guinevere trailer got 5 million views in ~3 weeks. The pilot episode got 5 million views in *less than a day*! Very very cool~ #KoG #Glitch youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE?...

When you suddenly have 4 audiobooks (another on the way) and 2 ebooks in from the library all at once. Time to lock in lads

A message from Dana Terrace

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Knights of Guinevere PILOT youtu.be/MCAdbUaMlAE

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

all fascists are cowards, if you tell them no they run scared, if you try to appease them they sense weakness and attack harder

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Feeling quite ill this evening, but I did finally finish a book that I had to keep setting aside for things due at the library sooner. Started another book almost immediately too lol. Now I’m eating a late dinner

My August Reading stats (oops a bit late) Some phenomenal reads for last month. Buffalo Hunter Hunter stood out the most to me. What a spooky & beautiful book. I also loved Solitaire, which felt like reading a book about my teenage self, & my re-read of Goose Girl was lovely as always

Mainstream media continues to publish unsubstantiated hearsay and showcase their unending cowardice and eagerness to kowtow. Meanwhile, the quality no-holds-barred reporting can be found in unlikely places: a teen fashion magazine, a taco review website, and a music & pop-culture publication.

in the US conservative mindset cishet conservative white men are top of the hierarchy and thus it is bad to shoot them, but also they are allowed to shoot people, so if one kills another it's just a wash. cancels out. thoughts and prayers, nothing to see here

These are facts, but people who swear they would have fought the Nazis don't want to hear that they are currently demanding sympathy for a Nazi wannabe

For those who don’t know, the day I got my name and gender marker legally changed in Texas was the same day Attorney General Ken Paxton made it so trans people could no longer change their identification in Texas and any attempt to do so would have their name put on a list

Exactly. I’m not gonna mourn that man, and those of you doing so are the type to mourn that dude with the lil mustache. It’s a slap in the face to say “it was a difference of opinion” no nigga, it was the violence he stoked and got burned by.

382 lovely indie games for $8! All proceeds support UNRWA USA’s humanitarian aid in Palestine. ♥️🖤🤍💚

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."