if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

If you’re looking for ethical alternatives, Tidal and Quobuz are high quality streaming services which pay artists more fairly and have extensive catalogues, and Bandcamp is the best way to financially support artists

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

My lineup for Kumoricon!

BuyNothing is great, and may also be Freecycle in your area. Been able to give craft supplies to a public schoolteacher, Christmas decorations to a divorcee & kids who had nothing, etc. When someone asks for items, the community will almost always swoop in. www.freecycle.org

Just a reminder that my “Queer Mexicana” print is restocked on my store in photo frame and postcard sizes! Please check it out 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Not my picture but my god this EXACTLY sums up why I'm so done with goddamn internet discourse. Everyone feels they have to have a take. It feels like people are seeking out negativity rather than just... enjoying what they do like. I genuinely don't wanna be around people who act like this anymore

I just think that people should know what they're in for if they sign up

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

‼️Calling All Cosplayers‼️ Repost with your favorite cosplay photo of yours! 5 years later I still think about this shoot often 📷 _messypapa_ on insta/edited by me #cosplay #deathnote #misaamane #cosplayer

🚨 Block this account ASAP!!!🚨 They post AI slop, proudly tag things AI, and want you to add your content to their “library” where “it will stay with us FOREVER.” The most sinister shit ever. Do NOT feed your art, writing, video into the plagiarism machine FOR THEM - they will say you consented!

Inside the magical wood a fox appears! 🦊 My second piece for my solo show at Gallery Nucleus. Both the original painting and sketch for this piece have sold — thank you!! 💕❤️💕 But many originals are still left as well as prints #kidlitart #illustration #gouache #watercolor

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

artist tip of the day for those who don't know: there's a website called Unsplash where people upload photographs and illustrations that can be used for free - perfect for references, backgrounds and alike.

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Stuff like this is how we got "pewpew," "unalive," and junk into modern vernacular. Don't let a service or platform take your words from you!

Oops, a 2024 study showing there's not even an association between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism. Oh no, accidentally sharing the link to the study of 2.48 million children noooooooo jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

hey I am seeing a lot of jokes about taking giant amounts of Tylenol and I get it but also please do not consider taking more than the labels say you should it’s harmless and safe when taken as directed but an overdose is going to kill you slowly and painfully.

I'm not gonna shut up about autism being just a different way to exist. Not sorry. There is nothing wrong with autistic people. If you think there is, block me right now. I do not want to talk to you ever.

I'm so tired of this puritanical bullshit. Sex is healthy, sex fantasies are healthy, fiction is healthy. I wish people would stop conflating BDSM and fiction with assault. People have fantasies about power. That's normal! Exploring feeling via stories is what humans do!

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Stark contrast between LA elected officials who were nowhere to be found on the ground and the multiple elected officials in Chicago gulping teargas with the people they represent.

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.

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

so hey, with the entirety of the FBI in a fevered state to find any shred of evidence that THE TRANSES and THE FURRIES caused a political assassination, keep in mind that discord isn't private its backend is available to people that hate you, your servers aren't private, your DMs aren't private

Went out to take photos for a collab yesterday & did some silly ones with my Olruggio plush from @beefxcake.bsky.social bc he deserves to be shown off #witchhatatelier #qifreycosplay #casualcosplay

Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.

I'm very aware of the world burning around us, but I am also holding space to focus on and talk about the stuff I love, because I refuse to let those holding the matches burn that away too.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

This will go unstated during all the coverage of Tyler Robinson, but once again we have a case where the shooter was apprehended not because of the competence of the FBI or law enforcement, but because someone turned him in. The expensive and intrusive mass surveillance tools didn’t do a thing here.

me putting on cosplay: “I’m too eepy, I don’t wanna, why is this my hobby anyway, this sucksssss” me when I’m in cosplay: “this is the best thing ever I am having so much fun I want to do this forever” me when I’m back out of cosplay: “that sucked, why do I do this”

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I recently talked to a guy who thinks AI won / is inevitable, who doesn't understand why anti-AI people get so mad about it (handwaves off energy, copyright, jobs) also doesn't see users clog up human review that used to work screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board

More reasons to be anti-AI

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.

fr stop doing this to people's names! They're not on here namesearching so you are just breaking people's mute lists!

The U.S. military is now going to be judges in immigration court cases. If you think it’ll stop there you’re wrong. It’s a military coup. If we ever get past this the bloated, corrupt Pentagon needs to be gutted.

literally bigots on all platforms would have dramatically less reach if we weren't utterly obsessed with finding their content explicitly to dunk on it. I get it, I do, as a Former Dunkee I get it! but like a fire-without oxygen it fucking dies. Deprive them of oxygen!

If you are a regular at conventions, I’m sure you’ve run into a booth named Salami Productions. This booth is run by a man named Marco. Marco regularly booths at Artist Alley, and has woven art displayed all over their booth alongside spicy stickers.

If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend

I understand the hate behind ai, I'm not shy about it myself neither. That said, a ".ai" file is not ai, that's adobe illustrator: a vector-based art program. Please pass it on for people. I've seen multiple witch-hunts start up, which causes grief and embarrassment for both accuser and accused.

Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES