Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

If you need something positive to do to help your community right now that will cost nothing but time, go give blood. Someone is always in need. (A family member's life was saved by donated blood.) For a list of blood donation centers & blood drives within 20 miles of your zip code, search AABB:

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.

“I live on a rural island in Alaska, reachable only by plane or boat. In our little town, 50 to 100 people stand outside each week at our town's roundabout to protest and hold vigil and stand in solidarity with you. We hold signs supporting Minnesota and demanding ICE Out.” Rachel, Alaska

Prints are available—all proceeds will be donated to Neighborhood House: rubylith.bigcartel.com/product/abol...

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.

I wish I'd thought sooner to explain to tradpub editors that illustrating a graphic novel is not like writing a prose novel or illustrating a picture book, a 250-page GN is actually like illustrating eight picture books.

Another post from a Venezuelan friend:

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Orthoceras (big) and Lituites

100% yes!!! The essay "We Are the Mountain" by @laviecestmoi.bsky.social gets into this; I'm constantly recommending it to folks because it's such an important reframing! psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu...

"I am open with my sexuality to anyone who asks in the hallways of Merrimack Valley, which leads me to wonder: Should I be removed from the school if parents find the topics I speak about inappropriate?" Whew, this teen's editorial is GREAT. www.concordmonitor.com/2025/12/12/m...

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.

we’re on season 3 of yugioh

tapping the sign

I made something a little silly 🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎

I bead-embroidered some trans pride pins, which are now up on our shop. Take a look! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 seatoad.bigcartel.com/product/tran... #transpride #art #cybermonday #beading

I like him

My spouse and I have been watching through Yu-Gi-Oh for (more or less) the first time, and I’m struck by how much Pegasus looks exactly like this in every other shot

Goddess of the Wolves Totem 🐺✨ My piece for the upcoming Giant Robot Store - Totoro Show celebrating all things Ghibli! My piece will be available 11/29 at 11am PT on their site here: www.giantrobot.com/collections/... (She does have very minor damage to her mouth shown here) #art #pottery

an interesting conversation from an old sketchbook/journal, still very relevant, today and forever

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

Opened Twitter for the first time in a while just to dig up this tweet of theirs I adore

I’m howling.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

Mimiku

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Just announced at NYCC! A new Vertigo series from Grace and I about fandom, obsession... and parasocial chaos :)

Here I am, talking about how the second wave became TERFy, why it didn't need to, and how feminism can be better for everybody.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I've turned my baskets into a webzine: basketzine.neocities.org come to QMM this sunday if you're local to bmore! I'll be there with these, along with other zines and pet commissions. peabodyheightsbrewery.com/event/queer-...

comics is labour so subject to issues of labour, taking yourself seriously is underrated, any story can be good, things seem to work out best when genre is less a setting/collection of memetic tropes but instead the poetry by which emotional, otherwise unexpressable experiences are represented

This whole section really.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Observational drawing of Ashanti

I've turned my baskets into a webzine: basketzine.neocities.org come to QMM this sunday if you're local to bmore! I'll be there with these, along with other zines and pet commissions. peabodyheightsbrewery.com/event/queer-...

My baskets are multiplying Currently working on turning these into a zine. Stay tuned 💪🏼

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

censorship produces the most grotesque and disturbing caricatures of reality. i can't speak for everyone but i get sick to my stomach every time people self-censor words like rape and assault (online and irl). it's a gut punch every time to be reminded that everyone Knows but no one Talks

listen. Would anyone be interested in an email newsletter? Old school style

Acting like fictional creations can or cannot give consent waters down the actual concept of consent. Prescribing rules or governance about fictional consent isn't a solution, it's a part of the PROBLEM

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