::headdesk:: This is standard blackout prevention during heat waves. Mamdani wasn't saying anything that hasn't been advised before. And as someone who was in NYC when the entire eastern seaboard was taken out in a blackout in 2003? You want to avoid it.

I just posted 8 original drawings especially for my fellow mycophile friends. #mushrooms #mycophile #fungus #fungusamongus

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Carnegie and Rockefeller in particular also had a healthy sense of "I don't want to go to hell" so they did some actual philanthropy. Still Robber Barons, but not...whatever the fuck this is.

Hoo, boy. I do not think anyone should be art and comicsplaining at @oheysteenz.bsky.social and just because someone's career is based on "homage" art doesn't mean there aren't issues with it. That kind of thing has a VERY fine line on it by nature.

You don’t have to be a UVW member to apply for this. (If you do join, it’ll helps us do more important work like this.)

I come from a family of history nerds/academics and I have an unfinished MALS about autobio comics that I'd like to finish one day. I've been a professional comic book editor & creator for a long time now. So I'm struggling with arguments I'm seeing that just don't make sense.

Barring that, asking the original author to consult or collaborate or at least officially give their blessing would've been a good idea. These are normal parts of the process, btw. I have had to get permissions for fictional adaptations of all kinds, I don't see how nonfic is different.

I think I'm really confused by this historical ogn thing. There was no reason not to work with the original author since they seem to be the only person to have done this kind of scholarship on this couple & their book is an obvious main source. Also; why is the title the same????

I love @romancingthevote.com in general but I specifically love all these offers of information for other writers to help with historical info, world building, horses, and more!

...it's a term from the early 1900's when people did in fact melt things in pots because that was what they had been using to melt things for centuries. And we still do because melting things is part of cooking.

In my field it's similar only it's "LEAD NARRATIVE BLAH, CUTESY NAME FOR AI CO, You will write content for our content to make more content to steal". And then a lot of emails repeating my own resume back at me and an unrelated job.

So, all jokes aside, this is why I said yesterday someone is going to get hurt. That arc thing had major gaps and cracks and I think front parts were held up with like paint sticks.

Gavin Newsom supporting AI more than trans people is depressingly on brand

If any case anyone was in doubt about who his biggest financial supporters are. Also, dear Gavin: there is no "responsible use" of "AI" and you know that. If you're going to be a shill, don't assume we're this stupid, either.

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

....if you were looking for something to read during lunch. Or this afternoon.

Ok, but, this is actually gross? Like, stylized is one thing but this looks like an AI prompt. And frankly I find the giant dong way less upsetting that whatever the fuck is going on with that hand. And foot.

We need an action plan to address this because this HHS and DOJ are actively devoted to eugenics and for-profit education. And if you don't care about disabled children's education 1. you're awful 2. then care about ALL education because that's next.

We took the kiddo to the mall for sushi and a treat and there was a bigger crowd there on this random Wed. than that thing in DC. They even had a screen up of the World Cup and seats for people.

Whew, that's gorgeous! Garnets are very underrated imho.

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

The Santa Monica Pier has more to do and more people on a random Tuesday than this. Wild.

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WRONG STAYS. It's annoying because furthering the corset slander was unnecessary (and I like Bridgerton!). I could MAYBE have justified Mrs. Featherington being old fashioned and wanting to control her daughters figures through waist training but...yeah. ANYWAY. Go get that consultation!

Uh, that is also a very big crack/seam? That's going to fall on someone.

Good lord, yeah. This is a constant problem in the US, and the media loves feeding into it like this, where blaming a small marginalized groups for a systemic issue like misogyny, capitalism impoverishing us, and for-profit education, is seen as "nuanced" rather than absurd.

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Welp, signed the contract on a new project so I'm going to be on here a lot less. Need to hunker down. Be kind to each other! And I will likely be way more active on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/monstertea... where I have enabled chats!

Uggggh, I hate this discourse. First of all, sex scenes are actually really rare in US media compared to other cultures because 1. we're puritannical af still 2. the whole rating system thing is designed to deify violence and degrade sex. Especially female & queer pleasure.

Literally all I have to say about this:

Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society

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Honestly, this SCOTUS majority is illegitimate. They're all corrupt af, their rulings are bought. They deliberately misinterpret the Constitution. I'm done.

JFC. Not going to the doctor doesn't mean you're a fake person on a policy. The US has made healthcare so expensive and demonized getting healthcare even if you need it, people just avoid it. That's not fraud. Wtf.

Yeah, not to be a buzzkill, but the 4th in LA gets dangerous. If you're out driving fireworks are going off in all kinds of places and there's the major fire issue here.

something that seems nebulous and tricky to prepare for is that when the illegitimate supreme court returns a decision saying that all of the powers it gave to trump don't apply to democratic presidents everyone has to say "no"

And most of all: we are going to have to make a few radical changes to how things are structured. Not necessarily because those few radical changes are technically necessary, but because we need something to jumpstart the concept of believing that governance exists again.

But whatever we do, there must first and foremost be accountability. We take back everything that was stolen. We make amends and reparations to the extent possible. We unseat everyone who has allowed this to happen.

The crisis we are facing is that we do not in fact have legitimate governance in this country, and too many people have discovered this is true. It is not as simple as "pass a law" because if we don't make the entire concept of legitimate governance a going concern, none of it will matter.

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‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The right: actual demons are persecuting us, we need to impregnate as many teenage girls as we can about this demonic threat Normal people: what the fuck Centrist dems: give us between $5 and $50 to find the middle position between you and my esteemed colleague on the other side of the aisle.

Big Tech is organized crime. Most people won’t engage with that statement. They don’t want to confront what it means — how huge the problem is and how hard it will be to fix. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s true. Big Tech is organized crime.

There's an entire cottage industry that's developed around being intensely hateful toward female led supe/action movies. They're held to impossible standards on purpose, subjectivity doesn't exist, and then the ragebait grift begins.

Tolkien is always my go to when people pull the "autistic people didn't exist before x" nonsense. Uh uh. An Oxford professor who created several languages for a fictional world with multiple cultures & a whole ass biblical style history for it. And hobbit family trees going back centuries.

Yeah, and the thing, experience and time does matter. No one is against that. But I've noticed that the Dem est. is fixated on it only counting if you're their version of "moderate" and they don't seem to be doing much to adjust with normal changes. Or doing mentorship.

Anyway, this is your reminder that the Democratic Party did not win marriage equality. The tireless work of activists did.

I just want to put this "fun" blast from the past here--an article in late 2004 in which Democrats can be seen blaming gay marriage activists for losing John Kerry the election by bringing lawsuits to enforce marriage equality. This article was not the only one.