I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

when it works it works

labeling your nsfw isnt censorship and relying on the bsky moderation ai to label for you isn’t helpful bc most of the time it labels incorrectly or doesn’t at all its just common courtesy

"I don't want to have to explain to my kids what gay people are" is ridiculous. You have to explain everything to them! They've never seen anything before! What else are you doing this about? You don't like broccoli so you just refuse to ever let your child know about what broccoli is? Okay man

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

This tweet from Alex Hirsch will always be evergreen. Disney and Pixar are complete fucking cowards.

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

"Engineering is about precision and careful calculation. Except when there's no time and something is really, really stuck. Then, it's about the judicious application of brute force." tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelja... #WeekendTFQuote

it's actually not that hard to write a first draft. all you have to do is write it

we cut the gay stuff because parents felt bad having to out themselves as blatant homophobic bigots to children who have otherwise been taught to love everyone and treat others as you'd have them treat you

#TFCon is happening during the Ides of March so I asked my friend Slac to make me a gif. Angy Tarn art is courtesy of @lemonychoong.bsky.social (I had to, it was perf).

Art I made for Malcoholic's fanfic - Invasive Fieldwork 💚 Read it, it's so good! archiveofourown.org/works/738851... #PredatorBadlands #dekthia #nsfw

breaking bad ends with him losing everyone he cares about only to wilt away for a year in hiding with nothing but a barrel of money. Men not getting its a tale of the toxic tragedy of masculinity is their fault not the show’s. They’re just too deep in the self aggrandising Walt was in

MBJ should win the Oscar. youtu.be/sbePoc81KnE?...

Husband is getting VERY close to the end of Lost Light. I cannot wait for his reaction to Rung.

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally" A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical. You know feminism /s 🙄 archive.is/2026.03.05-1...

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I loved this show very very much a long time ago it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/ftc-admits-age-verification-violates-childrens-privacy-law-decides-to-just-ignore-that/ #mastodaoine #speirghorm #iepol

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

TFCon next week! Super excited but also know I'm gonna be a broke ass bitch by the end of it. The price of being a BW kid TwT

The rise of anti intellectualism in the arts is a fucking cyst on the nutsack of society.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Please, PLEASE, be loud about this topic, Android being open is what makes it useful, you own your phone and you should be able to install apps from wherever you wish to, don't let Google tell you what's allowed on the device you payed for! keepandroidopen.org

One apple per day can keep a lot of people away if you aim really well

Good Charlotte was so real when they sang: Lifestyles of the rich and the famous They're always complainin' Always complainin' If money is such a problem Well they got mansions Think we should rob them

actually i wanna add smth to this. i get the instinct, i get the urge, but please dont limit your praise for a piece to a discord. i reread comments i get when i feel down. your favourite author cant reread something kind buried in a public chat, assuming they even see it at all.

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Gaza Sunbirds has a mobile cinema where they move between camps providing much needed joy for the children of Gaza by showing kids films such as Ratatouille. This is a much needed respite for all of the kids in Gaza, and with our help, we can make a difference. Donation link is in the comments.

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

just get some guys and put them in a situation. that's it really

All the love to Bruce Campbell, who just revealed a cancer diagnosis today. May strength and healing be plentiful. We're rooting for you, Bruce! Art by Adam Hastings

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"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

I've never stopped being a physical media person EXCEPT in the case of music. Today that is remedied. This is my way of saying I bought a boom box and I'm ready to go back to making CDs rather than deal with streaming.

[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software. We're working with our ve...

Gonna state this for the millionth time but AO3’s existence and function is a miracle in today’s world, and it’s run by a team that do much silent work. Please give them your faith, support, & appreciation. As a website, they’re still victim to tech issues but they got it!! #ao3 #fanfic #reminder

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Ao3 going down right after I post a chapter feels personal TwT

I know how it makes me sound, but I definitely look down on young folks that complain about analog clocks being too hard to read. After centuries of unproblematic use, the failure is yours, kids. Learn what people in the 1300s did. #grousing

historical inaccuracies in fiction make people on the internet really, really angry, so you should include as many as you possibly can

Shouldn't Michael B. Jordan be nominated for Best Actor AND Best Supporting Actor for Sinners since he plays two roles in that movie? 😏

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.