what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

I leveraged my middle-aged white guy privilege and wrote a Strongly-Worded Letter™ to Bsky today The whole thing was over 2 pages long, so here are some tasteful excerpts:

Fluffy Creature #catposting

"Please give our shareholders their billions of dollars back"

Banger!!

Weird how this *remains relevant*

The word "Luddite" is not an insult in a world where refrigerators play ads

I have a sinking feeling that this is very much the point of all of this. They don't care if it shrinks the userbase of the site. They want to chase all the unseemly "weirdos" off of here so the admins can have a nice, "clean," quiet, easily-managed social media site to compete with Threads.

Oh, to be a tiny harvest mouse in a bundle of flowers right now 🐭🌼 #art #cuteart #mouse #mice

my bluesky mutuals are so hot wtf

new midwest mascot just dropped

Dutch late night TV has its take

there's always a John Waters quote, it seems

Really in bizarro territory now. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel. If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.

it turns out making art is spiritually and emotionally fulfilling. has anyone looked into this

Once again, one of the (very very) few silver linings to come out of the apocalyptic back half of 2024 was Tim Walz becoming a nationally known figure.

The DOJ recently deleted this study, that showed that it is most likely people on the far right, that will commit acts of domestic terrorism. Make sure to spread this around; to prevent this data from being silenced! archive.md/cBfwR

Fuck this. Who wants to start a cooperatively-owned Internet TV Station?

What a king

The world's problems seem so far away from up here.

I made a big ol’ video about this LUDICROUSLY gorgeous instrument 😍 Deep dives, chill vibes *and* I teach you how to make this translucent Y2K style enclosure ✨ (also works for frutiger-aero-ifying other stuff too) Full thing here: youtu.be/e8r_ghGsJtE?... 💖

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from! The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang The Love Bug Christine

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

This would actually fix me

okay well that's not great

You are not Making a Difference there. You are not Fighting the Good Fight. You are not even Maintaining a Community you couldn't easily replicate elsewhere. You are propping up a right-wing site and, worse, you are being warped by your constant exposure to it and you don't even realize it. Leave.

Chronic pain can catch these hands

Might be our last 85 degree weekend in MN for a while, so naturally I'm on the lake today, rocking my fish shirt from @lakemutt.com

They got their proverbial inch (i.e. platforms/outlets cowered and started suspending/firing people over this) and now they want to take their mile. You cannot yield to people who will never be satisfied. You may not see it as a sign of weakness but your enemy absolutely does.

Some worldbuilding of mine: I always thought that the Bell Telephone would be the perfect design for anthros to use, so I decided that’s the one that stuck in my world! Here’s a little thing I did showing that off back in 2022. #art #furry #furryart #worldbuilding

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Went to my 20-year highschool reunion last night, and I was catching up with one of the more athletic/jock dudes that I wasn't ever super close with, and hearing him tell me that he "always thought" I was "pretty cool" was more healing than it had any right to be.

Upside of being in a punk band: Your songs are short & easy to remember. Downside of being in a punk band: You have to remember 47 songs for your 18 minute set.

Centrists, please understand that you can just say it was bad that a bad person was killed. You don't have to pretend he was acceptable. You don't have to conceal the fact that he said he thought black people aren't intelligent enough to be doctors or pilots and was in favor of Jim Crow.

Man "American History X" really hits different in 2025, oof

cannot stop thinking about this old clip

Honestly it don't matter what videos I make anymore cause this image has cemented itself as my greatest contribution to society

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

I legitimately feel like I'm going out of my mind here. I feel so gaslit watching media outlets try to continuously launder and infantilize conservative white dudes and the last 24 hours has been the most egregious.

Osama Bin Laden won, and we have the entire political and cultural leadership of the West to thank for it. Nice job, fucknuts.