"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.

'you peak at 30...' Toriyama started dragonball at 29-30, Frank herbert wrote dune at 45 after being rejected from basically every publisher. 30 is when you're serious and level-headed enough to get started and hold your own

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

the tulpa all our Bad Dads summoned

Obviously jail is the moderate position, but I am begging you guys to play it cool if you ever get a chance to be on a jury that decides this man’s fate. Wasted opportunity

Is there a french history sleuth corner of bluesky who might be able to find a more detailed account of this jaunt in local archives? Reports are from Thu 26 Feb, so the pancake distribution might have been 135 years ago today

To paraphrase a friend: stay on the path, make good things. Indie has always flourished in the face of AAA distraction. Times are bad, but let others deskill, pivot to nonsense or chase impossible outcomes. People really like playing videogames. Suits forget that every 6 months or so.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

You know, I'd never considered that I could bird shitpost my way into learning audio production and composition This knowledge may have ramifications, Later

FYI: If you think you can’t help animal non-profits because you have no money and no time to volunteer, you are WRONG! You can help by consistently liking, sharing, bookmarking, and commenting on their social media posts - especially on platforms where they get screwed by the algorithm! 🤖

I hand-make plushies! Pretty large ones sometimes, and sometimes smaller ones 😁🥰

Cheddar says keep your chin up, because someone taller than you is probably gonna pet your head if you just keep it in reach. 💙

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

Rev. Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to expanding who gets to belong in American democracy. From civil rights to economic justice, he challenged power and widened the path for Black Americans. May we honor his legacy not just with words, but by continuing the work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Wow.

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I don't see a problem as long as justice prevails.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

"Gender studies... brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokes. And this critical lens extends to revealing how gender hierarchies enable the kind of abuses that some men in Epstein’s circle seemingly believed they had the right to commit." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products: For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

Support/Tank/DPS

I went to art school... I had no clue this is what people meant by "warm ups". Like, a whole routine? Each part specific and functional? Dang. Probably would have less "forgot how to draw" days if I did these every time. I'm gonna try it.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

TAPPING THE SIGN! "Is Marx still relevant today? Only if you want to know why..."

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

I really don't think a lot of elected Dems understand how radicalized a lot of people like me are right now. Like the only debates about ICE and DHS I want to hear from my candidates is about who has the better plan to dismantle both and who will prosecute the ICE goons better.

breaking: we've stolen the future from our children to finance our 7th houses, yet they still go on eating and drinking

🖕🖕🖕 Abolish these losers!!

U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies. It's not just "a few bad apples."

“I don’t like Bad Bunny because I can’t understand Spanish.” You are WEAK. Weeaboos have been jamming out to songs they don’t understand in Japanese for decades.

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

We aren’t resting until ICE is out of MN. We aren’t stopping until ICE is completely abolished. They want us to bend the knee so they can continue separating families, but we won’t be doing that. We’re going to win, and it’s bc of the resiliency of our neighbors. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Well first of all we’ve got to grease the gears, all that blood is making them squeaky

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to increase its funding! To make common sense reforms!

There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...

Also we need to treat meta glasses as an extention of the police state. Meta is working with law enforcement Your glasses is doing what ring cameras cant

This always sets them to shrieking about ‘tolerance’, which brings to mind this-

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries. It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

And while you’re at it, use our warehouse tracker tool to see who owns each facility, and apply the power of public pressure to dissuade them from selling to ICE! tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Communities in OK, MS, VA, and MN have stopped warehouse sales to ICE. You can, too: ✅ Go to city council meetings & SPEAK UP during open comment ✅ Call your state delegates — local + state pressure is our best bet. The Fed Gov won’t save us. ✅ Register to vote now. The 2026 midterms are coming.

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.