Mr Laos. Just when you though this year was a bit quiet on the insanely huge, bedazzled, symbolic costumes along comes Mr Laos and blows everyone else out of the water. This is insane, but it's also *so* good.

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

I am watching a true crime documentary called The Sexiest Man In Winnipeg I couldn't resist that title

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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A million times this:

Some Good News, everybody! "Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034"

Hey, Fight for the Future released an updated digital safety packet in zine format, quick mobile format, and a full guide, all as pdfs that can be found here. You don’t have to do anything wrong to be harassed by police. To quote Sam Vimes, a copper can always find a crime. www.turnoffyourphone.org

Trying to muster up the post-covid brainpower to make photoshoot proof decisions 💀

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

Picnic Promo Friday!!! I'm still excited for this. 🥰 There have been 12 responses on the form so far with 25% going and 75% maybe! Zero responses for the "I'm not going but I want to click on a button too" option. 😂

PBS Passport only requires you to donate $60 a year to your local PBS station! One amazing thing they have on there is shows from their Great Performances series, which currently includes pro-filmed versions of major recent plays, operas, ballets, etc.

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

I don't know shit about physics but Angela Collier brings me such delight

This is why for all of human history, clothing was extremely valuable. Detailed look into making basho-fu fabric, from harvesting the plant to weaving. Blown away by how wavy this fiber is naturally & how difficult it must be to keep track of while setting up the loom. 🤯 youtu.be/Rg1Us20JtcM?...

We value our community and the creatives within it. As such, we do not use generative AI on our website or social media. We also do not permit anything created with generative AI to be used anywhere on convention premises, nor sold in our vendor hall, artist alley, or gaming halls. Thank you!

Random sewing tip from my old costume professor: “pin the shit out of your gathers” Additionally, having the gathered fabric against the feed dogs and holding your fabric perpendicular helps the fabric move through the machine and your gathers don’t get dragged along and sewn at an angle. #sewing

Model Space Available- SPOOKY PHOTO DAY Saturday the 13th I probably have space for 1-2 more folks to join in the Dangerous Ladies bloodpool location that we are shooting *without blood*. Rock wall, spooky hands, fog machine, gel lights etc. We're shooting from 9am till 1pm. (Pics for gen vibes)

Finally got some photos of Loulan! I'm so happy with how this costume turned out, although I need to redo the wig and make it into a helmet style so it'll survive transport better. 📷: @howlingshoopuf.bsky.social #apothecarydiariescosplay #loulan #loulancosplay

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

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To put this another way: you can't stop it from making things up because *literally all it does is make things up* It just generates likely text. Sometimes what's likely is also true. Sometimes it's not. This means it has the same relationship to truth as a magic 8-ball. Literally.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

COVID is in a huge surge right now. Mask up and be careful!

I was reading a thread about how reviewers apparently haven't read Frankenstein and apparently expect the new movie to be a remake of the Boris Karloff version. One comment made me LOL: Historians: Lord Byron was the real villain Geologists: Mount Tambora was the real villain

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

Me: are all the eyes on a beholder different colours? To correspond with the different rays? Stuart: no they can shoot any ray. M: what if they have only one eye left? S: they can shoot any three rays per turn regardless. M: Then why the hell do they need all those eyes??? S: 🤷 they're aberrations?

I have seen one too many craft video where people are making stuff with “clear uv clay” that’s actually a type of nail gel and not using any sort of gloves or PPE and I am about to become the joker touching uncured nail gel is a great way to get acrylate allergies. here’s what that means for you.

We know it’s not always practical or feasible to mask in all situations, so we recommend focusing on three places - grocery stores, healthcare settings, and mass transit - that will make the most difference for you and for others, especially those who are immuno-compromised. #covid #covidisntover

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

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TIL Wes Anderson has a patron; a billionaire who literally loves his work so much that he’s happy to finance whatever, and money is no object. This explains why Wes Anderson‘s most recent films have been so relentlessly Wes Anderson-y. I am insanely jealous.

HEY NEW COVID VACCINES ARE NOW AVAILABLE!!! I GOT AN APPOINTMENT FOR NEXT WEEK!!!! GO GET YOURS!!!!! you can go thru the CVS scheduler and it'll just ask you if you have any "high risk conditions" and just check a box, and you can get the shot, no problem. the high risk condition list is LONG

Representing j-fashion at #japanfestivalcanada I made this yukata from an Ikea duvet cover, and made the obi as well. #kimonostyle #kitsuke #yukata

In the museum cafeteria, an older guy comes up to me and says "I have to introduce you to my daughter!" I'm thinking "is this one of my rare and always weird 'are you Sarcasm-himé?' things? Did his daughter talk about how she follows me but is too shy to say anything?" 1/

youtu.be/O_49H_N43jQ If you've never heard the Escaflowne soundtrack, it's probably still, to this day, my favorite of Yoko Kanno's discography. Yeah, even above Cowboy Bebop... above GITS Stand Alone Complex, above wolf's rain--above them all.

Crafty weekend- embroidered a little guy on some jeans

If FanExpo decides that they’re cool with having AI booths at their Canadian shows, expect them to continue with their U.S. shows. Megacon, Denver, Boston, Chicago, SF? All of them will have gAI booths. If you’re an attendee, make it known you won’t buy tickets to any show with AI.

Please support one of the best comics publishers in the world - they're facing an existential threat. blog.fantagraphics.com/the-fantagra...

Spending downtime on family trip with a bunch of unnecessary hand sewing. I was inspired by the Korean jogakbo technique; it'll be a sheer dress.

I don't think that's a taco

PSA: If you're at FanExpo Canada this weekend, take a moment to stop by the Bell Canada A I Photo Booth to tell them how upsetting it is that they're undercutting the artists of Artist Alley by offering free A I photos (that's trained on the stolen art of creators) to attendees.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

enemies-to-lovers fanfiction is a new and dangerous fad indicative of rising moral degeneracy among our women. weak-minded girls are being influenced by the [checks notes] epic of gilgamesh

I have been struggling to keep the marketplace afloat, and humbly ask for your help. If Lumikha is a resource you see value in, please share or support in any way that you can. I hope we can overcome this and Lumikha can continue being a resource for cosplayers for years to come. ko-fi.com/lumikha

I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded. HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.

Watching a show about the first gilded age while we're in the middle of the second sure is a trip Every time George Russell opens his mouth to screw over working-class people I want to punch him