Today is the birthday of writer and artist Ruth Atkinson (June 2, 1918-June 1, 1997), most remembered for cocreating Patsy Walker and creating Millie the Model.

Tim's sea salt and vinegar

Queen - Death on Two Legs (Dedicated To...)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

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So you know how Google search now sucks because of AI? I've found a workaround (that is not changing your default search engine--though you should absolutely change your default search engine). It uses browser settings and udm=14 (more on which at udm14.com). I'll post step-by-steps below.

The thing is that Tolkien had a lot of very conservative beliefs but one of them was that the state should not enforce his or really anyone else’s beliefs, which is a rejection of a central tenet of the modern right

happy pride

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

My main account (@cartamonir.com) has been suspended on the grounds that a post about my new website constitutes a serious violation of bluesky's policies around sexual/nonconsensual/violent content. This is overt censorship.

for fuck's sake

This seems like it would be easy to clown on but honestly, "I wanted a spectacular scene that was unique to this work" is a perfectly good reason to do something weird in my book

Me when Utena and Anthy waltz through the flooded garden suspended in the air and all the roses are falling off the edge of the suspended platform

jc denton looking at a glory hole and after a long pause saying with a flat voice "tell me what you know about unatco"

and they called it a waste of tax dollars back then, too

dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare

Because I left twitter for Bsky, I can not emphasize enough how this could legitimately tank TrueRef (a clothed art reference site.) Betting on @bsky.app was a mistake.

Please do not use the whole account labeling thing. Its horrible. Your detection for what is NSFW is already really bad. I draw a rough sketch of a male dancer wearing pants and it gets labeled as porn because I sketched a nipple

Hey, it's my birthday, and a great present would be supporting my work by subscribing to my Patreon! I review movies and TV, post original fiction, and curate and screen a collection of films every month! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

The Nine Riders are called that because they studied the reversed Nine Yin Manual that Sauron have to them, promising ultimate power.

cool to see bluesky is now tagging *entire accounts* as adult, with no controls to have different post tag vs account tag display settings. I guess if you post nsfw at all, even if properly tagged, now nobody gets to see your sfw stuff!

tom sawyer and huck finn must be on their damn phones

DOCTOR: The great Pagliacci is in town! IAN BOGOST: Commedia dell'arte is formally deficient DR: BOGOST: Clowning robs from us the purer joy of watching balls roll down a ramp DR: Ok— BOGOST: The circus is riddled with kids & narrativists DR: Get out. Here's a scrip for lexapro just get the fuck out

I'm just spitballing ideas that I know are not realistic but this is extremely badass

absolutely incredible that the ai overview now links to this video

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

I was in a Monster of the Week campaign a couple years ago. The dice mechanic was easy to grasp of course but what baffled me, and to be fair to me I don't think the GM explained it very well, was the paradigm where only the players make moves and NPCs exist mechanically only in reaction to them

Staring at the ceiling, thinking about a world where everything looks like the live-action Appleseed again

Collage animation I made a while back, it's called "the idea of a tiger" Made with photos of real Tigers, pictures of toys, bits of ads and comics.

Rise of The Machines

mfw the planet's evil

Nuns, underground Basilica of St. Pius X, Lourdes r/brutalism

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

This sign is from nearly 30 years ago but there are people out there right now trying to convince you that ‘Transgender’ is a hyper modern addition that doesn’t belong

Joan of Arc festival in Picardy, 1913

oh, your pigs are off their feed? Swill issue

Voidfighter in the Konflikt '47 world. An American squadron ambushes Axis saucers and destroys both despite heavy losses.

an actual video that was posted by the official United States Marine Corps in 2018

voting is like taking the bus, if you're a minority they do everything they can to limit your access to it and your allies will chide you for not taking it anyway

If you see this post an anime you love