A #Roman figurine of a lizard, carved from a single piece of hyaline quartz. It was found in a Gallo-Roman tomb in Belgium, where it was buried as part of an assortment of grave goods about 2000 years ago (📷 MFAH, Brussels) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

You'd think I would have a tolerance for watching queer creatives get devoured alive for not making their creations queer in the specific ways that some aggro queer folks online demand it must be after seeing it happen dozens of times And YET

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

Cheer-up recommendation - watch footage of David Tennant opening the BAFTAs ceremony in spiffy kilt & boots, getting others to help him belt out, ‘And I would walk 500 miles’ including the always game ‘Celes’ - Celia Imrie. youtu.be/yUr8QyTCph8?...

So that's a flat out loss on their part, then

Israel cannot credibly continue to argue that they're right and the rest of the world is wrong.

The AI bubble can’t pop soon enough.

I’ve been asked quite a lot over the years about how I remain calm when responding to trolls and bad actors. Some day I’ll do a bigger write up, but one of the biggest things that has helped me a lot is to remember: “When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is maybe the funniest thing we've ever done. We're now almost certainly going to lose money on it, but that's not the point. We just want it out there. We've also learned something: Make good art right now, and people will bust their ass to help you on short notice.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

This and the removal of lead from fuel are probably two of the greatest achievements of the last few decades.

Two Slice is a 2-pixels-high font that you shouldn’t be able to read, but if you give it a minute, you end up being able to read after all! Typographic sorcery.

P.S:

“The Mumsnet interviewer then intervenes to say: That sounds like third spaces? Streeting responds: I think for trans women, yes, I think that is where we’re looking.” And this is where we end up: 1950’s America.👇

Did another Patreon update for my lore supporters, this time we go into a bit of one of the more... interesting backgrounds. www.patreon.com/posts/139702...

Mia out here asking the real question.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

Reminder: THE INTERNET IS A PALANTIR. DO NOT BE DENETHOR.

They're trying to paint a 4chan edgelord who loved offensive online humor and shot a bunch of detainees being held by ICE as a leftist

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

This is an excellent thread that serves as a tangent to my Mickey Mouse/minstrelsy thread (as well as my short Knuckles thread) but covers a lot of the black and indigenous tropes surrounding Knuckles the Echidna waay more than I could elaborate on

Second wave of stock art has gone up on @DriveThruRPG legacy.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/5...

Thunderbolts was such a fantastic reading experience not because of the twist (which was excellent, but there's a lot of excellent twists out there) but because of the very solid character work and the inter-personal conflicts (and friendships) that simmered under the surface constantly. 1/

Brick Immortar is great, there are so many good YT researchers out there that deserve credit!

This has got to me a bit today so here we go. No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators. 1/26

If you have ever played Fallen Hero and want to weigh in on an important question on my patreon about priorities, please weigh in on this poll. You do not need to be a member. www.patreon.com/posts/139554...

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Ooops, some questions got cut off from my latest Patreon post, so here are the rest! www.patreon.com/posts/139551...

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

just to put things in the simplest terms possible, this hell and we live here so we have to do what we can, with what we have, where we are. always. help people when you can. choose kindness. fight fascism and intolerance with everything you have.

Feeling particularly depressed today, have a happy Dearc to cure the ills

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

Bonjour à tous ! 🙏 #Mood C'est Lundi.......

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

Forever disturbed by the way the cops are at the beck and call of the most irritating white person you've ever met as an armed hall monitor

what’s gonna be sad to see is the spike of reye syndrome in all the granola eugenics anti-vax moms’ kids after they get hardcore into aspirin as panacea. “it’s naturally occurring! people used to chew willow bark, so i just fill my kids up with aspirin after a chickenpox sleepover! nature’s way!”

it's awesome they made Elfquest freely available online...I def need to get the graphic novels in print elfquest.com/reading-room/

Gender is stored in the legs

Got the QnA for the month up on the patreon finally! This time there is also a special VIP one with spoilers for the latest demo, just to make sure nobody is spoiled what happens in it. www.patreon.com/posts/qna-fo...

The Four Horsemen were otherwise engaged, so this is your chicken apocalypse replacement service

IKEA: also good for an epic game of Hide and Seek. globalnews.ca/news/5859462...

it turns out that if you make something that kinda perfectly hits the zeitgeist for how genre fans feel about the genre that doesn't overstay its welcome people will absolutely respond to it with rapturous praise

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Oh my GOD. This is the first official confirmation that the new H-1B entry ban does not apply to people with current visas (despite the text not containing ANY exception for people with current visas), and it’s not even something on an official website, it’s a passive aggressive tweet!