This is how they played The First of Us

In conclusion: (2/2)

No matter how many awful things come out of this White House, you can organize your community at the state and local level to fight back against the oligarchy. Kudos to everyone who organized and won against Big Tech last year. Let’s keep up the fight this year and beyond.

In the immortal words of Colonel Sherman T. Potter: Here's to the New Year. May she be a damn sight better than the old one, and may we all be home before she's over.

I love how these AI companies basically has us working for them AND consuming from them. We collectively provided them with the data to build their models, then they built their models and embedded them in our products for us to consume where they take our data and repeat 🔁 What a system

highlighting from the last repost, I will go to the mat on my opinion that Pratchett's "humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." is one of the greatest passages in ANY literature, ever

always remember: 1. sending someone a text message is 1000x more meaningful than a social media post 2. a phone call is technically assault

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Spending the afternoon baking gingerbread cookies, have Miracle On 34th Street on in the background and it just started snowing… this is a perfectly-perfect Christmas moment.😌🎄

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

As the fall session wraps up, Elizabeth May breaks down the massive omnibus bills pushed through Parliament and Prime Minister Carney’s increasingly CEO-style approach to governing. Watch now:

All aboard the diet train!

Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.

🚨 BREAKING: UK government announces it will end licensing for new oil and gas exploration! Windfall taxes for fossil fuel companies will also not be lowered. The Gov also announced an end-to-end support service to help workers move into more sustainable fields, including a £20m training fund.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

As you begin budgeting for Black Friday, consider shopping locally as much as possible. Many small retailers (especially hobby shops, game stores, and comics shops) run *barely* in the black until the holidays, at which point they make all the profits that will keep them solvent next year.

While testing a top secret aircraft design during WWII, pilot Jack Woolams wore a gorilla suit and a bowler hat so that any witnesses who reported back would not be believed.

THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦 PeaceLoveCanada.ca

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week. Everyone ready? Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

🌊 Global agreement to protect oceans is set to become international law! The High Seas Treaty agreeing to protect 30% of ocean waters by 2030 will now be legally binding as 60 countries have agreed to it - and in record time too!

I don’t want to be the guy bemoaning the earlier and earlier arrival of retail Christmas, but after seeing the first displays up again this week and remembering the last of them hanging on till Feb/March… I’m kinda wondering why they bother taking it down at all?

Worst. Rapture. Ever.

Word of the Day: ANTIMETABOLE - a rhetorical device when words are repeated in successive clauses, but swapped. For instance JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", or Snoop Dogg's "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

Turns out “Weapons” is not a Pixar sequel to “Cars”.🤷‍♀️

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

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Hey authors! This is relevant to our interests.

📉There was a massive 91% drop in plastic bag use in Vermont, after supermarkets were banned from offering them. Two years on, a study has shown the success, with single-use plastic bags almost completely eliminated!

If you're attending FanExpo Canada in Toronto this weekend, please stop by and let Bell know that their AI photo booths are trash, especially at an event that's supposed to be celebrating & supporting artists.

I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.

🧱 Company launches eco-bricks that can absorb and permanently store carbon dioxide! Production is carbon emission free, and they're fully recyclable too! They were created by Earth4Earth, a start up in Sheffield, and are currently being used in pilot projects in the local area.

👚 Italy follows France fining Shein for misleading environmental claims Just weeks after Shein was fined €40m by France, Italy has also issued a €1m penalty to the ‘super-fast’ fashion giant for vague and misleading claims about things like the circularity, recycling and material of their products.

Dean Cain joined ICE? We really are living in Bizarro World. F%#$, I miss Christopher Reeve.

Sesame Street art by Jack Davis.

My kitchen towel is haunted.

My library got self-checkout and I’m having a pout about it. 🥺Librarians are NOT a resource we should be cutting back! I can’t even count the number of times those magical people recommended the most wonderful books that I wouldn’t have otherwise considered.

At the risk of courting controversy, I believe the correct answers to, “what are Trudeau and Katie Perry doing having dinner together” are, “who cares” and “none of my business”.🙄

Good morning! I hope you have a great week.🙂

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In 1816, the United States built a fort to protect itself from invasion by Canada. There was only one small problem: due to a surveying error, it was built in Canada. It was later known as "Fort Blunder".

This is why I don't like AI use for ANY reason, even if it's just to dunk on AI. Any use takes up resources and energy that could be better used doing literally anything else. Any "good potential use" for AI is annihilated by how much energy it takes to make it. Throw it in the trash, it's no good!

If ICE is going to raid farms, maybe they can pick a day's worth of crops while they're there? That'd be a lot more helpful.

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.