When you’re this big, you’re bound to step on *something* - might as well aim for the ‘energy farms’ that are powering AI models. This wuff supports human creativity, intelligence, and potential. Down with AI! 🎨 by: @jonathanvair.bsky.social

Flying home tomorrow. I'm feeling pretty vacationed-out. England has given me a lot to enjoy but I miss my partner and pets and home and art studio. I haven't made much art on this trip for being so worn out! Going back to normal will feel nice.

If you want to write you NEED to read. This is non-negotiable. Read the stuff you want to write: novels, nonfiction, short stories, whatever, but READ A LOT AND ALL THE TIME!!

A month's worth of Disney/Hulu Plus Premium will buy you one of my books and contributes both to a trans author and a queer publisher; neither of us will be giving breath to creeping fascism in our spaces or cutting queer characters from our work out of shareholder intimidation.

reverence and revelry have the same root word

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

if someone makes fucked-up art, it usually means they've lived a fucked up life, and you should probably let them tell you their story. it'll help them feel better and teach you some valuable lessons. don't be surprised if my own art gets more fucked up.

I love bars that encourage doodling!

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

I love bars that encourage doodling!

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Oh, y'know, just saw a little rabbit hanging out in Beatrix Potter's garden today, nbd... I'm not crying you are...

It is wild that Charlie Kirk of all things is becoming *the* litmus test. Even just talking about the event publicly without a sufficient supply of sackcloth and ashes is cast as "promoting political violence." I haven't seen this kind of mandatory performance of allegiance and piety since 9/11.

William Carlos William Landscape With the Falling of Icarus

MOVING FUND / CAR REPAIR SALE THREAD will be adding to this periodically shipping to be calculated on each item Trippy Canine Tapestry : $45 Small TBF shirt (gildan): $40 Xtra Small DIVE shirt (royal apparel): $40 Trippy Wave Tapestry: $25

The beaches of Britain are surprisingly nice. I had this cafe all to myself to sketch the charismatic cliffs.

Met the cutest husky named Ginger at a pub in Truro, sketched her real quick and gave it to her owner.

🔻 Desert Raven 🔻 oil on panel, 2019

Met the cutest husky named Ginger at a pub in Truro, sketched her real quick and gave it to her owner.

Traveling with elderly family is a fantastic way to practice mindfulness and Zen.

There is truly no escape from Dale Fucking Chihuly

perspective

Thanks for the kind responses. It means so much when people say they're excited to share this with their local groups!

got this in the mail this morning and then tore through it, please read it bc I'm enamored and it's such an incredible and awesome story that gripped me so strongly and made my heart clench almost non-stop ✍️: @marandart.bsky.social

England has taught me that just because you CAN turn a Victorian home into a hotel, doesn't mean you should.

I did it, i can learn to do proper mig welding now. Thanks to everybody who has been supporting me for the last year that I've been getting into metalworking, which has enabled me to not only be alive but to be able to grow in this direction 💝⚒️

Waiting for a shitty tour bus sucks, but it sucks less when there are pigeons around.

British people wear too much perfume and cologne. Then again, London so far is very stinky, so maybe that's why.

- support & adopt → http://ko-fi.com/somnoire art garden → https://discord.gg/mxDZEwe6XD ── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .✦ . :☆ﾟ. ──

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

DYING at these pictures of a heron rescue from an animal rescue fb group (credit Sven Shale on fb)

starting line/cage

artists aren’t the fucking bourgeois or “elite”. every artist i know can barely make rent. every artist i know is one severe enough hospital bill away from being homeless. we’re not all banksy or andy warhol. sick of this idea being passed around as we deal with companies exploiting us constantly.

Before and after mousepad bath. Fuck yeah feels good

People who know stuff about London: do y'all have like...a poor person grocery store? Is there a place that sells discounted food stuff?

Of course the afternoon lighting is so much better wtf I should've waited. I'm a moron. Anyway!

#Furvana!!! Y'all were so good to us as always! Can't wait to see y'all in 2027! 💖 As always a FANTASTIC convention, stellar staff, and great attendees.

Last day of Furvana! We have to leave as soon as the den closes at 4pm, so come on by and see us before then. (Den closes at noon for a dealer break/lunch.) Here's a pic of our elevator that says anus on it for some reason.

They're gone already!! Wow! Thanks for supporting habitat y'all!!

T O D A Y 👀

Art by Suzana Dželatović

First day of Furvana was awesome!! I'm always so chuffed by the energy furries bring to appreciating artwork. Thanks for all the awesome chats we had today! Can't wait for Saturday! ✨

I'm doing a panel at Furvana tonight (Friday) at 8pm in the Tide room! It's all about learning how to identify and forage for plants and mushrooms, and other stuff too! Come by if you're interested!