"I don't know if I need to join a stationery group, it's not really a hobby of mine..." -- me, with a huge Stickii sticker collection, a Monteverde fountain pen, and a custom-embossed Mossery journal, plus enough art supplies that I need separate drawers for "good writing pens" and "drawing pens."

The cat pinned my wife to the couch for a change instead of me, and was looking VERY smug about it:

The problem with nostalgia is by not releasing its grip on the past, it warps the past beyond recognition. Which can be fun in small doses but creates a culture of death worship if you overindulge.

The "sink money into lobbying against competition for our services and not the actual services we provide" enshittificarion of HR Block is pretty bad rn y'all.

Now do Miller

Back on my bullshit 😎 Sneak peek at one of the beauties coming to @peculiarityshop.bsky.social this spring!

Gathering charity tax records from last year (when I threw a bunch of Gramma!$ at my favorite orgs and people) and god, I know it's a drop in the bucket, but I'm so glad I could help people in these dark times.

Saw an ad talking about "the AI gold rush" and like. My buddy my pal. The actual Gold Rush didn't make everyone who went insta-rich. There was a lot of hard labor & exploitation, & most people made a pittance or ended up in debt. ...wait, that's actually a perfect analogy, carry on.

Tonight my #ChangelingTheDreaming players were saved from dealing with an Autumn Person at a country club (in 1969 FL) by botching their roll to sweet-talk the doorman into letting them into a party there. Sometimes rolling poorly SAVES YO ASS.

if you see this, post a knight.

What TWO Legendary creatures have you always wanted as partner Commander? Well, on today's episode, every Legendary now has PARTNER! Let's see what @goberthicks.bsky.social , @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social , @princesmweekes.bsky.social , and Prof brewed up: youtu.be/5FnwRJVT4VM #MagicTheGathering

Prof from @tolariancommunitycollege.com is being bullied by a table full of fannish women and it's hilarious. Sir, do not look up AO3. Mostly bc that site is dealing with an outage right now, alas.

Show of hands: who would be interested in a not-social media based directory website of artists who pledge to never use AI in their process? Is this something you would share around to everyone you know? Something you'd very much like to be listed on?

A thread of organizations who support trans Kansans, as a resource for those in KS and places to donate/support for those of us elsewhere. Please take a look and help out, if you're able.

Never vote for a Republican for any office, ever. Simultaneously, always push Democrats to do better. ALWAYS.

Fantasy cover artist looking for work! :) Email: [email protected]

Tidy(ish) studio!

I've just donated to tcpipeline.org in light of the Kansas news. I wish there was more I could do from this distance.

Took down a Sandman poster from the wall of my studio a while back and it's been hard to reach that corner till today, so I filled the wall with MORE ART.

Actually I will expand on this just a bit: either we do something drastic & decisive so that ICE is destroyed & can never rise again or we are officially giving up on the America we strive to be in favor of being the America of our worst moments. For too long we've tried to allow ourselves little 🧵

Going thru my art supply drawers and feeling bad about how many pens/markers I have to toss bc they dried out, but I'm not going to use them *now,* and I'm more likely to use what's left if I know the ones I have are good so RIP I guess.

When competent women flee from a workplace (even if they enjoy the actual work), that's a Sign.

Much love to all my trans (and gender nonconforming) friends in KS.

Biden was the moderate option and it failed. Time for the radical option.

Zero dignity opposition party. You can be there yelling or you can be absent but there is no honor in this nonsense civility show. I swear they'd attend their own executions politely

#ChangelingTheDreaming My PCs time-traveled back to July 1969 in Titusville FL and today's game is the 4th and I don't think my players reckoned for THE WHOLE TOWN TO BE PACKED FOR FESTIVITIES. Let's see what chaos ensues! [Jackass intro theme plays]

TIL our cat was a TEEN MOM FROM TENNESSEE before we got her?

I'm planning to sell my walking sticks in other patterns! Which patterns would you like them to be in next? I'll be doing 1-3 new patterns depending on people's responses. You can check out my store to see existing patterns. I can also design new ones. My Store: Bibipins.com

Happy gotcha day to this little gremlin. 4 years now!

Mask up, punks!

Until I read this, it did not even occur to me that priests are using ChatGPT to generate homilies, but of course they are, and my long-lapsed-Catholicism is kicking down doors in my skull yelling “HOW DARE THEY?!?”

"Capable LLMs require a logic of dominance and of disregarding consent of the people producing the artifacts that are the raw material for the system. LLMs are based on extraction, exploitation and subjugation"

Part of me wonders if we had won the "always credit the author/artist and stop stealing content for metrics" battles, we would also be further along in the anti-genAI war.

A poor put-upon baby who just wants to pin me to the couch by sleeping on my lap but is PERSONALLY OFFENDED when I try to pet her while she's there:

In other #MtG news, I've fallen victim to current meta for the 1st time & am building a flashy blue-black faeries deck, bc I got a bunch of cool faeries (incl. Bitterbloom Bearer) at the Lorwyn prerelease, & had so much fun playing w/them that it made me want a full #EDH deck of the flying menaces.

I honestly think I'm gonna be skipping the #TMNT #MtG set. I may pick up singles and MAYBE a prerelease pack if I'm feeling REALLY ambitious, but I won't do my usual bundle &tc. Certainly not a whole booster box the way I have for a few other sets. Give me more Lorwyn haha.

It's one of my favorite seasons on social media: videos of sleepy/grumpy cats during suhoor are appearing on my insta feeds!

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

How much of tech is just wizard of oz mechanical Turk flimflam scams these days, because it feels like a lot

I left Contact pissed off for ELLIE'S sake. I was SO MAD at how the world (most of whom were men) treated her and that they basically GOT AWAY WITH IT. I call this movie my "feminist supervillain origin story." (The movie is still one of my faves.)

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

I have no interest in policing other people's personal health choices in any way. If you're taking a GLP-1 and happy with it, then I'm happy. But we're never going to be a country without fat people — or the need to treat each other with grace and humanity regardless of size.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

My mother's benchmark for me being ready for the test was whether I could drive to O'Hare and back from our suburb. Ever since, while I will cuss freely and recreationally at other drivers, I can usually maintain an internal equanimity about driving nonsense.

Again: I am waiting for a generative AI evangelist to explain to me why I should be excited about this, why this technology is so incredibly wildly overwhelmingly EXCITING that none of the pain and suffering and horror and immiseration connected to it should be enough to turn me off

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

The more of these fascist atrocities I see, the more I become an immigration maximalist. Let everyone in, give everyone work permits/green cards. Make it possible to get citizenship within a few months. Make it as easy as getting a driver's license.

In my #ChangelingTheDreaming game, they time-traveled back to 1969 Florida (iykyk) and met a swamp sluagh and a crocodile pooka who are in the early stages of a serious courtship. It was very sweet. He (croc) gave her a small frog.

If you try this, I will haunt you.

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.