In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en

I am Noppy and I capture characters in rare fleeting moments of peace and solitude. #portfolioday

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Happy #PortfolioDay A book cover artist for Achillean stories is here! If you're an author who writes MM and Achillean romance or romantic subplots and need a seriously cool cover and character art - I'm your guy.

UPDATE: More 'Save Our Devs' rallies have been announced—including one at Obsidian Entertainment and another at Microsoft's campus in Redmond—in support of laid off Xbox workers.

. The Star . . self-reflect the shit outta this, my children #tarot #illustration #art

. The Moon . . "I always said the Moon was a mean ol' pervert but don't take a devil's word for it" #tarot #art #illustration

Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

art fight attack on Golldfish!

Time for Kirby Summer. #kirby

Unions are a great way to help developers, but how can regular fans help? Just remember the one-two punch! 1. Support games developed by unionized devs! (An easy way to find out is to look up Studio+Union) 3. Circulate pro-union material (like this post) and keep the conversation alive!

where have all the captions gone?

Ryanair plane makes emergency landing after window dislodges ft.trib.al/JYOoMPN

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If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.

One of the things about modern transmisogyny is that it gave right-wing regimes an avenue through which they institutionally recuperate feminism while actively eroding the rights of women and queer people, openly trialing new anti-gay marriage arguments and reifying womanhood as reproductive.

Please do not rely on porn to teach you safe sex or BDSM. Porn is roleplay fantasy, not educational material 😩 Artists are not educators. It's rare we're even experts on anything other than making art. Many of us make art because we have no way to practice irl!

Controversial opinion but NSFW artists don't owe the world cozy or even realistic depictions of power exchange or BDSM. It can just be boner-jerkin', cartoonish, wild fantasy. On paper, most fantasies ARE somehow problematic anyhow ✨️

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

please vote for this, and share it with your friends and gaming communities. Player Voice has some weight in XBOX and the support of the public can help us win better severance for those laid off, and better protections for those who remain. all you need is an XB or MS account.

Forced sterilizations. Stolen babies. Denmark continues to target Inuit families. As many of you know, in 2024, social services snatched baby Zammi from her mother Keira 2 hours after birth because of the very racist FKU test. They told her the test was to see if she was "civilized enough"

A spray of feathers and a splatter of ink. More process video of my painting for The Crow Artbook published by @printedinblood.bsky.social. The Kickstarter for the book is ending soon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...

i think we need a book like The Art of War for business people, with nuggets of wisdom like "if you fire all your workers there won't be anyone to do the work"

Theme Hospital is $2.99 on GOG (preservation program) buff.ly/LylJ3lR #ad

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

Instead of fireworks, why not scare your neighbors the old fashioned way? Grow out your antlers and fangs, cultivate a thunderous beard of moss, haunt the night, and become a terrifying creature of legend and lore.

This is what a lesbian situationship does to a mf btw (My first ever drawing of gideon vs my latest one)

The Dutch Eel Smoking Championship combines two quintessentially Dutch cultural phenomena: fish and the smoking of possibly illegal substances. Sadly, few other countries can compete at the high standard set by the Dutch, which means eel smoking is unlikely to become an olympic sport.

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

As always

Some more Stargate SG1 comics based on lines from the show as this is how I like to doodle at the moment xD

At least 3.3m people were victims of Dutch enslavement, research claims

Pirate Ship New painting inspired by some of my favourite things ☠️🖤 Schminke Gouache on gessoed illustration board.

Went back tot try and photograph the moon again last friday. About an hour between the two shots #photography

Wan switi Keti Koti, lieve mensen die het vieren. En wat zou het goed zijn wanneer dit een officiële feestdag werd.

Got an old Nikon with a couple of lenses I've been playing with #photography

Got an old Nikon with a couple of lenses I've been playing with #photography

Happy PriDE MONth! ✨🏳️‍🌈🧛🌈🧛🏳️‍🌈✨ #iwtv #interviewwiththevampire #thevampirelestat #loustat #lestatdelioncourt #louisdepointedulac

www.xda-developers.com/discord-begi... Discord is testing new forms of Age verification, face scans are still an option, but now also Google Wallet & Credit Card checks. Face scans will now occur On-Device with a new vendor named "Incode" #Discord #AgeID #AgeVerification #Privacy #Security

I would go as far as to say that Watch Dogs 2 is ubisoft's open world Magnum Opus, no other city-based open world games will ever come close to the way WD2's San Francisco makes me feel walking through it with the music player on.

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

'Arme wijken zijn warme wijken.' Blij dat er in Amsterdam zoveel koelteplekken zijn gecreëerd en dat zoveel mensen naar elkaar en dieren omkijken. Het onderliggende probleem, in heel NL, blijft: mensen met lagere inkomens wonen vaker 'versteend' en hebben minder geld voor aanpassing van hun woning.

Can a video game be queer, communist, and still fun? 🌈🚩 Let’s find out!!! TOGETHER!!! Queer Communist Game Jam 2026 Make experimental games, prototypes, visual novels, text games, playable archives & more. 📅 Aug 1–31, 2026 Link in bio #GameJam #Queer #Communist #IndieDev

Can barely see the Netherlands bc of all the red dots