Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS! If you want to commission me, you can commission me on Artistree: artistree.io/erzafire And even if you can't, please share this around! I want to help my family as much as I can. #Emergencycommissions #commission #art #procreate

In recent days, faith leaders across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area have organized to protect Somali communities and houses of worship as ICE agents launched an operation targeting undocumented Somali immigrants. religionnews.com/2025/12/04/i...

Face to face ghosting is crazy but I am already a ghost! 👻✨ #originalcharacter #oc #digitalart #art #cute

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Guess it’s time to call the senators again, but ughhh can these jerks just…stop? 💀 www.theverge.com/policy/82365...

🚨 Yet again Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise are trying to sneak in a moratorium on state GenAi legislation. If passed states can no longer enact laws for transparency, child safety, privacy, environmental protection etc. We got 3 days to stop this. Call now! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Sharing my art, my shop, my ko-fi… anything helps. I’m really struggling with the mire right now. I’ll gladly accept a Kroger gift card, even. Thank you! ✨ Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/kellymckernan Shop: www.kellymckernan.com/shop

Instead of being able to focus on work right now, I’m paralyzed and feel like a failure. I know it’s the system failing me, failing us all right now, but logic isn’t helping the dense pit in my stomach. I feel shame when I ask for help, because it wasn’t always like this. But I need help right now.

for Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️‍⚧️🎀 #digitalart ♡ #cuteart ♡ #OCsky { #strawbunnycakeart }

ALT Text benefits everyone Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings

If you see this, post your bird art #bird #pigeon

“Threads” (2025) #therapythoughts #furryart #arttherapy

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

You will suffer the curse of caw! Share if you care to spread the curse even further!  #fishcrow #art

You wouldn’t be so stressed about money if your kid was able to get free lunch. You wouldn’t be so stressed about your doctor if they hadn’t stopped taking your insurance. You wouldn’t be so stressed about rent if you had rent control. Your failure to engage in politics is *why* your life is hard

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

Dear authors, never apologize for telling us about your new books. People are hungry to support real art, made with the human brain, and the human heart, and typed by human hands. Please scream your work from the rooftops. You are so necessary and you deserve your flowers.

I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.

Don’t put down that pencil and for the love of god never listen to anyone who tells you to draw something “nicer.” Find your niche and fill it. You’re the only you, and you’re indispensable.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

What we saw on No King's Day, with people on the streets was the tip of the iceberg of people who feel the way those crowds do. For every one who made it to the street, there is a host of others who wish they could have been there.

No, we can’t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one person’s opinion is that the other can’t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

Blocked someone for skeeting that the No Kings protests "didn't accomplish anything" Oh, I'm so sorry that 7,000,000+ Americans taking to the streets to be in community and send a very clear message of regime change two days ago hasn't fixed everything just yet I'm sure your plan is better

Lunch sketch.

Got to go and spend time with a real human today, outside of work, who wasn't my partner for the first time in... Months. And it was refreshing. Honestly, everything I needed. Why is making friends as an adult so hard??

After trying to draw one... Anemones are the roses of the ocean #seacreauture #invertebrate #anemone #art

A mopey alpaca. #art #cuteart #alpaca #watercolor

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Finally - some action. Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens introduced the Stop RFK’s BS Act, legislation to restore National Institute of Health (NIH) funding and protect scientists from harmful disruptions to their work. It’s just the beginning. 🧪 stevens.house.gov/media/press-...

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Would you rather spend an hour doomscrolling your phone & lose your faith in humanity or spend an hour enjoying some excellent prose & finding new authors to love? The choice is yours.

UwU

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Was supposed to see my mom this week. But the person who had offered to drive her out here forgot about the plans and bailed because she didn't feel like going out today 😭 and I need to replace the ball bearing on my car before I can safely make a drive that long I just miss my mom #emotions #vent

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I thoroughly enjoyed this one! Help Cat out and get a great book while you're at it.

I am an anthropologist and a professional listener, and my God SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR ONE GODDAM SECOND AND LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIVES OMG WOULD IT KILL YOU TO STFU FOR ONE SECOND?

LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN ESPECIALLY, THANKS.

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

Today's affirmation: things are tough, but I am tougher. I have survived worse than this and come out stronger, and I will do the same again.

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.