Got my @shing.bsky.social happy mail. And the sticker is truly a beautiful message.

Content moderation is also a job that is in large part outsourced overseas, and generally an entry level job that requires little to no tech expertise, and is in itself exploitative of workers that are exposed to abusive content for extremely low pay.

okay, so jay walks in (sort of, he'd already been there for two days directing singers), knocks these out in one take* and is just like "yep, that's what the song sounds like." he is so good!! *technically did another of the first song for safety

Highly recommend!!! I have this book on my shelf and it is both an amazing story and amazingly researched!

Listen. If you don't have any spirited 12 year olds on your list, feel free to buy this for yourself. I LOVED this queer Chinese reclaiming of the myths of the American West.

Y'all I gave this graphic novel 5 stars and giving books 5 stars is not a thing I do very often at all. It's really excellent. You may not spot it on the shelf of your local indie but usually they can order for you and get it promptly.

I loved this book! I would describe it as the Chinese-American version of Paul Bunyun.

This book is so good. Everyone should read it.

IIRC I read this and enjoyed it a LOT as part of a YA graphic novel professional conference. Can't recall if it was Books for the Beast or the Black-Eyed Susan one, but it's deffo well recommended either way!

If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...

All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized. You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...

I've talked about it before but the AIDS Quilt and the project of memorializing queer stories through tangible physical objects is fundamental to how I want to make art and the methods and mediums I choose. This is such a loving interactive digital archive, and I am so sad and glad for it.

@shing.bsky.social I thought of you

The research that @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social did to figure out what really happened in this Stoppard quote is a stage design historian's dream. There is a map! Several firsthand accounts! (an absolute joy to read, thank you)

I do pull them randomly, but with intention — and I firmly believe that threads of magic exist in the universe that just know where things must go. ❤️

a dispatch from the woodshop, where everything is tiny these days. it is not too late to pre-order our process art book and support our film! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

reading Rod Stewart's Wiki article to see what they said about his model train hobby - he calls it an "addictive" hobby (it is) and some editor followed it up with WELL WHAT ABOUT COCAINE.

Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.

More players added to the Bolted! livestream schedule! 🤼 Scott C. @scottlava.bsky.social ! 🪓 Shing Yin Khor @shing.bsky.social ! 🐻 Cat Farris @cattifer.bsky.social ! (Live calendar links on the Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mal... )

The truth 🐊

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!

All I am doing these days is building tiny sets and I couldn't be happier.

also mute “canyon”

back on my bullshit, are people tired of these yet

okay, this IS my first rodeo, but I have seen a horse before

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

I'm headed to Comics Camp next year (for the first time since pre-pandemic) and it is truly one of my favorite comics events of the year!

MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief. Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure. It comes out in May. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Consider donating or commissioning Priya for artwork! And if anyone has any leads on affordable housing let us know so we can pass it along www.gofundme.com/f/rbf6x-supp...

Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!

okay, i've been burnt out on comics for a hot minute but THIS, this makes me so excited for the medium again. it is so good! the lettering! the paneling! the vibes! absolutely incredible.

Meguey and Vincent Baker'a development of PbtA as an open, hackable, space is something a generation of game designers owe a debt to. And now, we have new Apocalypse World to look forward to, which is just such a good game!!!

#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun. Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run

I try not to let my personal tastes affect my students' work too much, but for their final board games, I have a team making a fish romance game and one making a fish mafia game. The titles they were (jokingly?) considering are "don't sleep with the fishes" and "sleep with the fishes.

this looks like they got vinyl cutouts and didn't know how to apply them, so they just taped the sheets up

cheney is dead, mamdani won, AND there's gonna be a miss piggy movie?!! hope springs eternal?!!

Marionettes by Gustave Baumann, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

My new show, ARMOR, is now up online for purchase! I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread. www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...

The Strange Beast Tarot by artist @shing.bsky.social is full of weird creatures here to help guide you. Which card is your favorite? 🔮 #tarot #witchtok #tarotdeck

the backyard of jim gray's petrified wood co in AZ might be the best place in the world for a rock enthusiast

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

oh good god, giant fucking splinter right under the fingernail i might die from this

Out of all the things that could recreate the manic energy of following Blaseball almost entirely through Internet Posts, I was not expecting actual baseball.

Some previews from ARMOR, my solo show appearing at Stranger Factory alongside @leslielevings.bsky.social's solo show INSIDES. (I did joke about naming my show OUTSIDES but couldn't go through with it.)

every puppet director makes this joke, and I will too.

i mean, screw this bot, but also I am a marionette artist, this is absolutely going to be a string pulling act.

every puppet director makes this joke, and I will too.

it would be great if after a character died, your game made a .txt file which is just generated ascii art of their bones.