Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

me on a date

I debated posting because it's so old (from tumblr times) and I love all my comms but I really do love this one by @amarynceus.bsky.social so much and I always look back on it fondly.

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

The insidious damage of AI is not just the blatant theft but the way it erodes trust in real artists and suspicious of all art.

Yeah, do not use AI detectors. This is kinda why I don't do any call outs or name and shame, there are far, far too many false accusations of AI use happening, and while I'll decline game when the artstyle doesn't pass my sniff test, the possibility for harm if I did put someone on blast is real.

Edwin Huang@ironpinky.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I take Venmo

We've seen what the OSA has done in the UK We've seen Texans locked out of BlueSky if they dont hand over their personal info Call your senators and tell them to vote no against KOSA and the KIDS Act Its not for the kids. Its for censorship and mass surveillance

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 2mo ago

‼️ KOSA update: ICYMI Earlier this month, a bill package that incl this bill passed out of the House in a rushed vote. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... This is alarming BUT it isn't the end of the road. Here's what we know:

It's not a swimsuit this time, trust her! What, you want Nat to prove it too? Well, you know what to do!

(1/3) The Anishinabek Nation stands in solidarity with Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, which has experienced devastation from the recent wildfires. We are accepting donations on their behalf to help them navigate this crisis. If you can, please donate via e-transfer to: an7gc@anishinabek.ca

The thing I like about Gary K Wolf is that he’s basically Mr Boop but for Jessica Rabbit. He made up this bombshell icon and then went “oh my god, I’ll never top this” and has spent the rest of his days being Number One Jessica Rabbit Superfan Forever President of Her Fan Club.

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

100% true.

Yeah. Y'ever watch movies from the 80s that depicted city skylines obscured by a brown, opaque haze? That wasn't artistic license.

Mike Austin@reymiguel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A reminder that cities used to have terrible air quality like we have today on a regular basis and the current administration continues to actively dismantle the protections and regulations that cleaned that up.

Y'all, if you have ever wondered what it would like like for the federal government to tell you what you are/not allowed to read and thought "screw that," now is the time to say so. Sign this letter. Send a postcard. Call your senators. This is a nightmare scenario. Don't let it pass.

American Library Association@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925

They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

This is unconscionable. I've been to Chaco Canyon twice and it's incredible. Tthe landscape is part of the meaning, there really can't be a "buffer zone" large enough. Filling this it with oil wells would be an obscenity. Consider leaving a public comment. #BelieveInFilm #Rolleiflex

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

every air show is just this

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I hate this fuckin country what a terrorist shithole of a nation

w....wait.... you mean to tell me.... gulps..... putting money into the arts.......is profitable and..........produces............g-good outcomes for everyone?

paulseesequasis@pseesequasis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.

I'm sorry, you wanted to be able to literally dictate what happens to other people's bodies but you think you deserve privacy? Fuck. Off.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo ago

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her and other justices is increasingly encroaching on their personal and family lives. https://to.pbs.org/4f1DhjZ

We'll keep on pointing at this comic by @skutchdraws.bsky.social and @hbomberguy.bsky.social until it's embarrassing for tech bros to call you a luddite for hating AI! More of Failure to Launch in the link bsky.app/profile/iron...

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

So many people turning out to be a disappointment these days

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts

Another giant of comics has left us. From 1965 to 1990, Oliphant was THE dominant political cartoonist in the US (even though he was an Aussie). A generational talent. A complicated guy. Often problematic, often brilliant, always scathing and funny.

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist Who Skewered the Powerful, Dies at 90 (Gift Article)

The winner of countless awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, he was described in 1990 as “the most influential political cartoonist now working.”

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Not all hurt people hurt people. credit : Nadia Addesi

Today ICE fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine. This is the 11th person they’ve murdered this year—that we know of. He did everything he was supposed to. He was authorized to work in the US. He served his community. ICE still murdered him in broad daylight. Abolish ICE.