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Our Micro-Bursary submissions are open! The Micro-Bursaries are open to early career, UK based: Comic Creators of Colour, Disabled Comic Creators, and/or Trans/Non-Binary Comic Creators. Find out more, and put your name forward here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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collecting physical media is doomsday prepping (complimentary)
Hace diez años, Reino Unido estaba primera. Ahora es la 22.
ILGA-Europe@ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 4mo ago#RainbowMap 2026 is live! Spain breaks Malta's decade-long hold on top spot. As the rules-based international order fractures and democracy is under pressure, Spain's No’1 ranking stands as proof that political courage remains the most powerful answer. Find out more at rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org!
The Quindrie Comic Fund is open for submissions until 31st July 5pm! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details on eligibilty and how to apply here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉
I'm pretty late to reading this, but this essay by @stevendotjs.bsky.social on AI, the tech industry, and the legacy of past choices and their consequences is both a solemn read, but also really relatable and funny: stvn.sh/writing/prog...
Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this...
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“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.
Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice.
no one knows that i’m half way through finished with my zine
"I need to be good at art to make art therefore I require the image generator" you fool. you utter embarrassment. go make something out of paper clips coward
i bring a real "stop saying this is impossible/a problem only solved by tech when you mean institutionally we've committed to under-resourcing human expertise" to a lot of meetings that people are forced to begrudgingly agree with before moving on as if i said nothing
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · last yr.The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity. Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know
Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing
I LOVE the idea of assigning zines. I think one of the other major challenges of, well, education in general, is creating space for all different learning and thinking styles. Zines can do that really well.
Alexandra Gallant-Lee 🔜 SPX A3B@alexandragallant.com · last yr.Serious answer: zines! Once you make something and finish it, even if it's a single zine for a friend, one of the takeaways is the lesson of process. Zines are low stakes, you make a thing with words and images, get to hold it in your hand and then think about what you would have done differently.
yes i perhaps did purchase a fair few zines and other artworks today but this is all for research purposes i promise
Same with making art—you learn a new thing BY doing a new thing!
Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · last yr.Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Art emerges in the dialogue between artist and medium. Learning the discipline of working within the medium's constraints, and developing approaches and techniques that shine within them, is what polishes and exalts the art. This is why AI "art" of all kinds isn't really art.
Kate Heartfield@kateheartfield.com · last yr.Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.
me on my hands and knees, begging people to just make the stick figures
Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · last yr.btw if you're so petrified of doing a bad job that you can't even start, then what you need isn't advice on how to make comics. you need to learn to embrace being messy and bad at things and being okay with that because it's necessary, and actually it's GOOD. being messy is WONDERFUL
I mean this so honestly, but you absolutely should be making the most "Mediocre Shit" and be proud of that Low brow, high brow?! Whatever! Art can and should exist purely for the sake of creativity. real freedom and diversity within art is all about CREATING outside of perceived "artistic" value
Me, gearing up to do the last chunks of research necessary to turn in my written thesis, start looking for work, pack up and move house: I gotta be making more zines. I gotta be making little guys. I need to be doing arts and crafts. I wanna read more books. I gotta compose more music.
