Diandra Mae

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🇵🇷-Texan Illustrator 🖌️✂️🎨 | She/Her | ✨this✨close to wandering off into the woods forever 🏕️ Team#ADHD, so no method to my madness | TX ICE Impact Guide: https://tinyurl.com/TxICE |Portfolio: diandramae.com | Rep’d by Carrie Hannigan at hgliterary.com

We got a nice little surprise when we went to see the new Spider-Man movie today. (Fingers crossed we get the next installment Into the Spiderverse this year. 😩)

A round pin featuring the classic Spider-Man face in red, white, and black on a cardboard backing in red with web lines drawn and the silhouette of a spider symbol as a shadow.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

I was in the PNW for two weeks, and I'm more tan than I've been in YEARS, bc it was so pleasant to be outside. Anyway I have to take my tablet and work in another room now, bc my studio's three external walls make it way too hot. 🎶 "It's the most horr-ible tiiiime of the yearrrr" 🎶

Departing from 59° (Seattle) this morning and arriving to 97° (Houston) was such a (wet) slap in the face today. At least my kiddo was able to capture dawn on our return to Houston this morning.

Photo taken from the window of a plane: the lower half of the photo is a field of rumpled looking clouds and dark mountain peaks peeking through. The sky is gray blue lightening to lavender than white as the horizon is lined in yellow and dark orange. Second plane photo: the field of clouds have disappeared, and a dark distant Earth is seen below.  A ribbon of river is visible, but the viewer is focused on the distance and the insanely brilliant red-orange horizon line being burst through by the white-orange light of the sun cresting the earth.

It really cannot be stressed enough how entirely reasonable and obtainable the goals of orgs like Aftermath are. What if you gave sites like this a buck every time your lip curled in annoyance at bad journalism elsewhere from billionaire-led, industry-complicit rags?

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

As of right now we have 26,205 'free' members. If that's you there's never been a better time to upgrade and try a full subscription! It's just $1! If only 1000-2000 of those free members converted, this website would change forever. aftermath.site/aftermath-su...

An illustration of the Aftermath team

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Friendly suggestion to my fellow accounts with decent followings: it is a GREAT time to start a weekly art show with your account to boost indie artists/crafters. Everyone is struggling due to AI and Etsy becoming a toilet. We can't magically fix everything but we can help some individuals.

WIRED@wired.com · last wk.

Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.

Ashy Prinia tiny 12-14cm Native to the Indian subcontinent Primarily eat, insects like ants, beetles, caterpillars, and termites Nests unique cup shaped by sewing, living or dead leaves together using plant fibres & spiderwebs They are dedicated parents devoted to raising their chicks