Will finish this up and tidy some bits up tomorrow. Its basically done but that upper left needs some more detailing 11x14 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark
Lauren Jordan
@loremjay.bsky.social
producer & developer for a sustainability-first circular creative industry 🌎 WNC CHI CA https://laurenjordan.art she/they
I am going to lose my healthcare on Jan 1st. I need to prepare for that day. Please support before all of that happens. I offer pet portraits and other ink art. Trans Frog 2 orginal 4x4 artwis on sale for 30 Frog Yuri orginal 4x4 art is available for 40 You can have your own game cover for 35
I love to make the materials as much as making the art. Dyeing paper pulp for a sign ☀️ I love process
Every week I thank my sister-in-law for the family calendar she made everyone for Christmas with all the birthdays and anniversaries in it for all the family members.
where are all the peplums at, ive seen nary a peplum for this supposed mid-2010s fashion revival
The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...
Love to pull over while biking home to say hi to a friend and find out that I'm actually saying hi to that friend *and* meeting a *new* friend who just so happens to have built a delightful online zine-maker with all sorts of good text/image tools: zineroo.com
Zineroo - Free & Private Online Zine Maker
Zineroo is a free, encrypted browser-based zine maker for printable DIY publications, with advanced paid features for cloud projects and print-shop tools. Includes support for 8-page foldy zines, trif...
zineroo.com
Learning coding and how to git hub through friends and video tutorials to spite and appreciate the machine.
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
Maybe when you die you are judged not by god or your heroes and friends but a jury of every you that could have been. Maybe it’s best to perform life for the audience of self. What is my most immaculate. How do I become her.
I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:
My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines
The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.
newrepublic.com
admiring the piles of bricks and lumber in my yard, tee hee hee my resources
In the wake of pride month and Juneteenth I must acknowledge the only reason I am worth shit is because women, specifically black women and trans women, have spat their wisdom and graciousness into me as if I were a baby bird.
AI destroyed the last foundations of customer service. These reps WANT to help me, they can’t. We are staring at each other, unable to even diagnose the previously solved because humans can’t enter the black box that was erected in the path to resolution. I am a monkey screaming at a pillar.
Hanging out with my godbabies and children are a goldmine of comedy.
![A cropped screenshot of an article section titled "Gary Larson cartoon incident" from a Tumblr page. The text describes a controversy involving a Far Side cartoon and Jane Goodall.
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Gary Larson cartoon incident
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In 1987 Gary Larson published a Far Side cartoon of two chimpanzees grooming, in which one discovers a blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"[127] The Jane Goodall Institute called the cartoon an "atrocity" in a letter drafted by its lawyers to Larson and his syndicate. Goodall, who was in Africa at the time, later found the cartoon amusing.[128]
She went on to name it her favourite depiction of herself in pop culture.[129] Larson offered profits from sales of a shirt featuring the cartoon to the Jane Goodall Institute.[130]
Goodall wrote the preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy.[131] She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals.
In 1988 Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania.[128] While there, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.[127][132]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdtwslusias4dnfmqydvudsq/bafkreiab4xelozcgki2mm2n3wwq5vdhbvve7v76enl6wbonavz6gjc2p7u)
I just saw the news from Sunday out of Mississippi and I am so ashamed of this country. I am sick. CHERISH BLACK BABIES, CHERISH BLACK LIVES. RIP Kohen Kartier Wiley. We failed you.
Grateful to the internet for allowing connection based on interest instead of proximity, even if it was brief, and probably longer than we thought.
We should bring back costumed synchronized swimming as a society.
Crack the Sky. 851pm on Thursday in Chicago during a massive storm.
Favorite snack lately is a bowl of frozen fruit eaten with a spoon. 😋
Took like a decade off from comics but I’ve been writing a comic :) I’m excited to share it in another decade :’) hee hee