Comic updated: grassworm.net 🐛"Summer grass, winter worm" is a slice-of-life/drama about being scared that your boss thinks you should be working more 🐛 #comics #art
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i like moths and reading about other countries. 30 they/them pixel art -> https://dollarchive.neocities.org/ comic -> https://grassworm.net/ <- comic
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
If you haven't read my comic yet... well, that's okay. After all... there's an easy fix......
It's always the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains," but today is REALLY the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 2d agoToday is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
Mistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖
The speaker at my work event did "and that child was Albert Einstein" in full sincerity. Not sure I've actually heard it before. Props I guess
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
Comic updated: grassworm.net 🐛"Summer grass, winter worm" is a slice-of-life/drama about being scared that your boss thinks you should be working more 🐛 #comics #art
Oh shoot today's Monday for updating the comic. OK hang on I have it somewhere.
When a cartoonist you like drops off the map for a while and comes back with a new name
Confederated tribes of Warm Springs & my home tribe in Oregon, is currently on fire and begging for resources and donations. The wild fires have hurt homes, people, and animals; they’re desperate for even horse hay & water right now. www.drln.org/news/officia...
It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
Watched descendants 5. This is "my garbage"
"artists "only" get 80+% of the profits, greedy organizer shouldn't be taking less than 10%" You would die if you tried to sell a physical zine
Any time comic artists come forward to say "such-and-such event or publisher has treated us unfairly" people instantly jump to "I'll never buy from them again" ok. so you want even less money to go to the artists? Because you care so much about fair treatment of artists. Got it
You must be kind to trans women. Show them all the grace and understanding you are capable of giving. This world is cruel but you dont have to be
"This isn't as good as I wanted but it works for now and maybe when I come back in a few months I'll have a better idea for how to do it" savior of artists everywhere. Internalize this
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.
Concept art by Mary Blair for Cinderella (1950), dir. Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Productions
Those planning to relocate this August include a comic book shop, lego store, magic theater and one of the mall’s annual holiday markets. https://mrf.lu/256Wc
BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
boltsmag.org
Watercolor and colored pencil study of a copper alloy sculpture of Shiva as lord of dance 260 x 180 mm
Eugryllacris guomashan is a species of large raspy cricket native to southern China. It is one of the very few insects outside of spiders or caterpillars capable of spinning silk from its mouth to stitch and bind leaves together for protective daytime shelters. Reddit: u/graylemur2
