Emerald Barkley - The Deck of Woven Marrow coming May 5th

@emeraldbarkley.bsky.social

they/them Artist and Bakery Enthusiast https://bio.site/emeraldbarkley

the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

Meta is a staunchly anti-art, anti-artist company and has been showing you this for years with basically every product decision it has made with Instagram, and yet so many professional creative industries continue to rely on it. Spread the word on their latest attack on artists ⬇️

WIRED@wired.com · 3mo ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

Donate to Help Artist Des Revol and His Family, organized by Jonathan Rochkind

Our friend, Daniel "Des Revol" Sanchez Estrada, has been wrongly arrested and c… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Help Artist Des Revol and His Family

gofundme.com

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley  	BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look 
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead  velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if 
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I  never asked for any of this
A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

Anyway I have effectively lost 5 (now 6) full days of work because of these many clusterfucks so I would seriously appreciate folks checking out my shop: Thornwolf.com/shop And also my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thornwolf Was real sobering giving my husband a list of clients to refund in case I died.

Thornwolf Shop — Thornwolf Creative Services

Original artwork, stickers, prints, pins, bandanas, and apparel by Nicole "Thornwolf" Dornsife

thornwolf.com

I’m $2,360 past due on my car lease. I dunno what to do. Losing the car would be a disaster, not just for my credit but any hope of getting a job, keeping my meager delivery income or even leaving my neighborhood. If you’re in a position to help, I’d so appreciate it. Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary

Email from Santander: 

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