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Joe Crow

@joecrow.bsky.social

Artist, writer, anarchist, occultist, general weirdo. Everything I need to know about life I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains. (he/him)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 16h ago

Since this is my only public-facing internet presence, here's my AI policy: I don't use AI for my writing. I don't use it for idea generation or editing. I don't use it for publicity. I have not in the past, and will not in the future. I have "no AI" statements in all the contracts that I sign.

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 18h ago

Non-figurative ceramics are hard as hell to place, especially when you’re dealing with cultures that had extremely highly skilled ceramics artisan cultures for literal millennia. Anthropeum.com · Aug 5 2026 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩🟥🟩🟦🟩🟩 74,213 · top 10% of players today!g

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · yesterday

Conservative views aren't being suppressed here, they are just A) not being boosted and B) incredibly unpopular because they are odious

Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3d ago

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 2d ago

Given yesterday's convo about HTML as it went into the age of Dreamweaver, got this from a coworker and wish more dev work was done this way: mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

mohkohn.co.uk

LewdNote Studio🔞@flipnotespice.bsky.social · 5d ago

KOSA IS A THREAT. KOSA IS A THREAT TO THE INTERNET. CALL YOUR REPS. DON'T IGNORE THIS. CALL THEM. YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM MATTERS. www.badinternetbills.com

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago

‼️ALERT: KOSA is moving next week to the Senate Commerce Committee for markup! Call your reps today, again tomorrow, and all weekend leaving messages opposing this dangerous censorship bill. www.badinternetbills.com

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 3d ago

Be the Bee-Faced Mushroom Shaman you want to see in the world!

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 3d ago

This image is a reproduction of the Bee-Faced Mushroom Shaman of Tassili-n-Ajjer, a prehistoric rock painting found in Algeria. It is believed to be between 7,000 and 10,000 years old. Some scholars interpret the figure as a shaman depicting the early ritual use of psychedelic mushrooms.

This image is a reproduction of the Bee-Faced Mushroom Shaman of Tassili-n-Ajjer, a prehistoric rock painting found in Algeria.Estimated Age: It is believed to be between 7,000 and 10,000 years old.Interpretation: Some scholars interpret the figure as a shaman depicting the early ritual use of psychedelic mushrooms.Source Material: The image is often cited from Terence McKenna's book, Food of the Gods

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 3d ago

The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was buried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle.

The Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg is a 9,000-year-old archaeological discovery of a 25-35 year old woman buried in Germany with an extraordinary animal-bone headdress.Headdress Materials: The ritual garment included bones and teeth from various animals, including deer, wild boar, crane, and turtle.Archaeological Status: As one of the oldest burials in Central Germany, her grave goods—including painting implements and clay—indicate she held a special social status, likely as a shaman.Reconstruction: The image on the right is a modern reconstruction based on the remains found on the left.

Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!@darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 3d ago

Help rescue some serious art history.

Panel from Harvey Pekar posted with a Clevescene.com article 11 years ago, containing his pithy quote 'Comics are just words and pictures. You can do ANYTHING with words and pictures.'

Fortmax Headroom@hwhall.bsky.social · 3d ago

This seemed like it was worth boosting. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 3d ago

remember how Riley Gaines’ swimming coach raped a bunch of her teammates? then when her career path became TV Nazi she defended him and he claimed he was being targeted for standing up against trans women in sports? anyway she cares deeply about women and girls being safe.

Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rally with Dark Horse Workers United! DHWU is calling all supporters to join us for a rally at Milwaukie Waterfront Park on August 3rd from 5pm to 6pm. 🧵

Comic-style collage with superheroes, bold “Calling all Heroes” text, a speech balloon that says “Help DHWU!”, and a message about a Monday cosplay rally supporting union rights.

Chainslobber (COMMS OPEN)@chainslobber.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am TERRIFIED to call people and I call my reps. Even just a simple 'I need you to appeal the KOSA act/Online Safety act or I'm voting against you' is enough of a sentence. it gets them scared, it gets them to act. This isn't just about 'porn', even tame stuff is targeted now. You might be next.

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Anna 🌿👁️@annacwebs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

Misreadings are frustrating. I can't speak for Polybius but I can speak for my A Paradise Built in Hell: this Le Monde version misrepresents what it documents and concludes. It does document constructive pro-social civil society responses to disaster. it also documents elite panic and crackdowns...

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 4d ago

Damn, off my game lately. Anthropeum.com · Aug 2 2026 🟩🟨🟩🟦🟩🟦🟨🟨🟨🟥 64,484 · top 26% of players today!

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 4d ago

Slavery Never Ended.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4d ago

Why, no, we're not living in a dystopian future at _all_, why would you even think such a thing?

Headline:

Political Turmoil Will Not Derail Killer Robot Program, Ousted Minister Says

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats @wolven.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

Maybe take seriously the idea that the people at the levers of implementation will try it even if it's *not actually any good*. www.nobhillgazette.com/arts_and_cul...

The near-term danger isn’t that AI will be smarter than most humans or even particularly good at what it’s asked to do, Williams says. It’s that it will be significantly less expensive than paying people — or at least offer that promise.

“In many cases, cheaper and worse is just fine for a lot of people who are worried about the cheaper and not the quality at all,” he says. It’s a very real and serious possibility that AI will be adopted widely “specifically to, in fact, try to save on labor … ‘save on labor’ being a euphemistic way of saying, ‘fire a whole lot of people.’”

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 4d ago

File Under: Grease Up Your Baby For A Ball On The Hill

🍑💖@bigbuttbiggerheart.online · 4d ago

im sorry but i saw this and now you have to

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

Suzanne ✨🌑@tendermiasma.com · 4d ago

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d ago

A dark day for human rights.

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 5d ago

Not bad, but the islanders dicked me again. Anthropeum.com · Aug 1 2026 🟩🟨🟩🟦🟨🟩🟦🟩🟦🟩 80,447 · top 6% of players today!

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 5d ago

If God’s Scribe has written your chains into being, then break his fingers and feed him his own pen. https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wheel-smashing-lord-6-194/

WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-194 – Kill Six Billion Demons

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 6d ago

the crime is fundamentally a woman criticising a man. you can tell because of all the people who think she has some sort of obligation to fluff him because...they both worked on the same topic??? and she didn't agree he was great???

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d ago

For the record, this Emily Wilson Odyssey review furor is ridiculous, and largely fueled by algorithms designed to work us up over practically nothing. She wrote a very interesting review from her perspective and I personally enjoyed it. Now, it feels like people want her arrested for a crime.

A Bottle of Wine and a Little Cry @jalexscott.bsky.social · 6d ago

this is entirely right and i think the (sometimes deliberate) misunderstanding of the term “social construct” in particular has done so much damage

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · last wk.

"genuine neurodevelopmental disorder" and "social construct" are not antonyms and until we are able to get people to understand that "social construct" doesn't mean "fake" it whatever, we're doomed.

Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social · 6d ago

(Edit for spoilage, soz) Harsh one, this! Getting boned by horse nomads, ocean-going foragers, AND assorted believers at the same time. Anthropeum.com · Jul 31 2026 🟨🟩🟩🟨🟦🟨🟩🟩🟨🟨 65,832 · top 37% of players today!

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

anthropeum.com

Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey, friends! Here are some thoughts on using planes in your compositions.

Text:
"Planes" are a depiction of anything that exists in a drawing at a FiXED spatial distance from the viewer, with each grouping of subjects at a shared distance overlapping the next in order to suggest the spatial relationship of each element in the drawing to the others.
This image has three planes:
(Image of a drawing with a scorpion on a rock, a cowboy sitting on a rock, and a mountain in the background).
Each plane in an image signifies a different degree of distance, with the foreground SHARiNG the viewer’s spatial plane, and the background being the farthest from it.
There’s clear distance between each plane; no plane “touches” another.

Text: why is overlapping the planes necessary?
(image: a cowboy apparently close to the viewer, one a ways back, and then a saloon behind him).
Unless one plane directly overlaps another, there’s no sure clarity that they are, in fact, suggestive of different distances.
(image: the cowboy appearing to be closest is shown to be a giant, swinging the apparently midground cowboy by the head into the two-story saloon that's only about as tall as a person).

it’s also important to suggest scale in each plane using subjects whose size the audience is likely to know. when that isn’t possible, try repeating the element-of-unspecified-scale (a) from one plane in another and have it (B) interact there with a subject whose scale is clear.
(image: a small round cactus in the foreground, and farther off a cowboy sitting on a similar cactus)

Text: A perspective grid composition (A) suggests depth by progressive recession in space, while planar composition (B) suggests it with staggered recession in space.
(image: a receding grid and a series of staggered planar elements)
The principles of overlapping planar composition can be used with a perspective grid, especially if there are elements with right angles (like buildings).
Rough your panel with plane elements in place first...
...then make/place a grid that fits your layout...
...then utilize the grid to make the receding angles match.

(image: a wanted man hiding against a wall while a cowgirl crossed the street, looking around).
One of the most useful* aspects of a foreground element is to create a sense of immersion for your audience. by putting it on essentially the same plane as the audience itself, the audience becomes a
part of the story, seemingly able to touch the foreground, to lean around it for a better view.
(image: the wanted man is now decidedly a foreground element).
*it also means less time spent drawing all of the detail in the midground or background planes without ever aesthetically shortchanging your audience.

♡Kate, whimsy era 🇵🇸@katespeace.northsky.social · 6d ago

There is no such thing as having "legitimate" concerns for trans women in sports. It's just a dog whistle for hiding what a piece of shit one is. Whether you are conservative, liberal or anywhere else on the ideological spectrum, transphobia reveals what kind of garbage you are, actually. End of.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Democratic people who lost the House, Senate and 4 elections to Trump and George W Bush seem to be having a hard time convincing Democratic voters that they know how to win elections and should be deferred to.

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