Take me out 😩🧡🎀🔥❤

Joy is a form of resistance, too <3 This poem also makes me think of this powerful quote by Dan Savage: "We buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”

springtime at the atelier 💐 #witchhatatelier #fanart

absence

No matter how much technology advances, metal still has to be mined. Someone still has to go underground to dig it up, no matter how advanced the end result may be. Have you not put any thought towards what is being done to make these large language models so "efficient"?

Even the tolerance for generative ai is a fucking embarrassment. It is so diabolically shallow, narrow minded, and selfish. Not to mention in the creative industry that it merely looks like a proud display of your unwillingness to collaborate and your inability to learn.

Angry thread🫶🏻 I am so fucking sick of hearing about generative ai. I'm sick of people's cowardly centrism towards it, I'm sick of it being pushed onto me by my educators, I'm sick of people who tell me we should learn to accept it, who are telling me it's efficient.

📆 Sunday 9th of August! @captioncomicfest.bsky.social Panel: Small Press vs AI Absolutely honoured to join @petetrainor.fyi @streakofpith.bsky.social and @karriefransman.bsky.social on this talk! 📍Seacourt Hall, Oxford ⏰ 2-3pm Join us and let’s rant about AI!

“Then I know what I must do. It’s just…I’m afraid to do it.” "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

People are destroying flock cameras in towns and cities all over the country. Seems to have really taken off this summer. What a phenomenon. Wow.

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Eight Flock cameras stolen throughout Winona have authorities asking the public's help getting them back.

A beautiful journey into dreams and nightmares at the same time from @dzook-art.bsky.social. One story from this year's DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES anthology, on Kickstarter now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...

The nightmares get both hellish and all too real in this year's comic from veteran WIP contributor @benajn.bsky.social. One story from this year's DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES anthology, on Kickstarter now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mik...

The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.

Undertaker 🖤 Painted earlier this year 🤍 #eldenring #nightreign

Man, I’m so happy for Michigan right now.

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"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

shark 🦈

Today is the day the UK toilet policing act comes into force. Fortunately many free admission public buildings don't have gender segregated toilets, nor do most small independent cafes. So I encourage everyone to give them your custom

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us goodlawproject.org/s/485c4d

Fight back against the code of practice

The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us

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www.brokenfrontier.com/a1-deadline-... Missed this because I've been on holiday, but we spoke to @andywpoliver.bsky.social at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social about A1Deadline, our stories' origins with Broken Frontier & what Deadline means to us. cc @deevelliott.bsky.social @completelycathy.bsky.social

"Without 'A1' and 'Deadline', We Might Be in an Entirely Different Place in Comics" - Alison Sampson, Dave Elliott, Fred Van Lente and Cathy Kwan on the Return of Two Legendary Publications in 'A1 Dea...

Bringing together two legendary comics titles from the late 20th century in one package, A1 Deadline is an anthology that both builds on the past and looks to the future....

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Paradise 🌟🌿

Catty corner 🪩

strange pony

Time to stop procrastinating and do some work. Here's one more plug for this afternoon because Shazleen Khan's BUUZA!! is very good and you should buy it. www.brokenfrontier.com/buuza-abrams...

Buuza!! Vol. 1: Good Morning, Salwa - Shazleen Khan's Queer POC, Low Fantasy Epic Gets a Deserved Collection from Abrams – Broken Frontier

With a new home in print via Abrams we take a look at Shazleen Khan's 'Buuza!!', an old favourite at Broken Frontier.

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So tried of seeing people say "we need to us AI ethically". There is no ethical use of that shit. Full stop.