I second the suggestion that *everyone* do some organizer training. It's free, it doesn't take a lot of time. You'll understand way better how things work. You can make yourself a confident and understanding ally even if you yourself (like me!) are not eligible. No one deserves "The Bad Meeting."
WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD@devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d agoEven if you don't see yourself as an organizer, understanding how the process works (and what unions do/don't do) is crucial and will help you avoid baseless accusations and potentially sabotaging your vulnerable peers fighting for protections they need. (Link for NA folks, I recommend it)
The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:
the retrofuturistic race to complete your application is on! smoke the competition by submitting your samples and pitches featuring sapphic rivals falling in love to future buff by october 9th at noon pacific time for volume 1 of our masc romance zine. #zineapplications #sapphiczines
Some of my favourite resources about comics making! smallpress.scot/articles/how... I kept answering Qs or doing talks where I rec'd resources or gave out PDF guides, & wanted to make them more publicly accessible. So now they're up at @smallpress.scot 👍 Here's the pic version
The full wrap around cover, was such a joy to draw and read all the stories inside 💙💙💙
Scylla Publishing@scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 2w agoCOVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐
Infloresce Vol. 3 Aphrodisiac (18+) We're hosting two listening parties to celebrate the release of our new album. 🌼🎶 Pick a time for you, or come to both! Event details: infloresce.com/infloresce-v... (Our website will automatically display dates/times in your time zone.)
This kinda makes me super sad. Not that adults buying kids toys is inherently sad like hell yeah whatever, but the scale of this just makes me think about how shitty things are. From 'thats when I remember being happy' to 'We can't afford to have kids, but I was looking forward to sharing toys..."
Michael McLean@michaelmclean.me · 3w ago"Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16% through June, according to market research group Circana, equivalent to 55% of total toy industry receipts." www.nbcnews.com/business/con...
In order to deal with the constant onslaught of destabilizing news, I have adopted an attitude of "therapeutic accelerationism." Any time some event happens that will be included in a history textbook as a portent of the dark times, I crack a cold one, sit back and think "all according to plan."
Concept art by Leonid Shvartsman for A Kitten Named Woof (1976–1982), created by Lev Atamanov, Soyuzmultfilm
【AnimeJapanレポート】「とんがり帽子のアトリエ」花江夏樹＆本村玲奈はリアル師弟関係、導かれたキャスティング https://natalie.mu/comic/news/665941?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social #とんがり帽子のアトリエ #AJ2026
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...
If I could own any piece of art in the world, this would be a contender. I think about it a lot. More in the alt text.
new article: NOTHING IS ALIVE IN NEW YORK CITY examining parasite eve's world design and everything it lacks through a brief history of manhattan systemdrift.neocities.org/reviews/noth...
systemDrift | NOTHING IS ALIVE IN NEW YORK CITY
It looks as though God snapped His fingers and erased every trace of humanity and nature, leaving behind nothing but the concrete.
systemdrift.neocities.org
I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...
for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com
the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:
