Rafael Mena Illustration
@rafaelmenai.bsky.social
Mexican Archaeologist and Illustrator focused on Mesoamerica *Not American* rafaelmena432@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/Rafaelmena
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
Ville Sinkkonen@villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 5d agoQRP with your most popular piece on bsky ~
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
If you are american you should vote for the dsa whenever you can.
I haven't had quite enough of pale blue-violet flowers yet, it seems.
Natee (they/them)@himmapaan.bsky.social · 3w agoGetting to bed by daybreak again. 😶
Re. recent discourse on the Odyssey being a "woke victory", and basic appreciation for art direction.
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Can't listen to "Don't stop Believing" in public settings without feeling a little tense.
Caquetios of the Plains of Venezuela (private commission) 🧵⬇️ (1/10)
Caquetios of the Plains of Venezuela (private commission) 🧵⬇️ (1/10)
I dream of a world where military service is career-endingly scandalous.
I really wish bluesky let you send images in chat.
Imagine thinking that America's success is mostly attributable to the constitution, rather than the fact that its early history was an enormous bonanza of primitive accumulation.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · last mo.I cannot stress this enough: if your ideology is incapable of assimilating the fact that the American experiment has, thus far, succeeded in remarkable and world-historic fashion, you gotta chuck it and start over. That goes for the anti-immigration bigots as much as the hard Marxists.
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An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
I loath facism and nazism as ideologies, but i find the fringe latin-american varieties especially contemptible because it's just exported talking points from the US that have zero local grounding. Like what do you mean you hate black people, there are less than 1% in Mexico!
I expect less than nothing from our court system and my jaw is still fully on the floor www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa face harsh sentences in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
theguardian.com
Yo yo! New painting up on patreon! Finally a big one! If you're a patron check it out now as it's focusing on the civilizations of the Amazon. If you're not a patron you can support in the link below! www.patreon.com/Rafaelmena/p...
What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.
Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo agoResearch confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Little girls of the Remojadas culture (100-800 CE), graphite over paper.
Sketch of Head 3 from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, graphite over paper.
In ~1940, Ola Apenes took two photos from the Xaltepec volcano in the Valley of Mexico. It shows a sweeping image of the drying Texcoco Lake, and three towns (former altepemeh) at the foot of the Sierra de Santa Catarina. All this is now Iztapalapa, Mexico City.
