August Haver

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

Joseph Scrimshaw tweet from 2022: "Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, 'What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is.' And my stove is left blinking and screaming, 'IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!' "

Ah, it's that time again...

Pumpkin patch landscape painting, oil on canvas, 8x8"

I tried to paint a pumpkin patch for #Halloween!

This is an 8x8" oil painting on canvas.

🎃🎃🎃

Trick or treat! 👻

#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

Writers are nothing if not well versed in the art of telling their writing software why its punctuation and grammar suggestions are incorrect.

Hard lesson from someone struggling to folks about to be:

NO ONE will help you if you dont ask.

No company or landlord will ease up if you dont make a big public fuss.

Politeness & shame are tools those with social power use to get away with abuse, neglect & killing folks.

Get loud. Demand life.

A cartoon cat dressed as a mummy holding a human skull

👁️〰️👁️

A woman dressed in white standing amidst a roaring blizzard in the forest. Her hair and hood are whipped by the wind; her eyes are glowing, and she's cradling a baby-shaped wrapped object in her arms. Her dress and mouth are stained with blood.

Thank you to the buyer who picked up a framed and matted print of The Cold Woman! I hope this creepy mama darkens your home for years to come. More prints of different sizes available here: shop.aimeecozza.com/product/the-...

#DarkArt #Art

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

doodle of a cat jumping out of a pumpkin screaming boo!

boo!

An illustration of a blue/green/orange lobster.

Just finished this one, and wondering if a print of it makes sense 🤔

#art #illustration

Reminder to all my followers: as a past food bank recipient, donating money to your local food banks has one of the greatest impacts of any charitable donation you can make. Your local food bank needs it.

A square acrylic painting of a pale blue sky and dark brown branches and leaves, a full moon resting in an opening in the foliage casts light through the many branches

Pale Moon 🌕

a repeat pattern of different buttons, some are just regular circular ones while others are shaped like flowers, stars, pumpkins, apples, autumn leaves, and acorns

lil button collection 🧵 🪡

#peachtober25 #peachtober25button #patterndesign

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –

Grace Lee Boggs

Alice Walker said, “When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer… Find those people who are committed to changing our scary reality… People gathering, people working to change the intolerable.”

Syphillis used to be so common and so destructive it would just destroy soft tissue on the face (and hands/feet), so people could AND DID form No Nose clubs so that they had a group of friends they could hang out with and just exist before it sent them into dementia and a horrible death.

Sleep motherfuckers. Sleep the deepest sleep.

The chaotic queer cat is surrounded by a hostile mob, but thanks to their handy dandy chaos potion, they are smiling. The potion is a swirl of rainbow with a dark feline-shaped bit swimming in the rainbow. Our intrepid advenurer jumps into the air and throw the potion to the ground. As the glass shatters the liquid feline billows into a colorful cloud laughing maniacally. The chaotic queer cat then makes their escape.

🧪✨Chaos Potion for when you need to cause a commotion. 🐈‍⬛ 🏳️‍🌈

12 flags 👇

The Woodland Harvest by Annie Stegg Gerard depicts a mother opossum carrying a basket of woodland treats, joined by her four children, a black cat clutching a pumpkin, and a pair of toads making their way to a festive autumn feast.

Wishing you a spooktacular (almost) Halloween! You can find prints available at Gallery Gerard, and the original piece is currently on display at @ixarts.bsky.social all weekend.⁠
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"The Woodland Harvest" 12x16 inches, oil on board⁠
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#oilpainting #magic #opossumart #blackcatart #spookyseason

a man in a pool of water, treading, barely able to keep his head above water to breathe as he looks panicked, and tries gathering a bunch of loose papers that are scattered around him

“what's it like working on multiple WIPs at the same time?”

what it's like:

Also remember there is no algorithm here. Your quote-posts to dunk on them are helping them out when they can't game the system like they do on other platforms. Don't make their jobs easier for them. Just block and move on.

Seriously. Do not interact with the govt accounts. Just don’t.

Ditto to ABA 'therapy' for autistic kids. It's abuse and only teaches them to mask which will have highly negative mental health impacts later, like suicide.

Gouache painting depicting an Octopus in space holding 8 planets. The Octopus is the sun and is at the center of our solar system. There is a gold ring behind his head and a white egret below him.

"Octocentrism" 🐙🪐

I had a "what if," idea and decided to run with it. What if there was an Octopus at the center of our solar system and he was the sun, manipulating all 8 planets within his 8 arms?

#gouache #art #octopus

I joined Bluesky because I thought it was going to be a safe place for me as a trans woman. There was so much promise of it being a permanent social media home.

We all deserve a straightforward answer from management if they'll protect their users from harm, or if they'll protect abusers instead.

Alt text your fucking god damn images, people.

Fascism feeds on and is built upon eugenics.

Cutting disabled people out of information only helps it grow.

Stop being both inaccessible AND complict.

Add Alt Text.

I have a draft fully ported over! Woo!

A flyer for "Books Through Bars" promoting Banned Books Week. It encourages buying a book from their wishlist with matched donations. Event dates: October 5th-11th, 2025. Bookshelves appear in the background.

Books through Bars Philly is looking for book donations which will be matched this week: bookshop.org/wishlists/c8... #BannedBooksWeek