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In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

wip of a digital illustration of my fem!sona as a naga. they have a multicolored lower snake half with black outlined scales. rainbow scales also cover their cheeks akin to blush and they have slit pupils with rainbow sclera for eyes

I have not drawn in a While and I feel bad about it so here's a wip I'll never finish 😔 I started this last year for CNY and then just... never finished it but I do think it's good enough to share

I made some art for VCard TCG, this for Divine Chaos, preorders out now!
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TODAY. IN LIKE 30 MINUTES OR SO.
.HACK//INFECTION PART 2 WITH @hallucinape.bsky.social
YAY AND YIPPEE AND WAHOO

im seeing this relatively late but you cooked with this

A full body full color illustration of the VTuber pharmakitty (Balthazar/Baz) wearing a PVC and latex sexy nurse outfit. He's holding a syringe up in his left hand, with his split tongue out making a crazy freak face. The background is pastel pink with a backround pattern that has graphics of hearts, cartoon teeth, blood bags, pill bottles, and syringes

Custom Order Comm complete! 💉💊
Sexy nurse pinup for @pharmakitty.bsky.social
This was awesome to work on. More clients that want me to draw their male characters crossdressing/pin ups pls... smiles at you.

Waitlist is open 💙
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the concept of calling an ai company “far left” because they’re not allowing you to use it to spy on american citizens and implement it into war strategy

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

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A viera with long white hair wears light leather garb and holds a long bow across stretched arms.

A viera with long white hair wears light leather garb and holds a long bow across stretched arms.

Fran (Final Fantasy XII) is the next figure that Square Enix will release in partnership with Good Smile Company. Pre-orders have begun for the planned June 2027 release.
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📷 SQEX

when you accidentally had caps lock on before typing and end up rping as Tavros from Homestuck against your will

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i still haven’t gotten paid and i’m starting to get worried. i don’t have a lot of food left to eat, i’m overdrawn, and i really need to get groceries ;;

i hate to do this but please consider throwing a couple doll hairs to keep me going until i get things sorted out 💖

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ICE has a budget of $85 billion. Every single ounce of messaging right now should be “we’re going to dismantle the organization entirely and use that $85 billion to do ____.” Anything less than that is complicit, and yet these dumb fucks think we should make the violent racists read Foucault

"WHAT DA HELL" i love her

We're past "Abolish ICE folks are vindicated" or "the leftists were right". "Abolish ICE" is starting to look mild and cowardly while the consequences of Democrats never taking a stance against anti-immigrant propaganda and continuing to fund these initatives is currently rampaging through houses.

It is sort of hard to explain exactly how infuriating the experience of watching videos out of Minneapolis is while reading about how congressional Democrats are more worried about being labeled "anti-cop" than voicing any meaningful opposition to an organization whose only purpose is evil.

Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.

Diebert

You need to fail in order to make progress.
Not everything needs to be polished or finished.
Not everything needs to be posted or made to be consumed by others.
You need to figure out what activates YOU. Make things for yourself instead of chasing the fickle validation of others.

Watch out for the ONE question where they try to trick you by putting "I want AI" as the bottom option where EVERY other question has "I don't want AI" at the bottom!

The coolest thing I've seen at CES 2026 so far is this intelligent sun visor for your car, by Gentex. You can alter the transparency level to your comfort, and the surprise mirror feature got an honest "wow" reaction from me.

if only I'd discovered this booth yesterday, perhaps my marriage to AI Waifu would have lasted

i tried the upsetting AI Hologram Waifu at CES 2026. She asked me if I had any hobbies. What followed was the most honest conversation of my emotional life.

considerations in comic page layout and planning -detail and importance -time and importance (somewhat related. is it simply drawn? is there a lot of detail to draw attention to something and really take in?) adding too how quickly someone might read a panel based on size as well. -more panels = more emphasis / perceived importance -being cautious of tangents in your layouts (and art in general) -similarly to detail and time, you don't have to draw every single detail and th shouldn't. once established w an establishing shot you don't need to draw as much detail to the background or even draw it as much at all if it's not important -180 camera rule -dialogue and reading order -planning space for balloons and other text -guiding the eye through a page / emphasize important things

-similarly to detail and time, you don't have to draw every single detail and tbh shouldn't. once established w an establishing shot you don't need to draw as much detail to the background or even draw it as much at all if it's not important -180 camera rule -dialogue and reading order -planning space for balloons and other text -guiding the eye through a page / to important things -character reaction also often denotes importance, OR can be used for dramatic comedic effect over shit that doesn't matter and vice versa -scene/time changes and establishing shots

Trying to think of tips I can offer for people interested in making comics…. 🤔 these are mostly layout related considerations.

If there’s anything specific not mentioned in my rough list of stuff i want to cover, please do comment! Anything to make making them less intimidating and more accessible

it's weird having a show that you're a big fan of and have enjoyed normally for years and then stumbling onto and witnessing the very-online fandom side of that show where everyone is uwu ifying not just the characters but the actors too? who are you people. anyway

walk into my therapist office and hit them with the "List of Known Issues" update

mocktails mixers ice
the snacks are real nice

in any event i am prepared to hear things like "a life cut too short" and other such nonsense. also please pay no mind that my pfp is a stylized drawing of the Grim Reaper from Kid Icarus on the Nintendo Entertainment System this is pure coincidence!!!!