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Oh, sorry! I mostly lurk. Just opened up my dms! Didn't even realize they were closed.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Artists, help me out! I do some work for a small publisher. They do this series of Gothic short story booklets with original illustrations. Limited runs printed by a small family-run press with letterpress covers, really nice. They hire artists to illustrate them, 4-6 illustrations per booklet. Images are 4"x7", b&w, and tend to follow a linear style almost like an engraving. They can't pay a lot, something in the ballpark of $100/image. If this seems like your thing and you have time to take on a commission in the next couple of months, hit me up! Or pass this along to someone you think might be a fit. Happy to provide examples and more details to anyone interested.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

"Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities." Whether you like this album or not, @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social is dead on with this argument.

that said, if you need a comment about this shit, my contact info is in my bio.

I never thought I’d live to see the day when some Americans would recoil at the sight of Soldiers guarding them. All seemed to be well when the National Guard was in bareknuckle brawls during GWOT though. Do you know how weird it was for us on active duty seeing them there? With us? Fighting? I always wondered how we got to that point. Where the Guard of a state was fighting off ambushes in some foreign land. Now they get to guard their own neighbors. Their own countrymen. But those same Americans would shed a tear seeing those Guardsmen come home in caskets from a war nobody cared about. Further proof that for some Americans and the media, they only love Soldiers when they’re dead.

area dort unaware of the fact that the founders didn't *want* soldiers in the streets

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

Maybe it's just me, but this seems...bad. Catastrophically bad.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

And my God, the VistaVision print of One Battle After Another at the Coolidge is spectacular. One of only four theaters in the world showing that projection format and it looks absolutely incredible.

Excited for that, and for Frankenstein, and Hedda, and Hamnet, and Dust Bunny, and The Bride. These two I have already seen though are both just at such a high level, having something to say, working on several levels at once, beautifully executed, original, and damned entertaining to boot.

Look, everything is basically one nightmare after another, but we got Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another in the same year, and that's pretty fucking great. Thank God for art.

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

They hold all the Star Trek, and a lot of other things I like to watch, but I did cancel Paramount Plus a while back because of all of the capitulation and this reinforces my decision so hard.

"The Royals Loved The Show" is such a perfect description of... everything these days

Extra fascinating because logistics are what make the US military a superpower and if it offloads them at enough scale, it won't be long into the next real conflict before it all falls apart.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

Wait, so the vow to surveil and intimidate Spanish-speaking Americans from the US territory of Puerto Rico at the Super Bowl came from a DHS adviser with a documented history of abuse who is reported to be in a relationship with the department secretary and staying on beyond his statutory authority?