FishFaceRen

Want to help Minnesotans currently under siege? Friends on the ground say this food bank is delivering to folks who are having to stay inside to avoid ICE harassment. www.2harvest.org

Comic-Con did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment, but Oreglia said she did hear back from art show organizer Glen Wooten. “He basically told me that they put those AI stipulations in when AI was just starting to come around and that the inability to sell AI-generated works was meant to curtail people from submitting genAI works,” she said. “He seems to be very against genAI but wasn't really able to change the current policy until artists voiced their opinions loudly which pressured the office into banning AI completely.”

great point by bestie @teastainss.bsky.social in this article on banning AI at comic-con: with corporations, politicians, institutions: ALWAYS BE ANNOYING. At best they gravitate towards doing nothing and continue to do nothing until a fire is lit under their asses

www.404media.co/comic-con-ba...

Remember when that absolute fool of a politician tried to suggest a bill that ICE wear QR codes instead of name and ID number patches like literally everyone else and I said it would be the work of minutes for them to dummy up their own QR codes to access your phones?

I meant this.

WindowSwap Open a new window somewhere in the world

Okay.
Here's something nice.
www.window-swap.com

Hey I wrote this

[COVID zine front cover] [bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition [Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)] [word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant [COVID zine back cover] [handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom] “Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23. Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code] [drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler] [Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citations: [QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine [bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition

I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:

Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control

Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

Artist! Quote with your horn art!

ink and watercolor painting of two dogs in a gentle, tender embrace. one dog is white, the other is red. within the white dog is an exposed heart. the heart and the red dog have the same color palette. it is to represent vulnerability in tender intimacy, and bravely opening oneself to another and desire to feel unity with another individual.

Don't Get Sentimental
Ink and watercolor, 2025

Original for sale: ko-fi.com/s/55fbdcfda6
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo...

In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.

My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time.

Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026

And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.

Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Anti-ICE Resource Directory

I updated my anti-ICE database this morning! If you have resource suggestions I missed, please reach out docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

weird i must've been out sick when they first asked for permission to fuck up the power grid

5 slots for February! 🐈‍⬛🐕

Here is the final result!! 🙌 He's delicious and is already missing his arm and leg. Thank you so for joining me yesterday evening for my yearly culinary chaos.

I’m not keen on the fact that DuckDuckGo already has AI search, but I’m very glad it’s optional.

But what if we vote no so hard they drop AI entirely?

voteyesornoai.com

Tell Congress to rein in ICE NOW On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good, an American citizen, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, a...

Every Democrat should be voting against this funding bill, and Democratic leadership in both chambers should be actively whipping their caucus in opposition.

Make sure your Members of Congress hear from you ASAP. Urge Democrats to answer the people’s call to stop ICE’s lawlessness.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Calling Greg Bovino a "b*tch" raises thousands for Minn. immigrant rights Spearheaded by The Handbasket, $18k+ in donations were made to spite the CBP commander.

New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:

This thread is so much. 😭

A photo comic about a bunch of different things neighbors in NYC are doing. You could maybe do them, too! bsky.app/profile/greg...

Illustration of a mako shark saying "I'm gonna act super cute..." Next image: *Acting super cute*

Sharks are super cute 🦈
#art #sharks

Hiii it’s my birthday! And I am having a sale in my shop!!! 27% off all day today 1/22 :0)

I hope this helps someone, but I left it in my notebook about the effect of art becoming interesting.
(CLIPSTUDIO)

i admit ive been putting off checking my social media bc the news makes me so damn pissed and tired. like its not even the end of january

A sphinx attempts to catch a harpy in her claws. The harpy looks deeply unamused.

Enrichment is so important

we will greet them as liberators

Crocuta crocuta

Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

COW TOOLS IS REAL

www.bbc.com/news/article...

a birthday drawing from last year for my mother, featuring the Greatures. I was drawing everyone a Greature gift that year.