In Chinese tradition, the chrysanthemum is no passive bloom. It’s a quiet act of rebellion.
When Tao Yuanming(365–427) wrote, “Picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence, I leisurely see the southern mountain(采菊東籬下，悠然見南山),” he wasn’t admiring scenery but 1/2
#folklore

This isn't the way, my dude. Pointing fingers at another killer, saying "but they also did it." Has never convinced a jury to not prosecute you. It should be the same for this.

If you use AI, you use it, and you better just admit you don't care

oh my god i just found the source of another kink within greek mythology

friends, if you let your kids read greek mythology they'll become freaks(positive)

It's never about protecting the kids, it is about control.
It's never about protecting the kids, it is about control.
It's never about protecting the kids, it is about control.
It's never about protecting the kids, it is about control.
Contact your MP and push back on shit like this while we can.

Chilean paleontologists named a fossil species of sawshark after pochita, meet pochitaserra patriciacanale.

Starting today just on the heels of $4k- we’ve officially broke 100 backers! Help us get to 60% :)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...

imagining paying for a service where i want to search something on google and it tells me no, it’s too tired to do that

proud of this zenshu charm wip

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

In the 10 days since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was announced to take effect, the Israeli military has already repeatedly violated it. Al Jazeera reports that it has continued its genocide, killing nearly 100 Palestinians and wounding over 300 people.

Katy Stoll from Some More News summons Warmbo, a yellow sentient puppet that has become some kind of horrible behemoth that's erupting from the ground. Cody cowers in the foreground. A portent is scrawled in the foreground: "Please No More News."

The news! There is too much of it, you see.

#art #fanart @somemorenews.bsky.social

Naroth Kean

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

a cartoon character is standing in a dark room with a camera in front of him . ALT: a cartoon character is standing in a dark room with a camera in front of him .

So news and I’ll have to draw a picture later but recently got hired on Helluva Boss as a storyboard artist. Gotta draw my impsona soon. Thank you Spindlehorse for bringing me on

I encourage ICE to continue to arrest police officers. This and their previous tear gassing of Chicago cops will definitely improve relations between the two groups.

Illustration of woman with short hair kneeling back on the ground and pulling the string of a bow tight. She is holding a white arrow and prepared to let go. Around her is the Sagittarius constellation that is made of orange and pale yellow stars. The background is a pale peach, the woman is made up of oranges and reds.

Illustration of a pale antelope on a dark background with orange plants around it

Five herons, two black, three white are circled around one of the black herons holding an orb of light

Pale woman with dark hair in periwinkle one piece swimsuit swimming with fish and other sea life in a dark ocean with a pink sky and peach sun

#PortfolioDay again! I'm a West Coast artist named Samantha and I specialize in editorials, publishing (mostly book covers), and branding

✉️samanthamashillustration@gmail.com
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as spooky season rolls around, I need to remind everyone that the person in this viral werewolf image is in fact my friend @smogteeth.bsky.social lmao

In progress drawing of a right facing partial face emerging geometric thr left side of the page with balls of energy emerging from the third eye set against a twisted and surreal background

Bit more time today between cooking and cleaning up after cooking (Canadian Thanksgiving).
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark

Back view 🗿

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost. The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how. The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation. In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing. The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process? Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve. Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

WSJ owes an explanation, as does the FBI. Who dumped that crap into their bulletins? If not the same person, who leaked it? Why does either person still have a job? Congress should demand answers immediately.

"I hate knowing what all these terms mean"
yeah, but they're the reason you don't let it slide. Maybe you should know. Maybe more people should know what all these dog whistles are. Maybe not knowing is half the damn problem. Not knowing is going to suck for you more than knowing will

Somewhat hilariously, YouTube's restricted mode hides my most recent video on reading game guides, but DOESN'T hide my video on the Nuremberg Trials.

My major takeaway is DON'T SELF-CENSOR YOUR OWN WRITING. You don't know what will or will not be restricted!! Do not comply in advance!!!

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

"My evil advisors keep conspiring against me" see, this is why we need diverse hiring. If you recruit nothing but foppish, ambiguously thirtysomething men with immaculately groomed goatees, of course they'll find common ground against you. You need to get yourself a grumpy middle-aged lesbian.

Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life

*gets up to use the restroom*

"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back