miirk 🪴🧿🖤

Traditional art. A page filled with cute drawings of various bugs and a critters, made with a rainbow pencil. There’s two caterpillars, a moth, a snail, a tiny ladybug and a tiny worm, and a bug with speckled wings.

Rainbow bug friends 🐌🌈🐛

#art #traditionalart #cuteart #pridemonth

Panel 1: "I make art for a living." Drawing character art on a tablet Panel 2: "It feels... Questionable right now." Drawing interrupted by a news alert Panel 3: "So much horror and pain all around us... And it feels like it's getting worse every day." Cait staring at her tablet while news alerts ping loudly

Panel 1: "What the hell am I doing." Cait takes off her glasses and rubs her eyes, the news alerts are louder and more frightening Panel 2: "I'm drawing pretty pictures while the world is on fire. While families are torn apart. While war and genocide become daily news. While my country is held hostage by bigots who want me and the people I love to die." Cait holds her head in her hands, overwhelmed by pinging alerts

Panel 1: "But I can't think that way. ...not every day, at least..." Cait balls her fists, grimacing with tears on her face Panel 2: "I love what I do. And I work in entertainment - providing beauty and escapism for my audience." She puts her glasses back on and picks up her tablet pen, sniffling

Panel 1: "We need art in turbulent times. People need escape from the horrors. And if I can provide that - then I'm being helpful." Cait starts drawing, but the pinging alerts are on the rise again. Panel 2: "I'm being helpful. I'm being helpful... I'm being helpful... I'm helpful... Helpful..." She draws, trembling, as the alerts swell around her.

Feeling... rough. Lately.

I’m going to get insanely high for the entire day

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax”

No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

Uchikoshi I love you

Financial statement today reminded me HOW GREAT IT IS when folks request that their libraries acquire books. 😍

Seriously, if you want a totally free-to-you way to help an author, submit a request with your local library. Those sales help us so much, in whatever format.

It's all just so out in the open now.

LDH reports first U.S. H5N1-related human death Current general public health risk remains low January 06, 2025 The Louisiana Department of Health reports the patient who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in Louisiana and the U.S. has died. The patient was over the age of 65 and was reported to have underlying medical conditions. The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds. LDH’s extensive public health investigation has identified no additional H5N1 cases nor evidence of person-to-person transmission. This patient remains the only human case of H5N1 in Louisiana. The Department expresses its deepest condolences to the patient’s family and friends as they mourn the loss of their loved one. Due to patient confidentiality and respect for the family, this will be the final update about the patient. While the current public health risk for the general public remains low, people who work with birds, poultry or cows, or have recreational exposure to them, are at higher risk.

The Louisiana Department of Health reports the first death from H5N1 bird flu in the United States

ldh.la.gov/news/H5N1-de...

Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.

hi

91 years old

The ripples of the Chevron decision are just beginning. It is a gigantic Pandora's Box and inevitably will take us to places we don't want to go.

Happy New Year

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Senate Dems torch Supreme Court’s ‘ethical crisis’ in blistering new report MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Senate Judiciary Cmte. member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to discuss a 20-month investigation into the ethics crisis at the United States Supreme Court revea...

We now have a clear, fact-based blistering report on the lack of an enforceable ethics management process for SCOTUS. SCs in all 50 states have a well-defined process that works. Why is this only coming out now, I ask Congress! What will the Ds do with it? And when? www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Today is the last day you can post this picture

are you coming back? i’m waiting

#soriku

Digital drawing by me of a falcon with glowing yellow eyes

The Peregrine- she may be small but oh is she deadly.
2021

You can't hear it, but University of Tennessee tool 'cloaks' songs to protect music from AI "This is the first of its kind. Before this, there's no tool that can prevent music from being learned by generative AI."

For my musician friends who don’t want their music stolen for genAI www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

I’m in Japan right now so I’m obliged to remind the world — we don’t want AI. We want a robust rail system. We want trains. Metros. High speed. Locals. Cute trains. Efficient trains. Trains.

Twilight is baby's first monster fucker movie. Shape of Water is a monster fucker movie for grown adults. Nosferatu is a monster fucker movie but for actual perverts

what’s happening on twitter right now shows just how important it was for left of center people to leave it earlier

these assholes need a target, and deprived of their preferred options they are ripping each other to shreds

Truly unbelievable scenes from Georgia 🇬🇪

Hundreds of thousands of Georgians formed a chain of unity across the country expressing their unwavering determination to defend Georgia’s democracy and a European future.

CCTV footage shows WHO chief fleeing Yemeni airport amid Israeli strike – video The Houthis have been intensifying attacks against Israel in an effort to pressure it to end its war in Gaza

Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization.

Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.

the elites destroyed schooling in this country for profit, they treat teachers like dirt, kids get shot in school, they tell you college is not important and it can’t be free, and now you’re sitting around mad about h1b visas lmao. you’ve been robbed blind!!!