birdjay is so tired

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

we had...many of our windows open yday. the house feels so much better now.

we were watching cookie monster and gonger make a bunch of food. they were LOVING it. i was enjoying the cuddles and the quiet.

hear, hear

been a minute since I’ve posted The Manifesto so: trans and disabled rights are human rights, abolish ice and defund the police, free Palestine, fuck antisemitism, give the land and artefacts back, sex work is work, abortion is healthcare, join your union, get your vaccines, corgis are perfect

me to my therapist:

it is basically a giant pastry filled with cream cheese frosting 🤷‍♀️ they're DAMN good. and if you're near a wegmans, they usually carried prepackaged ones about this time of year.

a primarily black ad for a website titled FREEDOM & LITERACY. the middle of the ad is taken up by an illustration of an open book. Underneath it in highlighter yellow text, it says FREEDOM & LITERACY. The subtitle says A COMMUNITY FOR BOOK LOVERS BY BOOK LOVERS.

We heard Discord was requiring IDs now? ❌ We don't.

We heard Tumblr is continuously crashing? ❌ We don't.

We heard review outlet after review outlet is falling to billionaires. ❌ We WON'T.

Come talk books with us!

✅ freeliteracy.jcink.net ✅

a mom and two kids laying on the floor, covered in blankets. They are snuggling.

love my little goblins.

Violets are blue
Roses are red
Someday it will happen
And he will be

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere

you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood?

free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

alright, due to the [gestures at everything] i am having a hard time with serious books. who's got recommendations for books that are fun, light-hearted, and kinda sarcastic?

think stuff like the princess bride, most of t. kingfisher's work, etc.

help?

what. the. fuck.

WHAT THE FUCK!?

how unbelievably cruel for no fucking reason.

it's just corporate language vomited back and forth over every profile

a man in a blue shirt is holding a glass with a yellow liquid in it Alt: a man in a blue shirt is holding a glass with a yellow liquid in it

you get it!

every time i happen to look at a linked in profile, it's always for the most insufferable person imaginable

Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

perhaps. probably doesn't help that the second i put my daughter in her car seat, she rips her shoes and socks off.

i feel like i'm buying my kids socks every month. where the hell do they go???

SADLY none of the libraries i have cards for have that book!!!

i found a pair of bright orange nikes with a neon green swoosh in a thrift shop many, many years ago. i wore those things until they fell apart and i've never been able to find another pair like them. i understand your pain!!!!

A digital illustration of five cans conversation hearts. Not the really cruddy chalky ones but the better ones with nice raised lettering. They are in five different pastel colors (pink, green, yellow, purple, red) and have one word each on them reading ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN 2DAY’

i swear to god i think i'm going insane.

is this perimenopause + unmedicated/unregulated adhd?

have me fucking committed.

Digital pastel illustration. A sea serpent makes it way through the water, crossing in front of a blood moon. It’s nighttime and foggy.

Morgawr, Sea Serpent of Falmouth Bay.

i've had a headache since 3:00 am. i just opened my diet dr pepper, and drank about half and bam.

headache is mostly gone.

i forgot i didn't have any caffeine at all yday.

I am pro worker, pro union, pro maker, pro artist. I am anti boss, anti Nazi, anti fascist, anti billionaire, anti oligarch. I believe in reading, writing, education. I don’t believe in a robot voice coaxing you to kill yourself. So yeah, I guess I don’t want ChatGPT to write a fucking email for me

Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them.

Like, come on. We're waiting.

Women have been arrested for miscarrying.

They’re been left to die while experiencing pregnancy loss.

They can be raped, impregnated against their will and then charged with a crime for trying to end the pregnancy.

Who’s not being arrested?

The rapists. The pedophiles. The sex traffickers.

I wish we could renormalize being able to simply dislike a thing without having to prove your dislike is due to a massive flaw in the thing. You can just not like it. It doesn't have to be due to a pile of discourse.