Bramble! (AdderTwist)

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit. Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks! Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you. No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset. It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast. Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.

Yeah, let what is happening to Discord radicalize you against the encroaching of puritan fascism we are seeing in laws world wide.

The US, Canada and a good chunk of the EU like Spain are looking into making laws that will actively do the same for a more expansive area of the internet.

This image is the same smile I give when I'm having an autistic shutdown and am nonverbal but still need to pretend I'm having a great time. This is a creature who should be giving a halfhearted thumbs up. Tina Belcher's "everything's fine" face. Yea.

2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution

2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party

Protecting women and children, is it?

I need to actually upload my art to go on this list but in the meantime I can at least follow!

Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

Sleeping wizards front cover, written by rusty marcum and johanna taylor, lettered by jodie troutman and edited by atla hrafney and published by iron circus comics

Eliza and heather character designs

⚔️ FEBRUARY 16TH ⚔️

SLEEPING WIZARDS, the new graphic novel I’m doing artwork for is coming to KS on Feb 16!!

Mark your calendars for this unhinged dungeon crawling adventure!

Check out the campaign here 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

ON DESKTOP ADD THE CLEARURLS EXTENSION 2 UR BROWSER

Crock like creature with a fish

An astounding fossil of a crocodile-like Ikechosaurus (Inner Mongolia)

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

Comic Con banned Al art. https://Inkd.in/dEeA7GFZ On one side: Artists fighting to protect craft, credit, and originality. On the other: Creators finally able to bring ideas to life without mastering the traditional tools. Al is dividing the creative world in two. But hasn't this happened before? Was Photoshop cheating? Was digital photography? Is CGI less "real" than practical effects? Is animation less valid than live action? Studios are already using Al. Cinema is evolving. Music, design, apps - everything is shifting. We're not just witnessing a tech shift. We're living through a cultural evolution. Yes, we "should" protect artists. Yes, we *must* talk about ethics, consent, originality. But should creative expression only belong to the trained? Al is giving more people a seat at the creative table. To build, paint, compose, animate - without gatekeepers. Maybe we'll need two categories: @ *Human-only* 2 *Al-assisted* Or... maybe not. Because creativitv should

me the way you people act like you've been consigned to a siberian gulag when told you can't use the environmentally damaging plagiarism machine to extrude an image that you can sell for quick profit is absolutely incredible. your audacity and greed are breathtaking. try getting a real job

was pissed off at relative's kid decided to take it out on a linkedin poster instead

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. Highly recommend it - a great read, about diaspora feelings, estrangement, and the ways fear fuels hatred. Also very interesting, very fun, and has Baba Yaga's descendants inheriting her house. :) I'm listening to it as an audiobook! (bought it on libro :) )

depthsofwikipedia instagram post: Imperial boomerang The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.

depths of wikipedia usually posts totally random shit, but not tonight

Remember Canadian friends, this is an official federal petition. So it has weight to it. Please remember to check your email to confirm your signature after you sign

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

my response

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A screenshot of a text: the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in anybody that is so so so tired

Story of my life.

A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

A series of art prints laid out together. There is an A5 and an A6 cat in different poses, and A5 and A6 dingo in different poses, and a A6 thylacine skeleton. They are all signed in the bottom right corner.

Printing things out to post to folks, and then cutting them on the paper guillotine I got reduced to clear.
Fun times, love to send people things!

Hey! To those of you who follow me here - I'm doing a little thing for friends and colleagues and so on.

If you send me print cost + postage cost + an address, I'll find an A6 size print of mine and post it to you over the holidays. Can't guarantee timing, I missed the int'l post window, but still!

A gorgeous picture in general but I am particularly enamoured of the hair. Oh, my god, the soft curls!! Just absolutely beautiful.

oh, you got the fur texture PERFECT. Marsupial fur is so difficult! This is beautiful!

A flat color full body doodle of Link from Twilight Princess in his Ordon Village outfit. He's holding a skinny twig and has a wheat stem in his mouth.

Ordon Link scribble :)))

Ptero-line-up

Stunning as always!

DROMAEOSAURS. the ´raptor´ theropod dinosaur family🦅 this poster is also now available for prints and more at redbubble/people/mariolanzas #dromaeosaurs #paleoart #velociraptor #theropoda #dinosaurs #utahraptor #achillobator

They all look so soft and gentle, I love them....