Jonathan Beckford Minnamon

The gallery is Latino-owned and prioritizes people from diverse backgrounds to apply

Call for Art | BI

My new part-time job at Blind Insect Gallery is looking for new US based artists for their Holiday Show!
It welcomes people trying to break into the gallery scene! Apps end Oct. 31st :0) this show is how artists for solo shows are found
www.blindinsect.com/call-for-art

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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I kinda wish Mashina was more popular, but the most important thing is that people who play it like it. Really proud of this one both as a game designer and a programmer.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

"slavery bad" deemed Too Controvertial

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I understand why people *want* the police to intervene--normies are like, 'I thought cops are supposed to arrest people doing crimes, ICE is right there doing crimes, go do your thing'

but police organizations take nearly every opportunity to be like, 'oh you misunderstood what our thing is'

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

hi i have a collection of resources, including layout templates requiring minimal html knowledge + guides that will teach you that minimum, on my own indie web page. god please make an indie website

Neocities Create and surf awesome websites for free.

really if we were all about our business we'd every one of us be over on neocities being cool

neocities.org/browse

Moon glowing over the trees.

Moon's still out there. We're good.

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

He literally told everybody what he was going to do. Playing stupid is no longer an excuse, especially when you played a part. Black and Brown people have BEEN telling yall. You just didn’t care about the racism, but now your front yard is on fire so you decide to “care” and play ignorant. PLS!! 🙄

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

I tell my Physics students, work really hard and maybe you too can have an equation on your tombstone like this guy

This week i re-learned how to do waterslide decals.

Small Hours

#kitbash #scalemodeling

We are in it, and if it doesn't seem so it's because it hasn't targeted you yet, with the added factor of it being a particularly lazy and stupid and avaricious batch of fascists in a huge country.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Update as of 4:30pm

Temporary Restraining Order against the feds has been granted. The judge did not find evidence that the military or the guard need to be brought in because the protests in Portland have been relatively calm.

Aggression is coming from federal agents and right wing provocateurs

No matter what happens in the coming days, I’m asking that all Portlanders continue to look after their neighbors, continue to peacefully protest, continue to demonstrate with their words and actions what we know to be true: Portland is a city where we care for our neighbors — period.

This. It’s not empowering creativity and original thought. It’s constricting and eroding it.

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

Of the many heroic people I know, and I am blessed to know many, there are none more heroic than educators who go to work every day to do the hardest job in the world for thankless wages and are charged with nothing less than ensuring we have a functional society.

ACT III IS UP FOR PREORDRR!!!

AFTER 16 YEARS!!!!

AND IT'S BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!!!!!

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...

We have to keep living so there’s something left to fight for