Can’t see the tic tac toe board 😔 but this is so cuuuuuute!

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Finished the Date Everything OC! I was pretty pleased with how she turned out

#ocsky #dateeverything

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

I sincerely need people who have built LLMs into their daily routine to consider the implications of how they’re being fucked with

It's a couple days late, but I did a halloween version of my Nekonyancer 🎃🐈‍⬛

I don't care how good the content is, if you use GenAI images for illustration I'm not opening, reading, or sharing your work.

Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.

illustration of various monster hands holding goblets full of blood raised in celebration

Happy Halloween!

Pretty sure Arturia approves this message

QRP with your horned art 💜

Illustration by Abigail Larson for "The Horror Tarot" depicting a seance scene in tones of red. Hands rest on a planchette hovering over a Ouija board. There's a red curtain backdrop, and a vintage brass lamp with a red glass shade lights the scene. Small candles and a red glass water pitcher and goblet are arranged on the table.

An illustration by Abigail Larson from "The Horror Tarot" depicting someone fast asleep in a large green antique bed while goblins with glowing yellow eyes and shadowy hands creep out from the darkness unnoticed.

Illustration for the Horror Tarot of the Queen of Cups card showing a vampire in a Victorian dress drinking blood from a goblet.

This illustration is from "The Horror Tarot" deck published by Insight Editions and illustrated by Abigail Larson. Illustration is a stylized version of "the chariot" tarot card depicting a black horse-drawn carriage approaching an ominously glowing cliff. The horse is rears at the edge of the deep red precipice. The background shows a large tree obscured by thick mist.

Halloween is almost here 🖤🍷🩸

The image shows an in progress shot of a digital drawing, currently only using line work and flat colors. It features a young woman with a wink and a wide smile. Her hair is an ombré of orange to golden yellow. She has blunt bangs, a bun on top of her head, and thin locks of hair that hang down from her temples.

Studying the art style of Date Everything has forced me to put the gap in my line work at the corner of her eye rather than along the lower lash line

#wip #dateeverything

A work in progress shot of a digital drawing. It’s black line art of a woman with a bun on top of her head, smiling and winking at the viewer.

Every year my supporters and I do a collaborative character design for October. This year they voted to make a Date Everything OC!

#wip #dateeverything

a crowned head turned to stone, split in the middle. He has an agonized expression. Flowers, butterflies and bees surround the head.

No Kings

Ink drawing of Storm from X-Men

Just a thing to shake things up.

Storm
11x14
Ink and Acrylic on Bristol

The original is available. DM/email if interested.

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JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

This image shows an enamel pin inspired by the book Six of Crows. It features two black feathers with a chain connecting them. Hanging from the chain are red droplet beads.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Six of Crows, my SoC inspired pins are 10% off for a week! They’re automatically discounted on Etsy, and you can use the code CROWS10 on my Ko-fi shop.
No mourners, no funerals 🖤

halfelfbloodelf.carrd.co

#bookish #sixofcrows #grishaverse

Now I really want to know what Blaze’s favorite video game would be

A text post. Istina's AO3 notes: sorry about the delay between chapters 4 and 5. My entire family was killed during the recent Chernobog incident and I was not able to find closure until we assassinated the leader of the terrorist group responsible. I don't know how to feel about it. I may be a victim of a crime but I cannot fault those that committed it- there was no good answer for them, for any of the Infected of Ursus. There may be further delays as our plate heads towards Victoria. This chapter contains fisting, if you do not like then do not read.

The best part of arknights is imagining them going about their daily lives while the world disintegrates around them. Blaze probably has a favorite video game. Maybe Ptilopsis collects stamps. And Istina...

The image is a black and white digital sketch of a person with wearing a hood with lace that obscured their eyes. Black eye makeup streaks down their cheeks and their lips are painted black.

She’s in the business of misery 🖤

I did pretty much no drawing in my month or so I was trying to get back into the swing of things today by sketching my new character concept for a College of Tragedy Bard

#wip #sketch #ocsky #dndoc

This image shows an enamel pin inspired by the book Six of Crows. It features two black feathers with a chain connecting them. Hanging from the chain are red droplet beads.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Six of Crows, my SoC inspired pins are 10% off for a week! They’re automatically discounted on Etsy, and you can use the code CROWS10 on my Ko-fi shop.
No mourners, no funerals 🖤

halfelfbloodelf.carrd.co

#bookish #sixofcrows #grishaverse

A true fantasy

genAI is the perfect aesthetic for the modern moment. as rising fascism once again seeks to reduce the human being to mere limbs of the State, vessels for the will of the Leader, genAI seeks to reduce all human expression to mere Product, units of value for trade in a market.

a sketch with digital color of a woman resting her head on her arms on top of a open book. Tangled branches envelope her, and a goblin pokes its head over the table.

The image is a digital drawing of a young woman, done in line work. She has long hair that is shaved on one side. There are small trails of blood from her mouth, and she stared at her hand in disbelief and outrage.

Haven’t started anything new in a while, so I guess it’s time for another entry in “I’ve been wanting to get back to this wip but haven’t touched it in months”

#wip #workinprogress #ocsky

Thank you! I was so excited when I realized I had this scrap fabric in my stash

My @tawnyfritz.bsky.social playmat needed a worthy carrying case ✨🌙