Sterf, perhaps

in the same kind of thought as the last repost, I had my class identify what feels wrong about AI images and they loved it and asked to do more. It's important that we acknowledge that ALL THIS feels like madness and we're all feeling that together

When we notice something is wrong? It’s important to say- I notice that too! That’s an injustice! We can do things differently!

And when you report, keep tabs on SALUTE! Report accurate information.

hey sickos, I made that blondies recipe from Smitten Kitchen you all were yelling about and now they're in the rotation. My kid's gonna be so popular when he rolls up to college ready to make these in a toaster oven

Austrian photographer Josef Hoflehner

Havana, Cuba, 2012
#Photography

i will not let my stupid little heart harden or give up on believing things can be good

black and white photo of an industrial air pump at a rest stop with a hand painted sign that reads "air. this is your country don't let the big men take it away from you"

Dorothea Lange. Kern County, California (1938)

Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose"

a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning.

We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.

unionize your workplace

Gravestone

Gravestone, 1987
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5301

I got my tumbler of diet coke so cold today that the metal straw stuck to my lip a little bit while I was *inside my house* and then I could see through time a little

Today's pick: Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1620) - Artemisia Gentileschi.

This is Gentileschi's second take on the subject. The composition [..] #art #Gentileschi

www.artbible.info/art/large/726.html

Me Too did not go far enough

I don't know how to integrate this into my worldview without becoming a crank, or even more of a crank. I try very hard to remain a sensible, steady person always firmly in touch with reality but reality increasingly resembles a roller coaster during an earthquake.

today both the Bad Writer Man and one of the all-time worst anti-abortion movement leaders both were hyping their Substacks and I am not sure what else y'all need to know to get the fuck off that platform

Sharing food and being consistent in showing up with it is the easiest way to build community

Another poster on my office wall:

You know all the things that you want to do at work and somebody's like "we can't do that"? You probably can, especially if it helps someone and hurts nobody, probably

there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure

A Reddit post that reads: Ohio Conservatives PAC Facebook page posted this image. I think that this is AI because of the size of the people relative to the buildings, the uniformity of the signage, and the size of the table relative to the people. Is this AI?

AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.

@mstephm's January 2026 reads from Storygraph Strange New World, Vivian Shaw The West Passage, Jared Pecacek Agency, William Gibson Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino

I read some stuff in January! The West Passage is such a little jewel box of fairy tale and horror and weirdness and now I'm drawing monstrous Ladies.

sometimes I think it's kinda freeing to acknowledge that nothing you're doing is going to change your future or your life meaningfully. you're not doing it for you, us. you're doing it for kiddos. that's hope. we do it so that it can be better for them, even if it costs us. because it will

My youngest kid just walked into the room wearing a Titus Andronicus shirt and you don’t know me but I’m astonished by the things that have had to happen in the past 25 years for this to be a thing that happens in the universe

Having the cape fastened at the throat also makes a diamond of her chest, which adds to the graphic movement