Jules Faulkner🍪

Ok everyone, I’m assigning you your resistance homework for the week.

Everyone ready?

Do something silly that makes you smile. I just waved at a dog that had its head out the car window because it made me happy. Don’t let the assholes take your joy.

That pose is fantastic😄

Omg the third panel, Gary looks so perfectly maniacal!🤣

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

🌊 Global agreement to protect oceans is set to become international law!

The High Seas Treaty agreeing to protect 30% of ocean waters by 2030 will now be legally binding as 60 countries have agreed to it - and in record time too!

@qi.com

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

I don’t want to be the guy bemoaning the earlier and earlier arrival of retail Christmas, but after seeing the first displays up again this week and remembering the last of them hanging on till Feb/March… I’m kinda wondering why they bother taking it down at all?

Worst. Rapture. Ever.

Word of the Day: ANTIMETABOLE - a rhetorical device when words are repeated in successive clauses, but swapped. For instance JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", or Snoop Dogg's "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

Turns out “Weapons” is not a Pixar sequel to “Cars”.🤷‍♀️

Meanie.

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Hey authors! This is relevant to our interests.

📉There was a massive 91% drop in plastic bag use in Vermont, after supermarkets were banned from offering them. Two years on, a study has shown the success, with single-use plastic bags almost completely eliminated!

If you're attending FanExpo Canada in Toronto this weekend, please stop by and let Bell know that their AI photo booths are trash, especially at an event that's supposed to be celebrating & supporting artists.

I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.

🧱 Company launches eco-bricks that can absorb and permanently store carbon dioxide!

Production is carbon emission free, and they're fully recyclable too! They were created by Earth4Earth, a start up in Sheffield, and are currently being used in pilot projects in the local area.

Happy Birthday!🥳

👚 Italy follows France fining Shein for misleading environmental claims
Just weeks after Shein was fined €40m by France, Italy has also issued a €1m penalty to the ‘super-fast’ fashion giant for vague and misleading claims about things like the circularity, recycling and material of their products.

Dean Cain joined ICE? We really are living in Bizarro World.
F%#$, I miss Christopher Reeve.

Personally I prefer, “neuro-spicy”.

Sesame Street art by Jack Davis.

So far, I’ve bought 2 books I wouldn’t have known about otherwise. And contributed to two unrelated kickstarters. There are some truly inspiring creators here.

“It spun in… there were no survivors.”😭

Kitchen towel back from cleaning service has holes in it shaped like a face

My kitchen towel is haunted.

My library got self-checkout and I’m having a pout about it. 🥺Librarians are NOT a resource we should be cutting back! I can’t even count the number of times those magical people recommended the most wonderful books that I wouldn’t have otherwise considered.

At the risk of courting controversy, I believe the correct answers to, “what are Trudeau and Katie Perry doing having dinner together” are, “who cares” and “none of my business”.🙄