June

It’s awful and I hate it, but I am compelled by it because it’s so well done!

Oh, I meant that I probably couldn’t watch Manben since it is probably not available on the web outside of Japan, so I wouldn’t be able to see episodes that 羽海野さん’s work was being shown. Which is too bad, because I think her art is really unique and interesting!

I’ve always been fond of saber-toothed tigers, ever since I received a hand-me-down long sleeve T-shirt with one printed in extra thick puff paint. But tiger-sized spiders? I knew bugs got big before the cretaceous, but not that big!

(Also yes I know they weren’t tigers and spiders aren’t bugs.)

(It was linked in the article)

I don’t imagine I can watch this 番組 for region reasons or that I could understand enough of it anyway, but I *am* excited to have at least found that I can read some of 3月のライオン online for free.

Realistically, a good hunting spider please. Or perhaps a cat. Except, I already have these. I need to think bigger.

Right? Where’s the option for not supporting it because using the military for police action is historically almost guaranteed to have bad outcomes for everyone (except possibly, for a time, the autocrats who ordered it?)

It is lovely.

Ooooh, those COLORS!

You’ve got such a dang cute smile, I’m really glad you figured out how to align your life such that you could let it out so often. 🥰

ちょっと日光浴中で体に雨降させて、嬉しかった。

Asking all the important questions!

If a podcast would be acceptable, I super recommend Nihongo con Teppei! But the intro/outro music would probably get pretty grating over time if you just listened straight through.

Thank you Poe Bear for adding some purrs to my morning. Thank you Radish Doodles for being a good kitty parent. 🥰

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

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A photograph showing seed cones on a limb of a Monterrey Cyprus tree, with dense green foliage in the background below and slate-colored skies above.

今日もう一つなのサンフランシスコで撮った写真を投稿します。これは「Monterrey Cypress」（ヒノキ科の部分）です。写真を撮った時は知らなかったけど、この木はカリフォルニア州の北以外、自然に生えません。けれども、とても綺麗だから、他の国や場所で植えてあります。

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The Guardian (UK) does that, The Guardian (US) is pretty consistently supportive. This is the latter.

That lettering 😍

If you follow me you know I can barely draw a decent rendition of a photo—but in my main chosen creative field, this resonates hard. Why on earth would I *not* want to do the work that sustains me?

These are so cool!!

To add to that, the point is it’s not some kind of organized action—just people who see what needs doing and are in the right place to do it.

Members of the community. It’s the same thing as running a mean drunk out of a bar, except in this case the drunk has peper spray and friends in high places, so protection and anonymity are helpful.

There is a whole unfortunate thing where Japanese media in the west isn‘t available in Japanese, or if it’s video, has Japanese audio but no native subtitles.

So far the best options I’ve found without a VPN are Netflix (only the stuff they sponsored) and, for manga, Kinokuniya.

AI stuff feels opposite. Much AI art has the form of traditional art - you get drawings, videos, etc - but without an artists' intention.

As is the case with sampling, there's less perceived craft. There's not, however, the intent behind it. There's no artist.

It's art shaped, but is not art

This feels of a piece with the modern movements expanding the question of what art is, though if inverted

Compare to Duchamp's "Fountain" in which something that is NOT typical art is presented as such, by intention and setting

It isn't art-shaped, but is art

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

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Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

A photograph of a hanging cluster of small pink, bell shaped flowers, on a plant with broad green leaves and deep red young stems.

Another photo from my San Francisco trip: I don’t know the plant (iNat says Arbutus / strawberry tree) but I was tickled by this whimsical inflorescence.