Andreana

purgatory hath no mediocrity like white cis men

This is such a vibe. "Everbeating Heart" by REX has such a wild, visceral energy.

#beautifulbizarre #surrealism #darkaesthetic #digitalart #heart

Send us your zines! - #ZINEPAVILION

Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference and will become an important part of the Zine Pavilion.

Zines will be raffled off to help build new zine collections &

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

excellent work, authors! 🔨
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Even as a tech-savvy person I've been leery of trying out Mastodon bc I've heard its usability is a nightmare 🥲

I'm considering trying out Mastodon/Fediverse, and ideally porting over posts from here to there, and cross-posting once I've set up an account. Any tips/tricks/thoughts?

The upcoming change in leadership at bsky makes me worried enshittification is on its way here. 🫤

hell even the hot Shakespearian gargoyles were telling you to read:

The bland obsequiousness of AI has really become a hallmark of its style and the easiest tell for me. Far more so than any em dash use or whatever, it's just the ubiquitous adjectives about how great the subject matter is, like one of Trump's cabinet members giving him a summary.

The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs

Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT

I keep seeing studies
which find how Covid
damages the brain
and the lungs
and the heart,
and a new study finds
it raises the risk
of kidney disease too,
all of which is why
you will find me
still wearing a mask.

Also, paying in cash means less tracking of where you're spending your money!

with card fees rising internationally, now more than ever is a really good time to think about switching to cash to support your favorite small businesses, especially for purchases under $100. all of the POS systems are raising their rates so more of your money is going to the card companies. 🫩

Icymi: book swap zine is on kofi!

#booksky #zine #zinester

text reading "$1700 to writers in gaza" with an image of four zines by authors in gaza

did some math and figured out sheer spite was able to move just over $1,700 last year to the three Gaza-based writers we distribute:
sheerspite.ca/product-tag/...

Sometimes I'm kind of baffled by the insane levels of mischaracterization Adventure Time gets but then I remember there are a concerning number of fans who skip episodes or even entire seasons they think is "filler"

That, or they get all their info from tiktok.

A fractured gaze that pulls you into a surreal, multi-layered psyche. Such a haunting sense of introspection through this composition. Amazing feeling in the work of ruffneck

#beautifulbizarre #darksurrealism #darkart #surrealart #linework

Header reads: The 2026 StoryGraph Challenge Main text reads: This year’s bingo challenge includes nine prompts.

Header reads: The 2026 Storygraph Challenge Main text reads: …runs from March 1 - December 31. Add books from your TBR, or browse to see what others are reading.

Header reads: The 2026 Bingo Challenge Main text reads: Not on StoryGraph? We’ve got you! Bingo graphics (including printable versions) are available on our site

Trans Rights Readathon Bingo card. The background is dark with blue, pink, and white squiggles. Text appears in each box of the three-by-three table: 1. Nonbinary and gender expansive rep with diverse bodies 2. A book about trans+ youth or that imagines trans futures 3. A trans+ book someone recommended to you 4. A book about trans elders or trans history 5. Trans+ book featuring joy/ love/ resistance 6. Transfemme/trans woman rep with multiple trans characters 7. Transmasc/trans man rep by a BIPOC author 8. 2Spirit, Indigiqueer, and Indigenous gender expansive rep 9. Intersectional trans+ rep outside your own experience.

New StoryGraph challenge just dropped! We have bingo prompts for those of you hoping to plan your #transrightsreadathon TBRs ahead of time. Share your #trr26 recs and hopefuls. We can't wait to find even more titles to add to our shelves this year! 🥰📚

Pale hand holding a shiny golden mailbox key

Have you ever wanted to do a zine trade? Let's do one! At long last I got a PO box, so I am ready for more snail mail 🐌💌

Comment, DM, contact me via one of my links, you know the drill

#zine #zinester #zinetrade #artshare

gotta be honest, I thought the destruction of everything would take a little longer

I miss the days when all I had to look forward to were Saturday morning cartoons. Now all we get are Saturday morning war crimes

can't wait to put together our FIRST EVER (free!) sour cherry zine just in time for our four year anniversary party!!!

we are still looking for submissions!! if you have a poem, a political rant, a 1pg comic or something lying around.. www.sourcherrycomics.com/sour-cherry-...

Gynandromorph Butterfly

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”

When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.

On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!

today I had pesto pasta for lunch and Thai noodles for dinner. So many noods, so little time

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Companies above a certain size should be part owned by the employees, who can vote on key decisions on the direction of operations.

The EU does not print gender on driving licenses.

Boss, it's the fascism.

(Literal note in my journal today: "I’m struggling with short-term memory (which happens when I’m stressed) and that’s part of why I’m keeping the journal.")