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"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

i saw a huge green tree frog on the outside of the kitchen window...... i think it singlehandedly cured my migraine

'St. Paddy's Day' is usually preferred over 'St. Patty's Day.'

'Paddy' is the shortened form of the original Irish spelling of 'Patrick,' which is 'Pádraig.'

'Patty' is the shortened form of 'Patricia.'

#vocagathering2026
#vocanew

apparently, it's still up in the air if we're actually doing this or not.

("my man", here, referring to an advanced midi instrument,)

this also means i'm being forced away from my man.... ouuugh... ooouuuuuggggh....

i think The Usual Thing is coming in again bc i'm feeling very frustrated about a lot of things rn and it's driving me to tears

okay... i'm gonna be out of town for a few days this week, to visit family

ohhhh the new hand model in Clip Paint is very good.....

my hottest take is that we need to stop enabling chronic self deprecation outside of a joking context. responding to “my art sucks” with “no ur arts great“ does nothing but normalize bad coping mechanisms. we should be praising self confidence and emotional maturity instead

Morning.

incidentally, i think this single panel really captures the essence of the story lol

Hxvoc leans over a surprised Izzie. H: Having a crisis, Izzie? Can I help?

i'm working on a new Luna Rabbit

i am SO tired of the r-slur coming back. i saw a post a while ago that said it's not unrelated that fascist ideologies being on the rise coincides with the people being comfortable using that slur again. fascists grifters are celebrating it coming back. like. full stop. stop using it.

The ‘93 movie is bad and it’s okay to admit that. It’s a terrible adaptation of the source material. While the new movie lacks depth, to act as if children didn’t absolutely adore this film would be a full on lie. It did its job well despite its narrative shortcomings. Both can exist!

when you hit ctrl+T, click and drag the (new) handle at the bottom of the bounding box! its SOOOOOOO useful

also check the save options now in Preferences, theres a new toggle that will create a recovery save whenever it auto-saves in case of a crash

🪩 ANNOUNCEMENT 🪩

tomorrow on my radio show i’ll be joined by the wonderful ODDEEO!!!! ( @oddeeo.bsky.social )

we will talk Music we will talk Art we will talk many a thing. BE THERE !!!! or be … square 🤖 !

TOMORROW!!!! stream below!!! ⤵️⤵️⤵️

HORSES won the IGF Nuovo Award. We’re profoundly grateful. To us, this recognition also speaks to a broader idea: that no gatekeeper should decide which games deserve to exist or what counts as art. Thank you to everyone who supported HORSES and helped carry it this far. PS: What a wonderful team!

Reminder that the only time Mastercard has flinched is when outrage was directed at them. Attacking platforms like SubscribeStar for Visa/Mastercard's extralegal censorship is exactly the deflection they want.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

you have to keep being strange and show the world how to love new things

Similar phenomenon: NSFW content is incredibly policed from small creators on platforms that will then allow ads that are nearly softcore.

NSFW content isn’t censored if it makes money for big corporations, but individuals and small creators have to toe an arbitrary line of what counts as too much.

this fanfic shit is easy
#residentevil #chrisker

sometimes i draw it a bit haphazardly but it's Crux!

I know we have to pick and choose our fights right now but keep this in mind too. Even when all of this passes us, companies will still try to limit basic things that came free with your app 10, or even 20 years ago, by putting it behind a paywall. Don't bend. Let THEM buckle.

btw did you know i've been drawing an actual constellation in Izzie's freckles? even I, the one person in the world who draws Izzie, only consciously realised i was doing this like the other week

sketch of Izzie, stretching their arms up and out.

#IscaBirdSketch test sketch