I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Your moment of calm: Rabbit contemplates eternity on a quiet morning.

(further calm: this bun sat there just observing the world, no cares in the world, for a good ten minutes)

Yes. Al Capone was a "businessman". Trump is a narcissistic child emperor with a small army of sycophants supporting his every delusion.

I'm honestly not sure he'd stop even then. Can you imagine the rush of power that he's feeling? He's probably rock hard for the first time in a decade.

The trouble is, most of us only have access to single stream recycling. Putting plastic in the bin just adds to the labor costs with no benefit. I recycle my metals and glass and even cardboard, but plastic goes to the landfill because it was going there anyway.

Wow. One of my favorite surreal/fantasy landscape artists is Sahm, and your work has that same dramatic energy. I love it.

A giant ox walks through a valley, it carries a city on its horns.

Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".

*knowledgeably* Well it's probably a giant subterranean monster

chthonic, probably

cyclopean

you know the stuff

We need politicians like this in Colorado.

There has seldom been a better time to read my book. (Because you can have it for free, apparently.)

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears?

They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

"The right people," always means the people who look like you, talk like you and think like you. Fascist fuckery spoken out loud again.

I didn't even know you could *buy* those anymore. Wow. I can immediately recall both the smell and the taste.

Bubo the mechanical owl from the Ray Harryhausen film, Clash of the Titans

Happy Superb Owl day to those that celebrate it

They don't have any feathers.

This is truly incredible.

Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.

What the diseased genitalia in fucking acid is this?

I'm pretty sure you'll get the Post when you wrestle it out of Bezo's cold, dead rocket.

I don't think the odds are as bad as he says, but y'know, one in six is still pretty f'in bad. Humans are weird.

[A hand explodes through the snow and ice holding a keyboard. It is the CPSC social media person. With frozen fingers and half-open eyes, they type...]

The shutdown has ended. CPSC will resume all normal operations.

The revolutionary art that is produced through AI is art that is being *allowed* to exist.

Ponder why, perhaps.

For art to be revolutionary, it needs to be built on skills that are inherent to the artist. If you take fancy paints away from a painter, they can still paint. Break a musicians instrument, they can still hum.

Whoever owns the tools, owns the art. Words, songs, paintings or sculpture, if all of your skill depends on billion dollar machines owned by the worst modern colonizers, Western Billionaires, you are at their mercy. They own you and they own your art, because they can take it away in a blink.

This came up in another discussion:

In terms of decolonization and AI, the questions I would ask are, "Who owns the tools? Can you do this work with tools you could own?"

Does this chicken fucker think the hologram doctor from Star Trek is real?

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Saying it out loud.

Trump’s increasing weakness makes it more critical than ever that all collaborator Dems be primaried. If we get fair elections 🧿, they will happy coast to victory on that alone and deliver nothing.

Best case, that lands us back here again in a few years with the fascists wiser from the setback. 3/

I am more and more convinced we need a series of massive, rolling strikes across the US. Days where half the population doesn't work or buy *anything*. I'm not sure if we're strong or organized enough to make this happen.

An orange and white cat laying on his back in my lap looking very silly. His front legs are spread wide as though offering a hug (that is a trap, do not fall for it). His bottom half is completely obscured by his ridiculously fluffy tail.

Who needs a Floof hug?