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Oldies again ✏️ pencil line art, illustration which got featured in the Spectrum Award 🎨 I still love this piece very much 🎨
#illustration #fashion #fantasy #margueritesauvage
The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”
But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.
Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest
It’s a symbol of hate.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
utterly speechless
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
Don’t know why I’m seeing “the Elon hate has mostly dissipated” posts because no it fucking hasn’t.
You can help Alaa's family survive Israel's genocide with their newborn, right now, by sharing & donating. Her husband is a prisoner of the occupation. No donations for a day. They urgently need help:
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Check out some of Sophy Romvari’s Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
THE WATERMELON WOMAN
NOT A PRETTY PICTURE
JULES AND JIM
“At least nine immigrants have died of presumed suicides since President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2025. Since then, at least 49 people have died overall in ICE custody, according to a Miami Herald analysis of press releases, death reports, autopsies, and government documents.”
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
Your support has fed and clothed Sama'a and her children for years now. Every morning she expresses deep gratitude in spite of the terrible conditions in Gaza. Please give what you can.
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A man on a hospital bed
A family outside a tent
A man with a wounded shoulder
A shrapnel wound
Om jameel :"A serious danger threatens my husband due to a wound infection after surgery to remove shrapnel.We urgently need £130 for antibiotics before it’s too late. Please save him for the sake of our 5 kids &My heart is suffering from valve prolapse😭"
Vetted
Molly shah
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remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
I'm so pleased to have this excerpt up on @reactorsff.bsky.social! Check it out if you've been curious about my (*inhales*) 98-page space opera/art heist about the nature of art and love and whether androids make good boyfriends!
(no)
(who cares, I've dated worse)
Congratulations!!💜💚💙
If you call sexual assault a “two-sided problem,” you’re a waste of functioning organs.
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Casey Weldon.
I’m not telling you what to do, but many of us don’t use beta readers, so unless you have some you’d trust with your life, maybe right now is not a good time to start looking. I’ve seen dozens of angry/sad “My beta reader told me they fed my book to AI” posts, and fuck that.
Hourglass-shaped sunset clouds, Santa Fe, NM. 14”x11” oil
Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".
I'm offering developmental and copy editing services! If you or someone you know wants far better editing than AI can provide, hit me up either here or through my website: whatsmacksaid.com/services/
And because I'm starting out, if you mention this post I'd be happy to cut the price in *half.*
This is everything I hate about the legal profession in one news story.
Kavanaugh is was credibly accused of sexual assault and wrote the legal justification for enormous suffering.
But in our profession, the real crime is that Sotomayor was a tad rude to him.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
If you are appalled by this--and you should be--please try to find one thing POLITICAL to brand Republicans as the pro-terrorist party, especially if you're in a swing district or state.
Call your GOP MoC to ask if they agree with Todd Blanche's decision to let terrorists rearm.
