If you need new shoes, you should get them - before the prices go up even more.

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#Witchcraft #blacksmith #trollcunningforge

Such a bad idea. The most consistent finding in LLM research is that it replaces thinking for students. Students who get access to AI and then have it taken away perform considerably worse than students who never use it.

I concur!

I’m learning Illustrator! Can’t wait to make some art for you again!

Holy cats. Never seen mileage like that.

Directory of No AI Artists

The 1st iteration of HireHumanArtists.com is here. It's currently just a spreadsheet directory of visual artists who've pledged to never use AI in their works. Use the pre-made filters to find what you want or make your own. Please share with authors & anyone else looking for art!

I ignore mercury retrogrades and mercury retrogrades mainly ignore me.

Blessed fucking be!

Blessed fucking be!

Triscuit TV Spot, 'Pasture-Raised Simplicity With Sub Edge Farm' Rodger and Isabelle Phillips of Sub Edge Farm experiment with Triscuits topping them with hard-boiled egg, brie and avocado. Triscuit asks, "What will you make?"

These are my friends ina 2016 Triscuit commercial. www.ispot.tv/ad/AGsZ/tris...

PBS has a streaming service that costs as little as 5 USD a month and the $$$ goes to your local PBS affiliate!

Photo shows my hand holding a book over my legs, with a stream in the background. The book is The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk - “BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL DANCE AND DREAMING THE DARK” The cover is illustrated and depicts a woman standing high on a hill, holding a walking stick and looking out over a green valley while the sun sets or rises in a beautiful display of red, orange, and peach.

I’m rereading The Fifth Sacred Thing by @starhawk-spiral.bsky.social. @sonia-elena.bsky.social is facilitating a book group on it this summer.

How to accept a compliment Still in progress, but making progress. Giving me $2 counts as a compliment. This week’s question comes to us from Tante: How do you take a compliment? I...

In this week’s newsletter, I had to take a break from FUCKING EVERYTHING and answer a nice simple question about how to accept a compliment.

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Yes!!!!!! Hooray!

Hey! Sent you a text yesterday. But maybe I don’t hav your current number.

Thank you, Joey. ⁣
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The second annual Behind the Mask: Finding Art Through Trauma Exhibit - Transformation has ended. If you missed it, you really missed something special.⁣

This guy (in the first photo). Joey Marsocci - @grymmstudios. I love him so much. He created something truly magical. An exhibition that recognizes the human spirit - transformation from trauma; transformation that occurs not only by creating art, but by creating community and connection.

“it won’t hold up in court”

sure! but remember the other day how i was like “you’re a criminal as soon as they need you to be”
& how they’ve been all “oops, she shouldn’t be in prison but nothing i can do now”?

wouldn’t you like to not have to worry about that? maybe make a cathartic, angry call.

I wish I could just spend a month sleeping and resting.

Project Esther Isn’t for Us — And It’s Not About Our Safety Have you heard about Project Esther?

“Let’s start with this: Project Esther was not written by Jews. It was created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank closely aligned with evangelical Christian groups and the folks behind Project 2025.”

Abducting people to concentration camps. Wiping their asses with the 14th Amendment. Ignoring and mocking court orders. Now they’re using bullshit “laws” to arrest judges upholding real ones.

Immigrants aren’t the target, they’re the test. This is real fascism. Get in the streets NOW

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

Elon Musk’s staffers are trying to push into the National Gallery of Art. They recently met with the museum’s director and legal team, to question its legal status and explore ways to assert influence. One of the nation’s most respected art institutions is now in their crosshairs.

Susan Campbell (opinion): Spend money where your values are welcome Columnist Susan Campbell is putting her money where her voice is by shopping at places that share her values.

ICYMI: You actually have more power than you think. Spend wisely: www.ctinsider.com/opinion/arti...

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

One of the best ways you can help disabled people and fight fascism is by wearing a mask.

Representation and visibility matter. When you wear a mask you tell us you care about making public spaces safe & accessible.

You also make it harder for mask bans to pass.

Mask up. We need you.

Mask bans, just like dress codes, always stem from bigotry and oppression. Always.