The world is an amazing place and it's being enshittified in pursuit of boring cash grabs and content. It's no wonder we use words like "enshittification" and "slop" to describe our current era. We deserve to live in a place with better descriptors.
Black and white illustration of Joe Strummer. He’s wearing shades and has his fist raised defiantly. Text on the image says ‘KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.’
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime
Unless it is done by a policeman or an aristocrat
Know your rights
#theclash #knowyourrights #combatrock #joestrummer #procreateart #punkart
This site is really useful if you’re looking for ways to support the helpers and activists on the ground in Minnesota. Whether it’s a donation to legal aid, or buying a bag of dog food, every little bit helps.
#standwithminnesota
Painting of fleeing refugee family, mother, father, and infant depicted as religious icons.
Painting of mother, father, and infant depicted as religious icons. They huddle together beneath the rubble as the city burns and collapses above them.
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Art by @klicons.bsky.social
"Things were that way. People came and went. Stuck together like it was life and death in one moment, an almost forgotten odd character in a funny anecdote the next."
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, sits on her bed, knees up to her chest and resting her elbows on her knees as she blankly stares forward and thinks, “People hurt each other all the time.“
Comic book style illustration of a dude with a tall blue mohawk and facial piercings. Behind him is a red brick wall. He’s wearing a leather jacket with spiked silver studs and is holding a canned beverage. He sneers as he says, “if you saw somebody stealing food, no you didn’t.”
Nope. Didn’t see anything.
#procreate #noai #art #comics
Huge gratitude to Revolution John Journal for publishing my flash piece about fast cars and loneliness.
#flashfiction #writingcommunity
Polaroid photo of a 4-years-old yours truly bedecked in a glorious Batman costume circa 1977. Behind me on the kitchen counter are random objects of the era: a plastic pitcher. A six-pack of Pepsi in bottles. A solitary brown onion.
Happy Halloween, y’all. 🎃
I’ve written another book. It’s about awful things like trauma and gentrification. It’s also about wonderful things like helping one another and fighting back however you can.
#writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚
Digital collage depicting an elderly couple seated on a bench, surrounded by a sea of molten lava beneath burning red skies. Next to them, a clock sinks in the burning sea. Volcanoes erupt in the distance, dinosaurs trudge through the molten sea as pterodactyls fly overhead. In the center of it all, stand the ruins of two ancient doorways, on the other side of their thresholds, blue skies and a bright clear ocean shine through the apocalyptic gloom.
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sudden Light
#collage #procreate #digitalcollage #poetry
Anywhere there is a dream in America, there's someone lining up a pyramid scheme.
Unsurprisingly, The Oatmeal nails it in this comic.
“Even if you don't work in the arts, you have to admit you feel it too - that disappointment when you find out
something is AI-generated.“
Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
For a moment, we were invincible.
#ozzy #musicsky #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #metal #heavymetal #writingcommunity
A few magpies hanging out in a dead tree, surrounded by dry, brown grass beneath a bright blue sky and scattered clouds.
We were walking wherever our dog told us to go. I said to my husband that it was getting colder and he pointed out that the autumn equinox had snuck up on us again. “Another summer in the bucket before we kick it,” he said. We laughed. Then we got silent, the way you do when you remember you’re gonna die. Then the magpies in the tree laughed. I know better, though. They were definitely laughing at us, not with us.
Magpies are jerks.
#autumn #writingcommunity #nature
Illustration that says ‘no ai slop.’ AI in blue lettering and ‘slop’ brown and dripping, looking like poop, all behind a red circle with a line through it.
The next best thing to not spreading slop is refusing to engage with slop.
#noai #writingcommunity #antiai #aislop #art #procreate
radical left rhetoric is like "give people health care and let trans kids chill and don't let cops kill black people, also here are some books i like"
Comic book style drawing of Harry Dean Stanton in the Wim Wenders film, Paris Texas. He’s wearing a suit and tie with a red cap, clouds and desert behind him as he looks off into the distance.
Text only: I drew this almost 2 years ago and wasn’t happy with it. When I looked at it, I couldn’t see past the janky lines. The lack of shading. The difficulty I had (and still have) with facial hair and eyebrows. And that ear. What the fuck is going on with that ear? I fixated on the places where I erased and tried again. And again. But now, I kind of love it. Those mistakes and difficulties show that I was learning. I can now see what’s beneath those janky lines: me, at peace, in the moment, making something and absorbing myself in Harry Dean’s incredible, emotive face. I see the story of me making something just for the joy of creating and the love of an unforgettable artist. What I see is human. So, yeah… you should make stuff even if you think it looks like shit. Because it’ll still be better than ai slop, which absolutely looks like shit and has no stories of its own to tell.
AI slop has no stories to tell. You do.
#noai #filmsky #procreate #comic #art #writingcommunity
I love him! Unfortunately, I didn’t see the artist’s signature. I might’ve just passed by too quickly.
Street art depicting an image reminiscent of Magritte’s ‘Son of Man,’ only the figure extends beyond the painting’s frame, revealing he’s wearing shorts and his legs are covered in tattoos. Artist’s signature at the bottom is Catman.
Street art depicting a surprised looking otter drinking a pint of beer.
Various street art images. Most prominently shown is a big tooth painted by street artist Molar. The molar is sporting an Irish flag balaclava like Kneecap’s DJ Provai.
Street art of a robot.
I’ve called a few different places home. That happens when you stop moving around for a time. But this place feels like my place and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of walking through these streets.
#brighton #brightonandhove #streetart
Sun setting as 3 girls pose for a photo, their faces obscured by shadow. Text in the center of photo is a book quote from a book titled ‘You Don’t See Any of This’ that reads: “August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
Summer’s almost gone.
#bookquote #writingcommunity
Paperback book titled: Advertising Shits in Your Head by Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner. Font is in neon red lettering.
“We have always seen culture as the spaces and places where society tells stories about itself. Every society has a space where these stories are told and in our culture it’s advertising that dominates these spaces (both physical and digital).”
-Bill Posters 📚💙
#booksky
Man, that new Wolf Alice is making a lot of noise. I really need to sit down with it and give it a listen.
Album cover of Cave World by the Viagra Boys
Album cover of Buried Out Back by Chris Casey
Salad Days album cover by Minor Threat
Repackaged II album cover by Sex Mex
Show us the last four albums you listened to.
#last4albums #musicsky
#viagraboys
#chriscasey
#minorthreat
#sexmex
Three frame comic depicting a larger photo of a high-rise building, all the windows reflecting the blue sky and white clouds. First frame reads: Whole libraries of books are lost forever. Second frame reads: While we build monolithic data centers in the desert, Third frame reads: monuments to selfies.
Comic by asofterworld.com
“... maybe it's a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines. I don't want to be hung out to dry on a dead branch of the evolutionary tree.”
― John Brunner
#stevecutts #automation #animation
That ugly-ass grok AI slop is a disappointing thing to see here.
