Important day of desk work* rn

*waiting for the ideal time to eat a sandwhich

Tumblr screen cap, fuzzed by JPEG compression, of user serpentwife writing, “why are we still here? just to suffer? every day i get emails”

Also don’t ~1/3 of rural voters lean left? We’re never considered “disenfranchised” by GOP gerrymandering

He’s been pulling huge crowds across state. Even going to smaller stops like my neck of the woods

Our local art group did some live sketches, myself included

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Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

It also helps that everyone at the defense wants you to succeed, and they want to see some cool research.

So if you get nervous, just remember that the energy is very positive going into the defense. The audience wants to have a good time and they want you to excel

2025 full color commission in a dense forest, a goblin hides behind a rock and summons with the aid of a spellbook 3 spectral birds. On the horizon, a giant white elk turns its gaze towards their hiding spot.

in the gods grove (2025)

Hell yeah! Congrats! Thats probably the biggest hurdle by workload even tho everyone talks about the defense

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

screen time

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Recently I played Spiritfarer, a game about building a boat. It split me open like a meteor and grafted itself to my bones. This is my attempt to draw those feelings out. Thanks @thunderlotusgames.com 🫠

Literally just spent 12 hrs working up some cover art for a paper. AI covers trigger a primal anger within me lolol

digital drawing of the artist, a person with short hair, a cardigan, and sneakers, catching flower petals as they fall. The drawing is shaded in rosy golden pink hues. Text: [I collect moments and place them in the pocket of my heart]

Text: [things like teaching my roommates how to make rice…] The artist washes rice in a sink, smiling. Text: [or watching a ladybug crawl up the side of my building…] A ladybug crawls up a brick wall. Down below, the artist pauses to stare up at it. Text: [or falling asleep in the smell of fresh laundry.] The artist sleeps tucked into a huge comforter, plushies pillowing her head.

text: [these days, my heart is so heavy] A triptych of panels, showing the artist tucking the petals she’d gathered into a pocket of her cardigan embroidered with a heart. She wipes away some gathering tears with the back of her sleeve, and then smiles. text: [but maybe it can be heavy with good things, too.]

for #repostyourart day 15: soft

I made “pocket of my heart” in 2022 when I was really depressed in an attempt to hold out for better days 🫂

#comic #diarycomic #journalcomic

Jordan Collver Illustration

I've just added the comic to my portfolio if you'd like to read it full size: www.jordancollver.com#/hiv-aids/

Comic cover with the title "What Does HIV Mean?" by Jordan Collver & Jaime Garcia Iglesias featuring a patchwork quilt.

Comic Page 1: A young man accompanies his boyfriend in a clinic waiting room. His phone pings with a reminder for an upcoming Queer Sewing Club session. He kisses his boyfriend goodbye outside the clinic and arrives at the sewing club, holding a Vintage City bag and waving to the instructor. He pulls out an old denim jacket from the bag and and excitedly tries it on. It's covered in badges/patches and a bit tattered but still cool. He feels good in it, but the instructor notices and appears shocked with recognition. TEXT: Most gay men in the UK have been touched by HIV in the UK in some way, whether they live with the virus or not. A central strand running… through the community… but unique to each person. Today, people with HIV can live full and healthy lives. Although there is still no cure… [background sign]: CLINIC thanks to medication like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and effective anti-retroviral treatments, HIV is a preventable and manageable condition. [phone message]: Reminder: Queer Sewing Club - 1hr And people living with HIV can’t pass on the virus. [building sign]: CLINIC ENTRANCE For many young gay men who have grown up having these options, it’s the only reality they’ve known. [handbag]: VINTAGE CITY “When I first came out… coincided with PrEP becoming more available.” (Caleb, 30, white, HIV– on PrEP) Clinic visits for testing, prevention and treatment are part of everyday life. “The issues of sexual health […] lots of people in the queer community go through as a rite of passage” (Tyler, 35yo, HIV neg) Seen as a matter of routine and responsibility. But it wasn’t always this way.

Comic Page 2: A colourful 80s flashback of the instructor as a younger man wearing the same jacket... it was his! He looks up anxiously at an imposing hospital building and is ushered in through the back entrance by medical staff in PPE. He sits alone in the waiting room. We next see him standing in the middle of a lively dancefloor surrounded by men dancing and chatting. He turns to his right and sees a man unravelling like a spool of thread, followed by a closeup of him stitching a badge onto his jacket with that same colour thread. He turns to his left to see another man in a different colour also unravelling, followed by another badge in the same colour. He is left holding several different coloured threads with a jacket covered in badges. Now he is sitting at a table with a small group of other men who are happily painting some protest signs. Some chat, while one lovingly puts some paint on another's nose. TEXT: Far from it, when HIV was first identified in the early 80s… [sign]: HOSPITAL it was a matter of life and, very often, death. [sign]: STAFF ONLY [sign]: DON’T DIE OF IGNORANCE For many gay men who lived through the 80s and 90s, HIV represents fear, loss, grief – “The AIDS Crisis.” “Literally loads of my mates died in the eighties… I was just going onto the scene at that time and the people that you would bump into…” “…suddenly they just wouldn’t be there…” “and no-one really talked about it.” (Brian, 56yo, white) “It was a fear-filled time… But…” “…there were still times when people showed incredible love to each other… I think it would be wrong to see the whole of the 80s and 90s in one big black cloak of doom and gloom. It wasn’t that.” (Paul, 64, white)

I've just been given the go-ahead to share the new comic I made with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social about his research!

"What Does HIV Mean?" 1/2

Ma’am the stakes could not be lower, this track is so small you have to loop 18x for a mile. What a dumb crusade

At the gym theres an old lady walking the wrong direction on the indoor track and whenever people correct her she just screams “HAVE A BLESSED DAY, FATHER SON & HOLY GHOST. I AM BLESSED, THANK YOU”

Its weird working manufacturing because no matter how you explain it theres always one guy who insists that overtime pay will cost him more than staying home

Im convinced they wanna believe a simple lie even when the truth is not complicated

The Thing Most Folks Don’t Get About Taxes One reason many folks freak out about tax rates is because they don’t understand how the tax system works. Which is understandable, because…

People are talking about taxes again.

And it's clear that lots of really smart folks don't understand a basic concept that drives our tax system. So I'm sharing this short, fast explanation.

I've been told it's useful, so check it out.
medium.com/@shiplives/t...

The tryhard path of following the popular vote and electoral college

I love the political fanfiction here, that a president gets gifted a second term for funsies regardless of the electorate

Me: Onion rings and a bottle of wine for the table
waiter: white or red?

Me, trying to impress my date: whichever onion the chef prefers

Photo of bald rat Neil next to a tiny toy rainbow keyboard with the caption “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006”

happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate

I know some evangelicals fall into it. Because it breaks physics, the conspiracy necessitates proof of a divine creator to keep everything working

Not that i believe that, but a friend’s aunt had this logic and it really threw me for a loop

Roasted chicken thigh, roast broccoli, sourdough bread, and a french lentil soup

Medieval-ass dinner

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

Work from home is going well

The battle of Waterloo site has very few skeletal remains because the English prolly took them back for fertilizer

So i guess it depends on how desperate you are for phosphorus

The bar is in hell, but a lot of dudes reach for a shovel in lieu of jumping over