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Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

IT'S LIVE!!!

Support a tiny queer worker-owned cooperative press by backing our ten-year anniversary anthology of queer and intersectional speculative literature!! it features over 200 pages of poetry and prose, a cover we are OBSESSED with, and editor introductions to each piece!

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I see more and more big-ass companies admitting errors due to "AI hallucinations" in their pipework, and it's soooo interesting that if I'm 30 mins late to work cuz I misread the schedule that's a fireable offense, but the mirages of the machine which cost millions of dollars are just a lil whoopsie

do u want to buy it please

ko-fi.com/s/8e558b6f31

Four leather wing barrettes with stones in the center. A pair of red/orange/yellow wings with an orange cat's eye, a pair of red wings with a carnelian stone, a pair of purple wings with an amethyst, and a pair of green wings with a malachite stone in the center.

A pair of green wings with a malachite stone in the center.

A pair of red-orange-yellow wings with a cat's eye in the middle.

A batch of Phoenix Wing Stone barrettes! Clockwise from top left: Fire Phoenix with cat's eye, Red Phoenix with carnelian, Purple Phoenix with amethyst, and Jungle Phoenix with malachite.

Red Phoenix is $45, all others are $60 with free shipping in the U.S.

graphic with a pastoral photo of rolling green hills as the background. test at the top says "tour season is open at merrymac farm sanctuary". there are four photo rectangles in the middle with photos of a horse, sheep, pig, and goat. text at the bottom says come visit our 100+ cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, and more!"

Our tour season is OPEN! Every Saturday from 2-3 pm, and Wednesday tours 2-3 pm beginning May 13 (and we plan to expand our tour offerings in June). Book now! www.merrymacfarmsanctuary.org/tours

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art creation, the tiny witch homunculus. She's a little green humanoid with large twinkly red eyes and a tiny frown. She doesn't have any clothes to speak of. She's sitting on a small cookie of sliced wood. She's holding a little stick wrapped with rainbow thread with a green stone on the end. There's a little broom standing upright beside her. On the other side is a green, yellow, and blue striped sock. In the background is a beautiful Monet painting fabric.

Here's the witch homunculus in a Monet-inspired pocket dimension, using her magic to add another stripe to one of my socks. She still won't explain to me why she mildly transmogrifies one of my socks every night.

Photograph of a sculpture against a grey backdrop. The sculpture is a small chicken-legged Baba Yaga hut standing on a mossy rock with red toadstools. The hut is dark purple with a green door, round in shape with a thatched roof and a little stovepipe coming out the top. A big yellow eye is in the middle of the top roof like a dormer window. Surrounding the hut on the rock are three white skulls on wooden posts .

A wee hut for your morning
🍄🌿✨🌿🍄

Baba Yaga's Swamp Shack
cosclay and watercolor and acrylic
(still scuttling around, looking for a forever home:)
Melissasuestanley.com/original-art

Ai remix feature in privacy settings on TikTok turned on

I am so upset right now, TikTok quietly added a feature which turns on an AI feature on all the TikTok’s you have already posted to allow Ai to remix and make content of your TikTok’s and I didn’t know, you must go to privacy settings on your TikToks to turn it off yourself, want to warn others 💔

Screenshot of tweet: “Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats [location pin emoji] SF Bay Area We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet” [four photos of of 5 adorable older kittens] 4:38 PM • 4/18/26 from Earth • 121K Views

🚨 Haley/@feederofcats’s Friends of Bear Cat Rescue needs your help! Somehow these adorable kittens STILL haven’t been adopted! As they say “These babies deserve homes and families, not to be sitting in an enclosure for a year”. Please spread the word! In CA? Adopt! www.friendsofbearcatrescue.org!

HOW TO TOUCH GRASS: Comics to get you outside! [Relaunch] A humungous, full-color comics anthology about the joys (and stakes!) of going outside.

HOW TO TOUCH GRASS is now LIVE on Kickstarter!

Full-color, 300+ pages, nearly 40 comics by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ creators across the globe!

An anthology about the joys (and stakes!) of going outside: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pow...

A scam email! The sender is a vaguely worded gmail.com address, not from kickstarter.com. The email tantalisingly reads: "At Kickstarter, our mission is to empower creators by providing the platform, tools, and community they need to bring their ideas to life. While reviewing promising projects on our platform, we identified your upcoming project as a standout. We’re impressed with your work and would love the opportunity to feature your project in our Kickstarter Promotional Newsletter. However, before this can be finalized, your campaign needs to be fully aligned with Kickstarter’s guidelines and best practices to ensure optimal visibility and performance on the platform. To support you in achieving this, we will connect you with one of our trusted marketing agencies that specializes in aligning selected projects to meet these requirements. Once your project is launched, this will also provide an opportunity for it to be featured on the Kickstarter homepage, increasing visibility and exposure to potential backers and supporters. If you’re interested in exploring this opportunity, simply reply “Connect,” and we’ll be happy to share the next steps. Thank you for being a valued member of the Kickstarter community. We’re here to support you every step of the way. Kind regards, Kickstarter Community Support" sounds nice! it's a lie.

new scam alert! i know you lot know this, but all the same- please remember to always check the email address this kinda message comes from! if its not from the domain of the company it claims to be from, it's likely a scam.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

A mascot costume of the D&D meme "Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat"- in a long khaki beige trench coat. The top kobold is red in colour, wearing a hat, sunglasses, and a blue and green scarf. The middle head is blue, with two hands underneath it, and the bottom head is orange, with a grimace on his face. The orange feet support everything! This is a real costume being worn by a model.

I am delighted to show off the final photos of this behemoth of a project I've been working on since last year: the Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat mascot costume, for the new boardgame of the same name. You can see this in action at UKGE in May!

All handmade by me! ✂️🧵🪡

Square grid 3x3 featuring illustrations by Victoria Maderna available as prints (hedgehog, werewolf puppy, little bears, reading bat, rotund piggie, goblin in the forest, raccoons doing laundry, goblin with paper wings, reading cat).

Just a reminder that I have prints available at Inprnt if you're into that sort of thing 😊
And there's a sale going on!
My store: inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...

A dragon perches at the top of a pyramid shaped building in this digital painting of a modern city at night. The colors are gray and gold. The dragon is black lit with warm light. People gather on a rooftop to watch it

"Modern Dragons" launches tomorrow 🐉

📢 Open Call

Don’t Go for the Vault
Bank Robbery Horror Anthology
From @cateyepress.bsky.social

📅 Apr 15 – May 20
📅 Extended: May 21 – May 31
💰 $0.05/word originals
📏 1,500–4,500 words

Theme: bank robbery horror with a vault door opening.

🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#WritingCommunity

Comics are literally the best art form

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

Screenshot of a tweet responding to another tweet. @SketchesbyBoze writes "In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think.Then came the book-burnings." Quote tweeting a tweet by @AntonJaegermm "Very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy" Attached to that tweet is a document or image we can't see. instead we see a pop up that reads "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.”

“This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.” HELL NO.

PREORDER NOW! WHIMSICAL WOODLAND PREORDER SHOP OPEN!

- WHIMSICAL WOODLAND PREORDER SHOP -

For the next month any folks who missed backing Whimsical Woodland can still support the project via the preorder shop! Preorders will be open for about a month! Any and all support is greatly appreciated ! 🧡

Photo of a rug in the shape of a sleeping cat, placed on wood floors in front of a green metal cabinet.

time for a cat nap 💤

Anyone in the DFW region in need of a snuggly only-dog?

Illustration of a blue and black hare with large ears. The inside of it’s ears have hypnotizing concentric shapes pulsating in pink, blue, green, and yellow.

Do you hear what I hear?

I have 2 weeks to cover my basic needs goal (rn @ 44%), so I want to offer some more discounted sketch pages: 75€ instead of 95€!

Feel free to comment below or DM me, or just send a donation of 75 EUR on my Ko-fi and attach your ref ^^ ko-fi.com/tokori

#commsopen #art #furryart #commission #sketch

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

A sculpture of a black tree dragon planted in a purple resin pot. It is covered with orange moss, surrounded by golden reindeer moss with clay pumpkin accents.

Halloween in April! I have a few of my Halloween Mini Bonsais available in the shop now. The design has been updated with adorable mini clay pumpkins. Grab one now 🎃

🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

#bsnm #queerMarket #dragon

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

An illustration of Huckle Cat as a streaming gamer. Text reads “A streaming cat just got a follower notification. His stream is very active tonight.”

A Busy streamer

Donate to Bring Nicole's Life Back from Oregon, organized by Nicole Ellison Hi, I’m Nicole! I’m an artist residing on the east coast. I’m currently asking for… Nicole Ellison needs your support for Bring Nicole's Life Back from Oregon

I created a GoFundMe in order to raise funds so I can either retrieve my belongings from Oregon and move them to New York or pay for another year in rent on the unit it’s stored in.

Please share if you can! 💖
Thank you!

gofund.me/2292be165