Works on n progress: hand-painted Blackberry Spirit t-shirts in Medium and 2XL sizes. These are in the washing machine right now—can’t wait to see how they turn out!🧶
Lead Writer, Narrative Designer, Textile Artist, Anti-Fascist. Games: Homeworld, Sword of the Stars, Fort Zombie, many others. Television: World Trigger, Metalions. Stories/poetry: F&SF, Weird Tales, many anthologies. Fibre Arts: Slan Baby.
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Works on n progress: hand-painted Blackberry Spirit t-shirts in Medium and 2XL sizes. These are in the washing machine right now—can’t wait to see how they turn out!🧶
Two days after Alan Kurdi died, I bought this ferry ticket from Bodrum (the beach where his body washed up) to the Greek island of Kos for 155 Turkish lira - then about €20. But Alan and his family had the wrong (Syrian) passports, so they spent €4,000 for space on a rubber dinghy that capsized.
Swordtember- Moss
Andor is a story about how a thousand nameless and unremembered people will have to sacrifice everything so a gay kid who left his home in Space Idaho four days ago can close his eyes and Fuck It We Ball the most important shot in galactic history on the advice of a ghost
I want to live long enough to see this tech die.
I read SS and Wehrmacht memoirs (and Red Army and UK and US and Italian memoirs, too). It's called research. The problem isn't reading them. It's reading them as instruction manuals.
Here's my Peter S. Beagle story. I met him once, at a con, as I was just beginning my MA degree. I was in a bad marriage--not overtly abusive, but nothing I did for my husband was ever good enough and anything I did for myself was selfish. And I was still to young to see that for what it was.
JD is everyone’s embarrassing cousin.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Thank you for sharing it. :)
Beautiful pose. It looks very intimate.
Works in progress: painting a Blackberry Spirit T-shirt with autumn colours. For my money, blackberry vines are the most beautiful autumn display in British Columbia. Even a single stem of leaves can have an incredible array of colours.🧶
Oh god this. It’s bad enough that they’re trying to replace human workers. Don’t let them spoof EVERY human connection with their demonic malware.
I used to sing the song to my Younger Spawn. We both cracked up when we saw this, proof that the dark little spud doesn’t roll far from the potato plant. 😂
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
RFK is by far the most dangerous lunatic in an administration staffed exclusively with dangerous lunatics.
A public health catastrophe. Not “immanent,” not “potential.” This is the catastrophe.
Oh good. More dead women! The never-ending shower of AI blessings continues.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Thanks! I like to do things with hand-painted shirts that can’t be achieved with a screen print. Having designs that flow over the body and sleeves definitely can’t be done in the print shop!
Works in progress: I wanted to wrap up the last of my colour removal projects for the year, so I created a variant design of the Green Guy for these two black shirts.🧶
When the old punk asked me how building furniture was going I said that I just wished the instructions for building a better world were as simple as the instructions for building furniture, and the old punk replied that “take care of each other” is a pretty simple instruction.
Painting the last of the Moon Lady t-shirts for the year. These are on a navy blue background, and I’m making them in various adult sizes. The painting at this stage is done with dye—always nice to work with because it leaves the shirt very soft.🧶
Let’s see you at 21. I’m actually 20 in this photo, but this is as close as I can get on my phone. Clarion West, Class of 1990. (Gawd I’m old.)
Front and back views from a series of hand-painted art t-shirts in Youth sizes. I’ve been working on these while recovering from major surgery for the last few weeks… Each shirt is unique, but they all have the Moon Lady in front, moon phases around the shoulders at least a couple of moon fish!🧶
Let’s see you at 21. I’m actually 20 in this photo, but this is as close as I can get on my phone. Clarion West, Class of 1990. (Gawd I’m old.)
I’ve said this so many times. The only reason that trans identities feel “new” in the 21st century is that people tried to destroy the truths that they couldn’t accept. There are GNC men and women in every historic and prehistoric period. You only have to willing to see them.
Most of BC looks like this! I love it here. ^_^
The stand-out choice for me is “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac, which has a lot of lyrics about the dissolution of a long-term relationship written by both of the former partners—most “divorce” albums are one-sided by comparison.
Watching the old seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale on Crave, up in Canada. It’s alarmingly prescient, given recent events in the USA. So, so many episodes that show people trying to escape too late—lobsters vainly trying to climb out of water that is already briskly boiling.
Yeah. I know. And I am so sorry.
This is the direction things have to go, everywhere.
Yet another reason to hate both YouTube and GenAI.
Oh, it's simple, the Boomers got their $10k college education and their $60k home then decided to pull up the ladders and rip up the roots of the American dream by putting in charge the worst people they could find, such as Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.
Hey 2D artists! JOB ALERT! 📣 Especially those who do cozy cartoony or pixel art. I have some game dev friends here in Galway from Psychic Software (Just released Necromancer's Tale) that are looking for an artist to team up for their next game. Send your portfolio over to psychicsoftware@gmail.com
“Generative A.I. simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be” has got to be a historical understatement. Right up there with “Radium water might not be the health tonic we thought” and “in hindsight, clearly no ship is ACTUALLY unsinkable.”
Understood. I’m sorry that wasn’t clear to me.
Ew, gross. I’m sorry, I would never support a candidate like that. I’m sorry you’re dealing with that.
I don’t fully understand the context to this, but it wasn’t clear in your initial post. Sorry if I seem argumentative, I just don’t understand.
If you had loved ones in Germany in the 1930’s, you honestly think you would have been silent about who Germans should vote for? You wouldn’t have written letters to the papers, shouted at community events? Staying home and watching people die quietly doesn’t work for everyone.
And of course, this is before we get into the active threats to Canadian sovereignty that have been made by publicly by Trump and are eagerly repeated by his fascist sycophant followers—“51st state” etc. He’s running the playbook that Putin used on Ukraine, and many of us are aware of this fact.
As an example: my mother is in her 70’s, her health and mobility are both bad, she cannot easily travel to visit her family in Canada. She lives in Bellingham, a two hour drive away. But anyone who tries to visit her with a gender presentation that doesn’t match their birth certificate? Is at risk.
Yes, but not everyone who has to travel to the USA is a tourist. We share one of the longest borders on Earth, and not all of us were born in Canada. Many of us still have loved ones living across the border, or have to be able to cross the border for work, business or health reasons.
Honestly I’m surprised that people all over the world are not yelling at Americans about who to vote for-electing Trump will cost countless lives world-wide. Ukraine. Gaza. Hell, his cuts to USaid alone will have an estimated death toll of 14 million. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
American fascism impacts and harms us in an unthinkable number of ways. If you want me to list them all, I could try? But upshot = “it isn’t safe being a psychopath’s neighbor”. Example: the US Gestapo had already detained 55 Canadian citizens as of June. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
Love to see one of the new covers out in the world. And so glad the brilliant artist who did them came across this one. Thanks for sharing, Yuko!
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The joy of making things! This beautiful little Star is testing some organic grape jelly that I canned from the grapes that grow on our back deck—and she happened to be wearing the custom Dinos ‘N’ Aliens I made for her at the same time! These photos capture perfectly why I love making stuff.❤️🧶
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
I will never forgive the people playing semantic word games to try and deny or excuse this
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Pencil sketch of young Medusa 🖤 #art #pencil #sketchbook #drawing #sketch
What amuses me the most about this video is the unhurried galumphing of the animals, who are absolutely not afraid of this human.
One of my team mates sent me these screen caps of the Enterprise facing off against a pretty thinly veiled Suul’ka. I laughed when I saw the images. SotS fans are everywhere!
Thanks Elon.
I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. Solidarity from Vancouver! I started bleeding because I climbed a few too many risers in a theatre trying to get to my seat. It wasn’t even an accident! I just thought I was better and got cocky. 😖
“By God I’ll fight ‘til Hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.”
Oh yeah. If you’re an animation/rock opera person, Rock and Rule is a cornerstone of the mini-genre.
Ah, the shame issue. I get what you’re saying.
Fair enough. I would agree the music was fine. I didn’t find the world building particularly good, but it was a novel premise—at least gif me, for me as an outsider to Korean culture.
Fair enough. I think I was disappointed when they missed the opportunity to recapture the moment at the end of Rock and Rule, during the final “song battle” with the Big Bad.
Yes, I *have* seen K-Pop Demon Hunters. Sadly, I didn’t really get what was so great about it. (I just ended up feeling sorry for the demons, because that is a problem I almost always have.) Someone needs to explain what makes this movie so great. What? I’m old.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
I like it. It captures a lot of the reasons that “Gen AI” anything sucks.
The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.
substack.com/@cybelecante... "The choice facing society isn't whether AI will continue developing, but whether its development will be shaped by the imperatives of recovering unprecedented capital expenditures…" (1/4)
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I'm putting together a collection of articles, websites and resources for new and aspiring game writers and narrative designers. This article from Susan O'Connor is one of the most useful I've found. I wish I had read it when I was 20! #gamedev www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/collabo...
Ethnostates are nazi states.
So the megalomaniac rich dude who used his fortune to buy a major newspaper wants to make his untalented second wife a star? I wonder if he's also missing a beloved childhood toy. A sled, maybe?
This is a great little article about a really important aspect of industrial history in North America. Haudenosaunee steelworkers have always fascinated and inspired me. ❤️
This is why physical media is still so important.
Yeah, I shouldn’t have read that book either. Between that and Indiana Jones, I ended up with a degree in archaeology. 🙄
Oh look, it’s my childhood
A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Show a little empathy, for God's sake! A sudden emergency that requires you take control of a city's law-enforcement agencies in order to divert attention from one's connections with a mysterious, dead millionaire sex trafficker is one of those things that could happen to anybody!
You can't just make up economic numbers and gut vaccine programs and control alt delete science and expect your society to remain functional.
A really great thread
You can tell I’m recovering well from my recent surgery, because I’m clearly healthy enough for the daily news to fill me with incandescent rage. *sigh*
Me too.
Personally, I hope the whole industry DOES go down in flames. Every company that has thrown the full weight of its tech hegemony behind this massive blitzkrieg attack on the rights of the individual should die screaming. I don’t see what we have to lose. They’ve already fired everyone anyway. 🙄
Behold the formal, historical end of free speech in the USA. The Constitution that generations of Americans fought and died for? Trump wipes his ass with it. I could not be more disgusted with anyone who voted for this, or played the “both sides are equally bad” game. You did this. It’s on you.
Yep! :) Incantation and Hellbound were my big Asian horror discoveries on Netflix that year.
So far I’ve only seen one of the four, and I think I actually recommended it to you. :)
Mashes the like button a million times! 😎
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something
I’m so sorry. I was looking around my area out of curiosity, though I do own my own machine.
This is why maker spaces and tool libraries exist! Even for some people who could afford the machine, they don't have the space to lay things out and cut the pattern properly.
I’m recovering from surgery and have to sit quietly for a many days, so I am passing the time by making silly-but-mystical hand-painted t-shirts for adults and children.🧶
Thank you. I wish you wellness, always. ❤️
The fact that ai art and writing programs are built on stolen work really seems to be fading from the discussion even amongst artists and writers, which is a bit shit.
NEW: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has kept in place a Los Angeles federal judge's ruling that bars immigration agents from using a person's spoken language or job, like day laborer, as the sole pretext to detain them.
They murdered the Rose Garden. These are truly tacky, tasteless people. The worst people.
Same—I am only six days of recovery from a major surgery and medically couldn’t lift my own luggage or drive to the event—plus it isn’t safe to bring my Canadian-born loved ones across the border. 🥹