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Just a geeky dork. I sometimes draw, sometimes sing. A Spoonie. I also have a redbubble. (https://www.redbubble.com/people/emberkyrlee) She/Sidhe/Her
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ElfQuest art prints autographed by Wendy & Richard Pini are 50% off this week only. Don't wait, some prints are already sold out! Head to Streamily now and get yours. streamily.com/ElfQuest
āļø Happy Labor Day! šļø Did you know that AI āartā is labor theft? Hi. Iām a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.
PS: I recently lost my day job and Iām back to being a full time artist. Iām not sure how this will go, soā¦ If you wanna support this artist, these stickers, prints, and original paintings can be found here: www.kellymckernan.com/shop My tip jar welcomes you here: www.ko-fi.com/kellymckernan
Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...
You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the worldās biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.
Saying you wish Joanne Iāll would get you banned a week ago, but she can talk about compiling an enemies list for people to hunt and kill and thatās okay?
Woohoo!
Violating the posse comitatus act is a felony by the way. Hegseth has criminal liability here. Trump doesn't thanks to the Supreme Court. Not like anyone will actually prosecute them anyways.
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask ādo you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.ā Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
SEATTLE: KEEP AN EYE OUT for this stolen car! Help find it, itās got my very recognizable bumper sticker on it so I hope it gets spotted and returned!
My state government wants to see artists in jail so please sign the petition!! Don't let them win!
If youāve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
This person has created free zines on how to report ICE activity. What info to get, who to call etc bsky.app/profile/mega...
Mid cycle gerrymander when they drew the original maps. Every article should have that front and center.
Hey yall. YouTube blacklisted this. Itās not searchable on the platform which is just fun! Please give it a share or like if you enjoyed. ā¤ļø
Does anyone have a word for hiccup/burps? Cause I'm currently going with hiccurps. ...whenever the hiccurps let me speak again....
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Noooo They've all been disappointing, but damn this one hurts.
Of the many writers to predict AI, only Douglas Adams got the tone right
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
Come and work for us. You can do from home it in your pyjamas, there are no work socials ever and we will never, ever, refer to our workplace as a family.
THE WHITE DRAGON (1978) Acrylic on Masonite - 20" X 30" Although this is the third book in the series, it was my first Pern cover and I was determined to create the dragons as faithfully to Anne McCaffrey's description as possible. 1/5
Our feature artist/reference today is this beautiful observation on LEG PROFILE by the brilliant @BasaltAssault! Sometimes noticing a SMALL DETAIL like this will help make sense of a whole load of OTHER ANGLES! #gamedev #animationdev #characterdesign #DRAW #anime #manga #legs
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
The Christian Institute says rainbow lanyards, pronouns in emails or going to Pride parades breach Civil Service impartiality. The article notes the legal action "follows a recent High Court win against Northumbria Police by a gender-critical activist." We said they weren't just after us trans folk.
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
Friends, if anyone on here sneers at em dashes being used in professional writing as a sign of AI, I'm just going to beg you to read anything from the BEFORE days. The reason AI overuses em dashes is that the people it stole from overuse em dashes. It was trained on 15 of my solely-em-dash books.
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you wonāt stand up for trans people and their rights, youāre tellling me you wonāt stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. Youāre telling me you donāt stand for anything at all. Also, theyāre *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenāt calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Made badge ribbons for Dragon Con. I uh, forgot to post about this until now š
lol I could see that
My Cinderella's Castle pins arrived! Got these for my birthday! They're so sparkly! #Starkid #Cinderella'sCastle
Blender 3.6
Have mentioned this before, but I spent an entire Christmas season in hospital, in an oxygen tent, as a child because I had a not-even-particularly-bad case of pertussis. I'd like us to go back to the time when telling people you once had "whooping cough" got you a "that's not a real thing" look.
This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
my small contribution to #smaugust and the sticker designs for this month Patreon. All three are inspired by my favorite plants, orchids. I collect them since 2013 and itās for sure my biggest hobby next to painting and drawing. #fantasyart
It's seriously the fault of patriarchy. People want a (violent, authoritarian) daddy to be in charge and make them feel safe. And if you sense a theme between this & my thread about men seduced into fascism because they're mad they don't have sex mommies: yup. Patriarchy is emotionally stunting.
I don't really have a name for this evo. It had one in my dream, but for the life of me I cannot remember it. Or whether or not it was even good. What would you call it?
The night before last, I had a dream in which Absol got an evolution. The evolution had dragon-typing and it gave off Haku (from Spirited Away) vibes. I spent most of yesterday attempting to draw something close to it. I think I more or less achieved what I was going for.
Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you canāt do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and sheās had so many bad exs.
Sometimes weāre unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when itās done we know all the things that it isnāt, but we canāt see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. šļøš¦
I am once again begging people to repost things more... ESPECIALLY artists' shops/sales/comms, like come on, i'm always reposting those and then my notifs for those are all likes and i just stare at it like... sure... i guess those will just magically share themselves then...
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
I don't understand all the "hot girl summer" discourse, I went through the summer too, everyone was hot. Global warming is out of control.
I have convinced several people to start masking again by being kind about it. And yeah, it sucks that the "don't eat bees" messaging has to be softened, but we KNOW shame doesn't work like this. If we want people to mask, we need to give them opportunities without fearing they'll be mocked.
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. āØāØāØ
And has any politician or commentator ever - as in EVER - opined that right wingers and conservatives should āreach out toā or ātry to address the concerns ofā liberals and progressives? Seriously, has that EVER happened? Why is it always us who need to āunderstandā them and never vice versa?
A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless personās last picture of their family into a garbage can.
it just fills me with so much joy forever that the first #garashir shippers were the #DS9 actors themselves šš» š³ļøāš
This goat sparkles like a starry night! āØš They will be up for adoption Sunday 31st at 5pm pst! Summoning fee is $935 plus shipping! First come first served on our site! There is a second design we are working on shown down below!
Pretty par for the course, when you remember Zuckerbergās history of stealing photographs of his female classmates to rate them on his hot-or-not website in college. Women as aesthetic, compliant, manipulable objects has always been the dream.
I think yes to this. RFK is a genuine threat the health, well-being, and lives of millions of Americans. the harm he has already done is hard to calculate. if there's any card that gets rid of him, now is the time to play it
You know which demographic commits acts of violence at a far higher rate than transgender people? Cops. Far higher rate than immigrants? Cops. More than 100x higher rate than concealed carry permit holders? Cops. It seems to me like maybe we should be putting cops in residential care facilitiesā¦
and most fox watchers watch it for hours on end, day after day, week after week, month and year after year. they are completely soaked in it and there is no deprogramming possible. so thats why people like me think its insane when democrats think 40 seconds of zingers from mayor pete does shit
People often think Iām distracted when Iām actually really focused, just in my own way
A beautiful natural tree arch in the Olympic National Forest #ForestFriday #Trees #Forest #PNW #WestCoast #Olympics #Washington #Dendrophile #Moss #Lichen #Nature #Photography #Scape
If you take Amtrak a lot you know that itās the interstate transit with the least ID checking (yes even and much less than Greyhound). So when this fascist government is grabbing at the train hubs, you know why.
lol, economists.
If you want to learn more about LGBTQ+ stuff in Weimar Germany (going into Nazi Germany), there's a pretty good episode of the podcast You're Dead to Me about it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? š„ #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
I once had a dream in which Carrie Fisher showed up and stole my donuts. I wasnāt even mad.
Itās really important to remember that Republicans are cruel and mean and ruthless as any bully, but also like any bully they are a bunch of piss-pants cowards who run crying to their favorite podcasts when they get mean looks in restaurants.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
'just patch up ur own socks' 'just alter the html code urself' 'just mod it in urself' 'just learn to draw it yourself' 'just learn how to cobble shoes in ur free time' 'just /make ur own clothes/ after work' im sick and tired of using my precious labor to compensate for capitalism's failures
they were also a member of a neonazi death cult who take extensive notes on homicidal conspiracy i feel like that is the greater factor in play here regarding the content of their character, if i must be perfectly honest
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from āThereās no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselvesā to āIf you type anything we donāt like, weāre calling the cops.ā Either way, they take zero responsibility.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
terrible form, judges award no points
Reminder that the Nazis literally did exactly this. The current US government are Nazis. Through and through.
Fun fact did you know that if we seized all billionaire assets, implemented UBI, and ensured that everyone had human rights, food, and healthcare, we'd literally end climate colapse, dramatically reduce crime, drastically improve mental health, *and* eradicate fascism!
This is a hell of a letter. āThe intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccinesā¦will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will sufferā¦.Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generatedā¦ā
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize trans people has completely lost touch with the common humanity."
It's fine to play an asshole Dom, a lot of people really enjoy that. But it has to be a CHARACTER you play, not an actual PERSONALITY; no one wants to be around an asshole all the time. Learn to turn it off when appropriate, or, you know, don't be surprised if people treat you like an asshole.
Reminder
I negotiated with my manufacturer and they agreed to do 6 sizes instead of just 3. So I'm gonna be doing sizes XS, S, M, L, XL & XXL for my preorder.
They do it every time. Hell, they do it even when the shooter ISNāT trans -spread misinformation they were trans to vilify us. I know itās worth saying that all trans people are not to blame for the horrific actions of one, but theyāre just looking to justify their predetermined hate at every turn.
#criticalrole
Yaaaaay, Rancilda! (Love the name, btw. I am imagining her posing riddles.)
Looking for new homeā¼ļø After the previous owner had to back out for financial reasons, we are looking to find this goat a new home! We are taking offers of $1200 or more. DM us if interested!
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
nein! #criticalroleart #criticalrolefanart
Mindsets that I find deeply outdated: - hating on fandom shippers - hating on anime - hating on ocs - hating on Star Trek as a Star Wars fan or Star Wars as a Star Trek fan - generally hating on harmless stuff that brings people joy especially when you are old enough to need a colonoscopy
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
One of my favourite quotes is "never date someone you have to hide your stuffed animals from." Never let a partner make you feel bad for your interests and hobbies. If they make fun of you for liking something, get bent out of shape over a hobby, they aren't worth your time.
What's cute about T. Swift's "your favorite English teacher and gym teacher are getting married" announcement is that actual English teachers and gym teachers don't make enough money to get that engagement ring. Happy for them, though. Yay, Love!
really glad this tariff thing is working out, you can tell it's going great by all the creators i follow who are saying they will no longer ship anything to the US
Now that I know.... lol
Maybe we shouldnāt let someone who doesnāt believe in germs and who thinks itās okay to eat roadkill and swim in contaminated ponds be in charge of our national food safety.
"I wish janitors made a living wage"
Welcome to 1933 Germany.
