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unknown.garden
i lurk a lot. 40s. artist in watercolor, digital &etc, linux wrangler & hacker, plant hoarder, crossroads scavenger & sometimes writer. privacy nerd. unsolicited advice gets muted at *best* they/them/oh god what is that
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Friends!!! I have a ton of ARCs of my next novel to give away! Like and repost this to enter. I’ll pick a winner tonight (Thurs May 29) at 9 pm Eastern. US only sorry ❤️

Ah yes. The anti fidget focus chair.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.

"Personalised advertising - it's your choice" says the Guardian, while offering a "choice" of accepting personalised ads and cookies for 100+ partners, or a £5 a month subscription to see generic ads. The readers are the product.

Grand Echtonic Seraphim - A Plague Through Thy Leprous Dimension & Existence 2021

YO THIS IS BIG

Daphne and Apollo, personal work

Wow, so academia.edu has become ecen scammier than it used to be and is ACTIVELY PROMOTING "AI" "reviews" of papers, so I'm gonna go pull all my stuff off of there.

If you see this, post a monster It’s been some time since I drew a real proper monster. I should change that

If you use Telegram now’s probably a good time to stop. Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app. xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.

Hello fellow streamers, y'all like money? Wanna give even more of it to Jeff Bezos? Neither do I. Today, Twitch released a new feature SET ON BY DEFAULT that makes you pay part of the discount for gifted subs. ON. BY. DEFAULT. Go to Creator Dashboard > Monetization > Subscriptions to turn it off.

STOP: Don’t panic–organize! @thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people. We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽 www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...

"World's most Divorced Man": unfunny, stigmatises divorce "World's Most Deadbeat Dad": ludicrously accurate, keeps getting funnier, deadbeat dads should be stigmatised more actually

🔴 Pomegranate 🔴 [ #OC #art #bodyhorror #SnakeGarden ]

Still daydreaming about getting to paint more cards, looking at the pile of drawings I need to finish first. Here's another card from the Saturnine Oracle.

The Dark Crystal mini study paintings done with acrylic gouache

a brand new sinus sensation i am not enjoying: the feeling of someone pinching the bridge of my nose, but from the inside :[

“An officer having someone's entire online persona one click away after a license plate reader scans their plate is an open invitation for police retribution and reprisals based on a person’s First Amendment-protected expression and affiliations" www.govtech.com/biz/flocks-n...

If you see this, post a monster 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ I'll see your thing and raise you a this thing

I’m gonna make this a sign so I can tap it.

Get you a partner who provides random important links while you're afk cleaning owlsintowels.org

reservoir

PSA: if you are using Signal on Windows turn on this feature to block Microsoft from screenshotting your private chats. signal.org/blog/signal-...

The best time to get rid of your doorbell camera was as soon as you bought it, the second best time is right now.

Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Getting to talk to public libraries about the intersection of "AI," misinformation, consensus reality, and democracy is, frankly, a dream come true. Come on in, if you can!

We did it!!! SB 2880, an extreme anti-abortion bill that would have had nationwide impact, and SB 16, Texas’ version of the SAVE Act, are dead. We ran the clock out. They won’t even get a vote in the House. That’s a HUGE fucking win! #txlege

I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows *exactly* what he is doing.

Also, please specify that you want to protect trans care for ALL AGES! They need to hear that there is popular support for trans youth care, and that sacrificing them is totally unacceptable and unforgivable. We need to be louder than an entire consultant industry complex telling them otherwise.

my son, a business major, sent this to me today. he said he’s learning more from certain TikTok accounts than he does in school (and I hope that’s hyperbole) it’s really good though. reminds me of the saying that you don’t fully understand something until you can explain it to a small child

New upload of old book alert! What if psychogeography was a murder weapon? What if I attempted to write gangland drama using a Shakespeare plot? What if a hot girl was also so unhinged that she stopped being hot due to scary? All of these scenarios and more! derekdesanges.itch.io/brown-bread-...

Today marked 5 years since the murder of George Floyd. Here's Zeal & Ardor's 'Wake of a Nation' zealandardor.bandcamp.com/album/wake-o...

Hattie Mae is here and she's trying fruit for the first time

have had to tell a few people that non-binary people can be masc-presenting. that this kind of gatekeeping disqualifies a lot of amab bodies. this kind of discussion puts qualifiers on who gets to be non-binary and it's gross.

Five months into DOGE and we’re already at ass butter.

As part of my art teaching degree, I’m looking into people’s feelings and attitudes around social media and the process of making art - specifically sketching. I’d love to get your input! This survey is anonymous, and open to both digital and traditional artists: 🏵️ forms.gle/8w5unHGD5wGk...

Found myself thinking about this piece again. Inspired by Cattle Decapitation' Just another body

porn > nazis should be considered a basic value of any civilized society

The recent text of the Big Bullshit Spending Bill from Congress.Gov has the Nonprofit Killer within it. It was removed previously but now it's back in, take action now!

Mother's gift

I have Professional Opinions regarding this Alexa article and domestic surveillance. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 1. Everyone should be aware that Alexa stores the audio/ transcript every time anyone in your house talks to it (or it thinks you’re talking to it). This stuff lives forever.

me: Let Everyone in this series say 'fuck' D: oh for sure, but *especially* the medical personnel though

A deep dive into the awful provision that House Republicans smuggled into their reconciliation bill to prevent federal courts from enforcing their orders against the Trump administration, with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...