In laws are using the bird cam from across the world to spy on the backyard. I went out to the garden to grab lettuce for a sandwich and I got a ping "is everything okay???". I knew they were using it to spy on 😤 like you're in Italy go look out a fuckin window damn

I sincerely think companies like deviantart and Instagram convinced their users and algos that putting your signatures and urls on your pictures was lame so they could feed it to AI a few years later

Surprising my wife with a YouTube and Substack cover image just working on the foliage

#mastoArt #wip #procreate

@leavt I have so many indie comics and zines I need to read

@Daojoan at least the Byzantines had drip, this wave of fascism is as corporate as it is cruel

I remember in highschool I thought the author Ayn Rand was exaggerating and maybe had a sterical approach to writing because who could be so hyper individualistic. I thought surely it was a critique and even thought highly of her writing skills in proving how she could really guide you into hating hyper individualistic thinking. I couldnt believe I was so wrong

https://youtu.be/tR9etG2d6_E?si=_faQxKGTG986bIFL

@chetwisniewski arrhghh I have Google fi it's the only thing that works in my area, I need to find another

@leavt I don't draw people maybe this would be a good motivator

for those who don't know, Artfight is a yearly art exchange event happening in July on its own platform. You make profiles pages for your original characters so other people can draw them, and you draw other people's characters to get points for your team.
It's great to get free fanart and it's a good skill check to draw other people's designs!

https://artfight.net/info/about

According to reporters in attendance, Trump’s military parade was sponsored by C-SPAN, America 250, Lockheed Martin, Coinbase, UFC (mixed martial arts), Palantir, Phorm Energy (Anheuser-Busch), Amazon, and Oracle. #uspol #noKings #boycott

@skry @alissaazar narc network

Listening to Drawfee full blast doing some digital art outside, a lot feels so much more comfortable when I don't feel like I'm being perceived.

@aud @alissaazar there's a lot of paid gangs ugh

We could just ... not give police tear gas. That is a decision we could make. A state or city could make that decision, and remove it from inventory.

Maybe police do not actually need area-denial weaponry present at every public gathering. Maybe "people are throwing bottles at us, therefore tear gas" need not be the standard playbook.

The medical research on the _safety_ of CS gas suggests a spectrum from "unknown" to "probably dangerous, particularly the way it actually used": https://www.propublica.org/article/tear-gas-is-way-more-dangerous-than-police-let-on-especially-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic https://med.umn.edu/news/u-m-study-shows-little-research-available-long-term-effects-tear-gas-use

I had less luck finding studies about its _effectiveness_ of CS gas for the presumed goals of police forces: officer safety and encouraging compliance with dispersal order. I found a lot of quotes from police along the lines of "well, the only alternative is bashing people with batons" One study of the introduction of CS spray in UK police forces (for personal protection, not crowd control) did not find a clear win: https://doi.org/10.1108/13639510010343065

Anecdotally, we might look at the current situation at LA, or that a few years ago in Minneapolis, and note that CS gas was not effective in reducing crowd antagonism, even if it does move people from one place to another.

Romantic

@david dude for real, when I see people burning in the sun I'm like, you are a real one for that introvert

@hannu_ikonen Wellbutrin really helped me they had me on dose 300mg a day. I probably still need it and when I get insurance again probably will continue taking it again

hell yeah