I’m trying to get a jump on holiday gift making. (Ain’t no major retailers to whom I’m eager to give more money!) To that end, I’ve started trying to convert some classic airline posters to shadow boxes. Here’s a first (very rough!) draft fresh off of the Cricut.

@billzismyname Thank you!! I’m hopeful that it’s less exhausting to throw a few words on a few of these every evening instead of agonizing over a detailed email update before I go to sleep every night

Oh good, the #AIDSLifeCycle postcards I designed also arrived! I ordered 250, so if you want me to send you one, feel free to make a donation. ;) https://giving.aidslifecycle.org/participant/gecko

@the_xv

@motoridersd I just don’t inow if there’s a good answer to thet right now. The fruit company is shifting most of their US phone production to India.

@billzismyname The only thing really wrong with the phone is hidden by a case… oh, and the battery is also at 88% capacity.

I just got a check from my cell phone insurance to pay for the repair of my iphone 14pro’s rear assembly… and am seriously considering putting it towards a newer model instead. The question is… do I wait until September? The 15 series had better color options than the current batch and I’m tempted to wait and see what shades the 17 comes in before I buy anything.

@motoridersd It’s soooo creepy

I guess I have a lot of letters to send. 🤭

@ianmnoone That would understandably get your goat!

I am so completely disturbed by that photo of The Self-Satisfied Product Designer and The Self-Righteous Knowledge And Art Grifter currently circulating the webs

@ianmnoone Well that really sucks. Something something did ewe see it coming?

Yesterday was the anniversary of the White Night Riots, which took place in San Francisco on May 21 1979 after Dan White was found guilty only of voluntary manslaughter after his murder of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. The violent police retaliation in the Castro that evening was swift and brutal. Underground cartoonist Paul Mavrides designed the now iconic NO APOLOGIES tee shirt in the immediate aftermath of the riots.

Today is Harvey Milk’s birthday, and there are events today in the Castro in memory.

Also on this day in Queer Ancestors:

Venus Xtravaganza, forever commemorated in Paris is Burning, was born today in 1965. She was murdered in 1988, aged 23.

Arnold Lobel, creator of Frog and Toad, was born today in 1933. He died of AIDS in 1987 at the age of 54.

Today’s also the anniversary of the passing of poet Langston Hughes, who died after complications due to surgery for prostate cancer in 1967 at the age of 66.

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

@takosix kome chameleon

Great day for fans of stuck boats, as a Cypriot cargo ship has parked itself in somebody's garden in Norway - AND THERE'S LIVE FOOTAGE!

It's actually really relaxing to watch unless, presumably, you're one of the crew...

Edit: boo! They've turned the camera off now it's dark and the page is down. I'll see if there's a YouTube version tomorrow or something.

Oh wow, ANA is finally going to offer one-way international awards… of course, the news is paired with a devaluation 🙃 https://www.ana.co.jp/en/us/amc/international-flight-awards/2025-2026/

Okay, after the fifth conversation in the past month with a freelance journalist who had all the same questions and concerns, it's time for some facts which recommend against earnest and enterprising reporters going the traditional freelance route.

#1 (most important): If you are good at something, do not give it away for free. To put it differently, if you do give things away for free, give it all away for free. Don't try to straddle both.

#2 produce unique, valuable content that can't be found elsewhere that also adds to our understanding of the world.

If you freelance, chances are they will pay you a couple hundred bucks with the expectation that you will be overjoyed to have your story published in their pages. Congrats.

Nevermind that they haven't changed the rates they pay freelancers since 1992. But after you've done that a few times, please stop giving away your work so easily.

The main issue I have with journalists who reach out is that they have no sense of agency over the work they produce. They literally give their work away for nothing and then wonder why it's treated that way. It's as if their blood, sweat and tears only has value if it is reproduced in some reputable media organization. The truth is, most major media outlets positively subsist on this assumption.

Far too many people who have something worthwhile to say are content to outsource their research to places like Substack or Medium, without contemplating what they may be giving away in the process. There is no substitute for having your own place on the Internet that is uniquely yours.

There is zero substitute for staking out a domain that describes who you are and what you're about, and then dedicating much of that time you would have otherwise dedicated to pimping your Substack link or whatever.

This is likely the first of many posts on this thread. Thanks for reading.

@motoridersd Yes.

Me, 1996: No, "Goodtimes" is a hoax, an email can't run computer code or give you a virus

Me, 2000, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now emails can give you a virus. Bubbleboy is real

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Me, 2010: No, the "Enhance" bit from CSI is not real. There aren't algorithms that can add information to an image.

Me, 2025, miserable: Microsoft did something weird and now the "Enhance" button is real, but the details are fake. Law enforcement IS using it and innocent people will go to prison