i've succumbed (after a long absence) & added a blog to my illustration website because, given the current trajectory of human existence/technology, i feel it's a good thing to have a space i own where i can deposit the thoughts that plague my brain. i've not yet fleshed out these first posts, but i'm hoping that, as i do, i'll have something of interest to say. #art#blogging#blog#writing#illustration https://curiousthing.net/musings-a-blog/
@raniagaza@celestinia@gaza_verified_campaigns@Rania aral (@aral), i've created a chuffed fundraiser for rania & she's made a different mastodon account to go with it. does she need to be verified again for this new masto account?
when 'tech experts' talk as if it's inevitable that we'll all eventually be willingly using chatbots, i think 'the fuck i will. i'll avoid them like i've avoided ever trying heroin, you monsters!' #ai#fuckAI#tech#dystopia#chatGPT
@aral@ar.al i think i get bogged down by feeling that i need to donate at least a fiver to everyone i can, but how much more money could we raise if we each (any of us with the means) chucked a quid towards, say, 10 people's fundraisers when we can?
@rouh@casey thank you for everything you're doing, mai. you are the best of us. hope you're recovering well from your surgery & that your pyjamas initiative is a massive success. love & solidarity.
@rouh@casey i wonder why it's not posting. that's curious. maybe your instance has a file size limit? would really love to see it & i'm sure i'm not alone.
@aral@joynewacc@riverbirchtree hope to make a donation soon. in the meantime, big-big-BIG luck & solidarity to you, joy. may the money come swiftly & your studies in milan be a happy adventure. x
#art#history: today, let's celebrate ursula le guin's appearance on this rock (#otd in 1929). ursula's words of prescience & compassion always provide a bit of solace when you're feeling despondent. to wit: 'i think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, & can see through our fear-stricken society & its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being.' #ursulaLeGuin#sciFi#literature#illustration#author
i'm an illustrator in #scotland. doomsday pastel aesthetic. draws good-hearted human beings. also obsessed with suprematism, proun, the cologne progressives, bauhaus, surrealism, abstract expressionism & 1920s/1930s (mostly #french) graphic design. to merge left-wing #politics with sustainability (i mostly work digitally) is my bag. would love to meet people with similar interests. #antiRacist #surrealism #filmNoir #existentialism #feminism #transRights #situationism #freePalestine #vegan