Notices by it's kat! 🇵🇸✊ (kathimmel@mstdn.social)

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/

plastic is a real problem. scientific consensus estimates that, globally, just 9% of plastics is recycled - & even recycled plastic leaches microplastics into the *everywhere*. all of this is in service to the survival of one of the most insidious gangs of corporate thugs ever to exist: the fossil fuel industry.
read more here: https://www.cleanhub.com/blog/how-much-plastic-is-recycled
#plastic #recycling #fossilFuels #pollution #microplastics #climateChange

google hates you & hates the planet. (video: @tonystatovci)
#google #ai #climateChange #water

@aral excellent work. thanks, aral!

#venezuela

i've only just got round to watching this channel 4 documentary about jeff bezos's shitty, shitty criminal enterprise, 'the great amazon heist'. if you haven't yet seen it, get your eyes on it - especially if you still willingly use the company.
#amazon #film #documentary #bezos #oobahButler
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-amazon-heist

@Rania @aral @matus_chochlik @sinanaral @johnchiment @molly0xfff @neutrinoceros @riverbirchtree @jessienada
the zionists have truly & fully lost their humanity.

@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?

been dealing with some thoughts today. let's call this an exorcism (exartcism, if you will. okay, fine. maybe not).
#art #illustration #vintage #plastic #AI #fuckAI #microplastics

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?

@Mohamed_Dawed @fabio @aral @sufferforme @denissalem @davidculley @BarbarosBlack @Gustodon @hwll @chielk @auriblackcat @TomSwirly @millerebonds @SpookedBroccoli @FediWouter you are not forgotten. gaza is not forgotten. i've nothing to donate at the moment, but i will as soon as i can. in the meantime, i boost in the hopes that you'll have money rolling in soon!

@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 pretty sure you've bettered me thousand fold on the kindness front, but your words made me smile. thank you. :)

@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.

@dgar

@FlashMobOfOne anxiety dreams are the worst (& they seem to be all my brain manufactures for me).

spend, spend, spend & buy a load of shite that's going to end up in landfill by the end of january.
i hate #shitmas.
#obey #consume #christmas

@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