Memento Rori

also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Oh hey, it's Wednesday. Hope y'all get over that hump okay ;) #nsfwart #pinup

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Norm enters. Norm- Afternoon everybody. Everyone- NORM! Diane, not doing her job- Norman. Woody- What's the good word, Mr Peterson? Norm- Sun's gotta explode someday, Woody. Carla- Not soon enough! Cliff- Well, Nahm, funny you should say-- Al- Eat shit, mailman! Sam- Oop! Viagra's kicking in.

It was the jiggiest of times, it was the nahnahnahest of times...

I know folks think they're neat bc they tell you stuff you want to think abt yourself & where you fit in, but it's astrology. Do I have more in common w someone born in 1965, or my friends born in 1985? More in common with a rich gen Xer, or working class millennials? The answer isn't generational.

Kinda feel like if we're gonna do generations at all, they should be based on major socio-political events, not just neat little time periods. Like, populations and history don't really work like that, it's kind of a weird, colonialist-type mindset to insist that everything should be so orderly.

At best generations as we know them popularly are marketing, you do the demographic work for them, they're hogwarts houses. At worst they're constructs that introduce strife between much more important classes and identities that we share.

And the things "generations" tell us about ourselves are a very white, straight, middle-class narrative, because that's what we've decided to measure everything by. That's "normal." Everything is flattened. All the edges smoothed. A caricature only good for jokes, that shouldn't be taken seriously.

We track eras by the relative Rulers of Pop.

Brooke Binkowski

I mean, not gonna get into it, because I like you and no one should be subjected to my generation rants, 😆 but I don't think they're really that useful, at least, not the way they're formulated as pretty much a middle-class white thing that flattens a lot out.

Jodie Troutman

Oh shit! New Acolyte, time for me to get high so I can enjoy it, lol And yes, I kinda wish most of the tv shows had just been movies, tbh.

Gordonzola (Cheese Informant)

Amazing! 😆 Yeah, one of my rant triggers is how ridiculous "generations" are.

Brooke Binkowski

To be fair, the start of Gen X being placed anywhere between 1961 & 1965 is quite contentious.

Balzac Asimov, Irritant Ordinaire👨‍🦯

This, also it was set at 1961 by Strauss & Howe in the 90s, the OG generational weirdos.

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Let's be clear, it did not choke me up. It made me cry. People are going to love this book. I mean, look at this page, this was a test page Rori did before there was even a script. Wuthering Heights

In personal comics news, I showed Gibson some chapters from Wuthering Heights last night, they're rough, but lettered & paneled. There's a really intense section & it choked him up even though he wrote it. I feel like, holy shit, I'm doing good work on this book. Can't wait for y'all to read it.

Bo Thompson

100%. And even a lot of the hate is built on perceived economic grievances directed at the people with -zero actual control over them. Conveniently. I feel a little Vulcan when I talk about it, but it always makes more sense to me to view it as a technology rather than purely emotional phenomenon.

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Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

Unhoused person slain at national gathering of political party tied to Supreme Court justices who just criminalized living unhoused.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

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Shelley Duvall for Vogue back in 1979, reminding us all how drab post 2000's fashion is and how we really should need to put more colour back to our daily lives. #fashion #shelleyduvall #actress #vogue

I absolutely love that one on the far right; 10/10 would wear!

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The generative AI bubble is beginning to look a lot like crypto - specious hype, vague roadmaps accepted without criticism, an environmental disaster wrapped around the vague promises of innovation, and an unwillingness by many to call its bluff. wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-sh...

Yeah, especially with opentype fonts, the capabilities just don't compare when you know what other programs can do. I've been using adobe since the 90s D: I need to try Affinity when I have the time.

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Arkansas official rejected valid abortion ballot signatures, lawsuit claimswww.theguardian.com Group seeking to enshrine rights in state constitution sue secretary of state over ‘refusal to count valid signatures’

Everything thing Republicans have done since Dobbs is 100% predictable. What’s shocking is the lack of outrage. Have you even heard about this outrageous attempt to rig direct democracy over abortion rights in Arkansas? Biden should ask the DoJ to step up.

Arkansas official rejected valid abortion ballot signatures, lawsuit claims

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Since it's Ida's bday today & I love her, a little story about collective action. A few years ago (2018), I learned about a longstanding effort to complete a monument to honor Ida B Wells. For over a decade, her great-grandchildren & others had been trying to raise needed funds.

I can't do final lettering in Clip Studio, the interface just doesn't give me enough. I keep hoping they'll roll out a companion lettering program that has full capabilities.

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