In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Sending coffee and solidarity 🫂

I AM GOING TO PROMOTE THIS SWEARY FUCKING CHRISTMAS CARD (with no apology) WOT I DREW BECAUSE I AM USING ALL THESE WORDS AND MORE ABOUT MY CURRENT SUB-PAR LIFE

Fowl-mouthed? Moi?

Pls share/buy my things
#bsnm #birds #christmascard #artforsale

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A cool charity in Hoxton that teaches & gives disadvantaged kids skills in filmmaking has asked me a question:

Any female animators want to take part in a mentorship programme they run?

They've been doing good work for 25+ years.

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

I'm keeping tabs on it, maybe this'll be one of the years I need a bit more sertraline to make it through xx

The clocks haven't even changed FFS

Fucking HATE that my brain does this even as I tell it autumn and winter come every year and I've survived the past 20 in this country and that I'm okay, really, there's no reason to cry

I don’t think any of this is a surprise and yet it’s still extremely concerning. Really shows the lack of commitment the industry has to improving and sustaining diverse representation in children’s literature. For things to be back sliding when they weren’t even where they needed to be…

Got a case of the autumn maudlins, please don't mind any incidental tears

#SAD #SeasonalAffectiveDisorder

Surely this is some kind of ironic cosplay, surely 💀

See, it can be done!

"Unpaid carers are predominantly women, which might go some way to explaining why their contributions are ignored." Catherine Connolly speaking out following yesterday's budget on the continuation of the means test for carers, and the unfulfilled promise of a cost of disability payment.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

We are over 4000 future community members strong now!
(That's how many folks have signed up for Northsky Social.)

Thank you for your trust and support, and we look forward to welcoming you to safer skies soon!

For everyone angry at Bluesky, a direct way we can help northsky is by tossing them a few bucks.

They're all working multiple jobs trying to make this happen for us.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

Yes, I'm okay waiting! 😊 It'll be a wonderful surprise when it arrives 🤗

I'm going to bed now (it's been an exhausting day!) so I'll check back in the morning! But thank youuuuuuu 🤗

Fine, I'll bite 🫣😂

Could I please have Queer As Folklore by Sacha Coward?

any random moderately successful small restaurant creates 20 jobs

imagine how many little businesses that $38 million could spawn if we *correctly* allocated that capital to *actual job producers* (which are always small business)

This is what being a big tent means. It doesn’t mean that certain rights are negotiable.