“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

The Trump administration is going after the attorneys nationwide who protect and defend disabled people. This is a huge attack on civil rights. P&As do all sorts of often hidden work such as leveraging their position to get into immigration detention facilities on behalf of disabled detainees.

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

"Buy from independent artists but still treat them like Walmart and Amazon and expect instant delivery and gratification and it to be cheap and mass produced"

This is why shifting your consumption onto artisans doesn't change the fact that you need to work on your consumption but what do I know ✨️

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

i love art, i love artists, i love art because artists made it, I love artists because they make art

All you newbies drawing their first comic and haven't printed their comic before: 300 dpi, CMYK colours, bleed and safety, 0 0 0 100 K black text on a separate layer. Make sure you have all of these on all of your comics files, otherwise you'll end up like me having to fix 660 pages of my webcomic

"Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows."

Dafoe to @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

Ableism teaches us to abandon each other.

Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.

Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.

Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.

I HIGHLY. RECOMMEND. Grabbing a copy of the Graphic Artist's Guild Pricing book. It lays out some general rates to help get artists started and understand certain types of gigs. It also gives SAMPLE CONTRACTS in the back, like Illustrator Agreements etc, to send to clients that don't have their own.