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I think about this film a lot.

Sophie Okonedo and Zoe Ziegler in "Janet Planet" (Annie Baker, 2023)

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let’s do zoomies around mama

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Well this is a treasure trove, thank you.

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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RIP John Humble with his eye on Los Angeles.

Los Angeles in the 90s By John Humble

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The extra-sad issue is that people are in a cult of personality and he's the personality.

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Tesla Takedown has been so effective that Tesla Q1 net income rocketed down 71%. Musk and DOGE are still meddling with the workings of the U.S. government to benefit his bottom line. So we continue.

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Go out and scream.

May 1 protests coming up: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

Find or start an Indivisible event: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

Call your Reps, blue, red, or whatever they are: https://5calls.org/

Social media is designed to make us feel defeated. Fuck that shit. Go out as a person, not a blip.

From Ursula Vernon: Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat.

I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

In other words:

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Indie bookstores, you make the world a better place!

Bsky post by libro.fm: Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Fuck Amazon. Go to bookshop.org or better yet, take a little time on Saturday to visit your local indie bookstore.

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On April 16th 2025 the US federal government has proposed to change the interpretation of the endangered species act so that it no longer protects habitat.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

Wildlife need their habitat. If the ESA redefines harm so that habitat is no longer protected, the implications for wildlife would be catastrophic.

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This is huge: You can now buy ebooks from Bookshop.org, a website that helps boost sales to local independent bookshops!

To read an ebook purchased from Bookshop.org, you must use their own app (for a mobile device) or read it in a web browser. So, unfortunately, you can't (yet) send it to your ereader, but still, you're able to buy ebooks and also share a little bit of that profit with your local bookstore, if they're an affiliate!

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The Mechanical Man (1921)

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Everybody, please draw comix. Comix will help.

its time for the tantrum hole

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"Will you help us with our newsletter/website, we have no budget" - this is the reality I have faced several times, and this video has captured it so perfectly.

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Dorothea Tanning, "Verbe (Verb)," 1969-70

Flannel, wool, tweed, cardboard, polyfill, forged steel and wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces