#month1

[baloobajew]

Hey Bama,

It’s been a month since you’ve been gone and it still doesn’t feel real. I’m still waiting for your call or waiting for you to message me on Facebook. Everyday I wait, but I know it’s not coming. I miss you. We all miss you. We have sad days and sometimes don’t really talk about it, but we are all thinking about you. It really does suck. I’m okay though. I think about you every day.

Mom and Dad are sad, but haven’t really shown it. N preached about you and it was good. I wish you would have called me or something.

The kids will be okay. We won’t let anyone forget about you.

[thelastbitofsunshine]

The result of my attempt of Marc Brunet's "Learn to draw in 30 days" video and the first month of his 1 year long drawing study schedule. It should go without saying that it didn't end up being a drawing a day kinda completion, but I did have a good thing going at the beginning.

[flovverworks]

finished ch17👍

[boingodigitalart]

A pride drawing of the O'gilt family and Gosalyn for my next drawing for pride month1!!

[ojsstimboards]

★• Payjay Stimboard!11!1!•★

(Since it’s pride month1!!1 + I’m pretty sure it’s the most popular ship on the wiki-)

[clownsterzz]

OMG I FORGOT TO SAY HAPPY PRIDE MONTH1!! 1 Frank and Eddie just make me WAAAAnwyobxbwjox

I have some older sketches I completely forgot ab LMAO

Yes, Wally carrying a fluffy heart shaped bag seems accurate <3

[staghunters]

GRAH YOU WANT MORE GHOST JACKIE THEN HAPPY PRIDE MONTH1!!

[alkaxopha]

ITS SPOOKY MONTH1!1!1!!1!1

[ccchaoscompendium]

artist ask game! 2, 5, 9, 14!!

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even) - Facing left 👍 idk why -Jilly

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself - All of it eventually gets posted unless it's really system specific or involves certain sysmates [for example, I don't feel comfortable having anything with me posted in it currently—this piece is an exception because you can't see my face though] -Wood

9. What are your file name conventions - Usually we name our files after the song we were listening to while drawing! sometimes tho we just name em after whoever's in the drawing. For comics it's usually named based around whatever's going on in the comic [like the "it is pride month" one we posted it's just called "it is pride month1, 2, 3"] -Soul

14. Any favorite motifs - not sure tbh!! we like drawring Blood And Blood And Blood . when we r in the mood 4 that. we also like angels n demons. uhhhh idk if it counts as a motif but lately we've been enjoying adding lots of effects to our art, mainly blur effects n stuff that makes our art look like. vintage? VHS-ish? it's fun :] -Soul

[pinkbxxtchclub]

happy queer montf.......11!!!!!

girls!!! women!!!!!!! woma!!! my gf!!!!!!!!!!!! queer month1!!! yay!!! gays rainbow!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!!

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Will Brazil’s COVID disaster sway its presidential election?

President Jair Bolsonaro is up for re-election, but his policies failed to slow the coronavirus’s spread.

According to official government statistics, more than 685,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, placing it among the nations with the most fatalities. As infections skyrocketed in Brazil between 2020 and 2021, the country spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus beyond its borders, exporting the virus 10 times more often than it imported it, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology last month1. The results suggest that the nation — Latin America’s largest — was a COVID-19 epicentre, and that policies implemented by its government, and its leader Jair Bolsonaro, failed to curb the virus.

The report comes as Brazil gears up to elect its next president in October. Bolsonaro is up for re-election and faces 11 challengers, including former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who led the nation from 2003 to 2010. It remains to be seen whether Bolsonaro’s questionable pandemic response will work against him during the election. Public-health researchers have decried his refusal to implement lockdown measures, his spreading of misinformation about vaccines and his backing of ineffective drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to combat COVID-19.

“For most of the pandemic, the government did not offer a coordinated response, giving room to a wave of disinformation — at times spurred by leaders in the federal government,” says Otávio Ranzani, an epidemiologist at the University of São Paulo and at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain.

Continue reading.

[itswavelengths]

Unplugged

After decades of buying the cheapest Windows laptop available on the show floor at Best Buy and using them until they effectively destroyed themselves from within, my mom upgraded to the M2 MacBook Air last month1. As the dutiful "techie" son, I drove to my parents' place in New Jersey to help walk her through the process of setting up her first ever Mac — importing passwords and other preferences from iCloud, walking through how the dock and menu bar each function, explaining little differences in how window management works, etc. After about an hour of this I sat back and asked myself if there was anything else I needed to go over, anything markedly different about MacOS that was worth touching on for someone who had, until now, only used Windows.

"One last thing," I noted as I stood up and removed the MagSafe cable, "is that you're going to find yourself needing to charge this guy less than you're used to. It's much more portable than your last laptop. There's a reason when you walk into cafés almost everyone with a Windows laptop has theirs plugged into a wall and most of the people with MacBooks don't."

Apple dropped some updates to their Mac lineup today after some last-minute rumor-milling over the weekend. They're exciting releases2, and I'll let other, more qualified people explain why.

What really struck me was a piece of marketing material towards the end of the keynote that began with a title card: 3 Pros, 1 Day, 1 Battery Charge. It follows three creatives who all unplug their fully charged 2023 MacBook Pros at the same time and delve into their field of choice — one proceeds to film and edit 4k footage, the second recreates and old Zeiss lens via CGI along with a scene to shoot through said lens, and the third builds an iPad app. While they push the hardware past their perceived limits, the combined power of the M2 lineup of chips and the battery efficiency of the entire laptop effectively proves these three are more hampered by available time in the day than by the machine itself.

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It's a great ad that gets to the heart of why I've found Apple's computing lineup so exciting since making my own switch way back when: It all feels frictionless due to the attention given to nuances like battery life. The big question for viewers, extrapolated out, is that if this laptop can cater to three super-users and survive an entire day's workload on a single charge, can you even imagine what's possible for yourself?

Creativity and recreation and work can all feel limited if you're confined to one specific space. While those kinds of limitations can sometimes be helpful, I've always found I'm more productive when I'm on the move.  There are entire teams at Apple who are not only aware of this, but are dedicated to it. How efficient can we make this device, plugged in or not? In conjunction with every other team collaborating to focus their attention on other seemingly menial elements like trackpad response, hinge design, or user experience touches, everything adds up to create The MacBook Experience: It's a machine built to go unnoticed.

While you're in your element, you shouldn't have to think about it.

If all goes well, you shouldn't even have to plug it in.

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1  That's the same laptop I'm using to write this! Wow!

2 My biggest takeaway is that the Mac Mini lineup is here to stay for the time being, which is a relief to this M1 Mac Mini owner. To be clear: It is still the best computer I have ever owned, and at no point have I felt like I've gotten close to the ceiling of what that chip is capable of despite hitting it with game streaming, audio production, photo editing, video editing, and more. That said, if it ever does start to show it's age I'll be happy to know there will likely be another Mac Mini to replace it with.

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[rjhamster]

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[eshachandana]

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[kindredspiritstuff]

One month into college 🌸