It's in the heat that you realize cats are originally desert creatures despite all that fur. Relaxed, sunbathing, sleepy, and unbothered in direct sun, 32°.

#cats #heatwave

“PIRATING” IS A CAPITALIST FRAME

don’t be a cop.

If buying isn't ownership then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING isn't stealing

If buying doesn't create ownership, then p̶i̶r̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ SHARING doesn't destroy it.

SHARING is anticapitalist and antifa because sharing is caring.

Dieses Social-Media-Verbot für Jugendliche erinnert mich an eine Chemiefabrik, der nicht verboten wird, ihre Abwasser in den See zu leiten, sondern stattdessen den Jugendlichen verboten wird, im See zu schwimmen.

Vetch (vicia sativa) is a super pretty plant and very underrated.

#Eck #bloomscrolling #photography

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116806189762868472

The purpose of an infographic should be to show emergent properties that can be observed by overlaying different sets of data. This one performs that task admirably.

#infovis #datavis #GraphicDesign

A really thoughtful and layered conversation with Cory Doctorow about AI.

"As a science fiction writer, the one thing I know to be very true is that what a machine does is way less important than who the machine does it for and who the machine does it to.”

#AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bubble-layoffs-workers-copyright

Pretty awesome vanilla css animation library here:
#css #frontend #uiux
https://animista.net/play/entrances

Europe should repatriate all of its refugee populations. I'm not even talking aboriginal peoples, just the many millions of people whose ancestors were Italians, Germans, Portuguese, English, Scottish, French, Irish, etc. that fled Europe over the last 300 years or so for "reasons".

Send the Europeans back to Europe.

Seems fair. I wouldn't mind living in my ancestral lands of Sicily, Scotland, or Switzerland. I bet they would mind us all coming back, though.

Companies question cost of AI as tokenmaxxing spending adds up
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-spending-ending-tokenmaxxing-tokenomics-9.7237680?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-cbcnews

RE: https://mastodon.social/@angusm/116759854591989706

Canada, too, PM Carney's always talking a good game about tech education in the era of AI, it's nice to see him actually incentivizing youth in this way.

#CanPol #SocialMediaBan

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jbjrkng/116755393515371033

This goes for Canada, too. Carney wants to sell your data to his business pals, and you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.

#CanPol #Privacy

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efbss3oiz/-/a-2Wlw0u4IQbqotfvC2UOKnw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

TBH nobody is surprised, we all know the SPVM is racist AF. The only reason they didn't get away with it was collecting hair trophies like a bunch of serial killer MFers.

#ACAB #RACISME

Okay, you know about decorative capitals, maybe even Lombardic initials...
How about Historiated Initials? Inhabited initials? Floriated & foliated initials?

Posting-as-bookmarking for my lettering & typography course next term.

#lettering #calligraphy

https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/of-the-beginning-decorative-initials-in-cardiffs-rare-books/

Yeah that's my daughter Gabi being interviewed. RIP Alice, and every other kid whose blood is on Sam Altman's hands.

CW:Suicide

#AI #ChatGPT

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/a-young-womans-final-exchange-with-an-ai-chatbot/

Ever wonder what happens to orchids at a flower shop when they are past bloom? They usually die. Orchids are shipped commercially in sphagnum moss instead of growing medium. Their roots dry out if outside the pot, or rot inside it. I got this one for 3 bucks(!) When a shop was selling off dozens of "old" orchids. I trimmed, repotted, and nurtured this plant for 3 years... and now I get to see what colour its blossoms are!

#bloomscrolling

Morning water drops on a grape leaf

#nature #macro #photography

As an emotion, anger is like cocaine. When you give in to it fully there is a rush of power that sets your nerves alight. You are an avatar of passion and fury. You feel like shit when it wears off though, and while it is always tempting, the rush diminishes the more you give in until eventually you feel hollowed out by it. Like cocaine, though, anger is addictive. If you let it take over you end up as just another dope who's mad at everything and hates their life.

https://youtu.be/7OeqLjJtj48?si=PTvvAUgE5EbZCJpS

In honor of June 6, International Antifa Day.

Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work is something to keep handy in case of emergency. The emergency? a non-visual comics script.

Comics work best when they use pictures to advance & enrich the narrative. When a script doesn't do that, an artist still needs to communicate drama. Film has sound & movement for that. In comics, we've got gesture, lighting, composition.

You 'll run through a lot of clever shots keeping the reader's eye engaged. Out of good ideas? Break the glass and deploy Wood's 22.

I love Montreal, I really do. Painting over potholes is just how we roll.

#urbanism #Montreal