Black canvas, bright pastels, and X-acto knife
My latest Blick Art Supply haul, thanks to a very generous birthday gift. Can’t wait to start creating! Taking a f...Bugsby had his check in today with his specialist. Still in IMHA remission, two years+! Happy to get some good news today.
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A quick read, but not a light one.
This novella tells the story of a group of young content moderators working for a Meta-type social media platform called “Hexa”, and how they become human casualties of the work they do to protect the platform’s users from disturbing, violent, or offensive content. The narrator, Kayleigh, describes how the stress (and distress) caused by the job creeps its way into their life off the clock; and at the same time how Kayleigh’s coworkers become desensitized to the horrors of what they see, and how the guidelines between what is acceptable and what isn’t become blurred.
The author points out that, while this is a work of fiction, it’s based on several real accounts of content moderators (with a references section, if you really want to read them). That, for me, was the most disturbing part.
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I have an ambivalent relationship to DTLA, but I enjoyed my coffee date yesterday with a dear old friend who was in town. Outside the cafe a man was dancing in front of the window and admiring his choreography, and a jackhammer roared beyond the front door. “City life”, my friend said. Indeed! #DTLA
Flip phone photo 📸 9.22.26
Watched: Tow 🍿letterboxd.com/takemetot… Can we please make it illegal for films to contain shots of phone screens with text-messaging conversations that are integral to the plot?
zachmander on instagram adds Karl Marx quotes to Richard Scarry illustrations and it’s brilliant
Peter Max 1937–2026
I met Peter Max years ago at a gallery in a mall on Long Island where he had an art show. I asked about him, and they to...I posted my first 1000+ word essay to Tuhat. It’s a repost of an essay from my old Listed.to blog, which will be going offline in December. Hey, it’s something!
Call My Agent! The Movie (2026) Le groupe est de nouveau réuni! boxd.it/gjDACd
Bugsby on the kitchen floor (sketched with RM2)
9/11. What I remember, in a nutshell.
Tourists on Hollywood Boulevard in plastic ponchos in the rain 9.6.2026
My latest handwritten blog on handwritten.blog, typos and all: “I didn’t say SH*T!” laurarebecca.handwritten.blog/i-didn-t-…
Apparently my sweetener packet is cosplaying as a pillow from HomeGoods
Street scene with walkies.
I started trying to draw patterns in tiny squares in my journal, but then somehow drifted off to objects, still lifes, food and people
Latest substack, nothing interesting: dojogrl.substack.com/p/blogust
Punk exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center Museum
My old college buddy Larry and I went to see the punk rock exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center Museum in LA. It brou...In case anyone was wondering, BunSpace is still live on the web! It was bittersweet to read all my bridge bunnies’ profiles
This time last year (2025).
Are there any micro.blog plugin themes that look like old livejournal/xanga or geocities pages? Trying to achieve that design, but I’ve pretty much forgotten how to code in html
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