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@simkaye.bsky.social

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Illustration, comics, nonsense 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ they/them ✨ https://simkaye.carrd.co ✨

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 3h

Prints now available in my shop!

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 23h

i made this font from my own handwriting, i just write like that 💀

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 23h

sifting through stacks of articles about AI, prageru, and the education system was depressing enough 💀

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1d

It's past time to be loudly opposing the ongoing attack on the education system and boycotting gen AI and the billionaire losers betting our country's economy and resources on this slop. But if you haven't yet, today is a good day to start

Headline 1 (NPR): "What parents should know about PragerU Kids videos, ehich can now be shown in Florida schools"
Headline 1 Text: "Some videos downplay slavery, question whether humans really cause climate change, and insert opinions into what otherwise appears to be educational content for children."

Headline 2 (MSNBC): "Propaganda platform PragerU is primed to capitalize on Trump's PBS cuts"
Headline 2 text: "The right-wing media outlet has been portrayed as an alternative to PBS children's programs - and it has gotten a boost from the white house."

Headline 3 (NPR): "'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history,
Al-generated fiction"

Headline 4 (CNN): "Exclusive: Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out "woke' teacher applicants today"
Headline 4 text: "Teachers from "liberal" states who have relocated to Oklahoma and are seeking to work there must take a controversial new
assessment, to be given for the first time today, that "keeps away woke indoctrinators," according to Oklahoma's top education official.
The decision to use the assessment, developed by PragerU, a conservative media company whose teaching materials are now approved for use in public schools in ten US states, opens a" (text cuts off)

Post from More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS which reads: "NetChoice, a tech industry association that represents Amazon, Google, Meta and more wants to increase Al use in schools.
They're promoting Louisiana as an example of "Al education done right."
Here's part of the image they shared in that tweet:"

Attached is an AI generated image of a teacher with text that reads "generative AI for creatuve minds - Louisiana clasrrooms" (classrooms is misspelled)

Headline 5 (Bloomberg): "Al Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring"
Headline 5 text: "Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers."

Headline 6 (Fortune): "Sam Altman's Al empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it's
'scary'"

Headline 7 (yahoo! finance): "75% of gains, 80% of profits, 90% of capex-Al's grip on the S&P is total and Morgan Stanley's top analyst is 'very concerned'"

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 1d

Re: every headline involving education

A 4 panel comic.

Panel 1: closeup of a new textbook on a kid's school desk. The cover reads "World Histeries - sponcored bye PragerU + OpenAI"

Panel 2: The kid opens the book. Page titles include "How slavery boosted the enconemy" and "12 reasons hitler wasn't wrong" along with an ad that reads "more with a pragerU subscription and another that says "10% off openAI" with a QR code.

Panel 3: the kid looks up at the teacher, lifts the book, and says "what the fuck is this"

Panel 4: an exhausted teacher, still passing out a stack of the books, replies "your senator picked it"

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you every patron for giving me the means to create things I otherwise couldn’t afford to💖

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 29d

Who remembers this game?? 😍😍
Not u bc unfortunately I made it up

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨🦄 simkaye.storenvy.com 🦄✨

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 21

What a cutie!

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 21

Omg she’s so cute!! 😭 gathering around the enclosure to witness a daytime ham appearance 💯💯

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 21

Prints leaving soon! 🦄

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 19

Uhh yeah we gotta double my hamster prescription or I’m gonna lose it

(Part 1) A 3 panel comic page.

Panel 1: Character1 in the foreground, looking ragged and hunched over an iPad says “everything makes me wanna die today”. Character2 in the background looking over a small animal enclosure says “hey pause what you’re doing”.

Panel 2: Closeup of character2 with dramatic lighting saying “the hamster’s awake”.

Panel 3: Closeup of a hamster happily eating a sunflower seed.

(Part 2) A 3 panel comic page.

Panel 1: Worm’s eye view from the hamster’s perspective of both characters looking down into the enclosure. Character2 says “look at her!” and character1 says “I’m gonna throw up”.

Panel 2: Character1 reaches into the enclosure and pets the hamster with a fingertip and says “you’re soo dumb”.

Panel 3: Character1 looks up at character2 and says “I hope you know when she goes, so does my mental health. Character2 frowns in the foreground.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you!! 🥰

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you!❤️

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you!! I had fun with the composition 🥰

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 12

Closeups! My process for this illustration (and all my illustrations) is on Patreon, along with prints this month!

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 12

Together🐦‍⬛

Digital illustration of a fork-tongued mutant wolf covered in eyeballs, roaring on a red background. The mutant wolf of surrounded by a circle of large crows in flight, taking on the foe together

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Aug 7

Ditching Spotify for my iPod/itunes library is one of the best decisions I’ve made this year. The nostalgia!!

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 22

More like ctrl+alt+defeat am I right

Two-frame black and white ink comic

Frame 1: a small raccoon sits on a stool at a kitchen table, scrolling on a smartphone

Frame 2: same scene, but overlaid with a giant windows 98 error. The alert window is titled “ANXIETY” and reads “You remember that thing you’re afraid of happening”. Beneath the text a mouse cursor hovers over the only available option: “Spiral”. The raccoon grips the phone with bulging eyes, all their fur standing on end.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 16

STOP💀

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thank you! I’m very happy with how it turned out

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thank you! ❤️

Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sharp tongue

A dragon head descends from darkness, smoke trailing from its open mouth. A multitude of hands reach from its throat, almost like a tongue, together they grasp the hilt of a gold, shining sword.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pride prints are back in stock but leaving soon! 🐹🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A digital illustration of hamsters with a rainbow cake topped by a tiny inclusive pride flag on a toothpick. The background is soft pink.

The cake has white icing with a slice cut out, revealing rainbow sponge layers within.

A gray hamster is on the ground eating a chunk of purple sponge, next to it is a white hamster, full of cake, passed out leaned against the cake. A dark brown hamster is perched on the edge of the cake looking down at them.

A cream colored hamster looks up at the inclusive pride flag atop the cake while a second gray hamster paws at the toothpick, causing it to tilt.

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Kay 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · Jul 8

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