JK✨️
@jkmakes.bsky.social
Executive Officer In Charge of Radishes
non-competitive poster and earnest motherfucker ✨️
gender casual COVID-hermit
tired
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#MakeAThing
Even if you're "bad" at it.
#AbolitionStories
#ArtILove
https://linktr.ee/jkmakes
non-competitive poster and earnest motherfucker ✨️
gender casual COVID-hermit
tired
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
#MakeAThing
Even if you're "bad" at it.
#AbolitionStories
#ArtILove
https://linktr.ee/jkmakes
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@jkmakes.bsky.social
· Nov 1
Hi! Nice to meet you. I like to make stuff.
I made a library of zines, and also, some zines!
jkzinelibrary.carrd.co
I "sell" some of my art in exchange for donations to Project HOPE:
offeringstable.carrd.co
I like reading books with people about important things:
abolitionstories.carrd.co
I made a library of zines, and also, some zines!
jkzinelibrary.carrd.co
I "sell" some of my art in exchange for donations to Project HOPE:
offeringstable.carrd.co
I like reading books with people about important things:
abolitionstories.carrd.co
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Just made these beautiful dragon fire earrings, check them out at Varanid Paradise!
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/rqoch...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/rqoch...
Delicate Dragon Fire Dangle Earrings — Varanid Paradise Reptilian Atelier
These beautiful Czech glass earrings evoke Golden Age of Hollywood mystique with just a teeny reptilian flair with matte black dragon egg beads and flame-colored curved beads with intense AB shine. Co...
www.varanidparadise.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Just made these beautiful dragon fire earrings, check them out at Varanid Paradise!
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/rqoch...
www.varanidparadise.com/shop/p/rqoch...
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hey do you want to show appreciation to your loved ones in discord dms or other places that use markdown, but struggle with earnest vulnerability? boy howdy, look no further!
(alternatively, if the meaningful message doesn’t matter, just take a sharpie to a letter and send it in the mail) #comic
(alternatively, if the meaningful message doesn’t matter, just take a sharpie to a letter and send it in the mail) #comic
![2 panel comic titled “A Guide to Telling Your Friends How Much You Love Them” by Alex Plante
1. write a nice, vulnerable heartfelt message. struggle to hit "send" because society has dumb implied rules, and you are a COWARD.
[drawing] message that reads:
hey I just wanted to tell you that I am so glad we're friends! I'm a better person than I was before I met you, and knowing you has improved my life in every way. Thanks for always being there for me! Nothing makes me happier than dicking around and talking shit with you. I will always be there, fighting in your corner. Love you forever (or until I die) <3
2. strategically place spoiler tags. now it's funny, so you HAVE to send it, or go to jail for the crime of
"not committing to the bit" haha get cherished, losers!
[drawing] same message, but words have been redacted to make it read:
“hey just wanted to tell you that I’m a better person than you in every way. Thanks for Nothing dick shit. I will fight you forever until I die.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rd3qfi4wgintxoldjqkjtjty/bafkreie64unhvebb6d3rvxl2jpcvxp2tqnswanvt4abcsnigd2pkxc463u@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
hey do you want to show appreciation to your loved ones in discord dms or other places that use markdown, but struggle with earnest vulnerability? boy howdy, look no further!
(alternatively, if the meaningful message doesn’t matter, just take a sharpie to a letter and send it in the mail) #comic
(alternatively, if the meaningful message doesn’t matter, just take a sharpie to a letter and send it in the mail) #comic
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I am begging you to keep making your thing, even if it is messy, even if you don't think it will sell. There are losers typing keywords into water-guzzling shitmachines and thinking they are a gift to the arts. YOUR THING IS ALREADY BETTER THAN ANYTHING THEY WILL MAKE BECAUSE YOU ARE MAKING IT!
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I am begging you to keep making your thing, even if it is messy, even if you don't think it will sell. There are losers typing keywords into water-guzzling shitmachines and thinking they are a gift to the arts. YOUR THING IS ALREADY BETTER THAN ANYTHING THEY WILL MAKE BECAUSE YOU ARE MAKING IT!
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Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.
According to Pew Research and a few other stats, the loneliness epidemic isn’t disproportionately affecting men over other genders.
I have a feeling that men have been the squeaky wheel over the last few years.
If anything, we have a loneliness epidemic because more people are (barely) surviving.
I have a feeling that men have been the squeaky wheel over the last few years.
If anything, we have a loneliness epidemic because more people are (barely) surviving.
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!'
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
June 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
'you can generate a different ending every time you view a movie!'
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
'you can have endless text conversations with NPCs in games!'
'you can summarize a novel, you don't have to read it!'
the pitches for genAI really reveal how much the people behind it just... hate art.
like. *hate* art. deeply.
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Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Whatever else it can do, this tech adds work and erodes trust. The extra work is time-wasting and wearying, and I resent the erosion of trust most deeply. I cannot believe it is healthy for society to be ever less sure that anything you encounter is the real thought or expression of a fellow human
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maybe everyone has become an incredibly self-centered solipsistic maniac!!
or maybe everyone is stressed out of their mind for the past 5 years of fascism and pandemic, while also being the non-stop targets of predatory attention-sapping technologies.
dont fall into a trap of misanthropy.
or maybe everyone is stressed out of their mind for the past 5 years of fascism and pandemic, while also being the non-stop targets of predatory attention-sapping technologies.
dont fall into a trap of misanthropy.
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
maybe everyone has become an incredibly self-centered solipsistic maniac!!
or maybe everyone is stressed out of their mind for the past 5 years of fascism and pandemic, while also being the non-stop targets of predatory attention-sapping technologies.
dont fall into a trap of misanthropy.
or maybe everyone is stressed out of their mind for the past 5 years of fascism and pandemic, while also being the non-stop targets of predatory attention-sapping technologies.
dont fall into a trap of misanthropy.
"you can call anything a project and then it is one
a new thing saying to death:
not yet thanks but while you're here is there a poem in you"
a new thing saying to death:
not yet thanks but while you're here is there a poem in you"
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"you can call anything a project and then it is one
a new thing saying to death:
not yet thanks but while you're here is there a poem in you"
a new thing saying to death:
not yet thanks but while you're here is there a poem in you"
ITTTTT'S
SHOPPING TIME!!
My favorite kind of shopping.
Though unless you're really wealthy, shopping as a full caster is boring. 🤡
SHOPPING TIME!!
My favorite kind of shopping.
Though unless you're really wealthy, shopping as a full caster is boring. 🤡
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ITTTTT'S
SHOPPING TIME!!
My favorite kind of shopping.
Though unless you're really wealthy, shopping as a full caster is boring. 🤡
SHOPPING TIME!!
My favorite kind of shopping.
Though unless you're really wealthy, shopping as a full caster is boring. 🤡
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But y'know what's priceless? Having a sense of personal style and not being swayed by trends.
December 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
But y'know what's priceless? Having a sense of personal style and not being swayed by trends.
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Been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not a "climber" by any means, but I find the affectations of people who aspire to upward mobility are anything but effortless. And it's not their fault, because the goalposts are always moving.
But maybe we can opt out of it altogether?
But maybe we can opt out of it altogether?
Speaking of Restoration Hardware, this man's been doing a series of videos about class and how the upperclass uses taste to enforce their hierarchy and it's superb
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not a "climber" by any means, but I find the affectations of people who aspire to upward mobility are anything but effortless. And it's not their fault, because the goalposts are always moving.
But maybe we can opt out of it altogether?
But maybe we can opt out of it altogether?
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"that shit is alien" it's an earthling just like you and me, that's your cousin, made from the same primordial soup and that is fucking AWESOME
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"that shit is alien" it's an earthling just like you and me, that's your cousin, made from the same primordial soup and that is fucking AWESOME
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choo choo, motherfucker
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
choo choo, motherfucker
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An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive
sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
An incredible piece of writing, a gift of a sort I had not known it was possible to receive
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“Satan is in Libraries”
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
June 16, 2024 at 3:27 AM
“Satan is in Libraries”
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
Well if he can provide photo ID with his current address then he is entitled to sign up for a library card. We also have other ways he can sign up if he is currently without identification
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I don't wanna have to perform investigative journalism on both the originating account and a 30 second clip they posted to determine if I've been duped by ai bullshit and yet that's where the slop lords have put us all 🫠 don't you just wanna go ape shit
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I don't wanna have to perform investigative journalism on both the originating account and a 30 second clip they posted to determine if I've been duped by ai bullshit and yet that's where the slop lords have put us all 🫠 don't you just wanna go ape shit
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Have a Wyandotte chicken for today's #ArtAdventCalendar!
Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜
Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Have a Wyandotte chicken for today's #ArtAdventCalendar!
Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜
Had a good time drawing these feather patterns. This was another in my #TransArtMay project. You can browse that hashtag to see the others! Trans rights forever! 💜
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Being extremely careful about image/video attribution isn’t JUST important for giving credit to artists and creators. It’s also a way to slightly decrease your chances of spreading deceptive AI slop!
The thing that made me most suspicious was the lack of attribution of any kind. A conveniently perfect light-up sign at the beginning that states the premise of the video but doesn’t mention the facility, for instance. (This is part of why it’s bad to share stuff if you don’t know its provenance!)
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Being extremely careful about image/video attribution isn’t JUST important for giving credit to artists and creators. It’s also a way to slightly decrease your chances of spreading deceptive AI slop!
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hard to think of anything more core to the US that is *also* in the category of “this is good stuff we should keep” than birthright citizenship
if you’re wondering the other categories of core US stuff are: “this is a racist garbage fire,” “cash and land grab bonanza,” and “what even is this”
if you’re wondering the other categories of core US stuff are: “this is a racist garbage fire,” “cash and land grab bonanza,” and “what even is this”
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
hard to think of anything more core to the US that is *also* in the category of “this is good stuff we should keep” than birthright citizenship
if you’re wondering the other categories of core US stuff are: “this is a racist garbage fire,” “cash and land grab bonanza,” and “what even is this”
if you’re wondering the other categories of core US stuff are: “this is a racist garbage fire,” “cash and land grab bonanza,” and “what even is this”
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Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Yes, I recommend that people read Dr. Olsavsky's book: lsupress.org/978080717730... - I learned so much from it.
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
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You know, I like to think of myself as moderately-to-severely tech savvy, but I was today years old when I found out you could turn this off.
www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-t...
www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-t...
How to Turn Off the "Sign in with Google" Prompt on Websites
Not now, Google!
www.howtogeek.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
You know, I like to think of myself as moderately-to-severely tech savvy, but I was today years old when I found out you could turn this off.
www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-t...
www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-t...
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Hillary is so talented and makes such beautiful things!
Short thread of things I'd love someone to wear, proudly. Free US shipping over $25!
Those are carved onyx roses and citrine. And honey tones with black are so pretty. $52
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Those are carved onyx roses and citrine. And honey tones with black are so pretty. $52
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Hillary's Rhapsody in Yellow | Peculiarity Shop
These earrings from Hillary are so sunny and stunning! Components: Ceramics from Scorched Earth, citrine, carved onyx, base metal alloy Lead/nickel free.
www.peculiarityshop.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hillary is so talented and makes such beautiful things!