Kari Dru
@karidru.bsky.social
Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
https://ko-fi.com/karidru
October.Rosehip on discord
https://ko-fi.com/karidru
October.Rosehip on discord
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Fritillaries sketch vs final.
1. Fritillaria amana (used to be F. hermonis subsp. amana)
1. Fritillaria amana (used to be F. hermonis subsp. amana)
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Fritillaries sketch vs final.
1. Fritillaria amana (used to be F. hermonis subsp. amana)
1. Fritillaria amana (used to be F. hermonis subsp. amana)
Huh. Somebody's shooting but it's not a caliber I recognize. I mostly know it's not fireworks due to the... timestamp, if you will. Five irregular but rapid pops, pause, five more.
It is fucking cold and nobody else is out in it so wtf. And there go the cops.
It is fucking cold and nobody else is out in it so wtf. And there go the cops.
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Huh. Somebody's shooting but it's not a caliber I recognize. I mostly know it's not fireworks due to the... timestamp, if you will. Five irregular but rapid pops, pause, five more.
It is fucking cold and nobody else is out in it so wtf. And there go the cops.
It is fucking cold and nobody else is out in it so wtf. And there go the cops.
Oh I like this one better.
Introduce yourself with five bands you've seen multiple times.
Iris
The Moody Blues
Ego Likeness
The Dark Clan
69 Nova
Introduce yourself with five bands you've seen multiple times.
Iris
The Moody Blues
Ego Likeness
The Dark Clan
69 Nova
Introduce yourself w/five bands you've seen multiple times:
Metric
Bloc Party
Ani DiFranco
Pixies
Old 97's
Metric
Bloc Party
Ani DiFranco
Pixies
Old 97's
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times:
Lucius
Modest Mouse
Belle and Sebastian
Father John Misty
Courtney Barnett
Lucius
Modest Mouse
Belle and Sebastian
Father John Misty
Courtney Barnett
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Oh I like this one better.
Introduce yourself with five bands you've seen multiple times.
Iris
The Moody Blues
Ego Likeness
The Dark Clan
69 Nova
Introduce yourself with five bands you've seen multiple times.
Iris
The Moody Blues
Ego Likeness
The Dark Clan
69 Nova
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
- The Moody Blues (4 times. This could be a short list.)
- Null Device
- NIN
- Zoe Keating
- Panic Priest
- The Moody Blues (4 times. This could be a short list.)
- Null Device
- NIN
- Zoe Keating
- Panic Priest
introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
- franz ferdinand
- janelle monae
- death cab for cutie
- electric six
- the go! team
- franz ferdinand
- janelle monae
- death cab for cutie
- electric six
- the go! team
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts
Belle and Sebastian
Laura Marling
Moldy Peaches
Rufus Wainwright
Modest Mouse
Belle and Sebastian
Laura Marling
Moldy Peaches
Rufus Wainwright
Modest Mouse
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
- The Moody Blues (4 times. This could be a short list.)
- Null Device
- NIN
- Zoe Keating
- Panic Priest
- The Moody Blues (4 times. This could be a short list.)
- Null Device
- NIN
- Zoe Keating
- Panic Priest
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URGENT request: I’m raising $925 for Dec. rent. Having a disability that varies in severity makes some months harder than others, and I’m still financially behind.
If someone could help me with $5 to kick off funding, that would mean a lot! 💜
If someone could help me with $5 to kick off funding, that would mean a lot! 💜
November 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
URGENT request: I’m raising $925 for Dec. rent. Having a disability that varies in severity makes some months harder than others, and I’m still financially behind.
If someone could help me with $5 to kick off funding, that would mean a lot! 💜
If someone could help me with $5 to kick off funding, that would mean a lot! 💜
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.
Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
I found an old envelope of the reliable sticky rice puerh, thank the gods, and when I opened it, it smelled different than the newer stuff has. Malty. So maybe i will be better at judging whether there's enough nuo mi xiang for the dose I need now... it should smell like that. Kind of beery.
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I found an old envelope of the reliable sticky rice puerh, thank the gods, and when I opened it, it smelled different than the newer stuff has. Malty. So maybe i will be better at judging whether there's enough nuo mi xiang for the dose I need now... it should smell like that. Kind of beery.
Dammit I left the desktop browser open to a youtube tab and Acorn is niw... playing March Violets. Ok I'll allow it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Dammit I left the desktop browser open to a youtube tab and Acorn is niw... playing March Violets. Ok I'll allow it.
Nah, not a movie... Nightmare Cafe finally gets a whole season. It can still be set in 1992, Stranger Things style. That'd be cool and good for the soundtrack. With episodes with as many horror cinema stars as we can bully into it.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Nah, not a movie... Nightmare Cafe finally gets a whole season. It can still be set in 1992, Stranger Things style. That'd be cool and good for the soundtrack. With episodes with as many horror cinema stars as we can bully into it.
Of course now i have art supply suitcase defenders yelling at me that cheap art supplies are just as good as name brand ones...
Those are different things.
There are cheap name brand supplies. I suggest getting those known items instead of the art supply suitcase, which is roulette.
Those are different things.
There are cheap name brand supplies. I suggest getting those known items instead of the art supply suitcase, which is roulette.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Of course now i have art supply suitcase defenders yelling at me that cheap art supplies are just as good as name brand ones...
Those are different things.
There are cheap name brand supplies. I suggest getting those known items instead of the art supply suitcase, which is roulette.
Those are different things.
There are cheap name brand supplies. I suggest getting those known items instead of the art supply suitcase, which is roulette.
I just noticed that Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo is 2.99 on both kobo and kindle. It's one of my most favorite books. It's a Southern gothic featuring a haunting, the horrors of academia, the asshole stage of grief, the asshole stage of "wait, am I gay?" And cars.
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I just noticed that Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo is 2.99 on both kobo and kindle. It's one of my most favorite books. It's a Southern gothic featuring a haunting, the horrors of academia, the asshole stage of grief, the asshole stage of "wait, am I gay?" And cars.
Cats, do you think you could stop unplugging the fucking modem?
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Cats, do you think you could stop unplugging the fucking modem?
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It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages | Arizona Mirror
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after he sent racist text messages to a potential campaign vendor.
azmirror.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
People should stop climbing mt everest
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I'm not the first to say it, but I think we should absolutely start a campaign to convince all the worst people that K2 is a *much* more impressive mountain to climb than Everest and we would all be much more impressed by that achievement
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FYI: don't quote song lyrics in your books. This is not fan fiction where you can get away with that. Quoting someone else's intellectual property will get you sued.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
FYI: don't quote song lyrics in your books. This is not fan fiction where you can get away with that. Quoting someone else's intellectual property will get you sued.
My final thought on the piracy discussion... probably... this time?
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
My final thought on the piracy discussion... probably... this time?
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
AO3 is Right. There.
It's not all werewolf fated mates or whatever you've heard.
There's a lot of stuff that just takes place in the same world as something you've heard of.
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The boss bringing out Pizza might as well be Defcon 1 (or whatever) for places like this. Please keep calling! Especially the next 5 days!
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The boss bringing out Pizza might as well be Defcon 1 (or whatever) for places like this. Please keep calling! Especially the next 5 days!
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Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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wetpaintart.com
Here's my local place, they're fantastic!
Here's my local place, they're fantastic!
Welcome to Wet Paint
Wet Paint is your neighborhood independent art supply store, frame shop, and classroom on Grand Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, serving professionals, beginners and enthusiasts all over the Twin Cities...
wetpaintart.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
wetpaintart.com
Here's my local place, they're fantastic!
Here's my local place, they're fantastic!
A zillion years ago, a bad posture having bald guy in Fallout 2 said "More longer friend, see that sky?"
And I knew A) that he was high as a fuckin kite and B) exactly what he was feeling.
If an ai wrote that, it would just mean "i forgot to edit" instead of "wow, man, everything is beautiful".
And I knew A) that he was high as a fuckin kite and B) exactly what he was feeling.
If an ai wrote that, it would just mean "i forgot to edit" instead of "wow, man, everything is beautiful".
"i hate writing NPC dialogue i don't wanna do it i need bobot to do it for me buhhhhh" you are like a little baby
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A zillion years ago, a bad posture having bald guy in Fallout 2 said "More longer friend, see that sky?"
And I knew A) that he was high as a fuckin kite and B) exactly what he was feeling.
If an ai wrote that, it would just mean "i forgot to edit" instead of "wow, man, everything is beautiful".
And I knew A) that he was high as a fuckin kite and B) exactly what he was feeling.
If an ai wrote that, it would just mean "i forgot to edit" instead of "wow, man, everything is beautiful".
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i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.
Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
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Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".
🫠
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i take frenzy damage every time i see someone go "well i just use it for the boring stuff". what are you TALKING about? if it's boring or unimportant, why are you putting it in? NPC dialogue is fertile ground for worldbuilding, creating verisimilitude, conveying important information, and hijinks!!