Jenn Manley Lee
@jennmanleylee.myatproto.social
Here for the discussion, science facts, art and shit-posting.
Not a scab.
I regret every misspelling.
webcomic: dicebox.net
everything else: jennmanleylee.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jennmanleylee
Comradery: comradery.co/dicebox
Not a scab.
I regret every misspelling.
webcomic: dicebox.net
everything else: jennmanleylee.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jennmanleylee
Comradery: comradery.co/dicebox
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.
There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've made about $17k all year, INCLUDING my adjunct teaching job.
There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
There is this idea that anyone working in the arts has wealthy family help, and sure some do, but a lot of us are simply poor. If you enjoy someone's work please pay them for it. It is not greedy to want to be paid for your labor.
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Ado covered her closet in soundproofing material and recorded a #1 single in Japan when she was 17.
Skill issue, babe
Skill issue, babe
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ado covered her closet in soundproofing material and recorded a #1 single in Japan when she was 17.
Skill issue, babe
Skill issue, babe
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people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.
You don’t get to demand civility.
You don’t get to demand civility.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.
You don’t get to demand civility.
You don’t get to demand civility.
Having made a pecan pie from scratch many a time–including crust–if it takes hours you better be gathering and shelling those pecans yourself.
All of this pie discourse is reminding me of when Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted a picture of her "homemade" pecan pie and talked about how many hours it took and how it reminded her of rolling out dough with her mother.
That pie was in a store-bought pie shell.
That pie was in a store-bought pie shell.
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Having made a pecan pie from scratch many a time–including crust–if it takes hours you better be gathering and shelling those pecans yourself.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
let's take the CAR out of CARCINIZATION
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Good morning, Bluesky.
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
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“innovation lag?” There hasn’t been serious innovation in yeeeeears. If there was, maybe there’d be a reason to upgrade. As it is, I always buy a model or two back, much of the time refurbished, works just great until the built in obsolesce of the OS kicks in.
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“innovation lag?” There hasn’t been serious innovation in yeeeeears. If there was, maybe there’d be a reason to upgrade. As it is, I always buy a model or two back, much of the time refurbished, works just great until the built in obsolesce of the OS kicks in.
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Warner Bros illustrated advertising suggestions for Havana Widows (1933), from the film's pressbook
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Warner Bros illustrated advertising suggestions for Havana Widows (1933), from the film's pressbook
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You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
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Carnotaur Totem 🦖✨
This friend will be available in my next shop update coming this Friday at 9am PT! 👀👀
Link for bookmarking: shop.lioninthetrees.com
#art #pottery #sciart
This friend will be available in my next shop update coming this Friday at 9am PT! 👀👀
Link for bookmarking: shop.lioninthetrees.com
#art #pottery #sciart
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Carnotaur Totem 🦖✨
This friend will be available in my next shop update coming this Friday at 9am PT! 👀👀
Link for bookmarking: shop.lioninthetrees.com
#art #pottery #sciart
This friend will be available in my next shop update coming this Friday at 9am PT! 👀👀
Link for bookmarking: shop.lioninthetrees.com
#art #pottery #sciart
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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
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From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From a triptych known as “Cats for the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (ca. 1847) — a spoof of the popular Japanese prints subject depicting the Edo to Kyoto coastal road.
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
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Available as a print from our online shop — publicdomainreview.org/product/c... #caturday
I am shocked—shocked I tell you!
(Now do Truth Social)
(Now do Truth Social)
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I am shocked—shocked I tell you!
(Now do Truth Social)
(Now do Truth Social)
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Getting each season of LAVENDER JACK down to 330 pages requires some cuts, and a common victim is the regular recap material you need in a weekly Webtoon but not a Dark Horse TPB. The panel below is one such casualty — which is a shame, because I love @jennmanleylee.myatproto.social's colors here
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Getting each season of LAVENDER JACK down to 330 pages requires some cuts, and a common victim is the regular recap material you need in a weekly Webtoon but not a Dark Horse TPB. The panel below is one such casualty — which is a shame, because I love @jennmanleylee.myatproto.social's colors here
A great idea just in time before I make that huge batch of turkey bone broth. (attn: @kiplet.myatproto.social)
Also, tired of freezer jenga? Freeze anything liquidish flat on a baking sheet, then you can file it. Pasta sauce, soups, chili, etc. This is ~10L of pasta sauce.
November 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A great idea just in time before I make that huge batch of turkey bone broth. (attn: @kiplet.myatproto.social)
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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The rather baffling entry for “X” in The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800). See the other 25 letters here: http://buff.ly/1QGXAjR
And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for
And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The rather baffling entry for “X” in The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800). See the other 25 letters here: http://buff.ly/1QGXAjR
And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for
And more examples of how the letter “X” has been treated in alphabet books here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/x-is-for
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yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 AM
yeah tbh I’d really rather be on ADHD meds and NOT have to develop a two pack a day cigarette habit as someone who’s never smoked before just to function
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Waiting for Vance and Stephen Miller’s posts like …
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Waiting for Vance and Stephen Miller’s posts like …
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THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH