Sonia Harris

"Hell yeah work sucks" skeleton from my comic

Monday: I wish it was Friday. Friday: I wish I was dead. Death: Hell yeah work sucks

happy Friday to everyone, but especially to the person who got this tattoo of my comic

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

‘yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can’t work with minors rn’

The thing about all these freak AI execs constantly going "our machine may have gained sentience?!" is that they want slaves. That they are ok with slave labor.

And *then* it always, always turns out their latest AI trick actually used slave labor somewhere in the global south.

They're slavers.

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation

This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

every morning i wake up & thank god that the stupidest fucking people on the planet are now in charge of a giant machine that murders people, gulping down our tax dollars like so many 4lokos

Obama’s change in policy towards Cuba and the JCPOA happened, the world didn’t end, everything was fine. Part of manufacturing consent for more war is purposefully forgetting the very recent memory when it was proven to be wholly unnecessary.

Anti-trafficking efforts also must exclude local law enforcement because they will share information with federal agents.

While this will not surprise anyone, the DHS-administered tip line to report both human trafficking and "illegal immigration" is THE SAME EXACT NUMBER — a direct call to ICE

If misogyny disqualified men from your respect, you could all spend a lot less time being like "Oh my god, I'm so shocked to discover that he's hateful and stupid," later.

a man in a white shirt is making a face ALT: a man in a white shirt is making a face

that feeling when you've been drawing on the wrong layer

At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.

It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.

In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.

Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

i was so honored to be commissioned by @okfox.bsky.social to draw this portrait of my favorite tv detective ♡

Extremely funny to hear "900 people would lose billions but still be rich and every single member of the middle class--millions of people--would get a check big enough to not have to stress about rent for a month or two" portrayed as a BAD thing

I think if I died and found out that my descendants had used AI to write my eulogy I'd invent haunting from first principles

Everyone be nice to my friends and colleagues at ECCC and buy all of their stuff. Why support big business when you can become an art collector on the cheap? Artist Alley is where stars are on the rise.

Yesterday a friend complained about a coworker who (in 6 yrs) hasn’t been able to learn an aspect of ordering, and they said “But he is in his late 40’s, so it’s not his fault he can remember instructions.”
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Is this a post-Covid thing, are we meant to assume everyone has early onset dementia now?!

A close-up portrait of an elderly hairless cat called Mews. She is pale pink with big dark eyes, she’s sitting on a dark blue couch, wrapped in a furry grey blanket.

If you can give a hairless cat a gentle ear massage today, I highly recommend it.

The shift from hoping your doctor is older than you to hoping your doctor is younger than you is an actual thing.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Obviously the city of San Francisco isn’t run by witches, it’s just an adorable coincidence that there’s an epic cleaning of all the neighborhoods sewer systems during tonight’s cathartic full moon! ✨

This place is magic even when it isn’t trying.

Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

These GOP bubblegum tough guys are really brave when other people's kids die thousand of miles away from them. Meanwhile, they're literally afraid to be in the downtown of any major city after 5PM.

A google trends graph comparing searches for 'transgender' versus 'gender critical'.

The BBC, (who regularly use the term 'gender critical'), claim they have to use transphobic slurs for trans people because the British public are too thick to know what the term 'transgender' means.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

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