Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialJenni Kosche /ᐠ - ˕ -マ @jennikosche.de · 02/08/2025✨New Zine: How to be a Zinemaker – a (very) serious guide –✨ 2146
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialShubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here. 4678992385
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialSolaire 🔜 GATEway FATE 🐏 @solairelunaire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i must not fear The Project 1226501318
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialThought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Our Micro-Bursary submissions are open! The Micro-Bursaries are open to early career, UK based: Comic Creators of Colour, Disabled Comic Creators, and/or Trans/Non-Binary Comic Creators. Find out more, and put your name forward here: thoughtbubblefestival.com/microbursaries 1103122
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...moultano.wordpress.comWhere to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show YouAn atlas of the vibrance of the real world 471129381
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialJoey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 26/04/2026collecting physical media is doomsday prepping (complimentary) 2187
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialG.G. Lapresa @gglapresa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Hace diez años, Reino Unido estaba primera. Ahora es la 22. 12918
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialQuindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 08/05/2026The Quindrie Comic Fund is open for submissions until 31st July 5pm! UK-based comic creators can apply for up to £1000 to put towards a comic project or goal. Read more details on eligibilty and how to apply here: quindriepress.com/fund 🐉 1157160
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialEmelia @thisismissem.social · 08/05/2026I'm pretty late to reading this, but this essay by @stevendotjs.bsky.social on AI, the tech industry, and the legacy of past choices and their consequences is both a solemn read, but also really relatable and funny: stvn.sh/writing/prog...stvn.shProgramming Still Sucks. — WritingSorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this... 2199
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialScooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Easy way to explain it 114251
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.social𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 19/12/2025“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here 7839741000
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialAnton ☾ ❦ ⟡ @antonarcana.gay · 17/10/2025Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out. 833951781
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Reminder that "not acting" shapes the future as much as "acting" does and that not choosing is a choice. 421763
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialethereal demon @seppuku.surgery · 24/09/2025no one knows that i’m half way through finished with my zine 0182
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialBERNERI ✧ @berneri.horse · 18/08/2025pardner!!! hold on!! #merch 122034567
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 17/08/2025"I need to be good at art to make art therefore I require the image generator" you fool. you utter embarrassment. go make something out of paper clips coward 623958633
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialDorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 24/07/2025i bring a real "stop saying this is impossible/a problem only solved by tech when you mean institutionally we've committed to under-resourcing human expertise" to a lot of meetings that people are forced to begrudgingly agree with before moving on as if i said nothing 023867
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.social🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/07/2025every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know 652706622
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/07/2025Good news: every clumsy embarrassing fumble forward counts towards writing 733768
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialJosh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I LOVE the idea of assigning zines. I think one of the other major challenges of, well, education in general, is creating space for all different learning and thinking styles. Zines can do that really well. 1103
cfurn.bsky.social @cfurn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025also the speed at which i was convinced to buy a game that was described as “maps” and “places/communities changing over time” is maybe slightly concerning… (and it is SO pretty and physically laid out like an ordnance survey map!! like who am i to overlook that) 010
cfurn.bsky.social @cfurn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025am realising now that most of them have a scottish folklore theme to them (alongside being visually stunning) 110
cfurn.bsky.social @cfurn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025yes i perhaps did purchase a fair few zines and other artworks today but this is all for research purposes i promise 120
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialDr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Same with making art—you learn a new thing BY doing a new thing! 031
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 11/05/2024current vibe 3497433587
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6253660111251
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialLJ Amber with false fangs and little bat wings @ljamberfantasy.com · 29/05/2025Art emerges in the dialogue between artist and medium. Learning the discipline of working within the medium's constraints, and developing approaches and techniques that shine within them, is what polishes and exalts the art. This is why AI "art" of all kinds isn't really art. 061
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialLisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Ding ding ding 0145
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025me on my hands and knees, begging people to just make the stick figures 26710
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialworm 🐛 @stripeyworm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I mean this so honestly, but you absolutely should be making the most "Mediocre Shit" and be proud of that Low brow, high brow?! Whatever! Art can and should exist purely for the sake of creativity. real freedom and diversity within art is all about CREATING outside of perceived "artistic" value 7406145
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The UK public goods discourse cycle strikes again. 116872
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialEschire Cat-tle, MSc @escherbug.art · 06/05/2025Me, gearing up to do the last chunks of research necessary to turn in my written thesis, start looking for work, pack up and move house: I gotta be making more zines. I gotta be making little guys. I need to be doing arts and crafts. I wanna read more books. I gotta compose more music. 1161
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialpumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 07/05/2025guess what. im making more zines 3411
cfurn.bsky.social @cfurn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Recent trips to local bodies of water making me think i should spend more time there… maybe the only time my brain has felt truly quiet lately 000
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialRebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I'm at the library and I love it. You should go to the library. 2619231987
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialJay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 11/04/2025‘ I make my own compost so that I can convince myself that even when the world seems socially and ecologically broken there are still mechanisms for recovery: it shows that change is possible.’ @frasermacdonald.bsky.social in the latest @lrb.co.uk lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukFraser MacDonald · On CompostI sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’... 184
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialsarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 14/04/2025the labor of art is mostly invisible. what you don't see in a finished piece is all the hours of thought it required, all the little discoveries and surprises and tragedies of production. art IS the process. if you aren't interested in the process, then i don't really know why you want to be artist 3561722193
cfurn.bsky.social @cfurn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Feeling 100% completely normal and sane thinking about Audrey Walker’s tribute to Joan Eardley: ‘To me she was quite simply the winter sea to which and for which I would give my life.’ Anyway… on with my day I suppose 000
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025There is no world in which writing prompts for a machine to generate text in the shape of arguments teaches you to build an argument yourself, any more than there’s a world in which microwaving a lot of things gives you the power to project flame from your hands. 625486
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2025i love it when long trip by train 0512
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 22/01/2025i will still be here and screaming when you come back. and if you need to rest i will scream for you while you take care 834942
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 13/02/2025“optimize your writing with AI—” how about you optimize your brain by thinking for yourself and not outsourcing your creativity to companies owned by some of the world’s worst people 6440102
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025the way being alive is both abundance and abyss 08423
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialJA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 09/02/2025opened 47 websites "to read later" knowing full well they will remain unopened until my browser crashes and absolves me of my digital hoarding sins. it's called tab management losers 4318
Reposted by @cfurn.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025repeat after me: an AI system does NOT and CANNOT seek power. it CANNOT seek, want, & desire anything more than your toaster can. people in positions of power use AI to seek, assert, consolidate, and centralise power 15644178
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