(publicly shared video of a sweetheart’s dance from Rodney Stanger on fb)
This is really the cleanest Sweethearts Dance I’ve ever seen in my life. I am in love! I am transfixed! Footwork smooth and strong like a mfin mountain river! Incredible! 🤩 😳 🥰
PLEASE do not let his slick, flowery sounding commercials convince you that he is anything other than a deeply racist Republican. Please do not reward his long history of racial profiling and anti-Blackness. There are better, more progressive candidates who aren’t closet Republicans, who deserve to be the Democratic nominee. Please don’t turn this into another “lesser of two evils” election. We can do sooo much better than another racist billionaire trying to buy an election.
If you have been on twitter today you have probably seen everyone talking about this tweet by JK Rowling:
JK Rowling has posted TERFy things before but this is the most explicit. She is referring to an employment tribunal that was brought forward by a woman, Maya Forstater, who had not had her contract renewed due to being repeatedly transphobic (including repeatedly and purposefully mispronouning a person who uses they/them pronouns).
Rowling’s tweet is spreading misinformation about the employment tribunal: The case wasn’t about whether you can or cannot say sex is real. Maya Forstater’s case was about whether discriminating against trans people is a legally protected right (not about her own employment) as she admits here:
The money for the case (around £80k) was raised through transphobic platforms such as Mums net.
Here is where the good news bit comes in: Forstater’s case was not successful. This means transphobes just paid £80k of their own money to give trans people more rights! LMFAO! This case law/new precedent has strengthened legal protections for trans people in England!
The judge in the case ruled that TERF/’Gender critical’ views are “incompatible with human dignity and fundamental rights of others” and that TERFs do not have the right to ignore a trans persons gender
That refusing to respect someone’s gender and use their pronouns is an “approach not worthy of respect in a democratic society”
and concludes that being transphobic is not a political belief protected by equality laws
This is fantastic news and something really positive for trans people in England and Wales! I know calling our Rowling for being a Terf is important but losing this positive context is harmful. As trans people we are inundated with bad news and hateful views - today is a good day, something good has happened at last, lets share and celebrate that as the relentless bad news is killing us.
Republicans—not Bernie Sanders supporters, not Russian bots—REPUBLICANS are stealing the 2020 election in plain sight
Al Gore “lost” to George W. Bush in 2000 because of massive statewide voter roll purges and uncounted ballots in Florida, not because of Ralph Nader. Hillary Clinton “lost” to Donald Trump because of voter suppression, voter roll purges, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act right before the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton did not lose because of Bernie Sanders and his supporters. Now … which voters do you think will be specifically targeted and purged in Wisconsin?? Please pay fucking attention!!! Stop regurgitating centrist talking points that scapegoat progressives.
From the article: A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state to purge more than 200,000 people from voter rolls because they may have moved, according to The Associated Press.
Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy sided with three voters represented by a conservative law firm in denying the request by attorneys for the state elections commission to have his decision put on hold.
The decision means the state has to remove approximately234,000 [eligible voters and legally registered] people from its voter rolls before the 2020 election, though the decision is expected to be appealed.
I had foolishly been avoiding using ZSpheres, but I decided to play around with them yesterday, after finding the tutorials covering them to be inspiring. I thought they would be just the thing for another iteration of my [lanky/anthropomorphic] take on the Black Rabbit of Inlé, so here are the beginnings of one, sketched out in ZSpheres, which are interesting and fun to work with. Once I am done sketching with them, I’ll convert this to a mesh for more refining, but I find myself liking him at this stage, even though it’s early on and I generally fret about the sculpt looking shite and being doomed to failure at this point in a project.🤪😬😂More soon. Side note: really enjoying the new features I have noticed in ZBrush 2020, especially that live silhouette in the corner; very useful.
Tis the season we retell the story of threatening a rich man with his own death in order to get him to pay his employees livable wages and not horde money.
I had foolishly been avoiding using ZSpheres, but I decided to play around with them yesterday, after finding the tutorials covering them to be inspiring. I thought they would be just the thing for another iteration of my [lanky/anthropomorphic] take on the Black Rabbit of Inlé, so here are the beginnings of one, sketched out in ZSpheres, which are interesting and fun to work with. Once I am done sketching with them, I’ll convert this to a mesh for more refining, but I find myself liking him at this stage, even though it’s early on and I generally fret about the sculpt looking shite and being doomed to failure at this point in a project.🤪😬😂More soon. Side note: really enjoying the new features I have noticed in ZBrush 2020, especially that live silhouette in the corner; very useful.
A short video that shows how I did the skin texture on Slouchy, and the Wrinkledrake. After using a needle or other pointy tool to make a crosshatch pattern on the piece, I break out my heat gun and very carefully heat polish the surface of the clay. I make sure that I only expose the clay to the heat gun for a few seconds at a time, just until the surface starts to get shiny. Depending on the size of the piece and the level of detail, I may repeat this process a few times with progressively finer tools.
After one last detail pass and some heat polishing, I’m calling Slouchy the Gargoyle done, and I will be molding him as soon as it stops raining buckets here. He is right around 4.25" tall by 5" wide and 3.25" long; the perfect size for slouching around your shelves or furniture! More on this lil boi soon, once I’ve poured his mold.
