Rika⁷

Happy #portfolioday! I'm Marika, a Black illustrator and designer. I'd love to work on more book covers, book-adjacent work, and science fiction and fantasy projects. www.commanderrika.com/illustrator marikawrites589(at)gmail.com

unlike just a few years ago, nobody online seems to be talking much about how the future economy will be built around very expensive digital pictures of cartoon monkeys anymore

hey! elise came home from the hospital HOMECOMING QUEEN and sometime in the near future... the DEADLANDS again?? in the mean time, it'd be a HUGE Help, as we wrap up our fundraising push in October: pls. donate to this if you haven't 🖤🖤🖤 ❤️❤️❤️ 💯🧚🍣

Damn they are making a game about corporate assassins killing EA

Nothing can be done without accountability. Nothing. There were no consequences for the war on terror’s transgressions and look where that got us. There were no real consequences for an armed attempted overthrow of the government and look where that got us.

This is horrifying, she kept having seizures and chatgpt kept telling her it was either because she was "cognitively sensitive" (not a thing) or her brain was doing a completely normal "low power mode" while also telling her doctors don't know what they're talking about

For lovers of beautiful and meaningful jewelry @peculiarityshop.bsky.social youtu.be/JGai8lz-TPA?...

great news

So I'm not gonna quote that stupid bullshit thing from RFK, but have you noticed that white supremacists insist that white culture is superior because they're individualists and Asians are collectivists and then they pull this shit? White supremacy is a form of collectivism. It's just a shitty one.

one big priority for the next Dem congress should be knocking over the Ellison empire somehow. it's plenty rickety

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Anthropic is trying to write its own federal AI regulation law. The major AI firms have all issued feeble proposals for how their AI will serve the public, in anticipation of their pending IPOs. It's all a reminder that we cannot, any under circumstances, let AI firms govern the future.

They know "A.i." in education is poison. If you're in NYC, please come to the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally TOMORROW to call on the @mayor.nyc.gov to CANCEL the "A.i." pilots in our high schools! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Using Black people’s likenesses for AI-generated ads where you cast them as stereotypes isn’t just incredibly unethical, it should be illegal www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

If I don't get at least twenty emails, I will be very disappointed in all of you.

I named a character in MAZYWOOD “Priscilla Stephens” after my 88-year-old aunt, a 1960s civil rights warrior in ailing health. She came to my book signing in Miami and was surprised to hear her name in my reading. 😍 I am still trying to raise money to help offset her bills. gofund.me/fef960f97

And if she cleaning while listening…