Jon Butler

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[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

The on-going situation bring Ta-Nehisi Coates's words to mind.. #BlackLivesMatter #digitalart #illustration

[Kiana Mai 🌹 @kianamaiart]

me in this thread: "AI is affecting my very specific job as an artist in the animation industry"

ppl: "so true!"

me also in this thread: "AI is also affecting Black and marginalized communities"

ppl: "uh hey actually this affects ALL of us not just Black people"

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

"The invincible battle maid"
#conceptart #illustrationㅤ #blackart

[Groovy (Comms Open) @DocileBread]

X gang

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

@Saku_SushiRoll I am a bit late but thats mostly what I been drawing..a lil spicy tho..

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:

"Israel did X."

"Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y."

"Yeah, because Israel did Z."

"Yeah but only because the Arabs did A."

But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.

Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.

So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen.

And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today.

This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.

Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.

The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Happy birthday to Duke Ellington, born on this day in 1899!

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

“I revere the Confederacy, I’m a proud supporter of the Confederacy. The problem is Jefferson Davis’s government.”

[Zach Fuller @zachtothefuller]

I think @maximilian_ nailed generative AI right on the head

[Jake Flores 🇵🇸🇲🇽 @feraljokes]

This scene has always embodied cyberpunk as opposed to scifi to me. It's the future, but instead of utopia, you get a more technologically advanced way of being poor

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

"Bast..Guide my Spear"

[grumpy zumi @neozumi]

QRT with your Marvel Rivals art 👏

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

@jhonyknight This is fucking solid, nice work

[Gene Park @GenePark]

hey guys, just to confirm this is indeed my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.

my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the very same surgery Walter White undergoes. my bills are massive, but this has been an incredible help already. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.

https://t.co/mb8TCD72cL

[Ellina Akhiamova @ESiniyptic]

You asked and I made it! ❤️
Warm and cold balance in dark skin tones

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

It always will bother me when I see black folk use the plagiarism machine..because putting aside the admission you have no skill and refuse to improve, or the theft.. you are using a tool what has already contributed to your erasure...

[No Honey ☆🇦🇷 @No_honey_art]

As a person with disability I say fuck ai

[gazola.bsky.social @Gazo1a]

FUCK AI
SUPPORT HUMAN ARTISTS

[☆.｡.:* t0m0ko .｡.:*☆ @mootsheep]

‘The concept phase’ is the absolute worst time to be using generative AI. You’re poisoning your creation at the root, you’re immediately limiting your vision. Why on earth would you ever do that???

[Jon Butler @JonOButler]

Flash God Black Cat Warrior Princess.. Yoruichi is a Goddess..
#BLEACH #illustration

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

My latest newsletter roundup is out: Best Black history books of 2025, Kentucky State shooting, Battle of the Real HU

https://t.co/yxV8z24aiT