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Saturday, April 18, 2026

"All bite, No bark" by Skinky

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To combat AI's spit, AI slop, plagiarism laundering, Artist Shout-Outs are given to human artists. #CreateDontScrape For more details, and to view previous ones, click here!

See the piece on ArtStation here! See where else the Artist Shout-Out has spread here! The shout-out choice was inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day, for Friday: allatrate, "To bark out, utter with a bark."

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

“My flesh is of the earth, like all bodies. But so is the body of my wheelchair, the titanium extracted from the crust of the earth, an element that happens to be found in Canada. The same crust of ancient rock I crawled across as a kid contains the element needed to build my wheelchair.” – Erin Clark

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Check out Diversability, founded by Tiffany Yu, which is “a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us), on a mission to elevate disability pride, together.” For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi! Like what you see and want to know when there’s more? Click here to subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button!

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Wednesday, October 9, 2024

"I'm over it. All the little costs of having ADHD that add up in the long run. Lost customers. Overdue bills. Replacement phone chargers. Time spent looking for things. The way it makes me feel, like a child. As if everyone else is a real adult and I'm just pretending. The frustration that I can't do the simple, everyday things that most people can. Like laundry, and making phone calls, and remembering to take out something from the freezer for dinner. It's the missed deadlines for opportunities I could've had. The broken relationships. How people think I'm lazy and selfish. How they think I don't care. How I think I'm lazy and selfish, even though I know I care." – Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

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Interested in seeing where the quote came from? If so, click here! Want information & support for families and individuals living with ADHD? If so, check out the ADDitude Magazine! For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! And I got the Rainbow Butterfly image from here! Like what you see and want to know when there's more? Click here to subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi!

Sunday, December 15, 2024

"Stay at home" by Elise Catros

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To combat AI's spit, Artist Shout-Outs are given to human artists. #createdontscrape For more details, and to view previous ones, click here!

See the piece on ArtStation here! See where else the Artist Shout-Out has spread here! The shout-out choice was inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: husband's tea, "British colloquial. Very weak tea."

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

“It’s a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I’m disabled. They place the burden on me to step out of my world and reach into theirs.” – Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

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Check out Diversability, founded by Tiffany Yu, which is “a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us), on a mission to elevate disability pride, together.” Interested in the book the quote came from? If so, click here! For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi! Like what you see and want to know when there’s more? Click here to subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button!

The image was made in Canva; check it out at the [referral] link here!

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting too much." - Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

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Interested in seeing where the quote came from? If so, click here! Wanna know more about HIV/AIDS and what's being done about it? If so, check out The Global Fund! For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! The quotes are also in the December Cause of the Month Quotes Ko-fi album! Like what you see and wanna know when there's more? Click here to Subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi!

ARTIST SHOUT-OUT #489

Sunday, September 24, 2023

"Football Player Akebono⚽" by Arthur Ko

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The Artist Shout-Outs are given to provide exposure to human artists to combat the AI compilations. For more details, and to view previous ones, click here! This shout-out choice was inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: Mackem, to see the definition, click here! See the piece on ArtStation here! See the original Artist Shout-Out post to Instagram here! See where else the Artist Shout-Out has spread here!

The image was made in Canva; check it out at the [referral] link here!

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

"Progress, not perfection. Take small steps forward each day." – Jackie McShannon

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Want information & support for families and individuals living with ADHD? If so, check out the ADDitude Magazine! For the curious, the purpose of this series of quotes can be found here! And I got the Rainbow Butterfly image from here! Like what you see and want to know when there's more? Click here to subscribe for updates and/or hit the Follow button! Enjoy what I do? Please consider supporting via the WGS Ko-fi!