solstice

sentinel. graphite on paper, 2018

we were hungry before we were born

slabtiger. gouache painting from 2017, 8x10 inches

a digital painting of a closeup of a canine's mouth. inside is a glowing ungulate jumping over a simplified moon and star

Over the moon #art

The Manananggal

Digital color illustration in warm to purple tones. Title at bottom reads: Unfettered. The entire canvas is filled with massively long, undulating strands of hair, generally flowing from top left to lower right. An equine creature jumps up and away from the mass, some hair strands twisting and flowing around and from it. Its long neck is made up of smaller twisting hair strands, and more hair flows from its head, withers, and fetlocks. Its face is a smooth full-face mask shaped to fit a human's face. The center of the mask is mostly covered by a large, sideways simplistic eye with a pinpoint pupil looking forward.

happy lunar new year of the horse! 🐴🔥

#art

ゴシック風な衣装の4568

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all

screenshot of a Fallen London item tooltip: "A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural There's always a rational explanation — if your system of logic is expansive enough. The Firm Conviction is a Hat. Watchful +1; Persuasive +8; Reduces Nightmares build up."

crop of the previous image: "The Firm Conviction is a Hat."

"Is this a pigeon?" meme except it's Failbetter Games gesturing to various Fallen London items — Sebastian the Nocturnal Smotherer (a cat), Song Stuck in Your Head (music), and A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders and A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (abstract beliefs) — and saying "Is this a Hat?"

was looking over some of my @failbettergames.com Fallen London gear and this image appeared fully formed in my mind

Like. Fallen London is WAAYYYYY better than doomscrolling

Might I also submit:

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

Bruh

hagiography

this week on "i know this word because i'm playing fallen london":

Graphic of Future Knowledge's logo

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its funny that the most common scent associations for me are wood, smoke, and resin
then i turn around and wear a fougere

［週末自由帳］

ハロウィーンの頃に描きたかった、殺人鬼に仮装した織座と刑事のような甚八。
ぬるめの流血表現があるので、念の為センシティブ設定しておきます。

Oriza dressed up as a murderer and Jinpachi as a detective, which I had planned to draw around Halloween.
There is a little bit of bloodshed, so I've set the sensitive setting just in case.

I always tell this to my research assistants: if you use AI to summarize and write for you, you don't need to be my assistant. You don't need to do research at all.

Research should be selfish: *you* (not a machine) learn how to read, write, innovate, and dream. Otherwise, what is the point?

edited screenshot from Fallen London. the bold upper text says "You are a Stalker now." and the lower, small italics text said "You are now a Stalker." the text in between these lines that describes what the in-game career called "Stalker" does has been blurred

the reflexive guilt center of my brain when I have to turn at the same lights as the car in front of me twice in a row:

pokemon evolution

Look...everybody likes a good shortcut. But LLMs aren't one. They're a longcut. They appear to save time, but they take away control. This isn't even touching on the many, many ethical and environmental concerns (others have done that). This is about integrity of data.

I have two modes when it comes to recipes:
1. the vaguest instructions ever, bc i was working on the fly and grabbing whatever was on hand
2. shit has been measured to the 2nd decimal, movements and hand positions described

Reblog by @noctumsolis · 2 images 💬 64  🔁 12224  ❤️ 16359 · Like, maybe the experience of the lancer discord is atypical, and fascists are learning to have thicker skins and lie about their beliefs better. It may be atypical but i…

This is a brilliant post about how small, 'performative' moves—like a pride mech in a Discord banner—aren't empty at all. They're cheap, easy ways to force fascists to reveal themselves and bounce. It's zero-cost community protection, and honestly? Kinda vital.

www.tumblr.com/noctumsolis/...

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

［週末メモランダム］

エイプリルフールに乗り遅れて投稿されなかった「甚八と織座の性別を反転させたらどうなるか」というお遊び。

性別反転ネタが苦手な方もおられるよな〜とは思いますが、ブルスカはどうもセンシティブ設定ができなさそうなので、そのまま流します。

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This is a play on “What would happen if Jinpachi and Oriza's genders were reversed?” that was not posted in time for April Fool's Day.

"why do you know so much" i try out a lot of stupid things in stupid ways then end up needing to try out another stupid thing to clean up my stupid fuck up

we need more representation for non-monologue thinkers

moving from forums to social media was one of the greatest internet mistakes we made as a whole and i will die on this hill

i will read a book so i can argue with it in its margins DO NOT TEST ME