Mckay

A digital painting of a Hawaiian crow framed in a circle. The background is warm green blurry vegetation. The crow is deep gray brown with warm brown eyes and a huge bill ringed by smaller feathers that look like fur.

Avian August day 8: ‘Alalā

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

I knew someone with this name, a decade ago. If you see this, I hope you’re well!

🥹🥹

Digital painting of crashing ocean eaves with rocks in the foreground. On the rocks is perched a masked booby, a large white bird with a sleek silhouette and black wings and tail, and a pointed yellow beak with a black mask around its eyes.

Avian August day 7: Masked Booby

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

A screenshot from Season 1 of Game Changer, where Sam says "Your significant others have been in control of the lie detectors this whole time!" And then a screenshot from Season 7 of Jacob Wysocki saying "Please don't steal my blood again."

season 1 vs. season 7

Avian August day 6: ‘Apapane (another Honeycreeper!)

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

Talking about news with friends and family is even more fun these days because when I share something optimistic, I’m not being cynical enough. And when I share something I’m worried about, I’m overreacting.

Ty friend 🩵

Avian August day 5: Pueo (Hawaiian short eared owl)

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

A digital painting of a chicken sized round bird with a knobby white beak and dark gray feathers wading in green marsh water, ringed by gentle ripples and dotted with green duckweed

Avian August day 4: Hawaiian Coot!

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

A digital painting of a small reddish bird with dark grey wings perched in greenery with spiky, dew laden flowers

Avian August day 3: Hawai’i Akepa!

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

Too much Labubu

Not enough Sebulba

A digital painting of two large white albatross with grey eyes and dark wings, facing each other and looking to the sky, with green grass, flowers, and other birds out of focus in the background.

Avian August day 2: Laysan Albatross, discussing the important things.

Painted in @procreate
#avianaugust #avianaugust2025 #birds 🪶
prompt by @ cookiedoves

Thank you ! 🩵🩵

Sure! Sounds fun

A digital painting of a bright red bird with black wings and a curved bill on a sunny green background

I’m challenging myself to actually complete a monthly draw theme - with @cookiedoves.bsky.social #AvianAugust !! Here’s day 1, the ‘I’iwi. I’m so glad the theme is Hawaii endemics 🌺

Drawn in @procreate.com

#birdart 🦜

Day 1 ~ #avianaugust2025 ~ 'I'iwi 🌱

She’s a doll

I’m so happy it worked out!!!!!

Three vinyl stickers of the game changer loop-de-loop in progress pride, trans, and non-binary colours respectively. The stickers also have the words "we've been here the whole time"

Game Changer pride stickers are out now 🎉 (with massive thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for giving me permission to sell them!)

UK: canopyrobin.sumupstore.com/product/game...

International: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

I’d love it if they did omg

I think many times people believe I am being negative, or a bummer, when I am just casually talking neutrally about things that are bad. I think we should talk neutrally about things that are bad more often.

Visiting with parents at their home is such a stark reminder that households exist where nobody eats fiber.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Lotta standing energy

@sudsley.bsky.social is streaming PEAK momentarily! And I’m just hikin’, mannnn. www.twitch.tv/sudsley

How come none of our guys ever fall out of windows

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

Heeeeeeeeelp

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.