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I started writing a book on lions.

It turned out to be quite tricky and, frankly, damn dangerous, so I went back to regular paper.

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky

Illustration of the aurora borealis, in vibrant colours against a starry winter night sky, with dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

Aurora borealis on a winter night ✨

#art #illustration

What kinda works for me is having a rule that moves all mails containing the word "unsubscribe" into a separate folder, that I can check and delete maybe once a fortnight

WIP
#art #crow #digitalart

Potrisha ✦ sketchy comm 💜

“Stasis” is a portrait painted by the artist Zara Alfonso, and is the first piece in her series about invisible illness. A portrait painting of a girl with skin so pale she’s almost translucent, her lips are tinged blue and she gazes upward through seemingly unseeing eyes. Pale moths and winged insects cover the expanse of her face and body, blending into her skin in places.

I’m really excited to share that I won the Frank R. Paul Award for Best Magazine Cover Art! My painting Stasis, a self-portrait about invisible illness, was featured on the cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 58 🖤

#art #painting #portrait #illustration

#pixelart

19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...

Painterly bust portrait of a pale woman in her thirties, arms crossed and expression fierce as she looks to the viewer. She has blue-black hair cut in a shoulder-length bob. She wears a leather jacket over a tank top and has deep red lipstick. The scene is dark, lit by a cool overhead light with a fainter orange glow off in the background.

A more modern #dnd commission this time, Felicity :D

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

What's that blanket you have there - what's the material? Looks unusual.

Handwriten manuscript of the Baroque Cycle, a three-volume speculative epic set in the 17th century, when the scientific revolution was beginning to take shape. Author Neal Stephenson says, "The Baroque Cycle fits under the broader vision of what sclence fiction is about... fiction that's not considered good unless it has interesting Ideas in it." The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson, William Morrow Books, New York, 2003-2004 The manuscript consists of two stacks of handwritten foolscap pages; one stack is approximately 60cm deep, the one beside it is 40cm thick.

To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.

Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—

Yeah nope, that's just deranged.

Street art, London #Photography #StreetArt #London 📷

Germination🌱

Prints are on sale on INPRNT: www.inprnt.com/gallery/caro...

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

A huge, beautiful library of tessellated materials in biology!

tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de/collection

And an interview in Science with the creators of this library:

www.science.org/content/arti...

New blog post about how well Kanban works in @joplinapp.bsky.social

#pkm #kanban #notetaking

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I’ve learned in last 24 hours:
1. The human ear is sensitive enough to detect particles moving as little as 1/10th the radius of an atom.
2. Lantern fish are significant enough an impedance to sonar that they can appear to be the sea floor.
3. Military manuals > scientific papers for TTRPG design

@es-de.org hey, I installed the latest update and it really made my day. The play time tracking plugs nicely into my game dashboards.

I'd like to pitch in a bit, but would prefer not having to deal with patreon again. Do you also have alternative ways of donation?

A piece of land floating in the air. Trees and rocks are scattered. A little samurai silhouette stands in the middle and a cat is hiding somewhere. Brushed ink on paper.

Daily sketch 🌕🌲🥷🐈‍⬛️

Can you spot the cat ?

#art #artsky #sketch #ink

The dolphins are getting Alzheimer’s from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff

and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan
from space.

The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots

and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.

I loved DS1, but somehow missed that 2 came out already 😅🫣
Maybe I should give it a try. I just don't know where I'll find the 100 hours, but that's a problem for future me to deal with

Yeah from my PoV both of those posts were made on a Monday 😂

The line up meme. Two doors both with long lines of people walking into them. Over the left door it reads "Dwarf Fortress Update". Over the right door it reads "Hotfix Patch Notes".

The both kinds of Dwarf Fortress fans:

Brushed ink sketch of a cliff with a waterfall. On a bridge stands a little samurai silhouette. Somwhere hides a cat. Brushed ink on paper

Daily sketch 🪾🥷🐈‍⬛️

Can you spot the wandering cat ?

#art #artsky #sketch #ink

Where do I learn more about which keyboards tho‽ 😀

I'm thinking Scalzi's personality is quite different from the other guy's

🌟🔮Trust🔮🌟

#art #traditionalart