Sukrit "Act" Tan

The aerodynamic bicycle. Des: B. G. Bowden. 1935.

In progress: "Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12" #art #wip #birds

my two tabby cats cuddling together so that their faces are touching and their legs entwined. together they form a heart shape. Nina is in the right and Ivan is on the left. they are siblings

They’re in a heart formation today
#Caturday

Just a reminder: if Bluesky ever feels "boring" that's probably a good thing. Social media shouldn't crave your attention 24/7. Having fun bits and pieces of stuff to see a few times a day, then returning to real life is far better for your mental health and brain function.

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ Translated as ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloomberg’s European Headquarters in 2010–2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

Photo d’une gravure qui représente trois fleurs dont le pistile a été remplacé par un globe oculaire.

Photo de gravures qui représentent une amphore ornée d'un oeil autour de laquelle dansent deux petites silhouettes. Un coeur sort de l'amphore. Le tout représenté dans les flammes d'un grand feu de camp.

Photo de tirages d’une gravure représentant une femme de profil avec la tête tournée vers nous et un chat qui nous observe également sur son épaule. La femme a une dague tatouée sur le bras et branche de feuille sur l’avant bras. Sa main est posée sur le chat.

Photo de tirages d’une gravure représentant une main qui tient un fumigène à bout de bras. La gravures est imprimée en noir et blanc.

Petite sélection de gravures toujours disponibles sur ma boutique !

Elles sont toutes imprimé de manière artisanale par mes petites mains pleine d'arthrite.

www.antipatriarcame.com

Otter painting

Just gliding through 🦦

So: Painting finished circa 1500 CE. The reel fragment lies dormant and seemingly ignored(?) until in 2014 a Tumblr user named Amelia Hamrick transcribed it and a YouTube user named James Spalink arranged and recorded it. A 515-year collaboration. What Hell left unfinished the Internet has completed

I long for the day Rebelle is available on iPad ngl.

Procreate is great, but I cannot describe how much I miss being able to actually mix colors properly.

Beautiful.

Definitely not as good, but still decent I think.

Four origami cats on a white table

Thinking about Them (the busted origami cats we made at lunch)

Main gallery hall ceiling with iron bracing stone work archways carved columns

The Natural History Museum London SW7

Main gallery hall ceiling with iron bracing stone work archways carved columns

#reference #materialreference #buildingreference

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

Spent a good deal of time mapping the feathers of the wing and trying to get back into the swing of this one. Haven't found the groove yet.

In progress: "Bone Crusher", graphite & pencil crayon on paper, 12x15", 2024-? #art #birds

Iris and Lillium from Countdown to Countdown riding on horses. Iris is riding on a rearing mechanical porcelain horse, Lillium is looking surprised as he's cantering on a brown horse

Happy Year of the Horse everyone!! 🐎🧧

illustration of small birds, including pigeons, ducks, crows, a magpie, a cockatiel, a parakeet, and a kiwi, wearing various accessories

choose your fav tiny bird

Sketchbook spread. The left page has a marker illustration of a heron, while the right page is full of colorful, rainbow blobs of watercolor and has various ink doodles drawn on top. There’s flowers, stars, a cat and a dog

Colors are so neat, I love colors 🌈 ✨

#art #sketchbook #traditionalart

cheese renders of my Collier revolver 🧀🗣️ #3d #wip #blender #marmoset #weaponart #zbrush

Constructed in 1894, the Marine Engine House, previously named the Ferry Lane Pumping Station, was built during the development of the reservoir complex. The structure is relatively complex in form, but consists primarily of a two-storey building with a single storey building attached to its northern side. To the west of this is a further single storey building which includes, on its western side, the base of a now-demolished chimney stack. The Marine Engine House is constructed throughout in brick and architecturally is in the simplified Italianate style much used for Victorian industrial buildings, with semi-circular heads to all of the principal door and window openings. Roofs are generally finished in plain clay tiles with extensive use of patent glazed roof-lights and ridge lights in the single storey sections. The roof of the Engine House is pitched at around 45 degrees, and is half-hipped at its northern and southern ends. Doors and window frames are in painted softwood. Despite the missing chimney, and some external alterations, the building is still an imposing piece of Victorian industrial architecture. The Engine House is now a visitor centre with a café, shop, and exhibition space Text from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walthamstow_Wetlands

Walthamstow Reservoirs, London N17

The Marine Engine House

#reference #buildingreference #martialreference

I wouldn't make a big deal if I got rich but there'd be signs.

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

and on a meta-level

"what do you mean by X?"

seems to often be interpreted as

"I'm astonished you believe X, explain yourself"

instead of

"I'd like to know your current working definition of X just to make sure I'm understanding your statement as intended"

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Welp, in what is a fucking horrifying additional twist, that's @arstechnica.com out of my rotation permanently.

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

NGL, one of the skills I found most useful in my modding career was the ability to go:

“what’s the minimum I actually need to do to fulfil my vision? And can I feasibly do it with minimal external help?”

This is my most recent personal project, which took me months to complete. It was during an extremely difficult time in my life, just last year.

I'm proud of how far it went, and it was satisfying to create something complex that wasn't tucked behind an NDA. Here's a quick Before and After :)

Front with five drawers.

Front left.

Open drawers

Detail of a damaged and then repaired (not super well but the alternative was fraught with too much risk at this stage) bit at the top left.

Final details. The front and drawers.

#woodworking

⛸️Learning to Skate⛸️

buttons with 0.5rem and 0.5rem 1rem padding

design tip for programmers: text likes having slightly more horizontal padding than vertical padding :)