Andrew F.

Worth it. Every time.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

Uuugh 🫤🫂

A painting of Link from the Legend of Zelda. He rides Epona into a gray, ashen forest, where all the trees seem to be dead. But he turns as a ray of light shines through the gloom and illuminates a single pink flower on a tree--there is life here yet, and this forest can be saved.

Happy 40th Zelda anniversary!! 🤯
⚔️🛡️🧚🏽‍♂️🐎💚

Here's some art I made a while ago & still love.

"The Ashen Forest"

Painted by a human. 💚

#zeldaanniversary #zelda #legendofzelda #zeldafanart

They should invent an internet where you can be online AND happy

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

...I am resisting the urge to post the Mike Polk Cleveland tourism video, but only just. 😁

Housemate leaves while I am making coffee. Dog comes out and lays on the couch nearby. I finish making coffee and go back downstairs. "How long", I think, "will it be before she gets lonely and joins me?"

Two minutes. The answer is two minutes.

A figure with hooked staff and red windswept cloak rides on the back of a bee flying across a yellow desert background toward a makeshift taxi stand. The platform extending from a rocky outcrop appears derelict, but hooded figures wait atop it and along the stairs leading up. Boards and other exposed structure jut out from the underside. The line of commuters extends down to the rocks where a wooden sign rises to mark the route.

BEE TAXI (2016)
Acrylic on Gessobord - 12" x 16"

The last painting I used this palette for, HARBINGER, had a lot of yellows in it. When I finished, I covered the palette with a yellow ochre gesso so I could use it again. 1/4

I don't feel qualified to evaluate how well an opinion mirrors authentic originalism because I think originalism is already inauthentic. It's like asking me if THESE reiki crystals are REAL reiki crystals. Skip me with that bullshit and leave it for FedSoc's Chick-Fil-A bag lunches.

Mmmyup. I operate a small business. *Everyone* suddenly getting $2000, particularly people for whom it isn't "I will get to eat this month" money, increases my potential customer base dramatically. And not just once. For as long as the money stays in the local economy.

Color photo. A bald eagle perched in the leafless branches of a tree, surrounded by other branches, with a deep blue sky behind. It is looking down toward the viewer.

I took a walk through the Union Bay Natural Area at the Center for Urban Horticulture recently, and brought my long lens along 'just in case'...

Full post: andrewflenniken.com/2026/02/20/f...

#Photography #BaldEagle #UnionBayNaturalArea #CenterForUrbanHorticulture #Nikon #NikonCreators #SigmaPhoto

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

This is like calling fairies the Fair Folk, or the good neighbors, because you do not want to get on their bad side.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

This is a very specific comment but:

GOODBYE CON CRUD

"93 per cent of residents say they're satisfied with library services."

Do you know how hard it is to get 93% of people to agree on anything, let alone for that thing to be satisfaction with a government service?

Libraries are freaking magic.

Best condiment

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit

you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table

you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

Announcement from Substack: Post Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.

Substack, as expected, escalates toward hyper-disinfo.
Remember, folks: The tech bros tearing down our country are the major forces behind this monstrosity.
Choose your future wisely.

The way one image of this scene made the rest come roaring back out of the recesses of my recollection, from one viewing on HBO, half asleep, lying on the couch while babysitting in the late '80s.

Woof

One thing AI has revealed is that there are a whole lot of people who have neither interesting ideas nor the talent to express them, and apparently not even any real will or desire to cultvate either of these things… but still for some reason desperately want to be regarded as artists.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Ridiculous beasts (laudatory)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89Ev7Uv/

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.

This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

Color photo. A number of metal sculptures of running horses, seen from the front. They are covered in a reddish patina of rust. They are on a hillside covered in low green and yellow scrub. The deep blue sky is full of clouds, some of which are lenticular.

Today is Lunar New Year and it is the year of the Fire Horse...

Full post: andrewflenniken.com/2026/02/17/f...

#Photography #Sculpture #GrandfatherCutsLooseThePonies #Nikon #NikonCreators

...I initially read that as "Year of the Fire Hose" and I think that's probably my honest answer to the question.

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop

futurism.com/artificial-i...