Abigail Kabaker

Twin Peaks tv show opening credits shot of a Pacific Northwest road, mountains, and trees with a sign “Welcome to Twin Peaks”. Green words are superimposed on top: “ONE HELL OF A 2026, COOP.”

Is this from a generator or did you photoshop/ edit it yourself ?

Swan Boy wearing a Descendents shirt becking you to visit swanboy.com. The background looks like a vacation to southern Florida threw up "all over da place"

swanboy.com

If you've grown up having to deal with the weirdest and most unsettling of church goers (often white and republican, lets not mince words) you know how true this is. Christian Nationalism is just that mind bending and dangerous. Its basically no different from a turbo cult but now they have power

In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.

"the fair’s beer supply in the single tent was kept cold in a large makeshift cooler...hosed off at the start of the fair, but then never fully drained or cleaned again. It was simply refilled daily with ice...as melting occurred...handled the beer and ice with their bare hands"

I just dry heaved

“This is a distraction” is a bankrupt thing to say when they’re trying to get away with EVERYTHING.”

Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

The onesie is very cute, but I love the mask / hat .

Our INCREDIBLE poster for HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS by @montadrew.bsky.social !! Posters will be on sale in the lobby the night of the screening!

Brave the elements in all your best FURS and FURSUITS to see this slapstick masterpiece - February 28th SOLD OUT, and added March 1st screening already 60%!!

YouTube video by SyFy Sistas Inc. Soul of the Story S3 Ep 2 | Storytelling & Birth with Midwife Winifred Burton

Why am I a midwife who also writes horror?

ICYMI:

It’s like, do what you can do reduce the harm you’re implicated in systemically. You may be limited from honoring a boycott, ok. You can’t really help paying taxes that are murdering people. But you for damn sure can choose not to pollute Memphis & waste gallons of water & plagiarize with ChatGPT!

Most cultures have a word like goy. Bule, gaijin, gringo, etc. If only one of those types of words offends you, ask yourself why: do you feel victimized by the group that uses it? Are those feelings legitimate or mired in their own prejudice/conspiracy? Is this word hurting you (it's not)?
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i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

This popped up in my feed today www.popsci.com/technology/f...

5 panel comic P1: Title. "HOW TO DRAW A HORSE" P2: "SKETCH A SHAPE LIKE THIS" Beneath, we see a pencil sketch of a kinda squooshed rectangtangtangtangtangle P3: "TURN IT INTO A HEAD" The shape is now a horse head. This shape, it gives head. P4: "NOW, COMPLETE THAT HORSE!" We dolly back to see the glorious complete abomination. The head simply has four legs jutting out of it. P5: A wide panel, showing the crime against creation frolicking through a field. A blue sky filled with fluffy pink clouds fills the background. On the top left, a single word "congratulation"

Horses. Up there with bicycles as the bane of many an artist.

However, I figured out a foolproof way of drawing them, and I want to share that with you! 😊

I wish I could give this a billion likes

“We don’t need this anymore,” you say, “we can just take digital photos of living organisms” buddy where are you going to store that jpg that someone can retrieve it flawlessly 50 years from now

Photo from the Corning Museum of Glass depicting a glass model of some squoogly sea creatures from the Cornell University EEB collection. In my day EEB just had these things out on display in the Corson-Mudd atrium, you could walk right up and look at them??

Like the Blaschka glass models of soft-bodied invertebrates, when you capture this record of shape and color, it helps future researchers AND creates a stunning body of artwork at the same time

Lovely illustration of the natural colors of the vegetative and floral anatomy of what I assume is a Sisyrinchium but is definitely not a grass

In this case, we’re not just paying an artist as welfare; botanical illustration is essential bc (unlike beetles) herbarium specimens don’t retain their color and form

One of the best and most essential features of the WPA, IMO: support for working artists and illustrators

God I love the WPA. That is so cool.

Lee Park Watercolor Collection Explore the work of Bessie Niemeyer Marshall

I'm working on an Insta post about the plants that still grow in the park, and comparing them to her paintings, and I came across this lovely compilation of her work.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6689...

One of the cool things about the park we're fixing up is that when the WPA built it, the commissioned a local artist to depict all of the (vascular, not-grass) plants they found.

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Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

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"Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"

There are a LOT of reasons why that "I think of horses" ai boosterism thing is bad. In part because it's entirely ignorant of history, horses, human's relationship with them, etc. And also it's entirely ignorant of the history of coaching, the electric engine, the combustion engine, and oil.

I didn’t like schoolwork mostly cause of my adhd. I loved learning, I loved research, and honestly without my executive function /attention issues, I think I would have liked writing papers / doing math problems / etc a lot more. But I wouldn’t ever want to let a computer do it for me.

The way she talks about autism as "devastating to families" is really telling and super harmful. People like Casey view autism as a disease to be treated, and they view it through the "burden" it places on parents. Neurodivergence is not something acceptable to these eugenicists.

I meant comparatively decent, in terms of US standards. I do think the US system needs an entire overhaul.

Flashbacks to college ca. 2008 where I was working in the art museum on campus and we found a floppy with a students’ object paper about a piece in registrar files. my supervisor was still able to find a reader at the point, but the media was super degraded or we didn’t have the right software.