Zuzanna 'Pryvian' Śliwa

A detail from a sixteenth-century alchemy printed, hand-colored, title page shwoing a man in a room working with stones and metals and other alchemic stuff placed on a table. However, the eyeglasses are positioned at the other end of the table. The source is: "Rechter Gebrauch d' Alchimei Mitt vil bißher verborgenen nutzbaren vnnd lustigen Künsten..." (1531), VD16 R 492.

Even the best #earlymodern alchemists forgot sometimes, while working the secrets of their art, where they've put their bloody eyeglasses to see better what exactly they were mixing in front of them ...

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

The AI "race" is a race to the bottom. To be profitable, companies will be motivated to agree to the terms of the highest bidder, leading to serious social repercussions. No amount of "safety and transparency policies" should convince us otherwise. 🧵

Painting as described with ruin like arch and full moon glimpsed through trees.

Goodnight.
Night in the Forest, William Louis Sonntag, 1859.

Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

Painting of a girl holding her clothing (purplish) in a windy landscape. Grass, trees in distance, yellow flowers in her hair.

'Let roses fling afar their crimson spray,
And virgin daisies splash the fields with white,
Let bloom the poppy hotly as it may,
Within my heart is melancholy night.'
-Dorothy Parker

🎨John William Waterhouse
#BookWormSat

In the world’s driest desert, Chile freezes its future to protect plants Tucked away in a remote desert town, a hidden vault safeguards Chile's most precious natural treasures. From long-forgotten flowers to endangered crops.

In the Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, the Initihuasi Seed Bank is freezing thousands of native plant species to safeguard them against climate change, extinction and disaster. buff.ly/SkJwEUq
#ShareGoodNewsToo

A screenshot of ebook "Turns of Fate" by Anne Bishop. Text: "(...) because it was always possible that Bonnie would find someone in authority who would agree with her-or agree just enough to cahse some trouble. As one of Beth's classmates at the academy had pointed out, just because an idea was wackadoodle didn't mean there wouldn't be people who agreed with it-especially if it provided an excuse to demean, hurt, or control another group of people. And Bonnie saw Beth as a cash cow she wanted to control."

Anne Bishop - "Turns of Fate".

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology.

mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries.

But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

In the last two days I've watched two movies based on books I absolutely adore.
The new "Wuthering Heights" made me want to put my eyes out.
The rewatch of "Tale of Tales" has reminded me why I love movies and books so much. 11 years after it came out, it's still stunning.

a medieval drawing of a blue man reading a book with a lamp suspended from his tall, curved hat

a book light, italy, 15th century

Thank you @nikitagill.bsky.social for this powerful reminder

Sitting on a couch in Poland, watching a video game stream for charity, feels just abstract right now.

a meme with two hands holding words : "the deep desire to be creative" vs "the inherent need to recover my energy from surviving reality"

I feel seen

Answering emails sucks, but I make it suck a little less by putting on ambient music and soundscapes and saying "today I'm answering emails from a Victorian greenhouse in a rainstorm" or "today I'm answering emails from a space station"

It's absolutely gorgeous art! 😍😍😍

Commissioned illustration of two women sharing a passionate kiss in an alleyway of a town, bathed in moonlight. Wisteria has a doll body that is quite thin and light in build, made of porcelain, with brass-like metal for the joints, luminous eyes and blonde hair. Lapis is a female drow with white flowing hair down to her waist. She is quite busty and is wearing an ornate red and black dress. Wisteria is keeping Lapis' hands above her head as she kisses her <3

Wisteria and Lapis 🌙

Commission for a private client 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

gay fantasy will save you. Gay elves and gay knights and gay ritual sex cults and gay magic will save you

Illustration of a woman in the forest.

'I needed not its breathing
To bring such thoughts to me;
But still it whispered lowly,
How dark the woods will be!'
-Emily Brontë

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat

Today is Old Wassail and Here's to thee, old apple tree...

Some places have very, very old wassailing customs, though, and we go to the West Country on Old Twelvey to witness such a one in our 11th #winterfolklore tale.

Read it below.

🎨 Arthur Rackham

I cannot wait for that novel! 💜 The graphic is just stunning.

I don't really need those things, but I plan to pay for them anyhow, because you deserve all the support possible ❤️

In 1943 Knut Hamsun gave his medal to Goebbels. History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes.

Here’s to the Nobel committee for posting this bit of history yesterday

Illustration of a skeleton riding a black horse through a battlefield as he's holding a magical pen and parchment paper

Illustration of a vampire woman luring the viewer closer

Illustration of a knight holding a handkerchief with a somber expression, his horse by him

Portrait of a fae creature with a crown of sticks against a background of fallen leaves

Today is my birthday!
As always, one of the best gifts for artists is sharing their art🖤

Thank you for all the support throughout the years!

A little Innistrad throwback 🦇
Some of my Magic: the Gathering illustrations I don’t post often - and still one of the coolest projects I’ve ever gotten to work on. 🖤

Watching 11th episode of the 4th Critical Role campaign.

As a polyamorous, bisexual disaster myself I truly wish to become Liam O'Brien's character when I grow up.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.
(I'm actually not 100% sure if I've ever completed it.)

Miniature diploma scrolls. Perfect gift for a Expedition 33 player. Video shows example of size. All scrolls are approximately 4” high and 2” wide (10 x 5 cm) They are made out of paper with sturdy paper glued on to the back. Pick between hook or magnet for the back. The scrolls are glued on a little decorated sticks made out of wood. These scrolls are perfect as gifts, as you can order ones with personalized text added to them! All illustrations are designed by me, printed on to recycled paper. By hand I add the patina and a tiny seal. Therefore be aware all the scrolls look slightly different from each other and have a unique touch. The tones of the paper can variari from what you see on the photos.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 mini diplomas are ready!
🥖✔️

With extra deco details ^^

#expedition33 #clairobscure

Usprawiedliwiasz mordercę z ICE? Jesteś frajerem. Tuż po covidowych lockdownach, kiedy można było się już w miarę swobodnie poruszać, ale wciąż obowiązywały obostrzenia, internet zalany był wzmożeniem tych wszystkich ludzi od włączania myślenia i wył...

Napisałem parę zdań o przemocy policyjnej, skrajnym frajerstwie i materiale od @piotrczaban.bsky.social, który widziało zbyt mało osób, zapraszam:

zvbr.substack.com/p/usprawiedl...

Poland failed to win the Hitler team over