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A quoted tweet from a user named Sam that reads: "How Twitter is rigged Type in all caps because you're excited? Lowers your reputation. Include links? Your score goes down. It's like the Credit Score system from Hell. And given Cisgender is treated as a slur & MAGA boosted, you can guess what's categorized as 'offensive'" The tweet they quoted is from user SADIQ and reads: "Tweepcred is X's reputation system Based on your behavior, you get a tweepcred score It determines your reach Break the algo rules, you score goes down and your reach disappears What are the rules of the X algo tho? Glad you asked." SADIQ includes a photo of Twitter's algorithm code that calculates a user's reputation. SADIQ continues: "Post 'offensive text'? 80% reach reduction Offensive username? 80% reach reduction All caps tweet? That's seen as 'shouting. Major penalization. Include links? Yup, penalized"

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being.

Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

111 people have applied for this. I can bring FOUR. Send strength to the panel of professionally trained artists who I will be feeding a bunch of Thai food to next week, as they embark on their mission to select those 4.

a pattern full of penguins in a white background

penguin pattern

An enlightening essay in @theconversation.com by Benoit, Helm, & Bordy about the recognizing Indigenous science for its important role in the original discoveries of fossils in southern Africa, especially trace fossils (tracks). 🧪🐾🪨⚒️🌍 #ichnology

Proposed new media idea: The Recanter, a publication consisting entirely of people arguing against their own former positions, and/or admitting error in some way.

I think that would be a huge market for this. We’re all tired of reading people who are always right.

In an underwater scene, a sailfish, a mola, a mermaid whose flowing hair recalls marine algae, a dugong, and several golden trevally are grouped together in a vertically-oriented composition with some kelp against a black background. The illustration is drawn with intricate linework, with an emphasis on contours and varying line weight, and with areas of solid black ink.

'Two Sirens'
Ink on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 128 × 206 mm, from 2020.

#ArtAdventCalendar

As it turns out– which I discussed quite a bit on FBOL– the literature they assign you in high school isn't bad, you're just 15 and don't know the crushing weight of your own soul

Black and white intaglio spit-bite aquatint print of an intimate night sky looking over the ocean with neuron trees and a sky full of stars and neurotransmitter constellations. In an edition of 10. by Kindra Crick Neurotransmitter acetylcholine as a constellation rising in the night sky with serotonin diminished and setting on the horizon as in the stage of sleep called REM. REM sleep is when your #dreams are most vivid and the mind is highly active while your body is paralyzed; except your eyes, which are in rapid motion.

“While Sleeping”
Intaglio and spit-bite aquatint

Look closely. You may see neuron trees and neurotransmitter constellations. ✨

#artadventcalendar #sciart #printmaking #neurons #neuroart

wilderness orienteering workshop Leo Bouchard, 5 Waterview Drive, Smithfield RI 02914 Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council Led by Andrew Middleton of The Map Center

Lots of folks have expressed interest in becoming more proficient with a map and compass so I'm co-leading this workshop with the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council this Saturday. There are spaces left to sign up! wrwc.org/events/orien...

One of the things that irritates me about defunding the Post Office is that the Post Office is just a great place to go to. People getting presents, sending off Christmas letters, the hustle and bustle of American Capitalism, people meeting people, babes and hunks, get laid at the Post Office folks

If the biggest unlimited government surveillance entrepreneur in the world is called a “libertarian” as a matter of fact in a news article, what does that word even mean?

'Descent with Modification,' (2011), 18" X 24," colored pencil and ink on paper. Artwork is abstraction of an orange burrow system with a conical top made of rounded pellets with a circular opening at its top, connecting to a vertical shaft below; the vertical shaft then branches into five chambers, each containing a modern crustacean. The crustaceans are, from left to right: callianassid shrimp; upogebiid shrimp; ghost crab; lobster; crayfish. The burrow on the far right shows branching just before the chambers for the lobster and crayfish, symbolizing their common ancestry. The background is horizontally divided into strips that are, from top to bottom: light blue-green wavy zone; stippled light blue-green sediment; stippled dark blue-green sediment; deep blue sediment; and black at the bottom.

For #Crustmas, an artwork of mine made for a Darwin-themed art exhibit at Fernbank Museum in Atlanta GA in 2011. Titled 'Descent with Modification,' it shows the evolutionary relatedness of modern burrowing crustaceans using a branching burrow system as a cladogram. 🧪🎨🦀🦞🦐 #sciart

Drawing of an angelic figure with large wings that take up most of the image and extend beyond the boundary of the drawing. The wings form layers of blue, pink, white, pink, blue to echo the design of the trans flag. The angel is a skeleton with a bird-like skull and one glowing pink eye and one glowing blue eye. They are holding a sword to their chest with the tip of the sword pointing toward the ground. Their feet are extended downward in such a way as to make it look as though they were floating. They are wearing a crown of pink and blue flowers on their head.

For today's #ArtAdventCalendar, something a little different. Drew this during #TransArtMay as the grand finale for the month. Was thinking about that whole "they'll be able to tell your 'real' gender from your skeleton" thing which is the weirdest argument ever. Anyway, have a trans angel warrior 💜

I'm fond of these guys because I got bitten by one during an ornithology class mist-netting field trip. I deserved it.

All the pieces are there. People hate this regime. People hate child rapists. People hate nazis stealing their money and kidnapping their neighbors.

What is not there is people collectively putting together a firm demand, knowing who it needs to be demanded of, and excluding everyone else.

I even feel like an idiot personally about this. I worked in the Senate for years and it still took me a few months to understand to remove Trump you need to actually push to remove him.

But it is bizarre how many activists, not just regular citizens, still do not get it. Push for what you want.

Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic.
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl

“Our overall conclusion is that congestion pricing in New York City, like many other cities in the world that have implemented it, helped not only improve traffic, but also helped reduce air pollutant concentration, improve air quality and should be good for public health.”

sex workers have long been OGs in mutual aid & community care so this is not at all surprising

Here sits, in the center of a landscape-oriented photo, a prothonotary warbler, which is a lemon-yellow bird at the head, but whose body enters a gradient that goes from olive green to a kind of blue-green-gray at the tail. Its eyes are black and empty, and its beak short and dark, even as it's surrounded by the bright green growth of late spring, early summer, the bird itself is manifesting great sinister darkness, for the bird's black eyes KNOW WHAT YOU DID, and it will use its short beak to SING THE SONGS OF YOUR MANY CRIMES and also probably PECK OUT YOUR SINFUL EYES haha I'm just kidding he's mostly just cute. This little fella was quite curious and happy to get close to me, despite being something of a rare(r) warbler. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

#ArtAdventCalendar -- Day 9!

The Prothonotary

Portrait orientation photograph. The top third is blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The bottom third features a narrow creek winding through lush green banks to meet a wide prairie river curving to the horizon. There is a small wooden bridge in the centre of the green.

Bridge (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

A watercolor painting of a crow perched on a branch.. he is leaning forward and has a slightly wilted pink flower in his beak

#ArtAdventCalendar day 9

#watercolor
#corvid
#crow
#birdsky

A crop of a Samantha Mash Illustration piece of a chicken being held by a woman. There is a color swatch in the middle that is named "Spring Chicken" that is a warm green, it has hex #ACA665 under it

Full credit to @flaroh.bsky.social for inspiring this attempt at picking my own colors of the year for 2026 (go see her version, she named her colors way better than I did!)🧡

“Rage red” for the Iliad

Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

A magazine cover, with a single illustration covering the entire page, and no headlines over the top. A hand illustration -- perhaps watercolors -- shows a snowy day and an empty road heading towards the viewer. In the distance, a cozy christmas tree store surrounded by green trees, some cut and some still standing, with a cozy cabin behind. In the foreground, a jaunty woman with hat and sunglasses and scarf bicycles toward us, with a christmas tree horizontally held on the front rack of her bike and a black scotty dog running alongside. She and the shop and the cabin are all in pastels; pinks and purples and white. Her white scarf and hat match the white snow on the store and cabin. It is a cheerful, jaunty, undaunted tone, and evenly spaced big snowflakes float down over it all. At the top the magazine name, The New Yorker, the date Dec. 19, 1942, and the Price: 15 cents. At the bottom is the signature of the artist, Garrett Price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Price

It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️

ASCII art flyer showing rows of books on shelves. Text reads: "Black Zine Fair 2028. Open call for exhibitors, workshops & volunteers until February 9, 2028. Save the date: May 9, 2028.

It's here. Applications are now open for exhibitors, workshops and volunteers for the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair taking place on 5/9/26. Applications are accepted until Feb 9. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot

- connection to your subconscious
- therapeutic or confessional as need be
- patterns of meaning
- self-determined takeaways
- no need to google facts afterwards