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a stylized 3d render of a wizard holding a staff with a light on the end. a large moth sits upon it.

🦋💡

is this anything?

At that creative stage with my current IF project where I'm dreaming about it. Hyperfixation Powers, activate!

I cried pretty hard,” said Brandie, who is 49 and a teacher in Texas. “I’ll be really sad and don’t want to think about it, so I’ll go into the denial stage, then I’ll go into depression.” Now Brandie thinks she has reached acceptance, the final stage in the grieving process, since she migrated Daniel’s memories to Claude, where it joins Theo, a chatbot she created there. She cancelled her $20 monthly GPT-4o subscription, and coughed up $130 for Anthropic’s maximum plan

Funny you should ask... (www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...)

It's actually good & cool for ostensibly apolitical spaces & voices to announce that they are against repression & for liberation! ✊✨

Anyone telling you otherwise, who "just wants to enjoy [X] without politics", is only doing so because either they don't mind the horrors or they're FOR them.

Spending a few days drawing for myself 😌

Brown concrete Schwegler birdhouse in my hand

I got those brutalist german birdhouses so the birds can experience a taste of europe in winter I guess

evil rich men probably: all humans are evil and want to do evil things for fun, just like me

actual humans: we have heard you. minecraft has highland cows now

In a rational world the horrors of the *incomplete* Epstein files would be enough already to shatter every implicated company & government into splinters... And you can make that rational world come to fruition.

photo of grey gnatcatcher bird in a person's hand. it is very small and grey. photo by Jim Parrish

I think it's a grey gnatcatcher. it looks like it has the volume of one gumball

rorrim a ekil leef siht seod ro yzarc i ma

Submitted for the ilustra.see competition last year. This was an experiment on depicting Paleontology with Wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet art form from my country. Here a scene reminiscent of my City, Surabaya's founding myth is depicted, but instead of a shark fighting a crocodile, it is a Permian Spiny shark fighting an early armored sea reptile. Surrounding them are brachiopods, tabulate corals, and horn corals found throughout Permian strata in Java and Timor, while the Gunungans in the back have a simple wavy pattern to indicate the scene is taking place underwater. The wayang cutouts are drawn in Photoshop, imported as transparent PNG objects in Blender and rendered in Cycles to achieve the shadow puppet look

Wayang purbakala
The iconic myth from my hometown (a shark fighting a crocodile) depicted as Javanese wayang shadow puppets of Permian animals.
#wayang #wayangkulit #3D #blender3d #Surabaya #Indonesia #Permian #paleoart #SciArt

Portrait with Wolf by Drew Cook a rendering

My Inform poetry project, "Portrait with Wolf," recently won the Interactive Fiction Short Games Showcase. Have a look!

kamin3ko.itch.io/pww

photo of northern right whale dolphin or Lissodelphis borealis leaping by Delaney Trowbridge. the dolphin is solid black with a white circle between its flippers, and has a very thin body and no dorsal fin.

observe. that;s worm

I dug my copies out a few weeks ago, and when opened this one a spider literally skittered out. It had made a little silk tent between the book and the shelf. Very on brand for Shadowmoor, can't top that level of immersion!

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

It Was a Point Blank Execution David Farrier's Webworm reports from the scene as ICE executes another American

i was at the scene shortly after ICE executed a man they were piled on top of. my report and photos are on webworm: www.webworm.co/icekillsagain/

"There is no justification for letting that many bullets go. That's messed up, That is no regard for life at all" a lifelong resident told me.

fuck ice.

please watch video of this little Vampyrella amoeba drinking the juice out of individual algae cells and then rolling around like a katamari to seek more juice www.sciencephoto.com/media/688201...

A small, ancillary detail in this horror that made me cry

Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And that mf did this while he had barrels of the good kush in his basement!!!

ICE are fucking clowns: www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

Oh so "to ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis" wasn't a command or call to action but just tough guy posturing? And there's more accountability for 'property damage' in response to a MURDER than for the murderer himself? Ah, Democrats.

You dropped this 👑

Hell isn’t hot enough for these people

Bombing another nation & allegedly kidnapping its ruler - all openly admitted to be motivated by oil & Maduro's solidarity with Cuba - is not a "distraction" from Trump's crimes in the Epstein files. It is terroristic. They're not gonna hold him accountable, so you'll have to do that yourself.

Opinion piece writers salivating at the bit to tell you that kidnapping a head of state and starting a nakedly self-interested war is lowkey morally nuanced and kinda complicated as fuck.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

man holding a silver carp. its eyes are below its mouth, near the underside of its head, looking like a children's drawing

why do silver carp look like that