If you’re inspired by last week’s deep sea Ocean Hoptimism talk w/ Liz Taylor and wondering how to help protect the deep ocean from seafloor mining, here’s one action that matters: add your name to oppose this industry in U.S. territories. 🌊
Small actions can protect vast places.
#OceanHoptimism

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "AI doesn't care if you live or die."

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "talk to humans"

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "Fuck this!"

Sign for a "Friend" ad defaced with graffiti reading "you don't have to accept this future."

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.

Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

I held on to a laptop for 11 years and only just replaced it this year with a used one for under $400.

There's been no appreciable gain in having faster phones, and Windows 11 isn't much more demanding than Windows 10.

Prices go up, but there's no commensurate gain.

This is the kind of thing someone in tights and a cape is supposed to prevent

snake or worm like creature with tiny pink wings, colored shades of pink and purple in a quilt-like pattern

hmm

This is a pixel illustration of a bunch of different vaquitas all pixeled up in different fits chosen from donators to porpoise.org! Ranged up from a cyberpunk vaquita to a vegeta vaquita.

These are all the packages sent out for everyone who donated!

This is a sticker i designed for the event! I will be sending these to porpooise.org

Thank you so so much for everyone who helped support Save The Vaquita Day/Week! Just our lil corner raised over $400 USD and in total all creators across twitch raised over $6000!

There's so little of these lil guys left, so thank you for everyone who took part! Please go check out porpose.org!

Additionally, so many amazing sites need a lot more love from the scientific community. I hope that many more amazing sites that are more obscure or newer get some more love and research in the coming decades. Paleo is one of those fields where there's always another interesting site that needs work

same but its the day night cycle, not having as much time as i want to get things done is a bit too close to reality

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID

DOGE is disbanding after an estimated 600,000+ people died in other countries because of USAID cuts to lifesaving food and medication.

Elon Musk will go down as one of history's' most prolific mass murderers of children.

Anyone driving a Tesla is supporting a nazi.

Doodles from yesterday's flocking #paleostream featuring Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus, and Genyornis.

Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis from this week's flocking #paleostream

Joined late cause of a movie night, so "only" 3/4 drawings

Hopped on CSP this time and it helps a lot for quicker drawings, especially happy with the Baryonyx tbh, REALLY wanna properly render this

A digital portrait of Aquilops americanue - a small herbivorous dinosaur, related to triceratops. It has a small boney frill behind its head, with tiny quills sprouting from it. Its beaked jaws have a distinctive spike jutting forward, which may have been used to forage for food.

The real “Dolores”? I was recently commissioned to create a pencil sketch of Aquilops - a dinosaur which I’d never really paid proper attention to. In the l course of my research I became a bit obsessed and felt compelled to also create this more detailed illustration as a personal project.
#SciArt

Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.

Comfey Cempasúchil 🏵️ [comm]

I swore to Arceus I shared this little flower crown here, but I just realized I did not 😅

[ #clayart #handmade #fakemon #pokemon]

I have lived through the entire rise and fall of search engines

six part step by step tutorial to draw and color one of my worm creatures, starting with a black silhouette

the finished image is a worm or snake like creature with multicolored quilt-like patterns on its body in various shades of blue

here's how to color a worm. since I only draw on one layer, painting directly over the blue and orange creates interesting tints.

Results from the Flocking #paleostream!
Lepidodendron, Baryonyx, Champsosaurus and Genyornis.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Mexico achieved most of its stated goals in its #vaquita #totoaba compliance action plan & Nov 23 @CITES #SC79 will decide a deadline. Alternative gear part is the most incomplete & challenging, but progress includes @IMIPASmex test plan for @pescaabc modified shrimp small trawl.

picture of anita sarkeesian from her series "feminist frequency," wearing a pale plaid top, hoop earrings, and a ponytail, as she speaks to the camera.

“It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects" was such a simple message that was so thoroughly and viciously rejected, but i think many of you still need to learn it

worm or snake like creature with a rainbow colored quilt-like pattern and small pink wings. it is folded over with its head resting on the ground

worm...

¡Hagamos ediciones solidarias! 🍉

El próximo sábado, 29 de noviembre, haremos una colaboración con Wiki Palestine, con el objetivo de mejorar el contenido sobre Palestina en Wikipedia en español en el marco del Día Internacional de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino.

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths

2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

Illustration of some orcas, they are swimming happily. Colors used are mainly purple blue and pink

lots of orcas 🌊
#art #orcas

but enough about base zeraora lets talk about the mega

Cascapsid, tipo tierra y hierba. Sacuden sus cabezas como cascabell para usar ecolocalización y encontrar su alimento, viven bajo tierra.

Cascapsid, ground and grass type. They shake their heads like a jingle bell to echolocate their food, they live underground.
#fakemon

Chiltechico, tipo hierba y bicho. Diminutos y ágiles pueden saltar hasta 50 metros en el aire, su mordida causa picazón insoportable por días.

Chiltechico, grass and bug type. Tiny and agile they can jump up to 50 meters on the air, their bite causes an terrible itch for days.
#fakemon

It’s a bit funny to me when folks accuse anti-AI artists of “gatekeeping.” My dude, Midjourney charges you $60 a month for images, while real artists remind you that you can make it for free and experience the joy of the process. So who’s really gatekeeping?

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