Laura B. Greig

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

ooooh so exciting!! 🎉

Oh it’s #portfolioday!

Hi there 👋

I’m an Edinburgh-based illustrator. I love nautical themes, birds and bookish things. I work in Procreate but love a textured analogue feel.

Here’s my website with more info and prints available for purchase spyglassillustration.com

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Our first Misfits class is on Thursday! We've got 17 participants from across NYC's libraries, universities, municipal agencies + arts orgs; we're visiting Storefront, ABCNoRio, the NY Botanical Garden, the Ctr for BookArts, etc. Here's our website! 🤗

crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/

I found out that the Detroit Nuggets hired a witch to put a hex on their opposing teams in the 1970s and I am obsessed with the photos

(thanks to @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for making me aware of this)

i constantly think about this post

Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Chris Ware postage stamps are coming July 23rd

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.

an old-fashioned ceramic crock held in front of a mustard shop

storefront of the Maille mustard shop

Refilling my mustard crocks from the taps at the Maille shop in Paris, France

oh noooo

Sun Tarot card

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

I try all things; I achieve what I can.

I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit — and Fell Into the Weird World of Animal-Robot Research What began as a TikTok experiment with my rabbit led me into a strange world of cyborg cockroaches, imposter fish, and the ethics of care.

Fun piece from an @mitpress.bsky.social author on why robots are boring to pets. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-weird-wo...

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

This coming Wednesday at 5:30pm I'll be joining Senator @nikilsaval.bsky.social in the courtyard of Philadelphia's City Hall to talk about urban architectures + infrastructures in relation to Emilio's 🌟 Civic Views exhibition 🤗

muralarts.org/events/civic...

Here's a simple hand puppet, made with the wonderful library p5play @q5play.bsky.social, which provides sprites and a physics-engine, and hand-tracking via ml5.js (from @shiffman.lol and his colleagues). You can run it in a web-browser and explore the code here:
openprocessing.org/sketch/2652482

"o3, show me a page from the instruction manual for a machine that turns everything into crabs"

Intrigued by the warning it created: "make the warning page of what happens if you insert a crab into the Universal Crabbifier"

"show me a security camera still..."

(all zero shot, first try)

Speaking in Net Language: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War <p>On hypertext and memory in Olia Lialina's groundbreaking 1996 work.</p>

Also Olia Lialina's 1996 net art, My Boyfriend Came Back from the War rhizome.org/editorial/20...

this is what they (the normans) took from you

Good morning !

Omg. This makes so much sense.

“Why do we even plan on doing great things if, on a whim, we can just decide ‘nah’?” the senior space scientist says. “These things take a generation to build and enable multiple generations of scientists. They should not be blithely thrown away.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

A medical illustration of the human brain.

Train your own model.

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER I JUST HAD A DREAM, BUT IT WASN'T CLEAR MY DREAMS HAVE BEEN VERY FUZZY LATELY-- MAYBE THEYLL COME IN CLEARER NOW

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 8,1952

move slowly and build things