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A sketch drawing that looks like crayon of the three starters pokemons, Browt, Pombon and Gecqua.

Starters 🍃🔥💧

#pokemon #art

A close up photo of a sand cat peering at the viewer with narrowed eyes. Its coat is golden in color.

Meet the sand cat. Thick soles on its paws allow it to withstand the temperature extremes of desert sand. In parts of its range, days can reach 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night!
Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

i made a helpful reference

Mark Rothko canvas, red on red

Happy year of the fire horse

[Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]

Diabolical Plots logo: a smiling begoggled face on teal background

New fiction this week!
"The History of Coming Out To Your Parents Any% Speedrunning" by Jubilee Finnegan @finneyflame.bsky.social

www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Moss ball bug
It was itching my brain, I had to!

A green fluffball crawling out of the bushes. I'd love to see other artists take on this critter 👀🌿

S’mores, a cat. Her expression says: “This phone at which I a being bidden to look neither smells like nor contains Churru, nature’s most delicious snack. It is of no value; I shall take my leave.”

less discourse more S’mores

Small City, Big Pride: Japanese Prefecture Gets Its First Pride Parade - Unseen Japan The parade in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, shows how Japan's LGBTQ+ citizens are committed to raising awareness in smaller cities and towns.

15,000 people walked in Tokyo's 2025 Pride Parade. That year also marked the start of a much smaller parade in Ibaraki Prefecture. We talked to attendees at the first-ever Hitachi Pride about the importance of raising awareness in Japan's smaller cities and towns.

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Sinners... but make it Leyendecker
#SinnersMovie

a medieval illustration of an anatomically accurate woodcock perched in the floral margins of a manuscript

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

This kid is awesome, actual hero.

Unbelievable #critterposting

Respatializing Toxic Harm: The Case Against Sacrifice Zones Describing heavily polluted areas as “sacrifice zones” has become commonplace in recent decades, as diverse groups resist their unwitting exposure to destructive and toxic industrial, municipal, and ...

“Sacrifice zone” has become a powerful label for naming unequal burdens of toxic contamination, too often located in and near marginalized communities. The problem is that naming polluted places as “zones” implies toxic containment when PFAS, dioxins, etc easily move thru air, water, and soil.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

Drawing of a lemon pig with a coin in its mouth on a transparent background.

can i offer u a lemon pig in this trying time

Lemon pig I love you!

Moldy and rotten lemon pig with text “entering 2026 at my fucking limit”

This year’s lemon pig is a little worse for wear

#art #digitalart #newyear #nye #happynewyear #newyearseve #lemonpig

A small Pomeranian-like dog snuggles in comparatively huge, fluffy bed.

sweepy

"Grass Snake and Pine"
screenprint from 2021
#ArtSky

Shigeru Mizuki's THE DEFINITIVE YOKAI FIELD GUIDE is coming to English this April!

The was a personal request by Mizuki to have translated--the last such request he made. He felt it was the culmination of his work as an educator on Yokai.

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@dandq.bsky.social

JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Still from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, featuring Gill-man or the Creature (circa 1953). A humanoid fish-like monster is half-submerged in water.

#CFP! "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class – Lund University, Sweden, 11–12 June 2026.

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 2 February 2026.

Further info: lnkd.in/d9A78_4x

#bluehumanities #envhum #literarystudies

An art and a science: Scripps Oceanography showcases 5,000 seaweed pressings UC San Diego’s Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab is digitizing its collection of more than 5,000 pressings and making it accessible to the public

Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology

A large earthquake, currently measured at magnitude 7.2, has just hit off Aomori Prefecture. A tsunami advisory is in effect for southern Hokkaido and northeastern Tohoku. The earthquake was strong enough to be faintly perceived all the way in Tokyo.

it's him.......

Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. Live-service games to take the biggest blow  - AUTOMATON WEST A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in their games and apps.

@kaihat.su Hey! I don't know if you've seen this news. It's about Fontworks (LETS) and Monotype, you might be interested: automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...