A group of ten local residents climbed 800 meters above the city and lit 450 torches to form the message: "No Kings." This is how Davos welcomed Trump.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

A delicate figure of a woman with pale skin and flowing pink hair lies in a dreamlike pose, surrounded by golden octopus tentacles. Soft hydrangea petals float around her. The drawing combines white ink, gold leaf, and vibrant pink lines on warm cream paper, evoking sensuality, fantasy, and homage to Hokusai.

“The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” (2021)
Ink, gold leaf, and hydrangea petals on cream paper.
My homage to Hokusai’s iconic print, now included in the upcoming exhibition “Japanese Fantasies in the Time of Félicien Rops” at the Félicien Rops Museum in 2025–2026.
Honored to be part of it.

This totally stemmed from a different conversation, but for some reason I was imagining Frankenstein's creature giving Guillermo del Toro uppies like a cat. 😭🤣💖💖💖💖✨️✨️✨️✨️

#frankenstein #gdt

(what's wrong with me LOL)

Ok, look. All of the games on here are worth your attention BUT, Device 6 is worth the price of admission *all by itself*. It had two things going against it when it came out: it was only on iOS and it was when people still thought "mobile" meant "bad."

I cannot stress enough how good it is.

If you work in healthcare and aren’t constantly appalled by the suffering people endure over something as stupid and unnecessary as people going without food or proper nutrition (or housing or medicine etc) in the wealthiest country in the history of the world then why are you working in healthcare?

A gorgeous portrait of the White House entirely aflame, the smoke billowing and the flames lighting up the night sky. It sparks deep patriotic ferver. This is what democracy looks like. Also there's a white button with blue text below the portrait. The text reads "Learn more" and if clicked it takes you to the menu of a local brewhouse.

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

I want the existenz phone so bad

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

US will hike tariffs on copper to 50%, Trump says

Ea-nāṣir, now's your time to shine

Dude has been batting 1000 against these losers over the last 24 hours.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.

I did not have room in this column to get to all the crazy allegations in "Careless People." It's a book crying out for an @aiannucci.bsky.social adaptation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Concept art of a retro-futurist city landscape

Concept art of a retro-futurist city landscape

Concept art of a retro-futurist city landscape

Concept art of a retro-futurist city landscape

Concept art for Metropolis (1927) by Erich Kettelhut.

an albino peacock kinnara reaching out his wings to a humanoid ziz, or a griffin, who looks menacing, but in truth he is just shy. The Kinnara fearlessly approaches the griffin's nest, though all about it are strewn with swords and arrows discarded and hurled. Kinnara are paragons of love in south and southeast folklore, perhaps, even, love that transcends both mercy and devotion. "but why does the peacock have top surgery scars?" my friend, he is not only trans, he is also intersex!

to love the unloved

The other website is pretty much done

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co A (free) 220 page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.

Okay, Matthew Ball's The State of Video Gaming in 2025 is a really monumental achievement and an absolute gold mine of stats that put the current game industry into its economic context. Strongly recommend. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

Gothic illustration of a mysterious figure looking out an abbey window

Close up on hands opening a casket and brushing dirt off a mummified face. The teeth of teh corpse are gleaming white.

Illustration of an eye peeking through a hole in a curtain. The curtain's pattern is an arabesque consisting of bugs with ornamental legs and feelers. The symmetries are off, as if the bugs were moving.

Illustration of a huge worm breaking from the torso of a corpse while an audience of angels applauds. Yes, it's kinda weird.

Just realized I still have a bunch of art that I never actually shared. Shame on me! Here are my interior illustrations for the Wurmpalast project by German musician RiG. It's inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia 🖤

OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. The San-Francisco-based ChatGPT maker told the Financial Times it had seen some evidence of ‘distillation’, a technique used by developers to obtain better performance on smaller models by using outputs from larger, more capable models. This allows them to achieve similar results on specific tasks at a much lower cost. OpenAI declined to comment further on details of its evidence. Its terms of service state users cannot “copy” any of its services or “use output to develop models that compete with OpenAI”.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.

www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Did Google and Google Maps already cave to the rapist racist and rename the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America?

Is that how for up Trump's ass Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has slithered?

Repost for neat-looking lady protagonist.

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

It’s crazy that right now for a fraction of what an AI startup snorts off an iPad you could hire the most insane game narrative team ever and make something for the ages

Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.

AS OF TODAY: The Trump administration has issued a freeze on federal loan and grant programs (Social Security and Medicare have been spared). This includes:

- SNAP/EBT
- TANF
- WIC
- federal student loans through DOE
…and more!

Link to article below:

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

If you told me that the sole purpose of this administration was to cause the country to collapse I would be on board with that explanation and have no evidence to offer to the contrary

Adorn

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article) Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

Good news for folks who want to support local booksellers

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

I love the retro shoujo vibes of this!