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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

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Bars of clay that have been fired at various temperatures and under different atmospheric conditions. Ranging in colour from red terracotta to very dark chocolate brown. Along with some Munsell soil colour charts used to record the test results.

Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky

Digital painting of a springer spaniel looking out an open car window, wind blowing through his fur

Painting practice with my son 💙

paper cut illustration of two lions

lions

A prompt that reads "TITLES FOR SAM REICH'S MEMOIR". Izzy Roland responding with "From Reich to Riches: How a Rich Boy Became a Rich Man."

Smiling person with glasses wearing a pastel striped shirt stands against a colorful geometric backdrop, text caption about a wealth-themed story below.

call an ambulance but for me

A cartoon illustration of a caveman finishing a drawing of a stick figure riding a bull and listening to a living stick figure with a bull talking to him. Caption reads "It's beautiful, Thog. I love it."

Accurate. #grickledoodle #caveman #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

A black and white photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson

Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who would have been 175 today.
It's also a good day to remember that it is NOT actually his birthday because in 1891 he gave it away to a young girl because she didn't like her birthday. 🧵

Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Tiny pink and cream colored cube under 2mm stuck to the surface of a leaf. There were several, scattered around randomly, but the photo is cropped to show the one that was in best focus. The second picture shows a bit of my thumbnail in the corner, with sparkly nail polish.

Diminutive fairy wombat poop. Tiny cubes under 2mm on each side.

These are egg sacs made by a spider in the family Theridiosomatidae.

They made yesterday’s hike special. Finding something I’ve never seen before is such a thrill.

🌱 #nature #macro #spider

That was SUCH a brilliant moment. I laughed so hard. Fucking brutal and so unexpected.

Maybe an insight check... perception, even... 😭

#Dimension20

Small crochet doll of a male duck with green/white head, orange beak and feet, brown/beige bogy and wings with specks of blue and black.

New ducky skin just dropped!
Male mallard mode.

Voll lieb von dir, mit dem Versand! Ich werde den Fr. und Sa. auf der Dokomi sein, vllt schaffen wir ja dort die Übergabe. Ansonsten kann ich es danach gerne per Post schicken. Persönlich überreichen ist unmittelbar geteilte Freude, aber Post verschicken und bekommen hat auch seinen Charme. 🙂‍↕️

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Living to please the 14 year old version of yourself is a fun and valid way to exist 🫡

Everything I do, I do it for them

(Eigentlich hatte ich gehofft, dich dieses Jahr noch auf der Comic Con in Stuttgart oder bei der nächsten Dokomi zu sehen, damit ich dir das Häkelentchen vom Artfight geben kann. Vllt findet sich da noch ein Weg oder ich muss sehr lange meine Gedanken zusammenhalten 😅)

Als Besucher finde ich Cons schon immer anstrengender je größer und voller die Veranstalter sie werden lassen. Ich will mir den Stress gar nicht vorstellen, mit Koffern voller Merch dorthi reisen zu müssen und um Deadlines mit Lieferungen zu kämpfen. Genieße deine Pause!

“maybe someone will stop by today”
(theme ‘island’)

Happy Halloween 👻👻👻
#kidlitart

Small white pumpkin with the bird from K-Pop Demon Hunters painted and carved into it has joined derpy tiger pumpkin on the porch.

I also made his little judgy burd friend. Pumpkin carving and painting is a lot of fun!

Carved/painted my first pumpkin for Halloween this year and did it very last minute but it came out sooo nicely! It's derpy tiger from K-Pop Demon Hunters.

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

A cartoon illustration of a vampire playing a nintendo switch in his creepy gothic castle. Caption reads "The only reason he played Animal Crossing was to walk through the sunshine again."

Sunnier times. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #nintendo #games #animalcrossing #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Zac Oyama saying "Gal dente". All three of the Noise Boys celebrating in each others arms. Zac holding the Golden Ear.

the only time in my memory make some noise as been won with two words

I laughed so hard when this happened!

It's Wealwell's time to shine ✨🕴✨

#Dimension20

Who can top Gal Dente? 🇮🇹

@joshruben.bsky.social / @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Me and my cat when I have to repeatedly move them away from the merch packing area but they are determined on being part of the process 😌

Thicc crocodile 🐊🌈