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A screenshot of the original Age of Wonders UI with a big honkin' dragon just chilling behind the menu.

You: wants sleek, modern UIs

Me: Wants a big honkin' dragon sitting on the menu for no particular reason.

children in the playpen must be supervised at all times
#critterposting

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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check on the underside of leaves! bugs tend to hang out there to avoid being seen

69 Cousins! How nice!

69 Cousins! How nice!

tears of the kingdom: just what was zelda doing in the past?
nintendo: absolutely nothing. like it will shock you how much nothing she was up to
omega force: she was killing one million guys

DINOSAURS IN KATAMARI???

MONSTER HUNTER STORIES 3 LETS FUCKING GO

Renfield and Dracula dance, Dracula's cape melting into blood - or wax? - around them. They stand in the palm of Dracula's own hand, framed in a grey arch against a stark orange background, the moon above them. To the sides of the arch are spiralling gothic candlesticks, and statues of the three other main characters - Cez, Jonny, and Ghost. The faces of the statues have been broken open to expose gory flesh and bone beneath.

“That’s all I ever wanted. Someone to hold. A hand strong enough to hold them.”

Forget the world around you. Focus only on him 🕯️

July’s guest artist is @mintaii.bsky.social, with a romantic moment between Renfield and Dracula.

yeeeeah there’s some really cool nature places if you know where to find em but yeah. especially with all the data centers here now, love to witness more and more resources get dumped into the evil cubes

Black and white photo of a tiny tabby kitten with a slight sad expression if you indulge in anthropomorphism, curled up in a round basket bowl, outdoors on a wooden house deck.

It's okay to sit in the bowl of melancholy for a little while, just not too long. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

don’t need eyes to pet cat 😌

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

my environmental policy classes were always brutal and that was several years ago! truly cannot imagine going through that now, I’m sorry :(

arms

I opened a box of prismatic evolutions and I want to draw more Pokemon now 🤩

Small gray cat scrunching herself on a square cement slab, she has a crazed look in her eyes

I bought Thistle a cement slab and I think it's a hit

Two panel comic. Panel 1: A man in a suit points to the Venus de Milo, and says: "This is obscene, it has no place in a god-fearing society. We're gonna make it more appropriate." Panel 2: The Venus de Milo's breasts are covered by a Fanduel t-shirt

this is a comic about obscenity

🍊I gotta run to the store
👻Can you keep an eye on him for me?

YouTube video by Sekiro Dubi Smoldering Church Bernahl’s Finger Maiden - Elden Ring Cut NPC

I really enjoyed this! Idk if y’all have already seen, but there is some really fun stuff with Bernahl’s Maiden that didn’t end up in the final game youtu.be/sqaq6iZZ9Wg?...

So, obviously the whole Itchio / Visa / Mastercard thing is very bad, and I see a lot of calling campaigns kicking off, so I tried to put together a list of things that can move the needle at a call center. Do with this info what you will.

completely inaccurate // not true to life b/w cartoon doodle vers of an Acorn Weevil its wearing an acorn shell on its back stood in front of its prey (the acorn)

fully accurate scientific illustration

It’s nighttime in an atmospheric hidden alcove of an old park and a black cat is slinking across the top of an ornate park bench. Through the surrounding dense foliage lamplight shines upon the cat, casting the cat’s shadow along an ivy covered wall behind the bench. I actually witnessed this scene on one of my many moonlit nighttime sojourns. The cat didn’t like my staring and quickly ran away. It is rendered in black ballpoint pen.

“Shadow Walker”

Available as a giclée fine art print in my Etsy shop.

Find it here:
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Drawing of a dragon flying above a lake in a cloudy sunset while a swimmer in a floating buoy watches from the waterrs.

🌅🐉

This history of art in America is the history of defending against censorship of art against charges of obscenity. From the weaponization of the post office in the 20th century to payment processor weaponization now, these folks endeavor to use distribution bottlenecks to limit speech.

Renfield sits on his desk with a vase of flowers behind him; the flowers are the feature flowers for each Draculesti character (red roses, snowdrops, black hellebore, and sunflowers). The image is in a Leyendecker-inspired early 20th century style/composition.

Over the course of 2025, we've featured monthly guest art by artists we like. All of the monthly guest art is available as prints via our Kickstarter campaign 💚

January was Renfield by @noahdeaart.bsky.social

Drawing of a reddish dragon with open wings on the top of a rocky mountain.

🪨🐉