This truly is my favorite Star Wars character

Guy for whom two antennae aren't adequate to find the number of ladies required for all the love he has to give (Argidae sawfly)

Happy Friday, here's a t-rex I sculpted and painted for work, about 1:8 scale. Thanks to my buddy RJ Palmer for helping me out with some crits and redlines as I sculpted it

Zip up your raincoats, and adjust your swim goggles, Calgary. it's gonna be a wet couple of days, with up to 100mm of rain expected. The Bow River is currently ~330 m3/s, which is above average for this day of the year (~130 m3/s), but nowhere near the record of 480 (although rising sharply). BUT...

Just realised I haven't spammed you with moths this week, really. Therefore... 🧵 1. Everyone's favourite broken twig mimic dropped by today (buff tip moth)

telling my kids this is gandalf the white

If only it were this easy.

Just had to block someone on Letterboxd for only giving Road House (1989) half a star.

I wanted to zoom in on my Red Ghost piece and share some hidden secrets and details with you!

Every song is in a different style with the exact same lyrics, nothing rhymes and the meter is awful. If you get fooled by AI music for a second you have awful taste in music, period.

THIS CAT IS JUST DONNING A BIB FOR HER DINNER WHOEVER IS LATE WITH HER BBQ RIBS IS THE SINNER CASE CLOSE

According to Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropic’s Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage.

Enjoyed SPIDER-NOIR eps 1+2 and am looking forward to watching more, but it's a damn shame the creators of the Spider-Man Noir comic didn't even get a Special Thanks in the credits. David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico and designer Marko Djurdjević deserve that at the very least.

While I'm fighting cancer, bracing for medical bills, and trying to find a new home, any help anyone can afford to give - even just sharing this post - would mean so much. 💜 gofund.me/0712e4b87

High, fast water, cold temps, and debris are creating dangerous conditions. Pathway closures along the Bow & Elbow Rivers are expected this weekend.

🚨 A Calgary Fire Department Boating advisory is in effect for the Bow and Elbow Rivers, flows are above safe levels. Please stay off the river for your safety and for emergency responders.

Me explaining to anyone who will listen how I just really like Keith David and everything he’s ever been in, even the bad stuff, because he just seems to always be having a good time and I’m glad he’s getting a star on the Walk of Fame because good for him.

new game: how many opossums are in this video

Red-winged Blackbirds are now in the shop!!

Meet Me at Midnight 🌙 #art

Los Angeles friends: Save the Date: I will be having my first art exhibit in Los Angeles on June 4th. Braly Gallery 126 West 4th Street. June 4th 6pm - 10pm.

No bike🚲? No problem. No cost💵? Even better. Join us June 6th at Confluence / East Village and be part of Calgary’s cycling community at CycleFest YYC. #DowntownCalgary #YYCycleFest #YouthEmpowerment

NEWS: No bears relocated, put down in Bow Valley or Kananaskis in 2025

ALT: "We invite anybody who's got questions, who's curious, who wants to have a conversation to join us" "No one's going to get lectured, and everyone's going sto laugh at least a few times." TRANS CANADA TOUR

Queer Momentum’s Trans Canada Tour stops in Halifax: Rebuilding a movement one tour stop at a time. www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion...

actually smells organic and earthy, not what you might expect. lovingly referred to (by me) as the WTF project, our Westerly trickling filters will be undergoing improvements this year. more about them: bsky.app/profile/neor...

Sipping my homeopathic first cup of coffee that I never quite finish before diluting it with fresh coffee.

Record profits are unpaid wages.

It's weird seeing @albertandp.ca politicians and apparently "inclusive", "accessible" local non-profits not do alt text. Some of them have been using bluesky long enough or should have comms people so they should know it's a thing, and yet they might wonder why no one's sharing their posts.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Meanwhile, I saw Taratoa Stappard's Māori gothic horror film Mārama (2025) yesterday. It makes for an unsettling companion to Moby Dick that is now going to colour my reading of it.

Well that's enough Whatfreshhellsky for tonight. I'm finally reading Moby Dick so I'm going to get back to that.

Wherever you land on this spectrum, you are valid and I support you

Ummm do you have anything valuable stored in the basement #yyc

The bank doesn't take handcrafted witchy home decor as payment so I didn't know if y'all would be interested in trading for some universally accepted medium the bank WOULD take in exchange for my goods. We could call it money or something. www.galdrecraft.com

I also have my merch shop where you can find my wearable art on tees, hoodies, and more. johnniejaedesigns.store

Yay! 1 painting sold....4 more to go and 16% left til the ko-fi goal is met. Yakoke! ko-fi.com/johnniejae/l...

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

You've probably seen the word #Landback somewhere and instantly had some feelings. It sounds blunt, which is part of why a lot of people tend to have an instant reaction or jump to some very problematic misconceptions about what it means. So, let's talk Landback, from my POV and work.

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

"Through an apparent security flaw, unauthorized users seem to be winning access to other people’s accounts — and money. And even though federal regulators have paid attention to the company in previous years, problems persist."

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

Much that the enduring appeal of “bad timelines”/multiverses/purgatories/ and such post 08- the feeling that something was supposed to have happened but didn’t and now we’re trapped someplace we shouldn’t be

the burrito wanter

the burrito wanter

Best use of blue eyeshadow in film and television media.

Look sometimes the microsculpture on the tiny wasp is so nice you gotta take a picture

taking extreme close-ups of perilampids and no one can stop me

just remembered the time, back when I was on twitter, that I said 'originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement' and a bunch of people into astrology were like 'how dare you' 😭