more Banana. I like to draw Banana

this figure of Heracross comes in blue, pink, and for some reason also Real Allomyrina Brown, and it's making me wish Heracross really was brown

hahaha yesss

my beautiful rimworld colony where everyone is a non-violent cowboy making artisanal doobies

omg hello

it sucks that theres still some creatives out there who only seem to take issue with gAI when its in their field, but will happily use it to replace other creative workers. Its remarkably easy to have a bit of solidarity and never use this shit. Up till 2023 it was the default state

Meanwhile, on Wikipedia: "If you have a history of AI use, we will expunge everything you have added since ChatGPT went live, because nuking you from orbit is the only way to be sure" (paraphrased) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I don't have a Switch 2 but I have some great ideas for Tomodachi Life

When she grows up by next month, she'll be an iridescent shiny green/purple ant-hunting machine, but right now she's just a small silver ant-hunting machine (Tutelina sp - currently undescribed)

This upcoming Monday, and every 2nd Monday of the month (NOTE THE NEW DATE), will be Mask Monday at the Museum! We recognize that some guests may feel more comfortable visiting the museum while others wear masks. Your safety is our top priority - see you with your masks on! 😷

neighbor came by to ask if we are the ones feeding the squirrels peanuts (absolutely not lol) because apparently they are storing them all in his yard and his toddler has a peanut allergy. jesus that's so terrifying

I guess because when you point out the lack of ethics, the lack of transparency regarding sources. People frame it as if you're a vile emotional attacker and have to tone it down.

entered my home without permission right in front of me

Looking for Professor of rare moths to complete set, have ants and beetles.

accidental fanart of @mossworm.bsky.social's banana while making limited palette CMYK fans lol

Sometimes I feel like I am being too harsh to the people in my field who still use genAI after everything (I really do not enjoy any part of this) and then I get hit with an article like "world's top climate scientists convene to beg for a swift death" and I feel like I'm not doing enough again.

anyway here is a guy I found

It seems that iDigBio moved from their website sometime last month. They are now a "node" of GBIF, an international biodiversity data aggregator. The iChatBio chatbot itself still exists and is being hosted by University of Florida, but the new iDigBio page does not appear to have any links to it.

I have to assume that the reason so many ostensibly taxonomy and biodiversity technology groups are now suckling from the AI money teat is because they are reacting to the loss of NSF and trying to preserve some part of their work. The problem is that tech companies do not care about biodiversity.

AI is all about theft on multiple levels. Absolutely no ethics whatsoever.

Hi, artists of bluesky. I want to advise you all: the company TaxonWorks has admitted to using AI to alter a logo which was originally hand-drawn by an artist using a predatory work for hire contract which granted them ownership over the artist's intellectual property and rights to alter the work.

ichthyosaurs with dolphin-like patterning

Innes wrote a letter of support to the attorney of Chinese researcher Yunquing Jian, who was caught transporting a sample of Fusarium grain fungus without proper permits last year. Kash Patel and friends have been using this as an opportunity to accuse China of planning some kind of bioterrorism.

I'm tired. I wish every scientist still shilling genAI a very Itchy Forever

Pale green guy is very happy the palmettos are blooming (green horsefly, male 💚)

open to suggestions on other things I should make Banana do in Path of Titans. the game keeps telling me to build a nest, but I don't think ichthyosaurs did that

nice

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

I am so sorry to all other Path of Titans players, but it's really fun to be annoying. Here are two more minutes of people trying to catch Banana. Audio is "Catch Me If You Can" by Angela Via. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxQq...

It is unbelievably dry. The poor bugs were waiting on me for water. I am sorry, bugs.

I have always thought the game "Amazing Island" had kind of a lame localized English title compared to the og Japanese title (Kaijuu no Shima / Island of Monsters) but never mind, the hiragana in white on the bottom アメージングアイランド is apparently literally just "Amazing Island"

Mixosaurus was about 1 m long and weighed 5 kgs. I want to hold one. Screen recording of me drawing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcnE...

I haven't been able to get anyone to chase me in Path of Titans for a little while so instead I shove my character into the kelp around high traffic PVP areas just to see how long it takes for someone to notice me

slippy toad!

the hantavirus cruise ship story is a reminder that mammals are yucky and I don't like them

Every guy in a videogame:

anyway. Megaman 7 cockroach

There's another iDigBio webinar this time being run by some of my old coworkers about the specimen imaging program, including a discussion of new AI-based imaging techniques. My lab did that, too. None of it was usable, and I saved the worst ones in a folder called "are you ready for the future?"

I like ichthyosaurs, they are like if a lizard was also a tuna

Star Wars is cool because of all the cool art stuff they had to do to convince you it was happening. Models, masks, lighting, paintings, puppetry, etc. I want to be charmed into believing the actors are really in space.

Perceiving a weird leggy lad perceiving me (jolly green jello monster, aka Lyssomanes viridis, aka magnolia green jumper)

Apropos of nothing I'm thinking about the Temtem mounts drama again. If you were not there, they teased the ability to Ride Temtem* using the existing creature Oceara, which also literally makes horse noises. Riding a Temtem would allow you to avoid random encounters.

hello

You pieces of dogshit conceded ground on public school funding for decades which put our kids behind and now you want to line your pockets with AI cash? Now you can find the money for the kids? You worthless asshole.

"what am I going to put in this part of the yard to make it look normal that isn't a plant???" mulch. I forgot mulch exists

Shigeru Miyamoto expressed desire to have worked on Nights into Dreams and Yuki Naka expressed desire to have worked on Pikmin. Therefore the universal video game desires are "what if you could fly" and "what if you could have a lot of little guys"

I listen to the Nights into Dreams soundtrack while playing Path of Titans as a multicolored dolphin animal and doing spin flips over everyone like some kind of Lisa Frank trickster spirit

Every lizard is pure of heart

who's will stencil