And the boys (who weren't born yet or were about *three*) who missed the *original* He-Man room, run by the fabulous Art Nadel, would have been HORRIFIED by how female-friendly/feminist the original writing team was. (I should know. My office was down the hall. I drew the first map of Eternia.) 😏

@cepmurphy.bsky.social did someone call for Judges?

Introductory session with the new [C-Suite] this week. Them: "so why did you join [company]?" Me: I got a mortgage and I like to eat every day not just occasionally Me: "Oh its the values, everyone is so committed to the work" *screams internally*

"We're going on an Adventure"

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Ultimate oldhammer

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The UK Govt has quietly published - without announcement - the Joint Intelligence Committee/DEFRA report it suppressed last October. They tried to sneak it out in the midst of crisis. Read and share: “Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse & National Security.” (link below)

This Wondermark comic is years old and still precisely captures my feelings.

Thanquol!! I read your book you son of a bitch!

more lascaux honse worry stones, just in time for the year of the horse (honse) reopening shop on jan 24, 2pm CT #ceramics

“I’m not drunk or rambling about things I don’t know, I’m using “the weave” to bullshit my way to success” These people get paid for these insights…

"Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse" - wow, the wording in this isn't pulling its punches

Artist! Quote with your horn art 🐐

"I hope this email finds you well" How this email found me:

Separately, "I thought we would get cool tech shit in cyberpunk" No, the fantasy of cyberpunk is that the rich hoard the cool tech, the poor are enslaved to renting it back and hacker wizards of the underclass are able to do quasi magical things in the technological refuse of late capitalism.

Very strong “Bort licence plates are sold out again” energy from this power plant

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

Anyone wanting to buy me a present take note

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

Starmer says he does not think Sauron would use an Orc army or unleash the Nazgûl to seize the one ring.

He’s like the maddest of popes, the ones surrounded by nephews and people who’ve paid him for an office. Hes going to dig someone up and put them on trial for slander at some point

No new pictures, Where are you at mentally?

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“ Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

Ceramic artists/makers/anyone interested in protest pottery! I'll be the demo artist this Sunday at the Potters Rise Up meeting. I plan to talk expression via Astronaut Vessels. Links to the IG & FB group - looking forward to it! www.instagram.com/potters_rise... www.facebook.com/share/g/1azs...

Zoltan Boros and Gabor Szikszai, cover art for A Dolog, the Hungarian translation of The Thing, 1993

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

On the contrary I know at least 3 websites that say otherwise and indeed have finished it multiple times Some of the stories are even SFW (not many)

Struggling to throw with more clay, been a couple of years since pushed myself above like 1.5kg - all thrown with 2.5kg but a lot is ending up on the wheel while being trimmed down and still pretty thick in places Might slice one or two in half but we’ll see if trimming helps

🦷 “analysis of tooth enamel samples collected from the remains of people buried in England b/w the end of Roman rule in Britain around A.D. 400 & the arrival of the Normans around 1100 indicates that migration to the island was continuous throughout the period” 🦷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In light of Americas current regime being permanently online I suggest we call this the Norman Woke

once again this just reads like a horror story

As a middle aged tech professional Fuck AI, and fuck Meta

NEW: In January 2024, a man purchased Meta's newly AI-infused smart glasses. He went on to experience a devastating break with reality that played out across Meta platforms — with Meta AI as his companion, entertaining and affirming his worsening delusional beliefs. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Rest well, king.

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

I have achieved Cube status Bread will be assimilated

I thought this was a D&D map

Shocking lack of Vizzini in the chat

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Rental Family in which Brendan Fraser plays Brendan Fraser playing an actor who doesn’t act but just is Brendan Fraser making friends in Japans rental family industry I actually really enjoyed it, Fraser has a great energy and I got to point excitedly at the screen when I saw Shimabara crop up

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single Labrador in possession of a rotten wheel of cheese must eat it whole while his human ineffectively shrieks “drop it” over and over again.

Archaeologists are discussing the way the Norfolk boar’s head, found by PCA & featured in Digging, was used: would it have had a windsock attached, as a draco standard? And they are, of course, because @theduncanmackay.bsky.social is involved, modelling their hypotheses using playmobil!

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the ENTIRE LOTR LEGENDARIUM ON A TYPEWRITER!! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!

Hell yes, opening 2026 with a bang

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'